Isfahan University of Technology
Encyclopedia
Iran
Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
. It is located 15 Kilometers north west of Isfahan and is one of the major universities and research poles in Iran in the fields of science, engineering and agriculture. It covers about 23 square kilometers and has its dorms, shopping center, sports & recreation centers and medical centers on the campus. This university enjoys the advantages of being situated in the vicinity of the historical, industrial, and commercial city of Isfahan; the city with a long-standing tradition in science, art and culture as well as a leading center of technological activities in present-day Iran.
Isfahan university of technology is not to be confused with University of Isfahan
University of Isfahan
University of Isfahan is a state-operated university in Iran. It is one of the most prominent science and engineering schools in Iran and is the largest university in Isfahan Province in Iran. The university is located in the southern section of the city of Isfahan...
which is located in south side of Isfahan.
History
The university was founded in 1974 and admitted its first students in 1977. It was founded as Aryamehr University of Technology Isfahan branch and was renamed after the Islamic Revolution of Iran. Plans were to make the institution the largest university in the middle eastMiddle East
The Middle East is a region that encompasses Western Asia and Northern Africa. It is often used as a synonym for Near East, in opposition to Far East...
that weren't completed because of political changes in the country. Isfahan University of Technology is a state university under the supervision of The Ministry of Culture and Higher Education. The original idea of a university of technology in the industrial zone of the country was conceived some thirty five years ago. However, IUT began its academic activities in 1977 with around 800 students in five departments; the enrollment has now grown to 10000 in twelve independent departments. The graduates from IUT have found great and varied opportunities and have played their key roles in a rapidly changing economic and industrial environment.
The university was designed and planned directly based on models of MIT and University of Illinois at Chicago
University of Illinois at Chicago
The University of Illinois at Chicago, or UIC, is a state-funded public research university located in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its campus is in the Near West Side community area, near the Chicago Loop...
.
Academics
Today the university offers degrees in B.S., M.Sc., and PhD levels in several branches of Science and Engineering.The university has maintained its life-long reputation for the quality of education and many of its graduates are working in academic as well as industrial environments around the world.
It is basically believed that the university presents one of the best engineering programs nationwide, especially in the fields of Mechanical, Electrical, Civil and Materials Engineering. Many of the country's brightest talents choose IUT among their first choices in National University Entrance Exams.
The university runs two famous research centers: Information & Communication Technology Institute and Subsea Research & Development center where the first national radar project and design, implementation of first Iranian submarine were carried out.
Isfahan University of Technology is well known as a tough university with low (high?) GPA.
Research & Facilities
Isfahan University of Technology was appointed as a Center of Excellence by Iran's Ministry of Science and Technology in the fields of "Nano Technology in Environment", "Steel Technology", "Algebra Science", "Sensor and Green Chemistry", "Soil & Water Pollution" and "Oil-seed Crops". This appointment is based on national standing based on research achievements and invested funding in the mentioned topics.President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad unveiled a supercomputer in this university in 2011, thus making Iran one of the world’s owners of the best supercomputers. The supercomputer made by Isfahan University of Technology scientists is among the 500 best ones in the world.This supercomputer has calculation ability of 34000 billion operations per second and its Graphics Processing Units (GPU) are able to do more than 32 billion operations per 100 seconds.
Notable People
Here is a list of notable people affiliated with the Isfahan University of Technology, commonly including alumni, chancellors, current and former faculty members, students, and others.Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei
Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei
Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei is a top adviser, and close confident of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He is currently Ahmadinejad's Chief of Staff. He served as the head of the Presidential Center from 2009 to 2011, and was First Vice President of Iran for one week in 2009 before he was ordered...
:is an influential Iranian politician. He is a top adviser to the Iranian President, and the President's Chief of Staff.He was appointed on 31 December 2007 to run the newly founded National Center for Research on Globalization. He is a former head of the Cultural Heritage Organization of Iran.Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei was for a short time Vice President of Iran
Vice President of Iran
Vice President of Iran is defined by article 124 of the Iranian constitution, as anyone appointed by the President to lead an organization related to Presidential affairs. , there are 12 Vice Presidents in Iran...
