Isfahan University of Technology

IUT main administration building

Isfahan University of Technology (IUT) (Persian: دانشگاه صنعتی اصفهان‎‎ Dāneshgāh-e San'ati-ye Esfahān) is one of the most prestigious engineering universities in Iran. It is located 15 kilometers north west of Isfahan and educates in the fields of science, engineering and agriculture. It has dormitories, a shopping center, sports and recreation centers, and medical centers on the campus. The university enjoys the advantages of being situated in the vicinity of the historical, industrial, and commercial city of Isfahan; a city with a long-standing tradition in science, art and culture as well as a leading center of technological activities.^[2]

Isfahan university of technology is not to be confused with University of Isfahan which is located in southern 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 to make the institution the largest university in the Middle East were not completed because of political changes in the country.

Isfahan University of Technology is a state university under the supervision of the Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology. IUT began its academic activities in 1977 with around 800 students in five departments; the enrollment has grown to 10000 in fourteen departments.^[3]

The university was designed and planned based on models of MIT and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.^[4]

Academics

Many of the country's brightest talents choose IUT among their first choices in National University Entrance Exams. The university offers degrees in B.S., M.Sc., and PhD levels, in branches of Science and Engineering.

The university runs two research centers, Information & Communication Technology Institute and Subsea Research & Development Center, where the first national radar project and design, and implementation of the first Iranian submarine were carried out.

World rankings

Academic Ranking of World Universities^[5]

• 2011-2015: Not mentioned

Times Higher Education^[6]

• 2014-2015: National rank : 2, International rank : 351-400
• 2011-2014: Not mentioned

U.S. News^[7]

• 2016: National rank: 3, international rank: 547
• 2015: National rank: 3, international rank: 472

Research and 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 topics.

A supercomputer was unveiled at the university in 2011. The supercomputer was made by Isfahan University of Technology scientists and is among the 500 fastest ones in the world. It has a calculation ability of 34000 billion operations per second and its graphics processing units are able to do more than 32 billion operations per 100 seconds.

Notable alumni

• Mohammad-Reza Aref is an Iranian academic, electrical engineer and politician. He was the vice president of Iran under President Mohammad Khatami. He received the Bachelor's degree in electronics engineering from University of Tehran and the Master's and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and communication engineering from Stanford University 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; he was a member of Tehran City Council from 2007 to 2013 and currently nominated as the Ministry of Education. After the Iranian revolution of 1979, Najafi returned to Iran. He started as a consultant to Mostafa Chamran and was later the president of Isfahan University of Technology (1980–1981).
• Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei is an Iranian politician. He was an adviser to the former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his 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. He studied electrical engineering and holds a bachelor's degree from Isfahan University of Technology.
• Hamid Baqai is an Iranian politician who has been the head of presidential center from 9 April 2011 to 4 August 2013. He was a senior advisor to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He holds a bachelor's degree from Isfahan University of Technology in Information Technology.
• Mohammad Tabibian is an Iranian economist who served under the administration of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani as deputy director of the Planning and Budget Organization. Dr Tabibian was head of groups made First Five Year Plan (1989–1993) and Second Five Year Plan of Iran (1994–1998).^[8] He has taught at the Isfahan University of Technology.
• Ahmad Shirzad was a reformist member of the 6th Iran Parliament (Consultative Assembly of Iran) and a leading official in Islamic Iran Participation Front, the main reformist party in Iran. He teaches physics in Isfahan University of Technology.
• Mortaza Saghaeian Nejad^[9] is the former mayor of Isfahan and a faculty member of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in Isfahan University of Technology.
• Amir Faghri is an American professor and leader in the engineering profession as an educator, scientist, and administrator. He is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Connecticut. Faghri served as head of the Mechanical Engineering Department 1994–1998 and dean of the School of Engineering at the University of Connecticut from 1998 to 2006. He is arguably the world’s leading expert in the area of heat pipes and a significant contributor to thermal-fluids engineering in thermal energy systems. He was one of the founding faculty members and administrators who established Isfahan University of Technology in 1977.

Departments

• Agriculture
• Chemical Engineering
• Chemistry
• Civil Engineering
• Electrical and Computer Engineering
• English Language
• Industrial Engineering
• Materials Engineering
• Mathematics
• Mechanical Engineering
• Mining Engineering
• Natural Resources
• Physical Education
• Physics
• Textile Engineering
• Transportation Engineering

Map of University

Affiliated research centers

• Center for Advanced Computing Services
• Center for Research in Applied Statistics and Stochastic Systems
• Information & Communication Technology Institute^[10]
• Network Security Center
• Research Center for soil-less cultivation
• Steel Research Center
• Under Water Research Center

Former Presidents

Name
Dr. Mohammad Amin	1974-1979
Dr. Mohammad Reza Saiedi	1979
Dr. Seied Hossein Taheri	1979–1980
Mr. Mohammad-Ali Najafi	1980–1981	MIT	Mathematics
Prof. Mohammad Mehdi Saadatpour	1981–1983	University of California, Berkeley	Civil Engineering
Prof. Ahmad Abrishamchi	1983–1986	University of California, Davis	Water Resources Engineering
Prof. Mohammad Shahedi	1986–1989	Purdue University	Agriculture
Prof. Seied Morteza Saghaian Nezhad	1989–1997	Kentucky State University	Electrical Engineering
Prof. Ali Ahoonmanesh	1997–2003	University of California, Davis	Plant Pathology
Prof. Mohammad Hasan Abbasi	2003–2005	University of California, Berkeley	Materials Processing
Prof. Gholam Reza Ghorbani	2005–2009	University of Kentucky	Agriculture
Mohammad Esmail Hamedani Golshan	2009–2013	Isfahan University of Technology	Electrical Engineering
Dr. Mahmoud Modarres-Hashemi [11]	2013–present	Sharif University of Technology	Electrical Engineering

Gallery

See also

• Higher education in Iran

References

External links

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• Official website
• Instagram Account
• College of Agriculture
• Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
• Mechanical Engineering Department
• Civil Engineering Department
• Industrial Engineering Department
• Mathematics Department
• Chemistry Department
• Physics Department
• Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Chemical Engineering Department
• Textile Engineering Department
• Materials Engineering Department
• Mining Engineering Department
• English Language Center

Coordinates: 32°43′05″N 51°31′55″E / 32.718°N 51.532°E / 32.718; 51.532