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:
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:
Academic Experiences and Topics of Teaching Courses:
  1. Graduate Level:
    1. Planning -- Concepts and Techniques, Strategic Planning,
    2. Strategic Planning.
    3. Mathematics for Economics and Mathematical Modeling,
    4. Management Information Systems.
    5. Economic of e-commerce and Internet
  2. Graduate and Undergraduate Level:
    1. Planning Methods & Techniques (using GIS or analytical computer packages),
    2. Mathematics & Statistics (using SAS, SPSS, TSP and Excel),
    3. Operations Research / Management Science,
    4. Managerial Economics and Mathematics for Economics,
    5. Engineering Economics (Cost-benefit analysis), Project Management,
    6. MIS, and Systems Analysis & Design Methods,
    7. 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.

§         Statistics, I & II for Business and Economics (under preparation for Tehran Virtual University)

§         Managerial Economics, (under preparation for Tehran Virtual    University)

Articles:

Convergence theory, Spatial Interdependencies and Regional Growth: Evidence from OIC State Members, Tahghighat-e Eghtesadi, Pp. 27-64, January 21 2007 - 20 March 2007.

● Determination the degree of development of the OIC State Members for establishing a Common Market, IER, Vol. 10, No. 17, Pp.87-125, Fall 2006.

● 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.