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