.He studied electrical engineering and holds a bachelor's degree from Isfahan University of Technology.
Mohammad-Reza Aref :is an Iranian academic, electrical engineer and politician. He was the Vice President of Iran under President Mohammad Khatami
Mohammad Khatami
Sayyid Mohammad Khātamī is an Iranian scholar, philosopher, Shiite theologian and Reformist politician. He served as the fifth President of Iran from August 2, 1997 to August 3, 2005. He also served as Iran's Minister of Culture in both the 1980s and 1990s...
.He received the Bachelor's degree in electronics engineering from Tehran University, and the Master's and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and communication engineering from Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
in 1975, 1976 and 1980, respectively.Until 1994, Mohammad-Reza Aref was a faculty member of Isfahan University of Technology.
Mohammad-Ali Najafi :is an Iranian politician and university professor in mathematics. He has been a minister and later a vice president for planning and budget, and has run for a seat in Tehran City Council in the Iranian City and Village Councils elections, 2006.After the Iranian revolution of 1979, Najafi returned to Iran, immediately beginning his political career. Starting as a consultant to Mostafa Chamran and later the president of Isfahan University of Technology (1980–1981).
Mohammad Tabibian
Mohammad Tabibian
Seyed Mohammad Tabibian is an Iranian economist who served under the administration of Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani as deputy director of the Planning and Budget Organization. He left to help found the High Institute of Plan and Development Research in Tehran as of early 1990s...
:is an Iranian economist who served under the administration of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani is an influential Iranian politician and writer, who was the fourth President of Iran. He was a member of the Assembly of Experts until his resignation in 2011...
as deputy director of the Planning and Budget Organization.Dr Mohammad Tabibian was head of groups made First Five Year Plan(1989-1993) and Second Five Year Plan of Iran(1994-1998).He has been called "Iran's foremost free-market economist and one of the country's most important reformers.He has also taught at the Isfahan University of Technology.
Ahmad Shirzad
Ahmad Shirzad
Ahmad Shirzad was a member of 6th Iran Parliament .He teaches physics in Isfahan University of Technology....
:was a reformist member of 6th Iran Parliament (Consultative Assembly of Iran), and a leading official in Islamic Iran Participation Front
Islamic Iran Participation Front
The Islamic Iran Participation Front is a reformist political party in Iran...
, the main reformist party in Iran. He teaches physics in Isfahan University of Technology.
Mortaza Saghaeian Nejad :is the present mayor of Isfahan and a faculty member of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in Isfahan University of Technology.
Departments
- Agriculture AgricultureAgriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life. Agriculture was the key implement in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the...
- Chemical EngineeringChemical engineeringChemical engineering is the branch of engineering that deals with physical science , and life sciences with mathematics and economics, to the process of converting raw materials or chemicals into more useful or valuable forms...
- ChemistryChemistryChemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....
- Civil EngineeringCivil engineeringCivil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works like roads, bridges, canals, dams, and buildings...
- Computer EngineeringComputer engineeringComputer engineering, also called computer systems engineering, is a discipline that integrates several fields of electrical engineering and computer science required to develop computer systems. Computer engineers usually have training in electronic engineering, software design, and...
- Electrical EngineeringElectrical engineeringElectrical engineering is a field of engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical...
- English LanguageEnglish languageEnglish is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
- Industrial EngineeringIndustrial engineeringIndustrial engineering is a branch of engineering dealing with the optimization of complex processes or systems. It is concerned with the development, improvement, implementation and evaluation of integrated systems of people, money, knowledge, information, equipment, energy, materials, analysis...
- Islamic Sciences & Persian Litrature
- Materials Engineering
- MathematicsMathematicsMathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
- Mechanical EngineeringMechanical engineeringMechanical engineering is a discipline of engineering that applies the principles of physics and materials science for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems. It is the branch of engineering that involves the production and usage of heat and mechanical power for the...
