Linda C. Klein
Assistant Professor
- Education
- Yale University: Master of Architecture, 2001
- Rice University: BS Civil Engineering, 1998
- Rice University: BA Art and Art History, 1996, magna cum laude
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- Teaching Experience
- University of Oklahoma: Visiting Assistant Professor, 8/2002-5/2004
- Teaching architectural design studios, steel design, and the history of modern architecture
- University of Bridgeport: Bridgeport, Connecticut, 9/1998-12/2001
- Co-taught a lecture survey course covering Western art history from the Renaissance to the present, 1/2002-5/2002
- Yale University: New Haven, Connecticut, 9/1998-12/2001
- Teaching fellow for Vincent Scully’s Introduction to Modern Architecture (fall 2001) - Teaching fellow for Structures II (spring 2001) - Lead a weekly tutorial and graded homework sets and labs
- Teaching assistant for the Introduction to Digital Media class (fall 2000) - Acted as a tutor to anybody who needed help and aided the teacher in class critiques
Teaching assistant for Vincent Scully’s Introduction to the History of Art (fall 1998, fall 2000)
Rice University, Houston, Texas, 9/1995-12/1995, 9/1999-12/1999
- Teaching assistant for the Introduction to Structures class (fall 1999) - Complimented the lecture sequence, which was a history of structures, by giving brief classes (about ½ an hour) that covered the mathematical aspects of basic mechanics, and helped to write, explain, and grade all of the labs
- Teaching fellow for Vector Mechanics (fall 1995) - Graded homework sets and ran review sessions
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- Professional Experience
- Herbert S. Newman and Partners, New Haven, Connecticut, 6/2001-9/2001, 1/2002-7/2002
- Working on the construction documents for a 330,000 square foot public high school
- Worked on the design documents of a couple of school projects
- Worked on the pre-referendum presentation and schematic design of an elementary school
- Collins Architects, Houston, Texas, 1/2000-7/2000
- Assistant design architect on a 3000 sq. ft. residence in Champions Forest (North Houston)
- Worked on all phases of the project (from schematic design through construction documents)
- Bogdanow Partners, New York, New York, 2/1999-8/1999
- Worked on design development and construction documents
- Designed an outdoor café (railings, lighting, and table layout)
- Prepared presentation work: material boards, renderings, computer and physical models
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- Non-Architectural Work Experience
- Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 10/1996-8/1997
- Technical editor for the PhD candidates in the environmental engineering department
- Worked on the industrial engineering and environmental engineering web pages
- Premmit Associates Limited, London, United Kingdom, 6/1996-8/1996
- Created a new database on Access 95 for the recruitment agency
- Introduced the firm to the Internet and began a company web page
- Helped to clean out, reorganize, and computerize the paper files
- Allied Signal, Morristown, New Jersey, 6/1994-8/1994 and 6/1995-8/1995
- Optical characterization - tested the optical quality of LCD screens; waveguide polishing
- Helped to create a database on Access 2.0 for the Micro-optical device research team
- Constructed computer models on BPMCAD and ASAP to study current optical polymer types
and suggest changes to the physical models based on the obtained theoretical results
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- Volunteer Experience
- Rice Building Workshop, Houston, Texas, 2/1999-7/1999
- Worked on a team with two other students to design a canopy for Roberts Elementary School
- Helped to construct the project with the help of several more students and two steel fabricators
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