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Sharif University of Technology Sharif University of Technology (SUT) ‫ﺩﺍﻧﺸﮕﺎﻩ ﺻﻨﻌﺘﯽ ﺷﺮﯾﻒ‬ Dāneshgāh-e San'ati-ye Sharif Sharif University of Technology (SUT) coat of arms [1]

Established

1966

Type

Public

Endowment

US$ 61.58 million (February 22, 2011)

Chancellor

Reza Roosta Azad

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Vice-Chancellor Seyed-Ghassem Miremadi . staff

395

Students

10,502

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Undergraduates 5,776 Postgraduates Location

4,726 Tehran, Iran [4] 35°42′6.47″N 51°21′5.18″E Coordinates:

Newspaper

[5] Sharif Daily Scientia Iranica

Colours

Light Blue

Athletics

19 sports IUSF

Affiliations

FUIW IAU ICTP TWAS

Website

sharif.edu

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35°42′6.47″N 51°21′5.18″E [4]

www.sharif.ac.ir www.sharif.ir

Sharif University of Technology (SUT, Persian: ‫ )ﺩﺍﻧﺸﮕﺎﻩ ﺻﻨﻌﺘﯽ ﺷﺮﯾﻒ‬is a public research university in Tehran, Iran known traditionally for research and education in technology, engineering and physical sciences. The university is located in the Tarasht neighborhood of Tehran within close proximity of Azadi Square, and also has an international campus in Kish, a resort island in the Persian Gulf. Established in 1966, it was formerly named the Aryamehr University of Technology and for a short period after the 1979 revolution, the university was called Tehran University of Technology. Following the revolution the university was named after Majid Sharif Vaghefi, a former student who was killed in 1975. Today, the university provides both undergraduate and graduate programs in 15 main departments. The student body consists of about 6,000[7] undergraduate students and 4,700 graduate students from all the 30 provinces of Iran. Funding for Sharif University is provided by the government and through private funding. Undergraduate ission to Sharif is limited to the top 1 percent of students who the national entrance examination istered yearly by the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology.

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In the 2013 Academic Ranking of World Universities Engineering/Technology and Computer Sciences rankings, SUT is ranked 2nd in the Middle East. It is in the top 251-275 universities in the world and 37th in Asia in the 2014 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.[8][9] SUT also ranked 1st in the Middle East, 6th in Asia, and 27th in the world in Times Higher Education's top 100 universities under 50.[10]

History The university was founded in 1966 with the name Aryamehr Technical University by Dr. Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi (‫)ﻣﺤﻤﺪﻋﻠﻲ ﻣﺠﺘﻬﺪﯼ‬. At that time, there were 54 faculty and a total of 412 students who were selected by national examination. Also only four departments were established: Electrical, Metallurgical, Mechanical, and Chemical Engineering. In 1972, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi appointed Sayyed Hosein Nasr as president of the university with the goal of modeling the school based on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but with roots in Iranian culture. In 1974 a new campus of the university was established in Isfahan. But later that campus became an independent university, named Isfahan University of Technology (IUT). The emblem of IUT still closely resembles SUT's emblem Wikipedia:Citation needed. Currently the university has grown to an elite school with over 9000 students, 700 of whom are studying for a doctorate, and over 500 faculty in 15 main departments.

Campuses Main Campus The main campus of the university is in Tehran, Iran. It is located close to the Azadi Tower, which is the symbol of Tehran and one of the main transportation hubs. The endowment of Sharif University of Technology has been estimated at around $25 million. Buildings • SUT Languages and Linguistics Center • SUT Avicenna Building (‫)ﺳﺎﺧﺘﻤﺎﻥ ﺍﺑﻦ ﺳﯿﻨﺎ‬, the main classroom building named in honor of 9th century Persian scientist Avicenna • Student Union (Shahid Rezaee Building) • Jaber ebne hayyan Building, named in honor of 8th century Persian scientist Jābir ibn Hayyān • Aboreihan Birooni, named in honor of 11th century Persian scientist Abu Rayhan Biruni (hosting departments of Mathematical Sciences and Industrial Engineering) • • • • • •

Khodro Central library SUT Mosque The gym (I and II) Publication Office The Restaurant Avicenna Tower

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International Campus Sharif University also has an International Campus on Kish Island in Persian Gulf. International Campus of Sharif University of Technology was started in 2005. Today there are two faculties active in this campus: Faculty of Engineering and Science, and Faculty of Management. The campus is currently itting students for bachelor’s, master’s, and PhD degrees in engineering courses and for a master’s degree in management. Buildings • Central Building • Faculty of Engineering and Science Building

International Campus' coat of arms

• Laboratories and Workshops Building • Language Centre Building

Academic profile Profile Sharif University was established in 1966 as an Engineering university with departments of Electrical, Metallurgical, Mechanical, and Chemical Engineering. Currently, Sharif University has 14 science and engineering departments: In engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Petroleum Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering,and Aerospace engineering. In science, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematical Science. In other fields, Management and Economics. The only non-engineering department is the Philosophy of Science department, which offers exclusively PhD and M.Sc. graduate degrees.

