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Setting Exams with Proctorio and Webwork

Published December 24, 2020 · 6 mins Read

A few months ago, I wrote an article on the strategies I used to respond to four challenges I faced while preparing a second-ye...

My Hacktoberfest Experience

Published November 12, 2020 · 4 mins Read

I was waiting for a chance to contribute to Open Source projects, not as a continuation of my studies, but as voluntary work. T...

4 Challenges While Switching to Online Teaching

Published September 2, 2020 · 8 mins Read

As some of you might already know, I am doing a Ph.D. in Structural Engineering at the University of British Columbia. For this...

Setting Up Your Home Media Server (Part Two)

Published July 4, 2020 · 11 mins Read

This is the second part of my tutorial on running a Media Home Server using your old PC or laptop. In the first part, I explain...

Setting Up Your Home Media Server (Part One)

Published June 10, 2020 · 8 mins Read

For over 4 years, I used a 2012 X220 ThinkPad as my main system. It is a great machine if you do not consider the three times t...

Muffins and Waffles Recipes

Published May 18, 2020 · 2 mins Read

In the last post, I gave recipes for two delicious Iranian types of bread. In this one, I share a recipe for baking muffins and...

Baking Bread During Pandemic

Published April 6, 2020 · 6 mins Read

People are baking a lot of bread during COVID 19 pandemic. It makes sense since we are at home more often and baking bread is a...

Fill the Blank in Your Calendar

Published March 21, 2020 · 1 min Read

Procrastination is the great enemy while doing Ph.D. Planning out the tasks helps me to find the best solution to finish it in ...

Research Library on the Cloud

Published February 11, 2020 · 2 mins Read

During writing my bachelor thesis, I found it extremely difficult to keep track of all those references. You add a couple of li...

Less, More, and None

Published January 3, 2020 · 1 min Read

Last year I read The Power of Habit and I think everybody needs to read this book since it explains how habits are formed and h...

Installing FEniCS on Google Colab

Published December 23, 2019 · 3 mins Read

FEniCS is an open-source computing platform for solving partial differential equations. The syntax of FEniCS for implementing m...

Linking ABAQUS and Fortran for Developing User Subroutines

Published November 12, 2019 · 6 mins Read

ABAQUS has a vast library of elements and materials for any researcher or engineer who wants to model different responses of so...

Literature Timeline

Published July 12, 2019 · 1 min Read

During the literature review process for my Ph.D. thesis, I had to look at the previous work in our research group on composite...

The Case of Boeing 737 MAX

Published May 21, 2019 · 15 mins Read

Boeing 737 MAX is a narrow-body aircraft, designed as the fourth generation of the well-known Boeing 737 series. The 737 MAX se...

Requirements for Certification of Composites

Published April 16, 2019 · 10 mins Read

Currently, composite structures are made and accepted according to a mix of requirements, some relate to the process history an...

ABAQUS Tiny Tricks

Published November 3, 2018 · 2 mins Read

I found the following two hints quite useful when working with ABAQUS: Reducing .cae file’s size ABAQUS is notorious for havi...

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