CURRICULUM VITAE
 

Name: Ali
Surname: Sheikhpour Ghasseminia

Mailing address:
Address: No.190, 12th Block, 2nd Phase, Shahrak e Ekbatan, Tehran, Iran
Postal code: 1396633449
Email: ali [at] newdesign [dot] ir

Personal status:
Date & place of birth: July 8th, 1983 Tehran / Iran
Gender: Male
Marital status: Married
Nationality: Iranian

Education:
• PhD candidate, Mechanical engineering, Design and Manufacturing, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran (2009-now)
• M.A in Industrial design, University college of Fine arts, University of Tehran, Iran, (2006-2009)
Thesis: “Designing the body of high speed storm resistant rescue boat”
• B.Sc. in Mechanical engineering, Faculty of engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, (2001-2006)
Cumulative GPA: 15.9/20
Thesis: “Technical and ergonomic design of Self-balancing Monocycle for daily transportation”

Implemented projects:
During undergraduate study:
• Computer aided simulation of stream in a canal
• Computer aided simulation of temperature distribution in a room
• Computer aided simulation of air stream over an airfoil
• Computer aided simulation of parametrical linkage mechanisms
• Detailed design of portable drilling machine
• Economic analysis of house heating systems
• Detailed design of cooling room system
• Founding the electronic database of Iranian metal industry for University of Tehran
• Designing and programming of dynamic websites


During graduate study:
• Sustainable Design of charging system of mini cars for internal transportation of University of Tehran
• Ergonomics project: Categorization of ergonomic color palettes for websites
• Conceptual design of an electric charger for mobile phones
• Object oriented modeling of web design process
• Interior design of underwater ROV (Remotely operated vehicles) room
• Design and programming of www.Newdesign.ir (The first Persian industrial design website)

Publication:
• “Storm resistant boat designing based on the geometry and movement of water strider”, Journal of Bionic Engineering, Vol.5, 87-90
• More than 100 industrial design related articles for www.NewDesign.ir

Presentation:
• “Storm resistant boat designing based on the geometry and movement of water strider”, the second international conference of bionic engineering, Jilin University, China (2008)
• “Technical and ergonomic design of Self-balancing Monocycle for daily transportation”, B.Sc. thesis, University of Tehran (2006)

Teaching/Administration experiences:
• Teacher, Mathematics, Industrial design, University of Tehran (2009-now)
• Teacher, Technical design (Hydraulic and Pneumatics), Industrial design, University of Tehran (2009-now)
• Teacher Assistant, Static’s Engineering, Industrial design, University of Tehran (2006)
• Teacher Assistant, Engineering Dynamics, Industrial design, University of Tehran (2007)
• Students mentor for National Higher Education Entrance Exam (April-July 2003)

Work experience:
• Collaboration with ZAMYAD (Iranian automobiles manufacturer) (Summer 2004).
• Collaboration with Favaran (Water Features) (2008)
• Member of R&D in “Jahad” engineering department, University of Tehran (2005).
• Manual modeling of SWATH (Small Water plane Area Twin Hull) boat (2007)
• Team working with underwater ROV (Remotely operated vehicles) design team (2006).
• Member of Jury of students innovation contest, University of Tehran (2003)
• Member of VK (Virtual Konkoor), Producing of educational CDs for high schools (2002-2003)
• Web developing; 2 years working on Newdesign.ir

Honors:
• Ranked 4th in Iran’s national Industrial design Olympiad (2006)
• Ranked 6th in Iran’s national examination for graduate studies (2006)
• Ranked 1st as the "Best design research of 2008", Fine arts Paradise, University of Tehran.
• Ranked 211th among 300,000 participants in Iran’s national higher education Entrance Exam (2001)
• Ranked 1st in computer programming contest among Tehran high schools (2000)
• Ranked 1st for http://einshinghaf.persianblog.ir in weblogs template design contest voted by Farsi weblogs community(2002)
• 2nd prize of Persian poetry festival, Toobaa (2003)

Computer skills:
• Applications: Microsoft office (full), Dreamweaver
• CAD: Rhinoceros, SolidWorks, AutoCAD, Mechanical desktop
• Graphics: Adobe Photoshop
• Programming: Qbasic, C++, VBscript, Java script, Html, CSS, SQL, ASP
• Web designing (programming and graphic)

o http://research.ut.ac.ir/cao
o http://research.ut.ac.ir/ora
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o http://www.moshkandate.com
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o http://www.NewDesign.ir
o http://www.dastgirehiran.com
o http://www.farasman.com
o http://www.lozakar.com
o http://www.peymanesanj.com 
o http://www.ithinkof.net
o http://www.rajabpour.ir
o …

Languages:
Farsi (mother language)
English (good)
Arabic (good)

Ali Sheikhpour Ghasseminia