Sami DIB

Instructor

+961 (1) 421 000 sami.dib@usj.edu.lb

Very earlyon, I became interested in the teaching profession. After graduating from theFaculty of Education at the Lebanese University in 1976, I taught physics inofficial secondary schools for five years. Then, I spent three years in France,where I earned a post-graduate doctorate in solar energy.

When Ireturned to Lebanon in 1984, I joined the Faculty of Sciences II at theLebanese University to teach mechanics. In 1986, I joined a committeeresponsible for developing a new general electricity program, which I thentaught until 2005.

During thisperiod, I also prepared, in joint supervision with the University of Perpignan,a doctorate in microelectronics, which I defended in December 2001.

Simultaneously,I worked as a physics coordinator and a final-year physics teacher inprestigious private colleges.

When theFaculty of Sciences (FS) at Saint-Joseph University opened in 1997, I wasresponsible for teaching thermodynamics and general electricity.

In 1999,thanks to my experience in secondary and university teaching, Dean Ragi AbouChacra entrusted me with the responsibility of a new course entitled “TeachingInternship.” A committee of four teachers was formed to cover the followingsubjects: mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology. This course includedboth a theoretical and a practical component, during which our students wereassigned to private schools to teach their subjects under the supervision oftheir mentors.

This courselasted six years before being discontinued following the opening of theFaculty of Educational Sciences (FSEDU) at Saint-Joseph University.