Mr. Sami DIB

Faculty of Science

Instructor

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

Very early on, I became interested in the teaching profession. After graduating from the Faculty of Education at the Lebanese University in 1976, I taught physics in official secondary schools for five years. Then, I spent three years in France, where I earned a post-graduate doctorate in solar energy. When I returned to Lebanon in 1984, I joined the Faculty of Sciences II at the Lebanese University to teach mechanics. In 1986, I joined a committee responsible for developing a new general electricity program, which I then taught until 2005. During this period, 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 in prestigious private colleges.When the Faculty of Sciences (FS) at Saint-Joseph University opened in 1997, I was responsible for teaching thermodynamics and general electricity. In 1999, thanks to my experience in secondary and university teaching, Dean Ragi Abou Chacra entrusted me with the responsibility of a new course entitled “Teaching Internship.” A committee of four teachers was formed to cover the following subjects: mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology. This course included both a theoretical and a practical component, during which our students were assigned to private schools to teach their subjects under the supervision of their mentors. This course lasted six years before being discontinued following the opening of the Faculty of Educational Sciences (FSEDU) at Saint-Joseph University.