The Isfahan University of Technology (IUT) (, Dāneshgāh-e San'ati-ye Esfahān) is a leading public university in Iran, situated near the city of Isfahan. The university comprises 14 faculties and departments, serving approximately 11,000 students and employing 600 academic staff members. IUT offers undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs across four main disciplines: engineering, basic sciences, agriculture, and natural resources. Notably, IUT was the first Iranian university to gain membership in CERN.

Overview

Isfahan University of Technology, started its academic activities in 1977. It is located in the central part of the country with the total area of 2300 hectares. Of this, 400 ha area has been dedicated to the main campus. The main campus resembling a small town, includes all the educational or research building as well as modern dormitories to house more than 5000 students and the residential quarters which provide the academic staff with semi-detached houses. To facilitate for students and staff, IUT also offers the health service center, shopping, sports and recreation centers inside the campus. IUT comprises a College of Agriculture (with ten departments), nine Engineering departments, three basic science departments, one department of natural resources with three divisions, seven research centers, and many research groups. Since it is located at the heart of industrial complexes, it has provided an opportunity to strengthen industrial enhancement of the city of Isfahan and Iran. The university has been successful enough to make strong ties with industries and carried out about 2000 research projects with different national industrial bodies. In terms of technology we have the honor to be the initiator of Isfahan Science and Technology Town (ISTT) which is one of the top in the Middle East. The connection between IUT and ISTT is leading to the enhancement of the cooperation between IUT and Industrial bodies in the region for more research projects, defining curriculum based on the industrial needs, providing the opportunities for students to get experienced about solving real problems based on the needs of society, such as training programs for educating our students and graduates to become entrepreneurs.

History

The university was founded in 1974 and admitted its first students in 1977. It was founded as Aryamehr University of Technology Isfahan branch, with a significant gift of approximately 2 million square meters or 500 acres of land being contributed to the university by the locally notable and well regarded Boroumand family (brothers Abdolghaffar, Abdolrahman, Abdolrahim, Abdolkarim, Abdolrashid, and Abdollah); the university was renamed after the Islamic Revolution of Iran. Plans to make the institution the largest university in the Middle East were not achieved 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 10,000 in fourteen departments. The university was designed and planned based on models of MIT and University of Illinois at Chicago Circle (UICC) which is now known as UIC. In 1973 Dr. Mehdi Shaghaghi Zarghamee, the original president of, the then, Aryamehr University came to UICC to learn of the educational structure of the UICC College of Engineering. The newly appointed dean of the college, who knew little about the details of the college system appointed Dr. G.Ali Mansoori, Professor of the Department of UICC Energy Engineering Department, who was also of Iranian origin, to help Dr. Zarghami to get familiar with the college educational system. Dr. GA Mansoori is now a professor-emeritus at UIC [mansoori.people.uic.edu] and he can testify about this matter.

Academics

Many of the country's brightest talents choose IUT among their first choices in National University Entrance Exams. The university runs two research centers, the Information & Communication Technology Institute, and the Subsea Research & Development Center, where the first national radar project and design, and implementation of the first Iranian submarine were carried out.

World rankings

Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC) The Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC) published rankings for 2018 of Iranian universities and institutes of higher education appears as follows (after Amirkabir University of Technology and before Iran University of Science and Technology): Academic Ranking of World Universities Times Higher Education According to subject category of Times Higher Education 2020, IUT is: U.S. News Round University Ranking (RUR) According to the last ranking announced by Round University Ranking (RUR), Isfahan University of Technology (IUT) has been ranked as the first Iranian University in Research and International Diversity. IUT also ranked 3rd in overall ranking between 11 Iranian universities which ranked by RUR.

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 Risk Management and Natural Hazards, Nano Technology in Environment, Steel Technology, Algebra Science, Sensor and Green Chemistry, Soil & Water Pollution, and Oil-seed Crops.

Notable alumni

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