Fabio Carrera @ Teaching
Teaching
I am a full-time faculty member of the Interdisciplinary and Global Studies Division
at WPI.�� My primary teaching duties include project preparation courses and project advising, both on campus and off campus.� I am also a
Project Center Director for the WPI global centers of Venice,
Italy and Boston,
Massachusetts.
In the Fall of 2005, I am
teaching a Research Seminar in Urban
Information Systems at MIT.� I am also planning a speakers� series on the
reconstruction of New Orleans, along themes previously explored by MIT seminars
and workshops, but with a focus on the role or urban information in such a
massive endeavor.
Project
Preparation Courses
My
primary teaching duties involve teaching a Research
Methods course (ID2050) at WPI to prepare students going off-campus
to conduct their Interactive
Qualifying Project at one of our global centers (most recently London, Venice, Boston, Bangkok and Worcester).� I have also occasionally taught Computer
Science Course (CS3043 )entitled �Social
Implications of Information Processing�.
Project
Center Directing
My
duties as director of the Venice and Boston Project Centers, include meeting
with past and future sponsoring agencies in order to follow-up on past projects
and to develop a dozen new project topics that about 50 students and� four faculty colleagues will work on in the
upcoming academic year.
Venice
Project Center
I have been the founder and director of the Venice
Project Center since 1988.� The
center has produced over 120 
studies
for Venice on the Preservation of Natural and Cultural Heritage and on
Urban Sustainability (if you have a fast connection, take a look at a very
exhaustive yet very
large PowerPoint presentation about the VPC).
Boston
Project Center
I have been the director of the Boston
Project Center�since 1997, where over 30 studies
for Boston have
been completed on a variety of municipal topics.
Project
Advising
Most
of my time is spent advising projects both on-campus
and off-campus.
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last updated: August 24, 2006