Zana Taher, Geotechnical Engineer I

Zana Taher

Geotechnical Engineer I

AECOM

Location
United States
Education
Doctorate, Civil Engineering/Geotech
Experience
12 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :12 years, 0 Months

Geotechnical Engineer I at AECOM
  • United Arab Emirates
  • My current job since May 2020

Numerical Modelling with FLAC, UTEXAS, QUAD4, etc., for tailings dams and hydraulic
dams (Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering)
* Professional plotting using Surfer and Grapher
* Site response and Triggering analyses based on lab and field data
* Preparing calculation packages

Research and Teaching Assistant at Colorado State University
  • United States
  • My current job since January 2017

Teaching Assistant at CSU/ Civil Engineering Department for CIVE 103
o AutoCAD
* Teaching Assistant at CSU/ Civil Engineering Department for CIVE 356
o Geotechnical lab
* Research Assistant on expansive soils mitigations

Intern
  • June 2016 to November 2016
Teaching Assistant at University of Sulaimani
  • Iraq
  • October 2012 to December 2014

Teaching assistant in “Engineering highway/ practical” and “Surveying”
* Teaching assistant in Engineering Computer Software including, “Excel and Visual Basic
Programming, ” and “AutoCAD”

Civil Engineer and Designer at Lava Company
  • August 2013 to February 2014

General Trader)/ Sulaymaniyah
* Designer of Water supply, Sewerage and road, with AutoCAD Civil 3D, for more than 10
Iraqi Donum in Bakrajo Quarter - Sulaimani Kurdistan/Iraq
* Construction, management and contractor engineer in Lava company

Professional Surveyor
  • August 2013 to September 2013

Education

Doctorate, Civil Engineering/Geotech
  • at Colorado State University
  • October 2021

Bachelor's degree, Civil Engineering
  • at Colorado State University
  • October 2021

* Soil Physics SOCR 460 * Groundwater engineering CIVE 531 * Application of Geotechnical engineering CIVE 455 * Slope Stability and Retaining Structures CIVE 553 * Oral Communication in geotechnical engineering CIVE 695E * Finite Element Method CIVE 565 * GIS and GPS applications CIVE 576 * Advanced Soil Mechanics CIVE 655 * Mining Geotechnics CIVE 559-1 * Hydrus 1-D workshop SOCR 490 * Special Topics in Geotechnical Engineering CIVE 559-2 * Numerical Methods ENGR 550 * Statistics Analysis: R Software STAT 511 * Statistics Analysis: R Software STAT 512 * Environmental measure lab SOCR 500 * Internet of Things lab SOCR 581A (present) * Previous Research: Effectiveness of polymer in reducing swelling of expansive soils * Current Research: Behavior of unsaturated expansive clays in overexcavated fills and modelling of filtered tailings

Doctorate, Civil Engineering/Geotech
  • at Colorado State University
  • August 2017

cumulative GPA:

High school or equivalent, Civil Engineering
  • at University of Tennessee Knoxville
  • June 2015

Advanced Foundation Engineering/ Geotechnical II CIVE595 * Writing for Publication/Piping Effect in Earth Dams ENG 466 (published on academia.edu)

Master's degree, Civil Engineering/Geotech
  • at University of Sulaimani
  • July 2012

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High school or equivalent, Civil Engineering
  • at University of Sulaimani
  • July 2012

Geotechnical engineering CE300

Specialties & Skills

AUTOCAD
TEACHING
MICROSOFT EXCEL
RESEARCH
VISUAL BASIC
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
ENGINEERING

Languages

Arabic
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English
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Turkish
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