CURRICULUM VITAE
ESRA FILL KASRAIE
Associate Professor,
Regional Economic Development & Decision Sciences
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
http://www.clt.astate.edu/ekasraie
And, http://economics.ut.ac.ir/kasrayi.htm
Business Address:
P. O. Box 4806
ASU, College of Business
State University, AR 72467, USA
Phone
(870) - 935 - 5482
E-mail: eskasra@yahoo.com
And, ekasraie@astate.edu
Education:
- Ph.D., Regional Economic Development/Planning -- quantitative Techniques with reference to policy modeling (in conjunction with the Wharton School), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, USA. 1980;
- M.S., Management Information Systems, Graduate course works in Computer Technology toward the completion of M.S. and Ph.D., George Washington University, Washington DC., USA. 1986;
- M.S., U & R Planning /Economic Development, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. 1977
- B.S., (M.S.), National Development, Shiraz University, Shiraz. 1975
Administrative, Teaching, and Research Experience:
2003-Present:
Visiting Professor, Arkansas State University, Department of Computer & Information Technology & Economics, College of Business (full-time, teaching Statistics, and two levels of MIS courses). USA.
2001-2003:
Associate Dean of Finance and Administration. Head of Behavioral Science Zone, Center for E-Learning at the University of Tehran.
Tenured, Teaching, Research, and Faculty of College of Economics, Tehran University, Tehran.
1998-2001:
Visiting Professor, Arkansas State University, Department of Economics & Decision Sciences, College of Business, ASU (full-time, teaching Statistics, System Analysis & Design methods and two levels of MIS courses). USA.
1/1998-5/98:
Computer and Data analyst, the Mid-South Foundation for Medical Care, Inc. Memphis, TN, USA.
8/1997-1/98:
Visiting Scholar (Research on Fuzzy Systems and systems of Planning), Department of City & Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, USA.
1996-1997:
Teaching, Researches, and Associate Dean of Finance
and Administration,
Faculty of Economics, Tehran University, Tehran and,
General Director of Research Projects, Institute for Trade and Research,
Ministry of Commerce, Tehran.
1995-1996:
Consultant to Vice-chancellor of Credit & Investment Policy and Information Technology, Bonyad Finance & Credit Association - with $50 million portfolio to generate loan and credits for small and medium scale business sectors of the country (with 150 branches in different states), Tehran.
1993-1995:
General Director of Strategic Planning, Office of Vice- Chancellor of Planning and Budgeting, Tehran University (with 35 colleges, 250 disciplines and 35000 students), Tehran.
1991-1993:
Economic Advisor; and Consultant for MIS departments of systems of Central Bureau of the Consumer Union networks of Iranian Labor Force, Ministry of Work, Tehran.
1989-1991:
Director of Computer Center and Dean of Library, Faculty of Economics, Tehran University, Tehran.
1987-1989:
Faculty of the Department of Systems Planning, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan.
1985-1987:
Faculty of Department of Management Science, George Washington University, Washington DC (Part-time, teaching Software Engineering, System Analysis & Design, Computer Applications). USA.
1984-1985:
Coordinator of Project Planning of the Saudi Arabian Custom Project at Arkansas State University, a five year project of $5.25 million to train the associate personnel with the qualified degrees in CIS/ MIS to work with all of the software, hardware and the peripherals installed at the Saudi). USA.
1982-1984:
Faculty of Department of Industrial Management, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (full-time, teaching Operations Research, Statistics and Computer application courses). USA.
3/1982-9/82:
Research Associate of Wharton's Policy Modeling Workshop, SPUP -- School of Public & Urban Policy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.
1980-1982:
Faculty and Research, Shiraz University, College of Arts & Sciences, Shiraz.
Honors & Awards:
- Graduated as an honored, first rank student from Shiraz University and then awarded six and half year full trustee scholarship to accomplish M.S. and Ph.D. degree in the U.S.A., 1975.
