Dr. Arghavan Louhghalam 

Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research affiliate, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT

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Education 

PhD in Civil Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 2010

MS in Civil Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 2007

MS in Earthquake Engineering, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran, 2002

BS in Civil Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2000

Biography

Dr. Arghavan Louhghalam is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Prior to joining the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, she was a postdoctoral research associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Concrete Sustainability Hub. Dr. Louhghalam’s research interests are mainly focused on interconnected areas of solid mechanics, material modeling and applied statistics with applications to the development of sustainable and resilient civil infrastructure.

Teaching

• Mechanics of Materials, CEN 202
• Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, CEN 538
• Analysis and Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures, CEN 307
• Mechanical Vibrations, MNE 441
• Engineering Reliability, CEN 430, CEN 530, MNE 490, MNE 591