Shahin Vassigh

College of Communication, Architecture + The Arts


Office: PCA 373A

Phone: 305-348-3032

Email: svassigh@fiu.edu

Shahin has considerable professional experience through her work at various consulting engineering firms ranging from bridge design/analysis to large-scale building construction and design. She teaches structures and building technology courses in the architecture curriculum. She has built a nationally recognized body of research work focused on improving structures and technology education by developing alternative teaching pedagogies that utilizes digital media. Her work has been characterized as setting new standards for new media educational materials and is published and distributed internationally. Prof. Vassigh is a recipient of two major federal grants to develop Interactive learning environments using state of the art computing technology.