- Mining EngineeringMining engineeringMining engineering is an engineering discipline that involves the practice, the theory, the science, the technology, and application of extracting and processing minerals from a naturally occurring environment. Mining engineering also includes processing minerals for additional value.Mineral...
- Natural ResourcesNatural ResourcesNatural Resources is a soul album released by Motown girl group Martha Reeves and the Vandellas in 1970 on the Gordy label. The album is significant for the Vietnam War ballad "I Should Be Proud" and the slow jam, "Love Guess Who"...
- Physical EducationPhysical educationPhysical education or gymnastics is a course taken during primary and secondary education that encourages psychomotor learning in a play or movement exploration setting....
- PhysicsPhysicsPhysics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...
- Textile Engineering
Affiliated Research Centres:
- Information & Communication Technology Institutehttp://www.icti.ir
- Subsea Research Centre
- Network Security Centre
- Steel Research Center
- Center for Advanced Computing Services
- Research Center for soilless cultivation
- Center for Research in Applied Statistics and Stochastic Systems
Former presidents
| Name | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Mohammad Reza Saiedi | 1979 | ||
| Dr. Seied Hossein Taheri | 1979-1980 | ||
| Mr. Mohammad-Ali Najafi | 1980–1981 |  MITMassachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in... |
Mathematics |
| Prof. Mohammad Mehdi Saadatpour | 1981–1983 | University of California, Berkeley |
Civil Engineering |
| Prof. Ahmad Abrishamchi | 1983–1986 | University of California,Davis University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis is a public teaching and research university established in 1905 and located in Davis, California, USA. Spanning over , the campus is the largest within the University of California system and third largest by enrollment... |
Water Resources Engineering |
| Prof. Mohammad Shahedi | 1986–1989 | Purdue University Purdue University Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S., is the flagship university of the six-campus Purdue University system. Purdue was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university when the Indiana General Assembly, taking advantage of the Morrill Act, accepted a donation of land and... |
Agriculture |
| Dr. Seied Morteza Saghaian Nezhad | 1989–1997 | University of Kentucky University of Kentucky The University of Kentucky, also known as UK, is a public co-educational university and is one of the state's two land-grant universities, located in Lexington, Kentucky... |
Electrical Engineering |
| Prof. Ali Ahoonmanesh | 1997–2003 | University of California,Davis University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis is a public teaching and research university established in 1905 and located in Davis, California, USA. Spanning over , the campus is the largest within the University of California system and third largest by enrollment... |
Plant Pathology |
| Prof. Mohammad Hasan Abbasi | 2003–2005 | University of California,Berkeley University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA... |
Materials Processing |
| Prof. Gholam Reza Ghorbani | 2005–2009 | University of Kentucky University of Kentucky The University of Kentucky, also known as UK, is a public co-educational university and is one of the state's two land-grant universities, located in Lexington, Kentucky... |
Agriculture |
| Prof. Mohammad Esmail Hamedani Golshan | 2009–... |  Isfahan University of Technology |
Electrical Engineering |
See also
- Higher education in IranHigher education in IranIran has a large network of private, public, and state affiliated universities offering degrees in higher education. State-run universities of Iran are under the direct supervision of Iran's Ministry of Science, Research and Technology and Ministry of Health and Medical Education .-Pre-Islamic...
- University ranking by QS
http://www.topuniversities.com/institution/isfahan-university-technology/wur
External links
- University official webpage
- College of Agriculture - Isfahan University of Technology
- Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Isfahan University of Technology
- Mechanical Engineering Department of Isfahan University of Technology
- Civil Engineering Department of Isfahan University of Technology
- Industrial Engineering Department of Isfahan University of Technology
- Mathematic Department of Isfahan University of Technology
- Chemistry Department of Isfahan University of Technology
- Physics Department of Isfahan University of Technology
- Electrical and Computer Engineering of Isfahan University of Technology
- Chemical Engineering Department of Isfahan University of Technology
- Textile Engineering Department of Isfahan University of Technology
- Materials Engineering Department of Isfahan University of Technology
- Mining Engineering Department of Isfahan University of Technology
- English Language Center - Isfahan University of Technology