{"id":524,"date":"2026-07-02T14:06:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T18:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=524"},"modified":"2026-10-15T10:12:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T14:12:06","slug":"ahmed-hassan","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/people\/ahmed-hassan\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahmed Hassan"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ahmed Hassan has been teaching a wide range of undergraduate courses in\u00a0the\u00a0Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering\u00a0at Carleton University\u00a0since 2020. His teaching philosophy is grounded in the belief that students want to learn and that instructors play\u00a0an important role\u00a0in removing the barriers that make learning difficult.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hassan\u2019s\u00a0approach focuses on four key areas: fostering curiosity through clear learning\u00a0objectives\u00a0and assessments, humanizing the student-teacher relationship, continuously improving teaching practices through feedback\u00a0and using technology to address logistical challenges. Hassan has led\u00a0a number of\u00a0technology-based teaching innovations, including the implementation of M\u00f6bius for online assessment during the COVID-19 pandemic and the use of Assign2 for the digital assessment of in-person paper-based exams.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beyond the classroom, he is deeply engaged in student experience initiatives. His contributions include supervising design competition teams, overseeing the department\u2019s first-year internship program and leading the department\u2019s student experience committee.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through his commitment to teaching innovation, student engagement and experiential learning opportunities, Hassan brings a strong student-centred perspective to initiatives focused on enhancing the\u00a0student\u00a0experience.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":525,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Ahmed","cu_people_last_name":"Hassan","cu_people_initials":"AH","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[41],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-524","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-student-experience"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Associate Professor; Associate Chair, Undergraduate Studies (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering)","cu_people_degree":"","cu_building":"","cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1146,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/524\/revisions\/1146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}