Spring 2007 Courses:

International Economic Development

Urban Economy and Spatial Patterns

Fall 2006 Courses:

Global Restructuring

Teaching and Research Interests:

National Economic Development Policy and Planning
Global Political Economy and International Relations
Foreign Investment and Trade
Regional Economic Development and Industrial Policy
Technology Transfer and R & D
Postwar Reconstruction and Disaster Mitigation Planning
Industrial Location and Management
Territorial Planning and Local Development

Cources Taught at Rutgers University and Cornell University:

Political Economy: I & II
Global Restructuring, Planning and Public Policy
Political Economy for Planners
Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment
International Political Economy
Third World Regional Development
Comparative Regional Development
Theories and Techniques of Regional Planning
Urban and Regional Economics and Spatial Patterns
Topics on the Middle East Politics
Third World Development Planning and Problems
Principles of Housing and Community Development
Planning, Economic Policy, and Territorial Restructuring
Development Economics and Planning
Industrial Organization and Public Policy
Labor Economics
International Economics
Macroeconomics
Industrial Policy and Global Competition
Global Cities.

Doctoral Examination and Dissertation Committee Member: for over 47 Ph.D. students at Rutgers University

Advisor to Over 75 MS and MCRP students at Rutgers University

External Examiner/Advisor in various universities throughout the world:

External Examiner for Mohammad Beheshti, Ph.D., Department of Economics, James Cook University, Australia.
External Examiner for Mohamad Hasan Fouldai, Ph.D., Development Planning Unit, University of London.
External Examiner for Ali Reza Dehghan Niri, Ph.D., School of Sociology, University of New South Wales, Australia.
U.S. Advisor of Channel Ph.D. Candidate, Tarek Ragab, Alexandria University, Egypt.
External Member of Ph.D. Committee (External Advisor) for M. Moghaddasi, Teachers University, Tehran, Iran
U.S. Advisor of Channel Ph.D. Candidate, Magdy El-Bastawisy, Alexandria University, Egypt.
External Member of Ph.D. Committee for Ahmad Sharbatoghlie, Boston College, Boston.
External Examiner for Shokroulah Manzoor, Ph.D., Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.
External Examiner for Hamid Roushangar, Ph.D., Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
External Examiner for Goli Rezaii-Rashti, Ph.D., University of Toronto, Canada.
Member of Jurists for Urban Design Projects, Columbia University, New York University, Pratt Institute, and Hunter College.

Academic Institutions Built. Prof. Amirahmadi helped establish the following centers and programs at Rutgers University:

Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Contemporary Iranian Studies Program
Contemporary Arab Studies Program
Turkish Language Teaching Program
Islam in the Contemporary World
Hubert Humphrey Fellowship Program