Teaching

Teaching Interests

Dr. Hassanalian teaching interests: Sophomore Design & Measurements, Engineering Analysis, Dynamic Systems and Controls, Design of Machine Elements, Dynamics and Vibrations in Structural Design, Advanced Engineering Mathematics, nonlinear dynamics and chaos, aeroelasticity, Aerodynamics, Orbital Mechanics, and VSTOL Aircraft & Aerodynamics Helicopter.

Courses taught by Dr. Hassanalian

Fall 2020:

  • MENG 210: Sophomore Design & Measurements

  • MENG 210L: Sophomore Design & Measurements Lab

  • MENG 352L: Instrumentation & Measurement

  • AE 489/489D: Bioinspiration and Biomimetics

  • MENG 489/489D: Bioinspiration and Biomimetics

  • MENG 589/589D: Bioinspiration and Biomimetics

  • ST 589D/DE: Intro to Unmanned Aerial Systems

  • ST 591-01: Thesis

Summer 2020:

  • ST-589/D: Intro to UAS

  • MENG-108: STEEM Exp: Mechanical Engr (Bioinspiration and Biomimetics)

Spring 2020:

  • MENG 210: Sophomore Design & Measurements

  • MENG 210L: Sophomore Design & Measurements Lab

  • MENG 352L: Instrumentation & Measurement

  • AE 489/489D: Aircraft Design

  • MENG 589-02/589D-02: Aircraft Design

  • ST 589D-09-DE: Intro to Unmanned Aerial Systems

  • ST 591-01: Thesis

Fall 2019:

  • MENG 210/210L: Sophomore Design & Measurements

  • MENG 352L: Instrumentation & Measurement Lab

  • MENG 431/L: Fluid and Thermal Systems

  • ST-589D: Intro to UAS

Summer 2019:

  • ST-589/D: Intro to UAS

  • MENG-108: STEEM Exp: Mechanical Engr (Intro to UAS)

  • MENG 581: Instrumentation & Measurement

Spring 2019:

  • MENG 210/210L: Sophomore Design & Measurements

  • MENG 352L: Instrumentation & Measurement Lab

  • AE 311: Aerodynamics

Fall 2018:

  • MENG 210/210L: Sophomore Design & Measurements

  • MENG 352L: Instrumentation & Measurement Lab

  • MENG 585: Graduate-Faculty Seminar

Teaching Experience

Courses taught in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at New Mexico State University

  • ME 328: ENGR ANALYSIS II (Summer II 2018)

  • ME 228: ENGR ANALYSIS I (Summer I 2018)

  • ME 425: Design Machine Element (Summer II 2017)

  • ME 159: GRPHCL CMNCTN/DESIGN (Summer 2016, 2017, 2018, Fall 2016, 2017, and Spring 2017, 2018)

  • ME 345L: Experimental Methods I (Spring 2016)

Teaching Styles

Mechanical and Aerospace engineering is an applied field where students constantly apply the fundamental concepts and theory learned in the classroom. My main goal is to encourage independent thinking and analytical reasoning to augment students’ problem solving skills, thus encouraging them to be critical, creative, and do much more than memorizing the courses’ materials. Mechanical & Aerospace engineering also involves a significant amount of teamwork. Several industries where students find employment emphasize the need for a “team player with good interpersonal skills.” For this reason, I strongly advocate design projects involving student groups, which provide students with vital opportunities to effectively work as a team. These projects are useful learning tools where the students assimilate and implement all the concepts they have learned in the classroom to bring the project to fruition, write a report, and make a presentation. The students need mentoring not only in the technical aspects of the project, but also in group interaction and effective teamwork.