Teaching

Teaching at the University of Tuzla

I have been involved in teaching since 1999, when I started to work at the Faculty of Technology (University of Tuzla) as a teaching assistant in chemical engineering. Then, I was promoted at the same institution to higher positions (senior assistant, assistant professor, associate professor and full professor) in chemical engineering as follows:

1. 2017 - : Full Professor (permanent position)
   2011 - 2017: Associate Professor
   2006 - 2011: Assistant Professor
   2004 - 2006: Senior Assistant
   1999 - 2004: Teaching Assistant

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Since 2017, I have been working as a Full Professor in Chemical Engineering at the Faculty of Technology (University of Tuzla). I participate in teaching in undergraduate, master's and doctoral studies in chemical engineering in chemical engineering subjects related to unit operations, chemical process design, energy efficiency, process integration and optimisation.

Courses

Undergraduate study (1st cycle)

Postgraduate study (2nd cycle)

Doctoral study (3rd cycle)

Hydromechanical operations
Heat and mass transfer operations
Design of chemical processes
Energy efficiency of chemical processes
Process integration

Heat and mass integration in chemical processes
Synthesis and optimisation of chemical processes

Process integration to reduce  environmental emissions

Chemical Engineering Laboratory

Students perform laboratory exercises in the Chemical Engineering Laboratory to study hydro-mechanical, heat and mass transfer operations typically known as unit operations.

Software

In addition to laboratory exercises students have opportunities to perform computer exercises to learn how to use different computer-aided tools and software (e.g. General Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS), Aspen Plus, Heat Exchanger Network Synthesis Analysis and Design (HENSAD), Capital Cost estimation (CAPCOST), Water Design, Excel, Visual Basic) to solve various chemical engineering problems.  

Teaching at other Universities

I was employed as a visiting professor in 2014/2015 at the University of Maribor, the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (Slovenia) in the project "Internationalization - A Pillar of Development of the University of Maribor".  At this institution I was elected to the position of Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering for the period 2014-2017. I was involved in teaching in Bachelor's and Master's university degree programmes and performed teaching in several core chemical engineering courses (Computer Aided Process Design, Process Design-Project, Process Optimisation  and Process Synthesis).

In 2018, I was invited to participate in the project "Involvement of visiting foreign experts and university teachers in the pedagogical process as a pillar of quality development process of internationalisation of the University of Maribor". In this project, I performed teaching activities (lectures/exercises) at the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering in the topics related to Process optimisation, modelling and solving chemical engineering problems in GAMS.

I participated in the EM-STEM programme and Erasmus+ staff mobility for training and teaching and delivered lectures at the following Universities:

Lappeenranta University of Technology, September 21, 2012, Lappenranta, Finland. Lecture: Process Integration: Water and Energy Optimisation in Process Industry.

Pamukkale University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Denizli, Turkey, May 8-10, 2018. Lecture: Process optimisation: Introduction and applications in chemical engineering.
Pamukkale University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Denizli, Turkey, April 3, 2019. Lecture: Simulation, optimisation and heat integration of single and multiple-effect evaporation plants.

University of Zagreb, Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Zagreb, Croatia, May 30, 2019. Lecture: Synthesis of evaporation systems using mathematical programming.

As a coordinator of the CEEPUS network "CIII-SI-0708-06-1819-Chemistry and Chemical Engineering" at the University of Tuzla, the Faculty of Technology, I was involved in organising the first short-term CEEPUS excursion in coordination with the CEEPUS coordinator at the University of Zagreb, the Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Prof. Zvjezdana Findrik Blažević. In this excursion, which was realised in May 29-31, 2019, participated ten students from the University of Tuzla, the Faculty of Technology as well as host students. Students had opportunities be involved in teaching activities, meet each other, exchange their experience, and present their seminar works. I was mentoring ten students from the Faculty of Technology in preparing and delivering their seven seminar works. Students presented seminar works within the Process Design course led by host colleague Assistant professor Igor Dejanoviæ. Also, we discussed about opportunities to expand our collaboration within the Erasmus+ programme and made initial steps to sign the Erasmus+ agreement between our institutions. I hope that the realised short-term excursion was beneficial for home and host students and colleagues of the host institution and that our participation in the mobility contributed to the main objectives of the CEEPUS programme and will strengthen cooperation between home and host institutions in other programmes and projects.

I have been working at the University of Zenica, the Faculty of Metalurgy and Technology since 2019. I teach master students in the course Heat and Mass Integration in Chemical Processes.