Raafat Zaini is currently a research scientist in the Social Science and Policy Studies department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) where he earned his PhD. He is currently working on simulation modeling of learning and cognition theory and exploring theory modeling in groups. He is co-founder of the Collective Learning Meetings (CLMs), which is a weekly peer-to-peer mentoring meeting for students to share their work in progress.   Transcript of the interview: http://bit.ly/SD-cast-Ep1-TranscriptI would also like to credit Raafat Zaini for the name of this podcast, for inspiring me and teaching me about podcasts and other media. He and other WPI SD Club members paved the way for this work. Their support and guidance are priceless. Below is a poem I wrote about Raafat. Dr. Raafat “The Boss” Zaini Is from Saudi and innovative He is very handy and creativeStudied ME, aero and SD (I didn't know you minored in IE)He knows many modeling and media apps  And now we plan on making podcastsHe taught me how to TweetHe is someone you'd want to meet(He and his family are very sweet)Please subscribe to SD/ST-cast to hear more SD/STories.Email me, [email protected], if you would like to be on SD/ST-cast or recommend someone who would be.  See below for the WPI SD Social Media accounts:https://twitter.com/WPISDclubhttps://www.linkedin.com/groups/1916314/Music:“Limelight” by Podington Bear is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International LicenseI cut out 1:00-1:20 of the music track to fit the dialogue better and shifted the music to continue at the end.

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