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Dr. Hekmat Alighanbari

Hekmat Alighanbari's Headshot
Department Chair of Aerospace, Professor
Chair
BSc, MASc, PhD, PEng
DepartmentAerospace
ENG-168
416-979-5000 ext. 557736

Areas of Academic Interest

Aeroelasticity

Nonlinear Dynamics

Chaos

Education

Year University Degree
1995 McGill University PhD
1989 Shiraz University
MASc
1986 Isfahan University of Technology
BSc

Selected Courses

Course Code Course Title
AER 722 Aeroelasticity
AER 416 Flight Mechanics
AE8108 Aircraft Turbine Engines

Spotlight

How do you train a student to think like an engineer? For Hekmat Alighanbari, it’s a clear combination of two things. “Of course, you need the foundational knowledge university gives you,” he says. “And it’s an excellent bonus to have worked in industry, too.”

Alighanbari has experienced both worlds. A senior aerospace engineer at Bombardier before becoming a professor at Toronto Metropolitan University in 1999, he shares all he’s learned with his students in the classroom, as well as one-on-one. “I sit down with them and talk about how they can better manage their academic workloads or dive into the industry. I’ll help guide them in any way I can.”

Alighanbari has ample knowledge to share. After all, he helped create the university's aerospace engineering department—the first of its kind in the country. And although his other duties include being part of a team that reviews, revises and modernizes the curriculum, it’s his time with students that he most enjoys. “It’s very fulfilling to help them decide how to best put their engineering minds to use.”

Hekmat Alighanbari

"Our graduates gain the experience they need to find jobs quickly."