- Post-Doc Fellowship of Wharton Policy Modeling, Schools of Public & Urban Policy, Government FELS Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, 1982.
Academic Experiences and Topics of Teaching Courses:
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Graduate Level:
- Planning -- Concepts and Techniques, Strategic Planning,
- Mathematics for Economics and Mathematical Modeling,
- Management Information Systems.
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Graduate and Undergraduate
Level:
- Planning Methods & Techniques (using GIS or analytical computer packages),
- Mathematics & Statistics (using SAS, SPSS, TSP and Excel),
- Operations Research / Management Science,
- Managerial Economics and Mathematics for Economics,
- Engineering Economics (Cost-benefit analysis), Project Management,
- MIS, and Systems Analysis & Design Methods,
- Computer Applications and Applied Programming (using FORTRAN, Pascal, and Visual Basic).
Publications:
Books:
§ Determining the priorities for development of the body standards in strategic manufactured products of the country for trading promotion, Iranian Institute of Standardization, 2003.
§ Urban Planning--Techniques and Methods, Published by Free University of Iran, Tehran - Iran 1997.
§ (Translation) Macroeconomic Models for the Developing Countries (MIT), Lance Taylor; Published by Monetary and Banking Research Institute, Tehran-Iran, 1995.
§ (Translation) Micro Time Series Processing, R.E. Hall, J. Jonston & D .M. Lilian, Quantitative Micro Software, Irvine Calif (Under Preparation)
§ Statistics, I & II for Business and Economics (under preparation for Tehran Virtual University)
§ Managerial Economics, (under preparation for Tehran Virtual University)
Articles:
● Invariant regularities of human resources in socio-economic accounts of Iran for 1350 and 1370, Proceeding of the 2nd Seminar on Applications of Input-Output Techniques in Socio-Economic Planning, Faculty of Economic, Iranian Economic Research Center, with collaboration of Iran Central Bank of I.R.I, pp. 559-588, Feb 26-27, 2003.
●Information Technology and Educational Strategies on 21st Century, Tehran University, 2002 (presented at the First Iran-German "KASSEL" Unistaff Workshop, 6-11 April, 2002).
● Strategic Planning in the third five-year Plan of Iran, IER (Iran Economic Review), Tehran University, Vol. 4, No. 4, 2000.
● Internet and Economic-Commercial Development Iranian Quarterly Journal of Trade Studies [IJTS], Institute for Trade Studies & Research, Vol. 3, No.92, winter 1999.
● Fuzzy Systems and Optimization, Iranian Quarterly Journal of Trade Studies [IJTS], Institute for Trade Studies & Research, Vol. 1, No. 2, Spring 1997.
● Optimization of Budget Allocation among fifty different Universities in Iran, Iranian Quarterly Journal of Research & Planning in Higher Education [JRPHE], Ministry of Culture and Higher Education, No. 11-12, 1996.
● Prioritization of Phenomena (Resource Allocation), using Eigenvalue and Eigenvector Properties, Journal of Economic Research of Faculty of Economics, University of Tehran, No. 48, 1995.
● A Hierarchical Decision Making Model in accordance with Local-City Municipality, College of Arts & Sciences, Department of Planning, Shiraz University, Shiraz Iran, 1982.
Dissertations:
Supervised more than 15 graduate students on different topics of Planning and Economic Development
References:
(1) Dr. Chris Brown – Arkansas State University College of Business
· Department of Economics & Decision Sciences, (870) 972-3416
· Email address: crbrown@astate.edu.
(2) Dr. Farhad Moeeni – Arkansas State University College of Business
· Department of Economics & Decision Sciences (870) 972-3416
· Email address: moeeni@astate.edu.
(3) Dr. M. M.Amini – Memphis University, College of Business TN 38117
· Associate dean, Dept. of Supply Chain Management (901) 678 – 2479
· Email address: mamini@memphis.edu.