International recognition See also: SUT world rankings The chair of Electrical Engineering Department of Stanford University has announced that: "Without a doubt the finest university in the world preparing undergraduate Electrical engineers is Sharif University of Technology in Tehran".[11] Professor Burton Richter's opinion about Sharif's students during his speech in Sharif university was: "The students here are very impressive, I expect to hear a lot more from you all in the future."[12] Sharif university school of engineering is acknowledged as one of world best schools of engineering.

d research centers The university has ed establishment of Research Centers. These are usually started with a spin off funding provided by or through university, but will start to accept research and development projects from industry in their first months of establishment. Most of the employees of these centers are Sharif University students, while in some cases recent alumni or students of other universities have been recruited as well. Following is a list of research centers d with Sharif University. • Advanced Communications Research Institute • Advanced Information and Communication Technology Research Center (AICTC) • Alborz Observatory for high energy cosmic and gamma rays

Sharif University of Technology • • • • • • • • • • • •

Biochemical and Bio-environmental Research Center Condition Monitoring Center (CMC) Entrepreneurship Center Economical and Industrial Studies research Center Electronics Research Center Energy Technology Research Center Green University: environmental research center Industrial Systems Research Center Institute for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Institute for Transportation Studies and Research Sharif Applied Physics Research Center Water, Energy and Ocean Engineering Research Center

Research and endowment Sharif University is a public university and its funding is provided by the government of Iran. For the top ranks of the national university entrance exam, education is free in all public universities. Those ranking lower are required to pay part or all of the tuition.Wikipedia:Citation needed Industrial companies have ed Sharif University, and provided research funding for the desired programs and projects. For instance, the Petroleum Engineering department was ed by Iran Oil industries Wikipedia:Citation needed. Sharif University was appointed as a Center of Excellence (fa:‫ )ﻗﻄﺐ ﻋﻠﻤﯽ‬by Iran's Ministry of Science and Technology in the fields of Advanced Materials, Aerospace Systems, Biological Process Engineering, Communication, Design, Robotics and Automation, Energy Conversion, Earthquake Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Power System Management and Control, and Telecommunications.Wikipedia:Citation needed This appointment is based on national standing based on research achievements and invested funding in the mentioned topics.

Student life Political activities Prior to the Islamic Revolution many political organizations including but not limited to Fadaian Khalg and People's Mujahedin of Iran active and ers were among students of the Sharif University. In the 14 years since its inception many active and ers were arrested and killed by SAVAK among those Abdolmajid Pirzadeh Jahromi, Majid Ahmadzadeh (Fedaian Khlaq) can be named. Through the student political movement after the 2nd of Khordad Movement, Sharif students were also actively involved. The major groups with political intentions at Sharif, during 1997–2003, were student Basij and the Association of Muslim students, briefly called Anjoman (Association). Most other smaller groups were allies of either Basij or Anjoman. Basij was a serious opposer of Mohammad Khatami, the president of the time. Whereas, Anjoman was a loyal follower. There has been several clashes between member students of the two groups. Free speech tribunes, occasionally end in harsh quarrel-like debates. However, the major clash between Anjoman and Basij occurred while the student movement was in silence in most other universities. In 2006, a serious controversy resulting in physical tensions, occurred after Basij attempted to bury bodies of unknown Martyrs of the Iran–Iraq War at the universities' Mosque court.

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Alumni association (SUTA) Many of Sharif alumni are spread all around the world since lots of them continue their graduate studies in Europe or North America and also some of them immigrated to these countries, therefore it is not easy to establish local organization to be ed by the alumni. Sharif University of Technology Association (SUTA) is a global organization that was formed in 2000 to facilitate communication and collaboration among the graduates, faculty and staff of the Sharif University. This non-profit organization is ed in the state of California, USA and has many chapters and s around the world. Its mission is to enhance professional, academic, and social s among its hip, and to strengthen the ties between the association living outside of Iran and the University. Since 2000 SUTA has had a reunion/conference every other year, in the following cities: San Diego (California), Toronto (Canada), Hidelberg (), Santa Clara (California), Vancouver (Canada), Gothenburg (Sweden) and Ottawa (Canada) and the 2014 reunion/conference is set to be held in Milan (Italy).

