{"id":579,"date":"2019-11-04T17:35:13","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T17:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/econ\/?page_id=579"},"modified":"2022-03-07T21:02:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T21:02:28","slug":"mehrdad-setayesh-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/econ\/mehrdad-setayesh-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mehrdad Setayesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 dir=\"ltr\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-717 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/econ\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/120\/2022\/03\/Mehrdad-Setayesh-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mehrdad\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" \/>Mehrdad Setayesh<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I was born in Tehran, Iran on Aug 2, 1963.\u00a0 At very young age, I realized the importance of education in rewarding future.\u00a0 In July 1977, I moved to USA to continue my education.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I finished high school in Dallas, Texas during summer 1979.\u00a0 I received my BS degree in Mechanical Engineering (May 1983) and MA degree in Economics (Dec 1992) both from University of Texas at Arlington.\u00a0 I taught all levels of undergraduate classes in Economics at UT Arlington for 2 years.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">With the growth of personal computers in 1990\u2019s, I moved to Austin, Texas to pursue a career in high tech sector in Jan 1995.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been working full-time in high tech industry and teaching Economics part-time at ACC since then.\u00a0 I have, also, taught Economics at Huston-Tillotson University and Southwestern University on very limited bases during this time.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I find teaching very rewarding and I\u2019m truly passionate about field of Economics.\u00a0 As part-time instructor of Economics, I always try to share my experiences in private sector as they relate to materials covered in the classroom during my lectures.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019m married.\u00a0 My wife and I have 1 wonderful boy.\u00a0 We\u2019ve learned so much from him and consider ourselves very blessed to have a child like him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mehrdad Setayesh I was born in Tehran, Iran on Aug 2, 1963.\u00a0 At very young age, I realized the importance of education in rewarding future.\u00a0 In July 1977, I moved to USA to continue my education. I finished high school in Dallas, Texas during summer 1979.\u00a0 I received my BS degree in Mechanical Engineering (May &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/econ\/mehrdad-setayesh-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mehrdad Setayesh&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3973,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-579","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3973"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}