Faculty and alumni See also: List of Sharif University of Technology people

Chancellors Chancellor

Tenure

Alma mater

Speciality

Prof. Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi

1965–1967

Université Lille Nord de

Mechanical Engineering

Prof. Fazlollah Reza

1967

Columbia University

Network and Information Theory

Dr. Mohammad Reza Amin

1968–1972

UC Berkeley

Physics

Prof. Hossein Nasr

1972–1975

MIT

Physics

Dr. Mehdi Zarghamee

1975–1977

UIUC

Structural Engineering

Dr. Alireza Mehran

1977–1978

Dr. Hossein Ali Anvari

1978–1979

INSA Toulouse

Electrical Engineering

Prof. Ali Mohammad Ranjbar

1979–1980

Imperial College London

Electrical Engineering

Prof. Abbas Anvari

1980–1982

Chalmers University of Technology

Physics

Dr. Ali Akbar Salehi

1982–1985

MIT

Nuclear Engineering

Prof. Abbas Anvari

1985–1989

Chalmers University of Technology

Physics

Dr. Ali Akbar Salehi

1989–1993

MIT

Nuclear Engineering

Dr. Mohammad Etemadi

1993–1995

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Electronics

University of Geneva

Biophysics

Prof. Sayed Khatiboleslam Sadrnezhaad 1995–1997

MIT

Metallurgical Engineering

Prof. Saeed Sohrabpour

1997–2010

UC Berkeley

Mechanical Engineering

Dr. Reza Roosta Azad

2010–current

University of Waterloo

Chemical Engineering

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Notable alumni The university is known for its large number of alumni who the academic world. For example, Behzad Razavi, Professor of electronics at UCLA, Mohammad Shahidehpour, Director of electrical engineering department and Associate VP for Research at Illinois Institute of Technology, Maryam Mirzakhani, Professor of Mathematics in Stanford University. A number of SUT alumni have been active in industry. Akbar Torkan, director of Petro-Pars Co. and previous Transportations Minister, Mehdi Setareh, professor of Architecture at Virginia Tech, Manoochehr Manteghi, managing director of Iran Khodro, Ahmad Ghalebaani, former managing director of SAIPA, and Mehdi Mir Moezzi, managing director of Iran national petroleum company can be named as some of the more famous alumni. Many of the SUT alumni have entered in politics, including Mohammad Ali Najafi former minister of higher education and member of Tehran City Council, Es'hagh Jahangiri, former Minister of Industries and Mines, Abbas Mohtaj, former commander of Iranian Navy, Mohammad Atrianfar, former head of Tehran City Council, Morteza Alviri, former Mayor of Tehran, Ali Larijani, speaker of Majlis and former presidential candidate and former head of IRIB and Mohsen Sazegara, former government official, political activist. Also, some of the opposition groups outside Iran have who are SUT alumni. These include Foad Mostafa Soltani, former leader of Komala political party of Iranian Kurdistan and Maryam Rajavi, president of People's Mujahedin of Iran Organization. Multiple alumni of SUT also continued their career as professional athletes. Having been d with SUT's athletic teams, Ali Daei, former member and later head coach of Iranian national football team and Iraj Mozzafari, former captain of Iranian national Volleyball team can be named. Adel Ferdosipour, prominent football commentator and Elshan Moradi Chess Grandmaster are also SUT alumni. Other publicly known figures with a Sharif related background include Peyman Yazdanian, music composer and Mohammad-Javad Larijani, director of Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics. Imprisoned human rights blogger Kouhyar Goudarzi was an aerospace student at Sharif until pressure from state security forces allegedly caused his dismissal. Omid Kokabee, an Applied Physics and Mechanics alumni, was arrested while visiting Iran during his Postdoctoral research in University of Texas at Austin. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison for “communicating with a hostile government” and “illegitimate/illegal earnings.”

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External links • • • •

Sharif University of Technology's home page (http://www.sharif.edu/en/) Sharif University of Technology's Daily ‫( ﺭﻭﺯﻧﺎﻣﻪ ﺷﺮﻳﻒ‬http://www.sharifdaily.com) Sharif University of Technology Association (http://www.suta.org) Sharif University of Technology – PressTV documentary (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjm6Fl-n5OA) on YouTube • Sharif University of Technology Group on Linkedin (http://www.linkedin.com/groups/ Sharif-University-Technology-Alumni-Association-45429) • Sharif Free Software s Group (http://fsug.sharif.edu)

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