Mohammadreza Yousefi

Sahand University of Technology

Sahand University of Technology (SUT) was established in 1989 in Tabriz, the capital of art and technology in Iran. SUT is proud of being a campus university with integrated and sophisticated facilities. The academic activities of SUT are conducted in three campuses including Sahand Campus located in Sahand new town 25 km fr Tabriz in an area of 400 hectares comprised of central management, administration, educational and research units and academic faculties, Tabriz Campus located in industrial part of Tabriz, comprised of Electronic Learning, Technology Incubation Center including spin-out companies and Open Training Center, and Varzeqan Campus, so-called Varzeqan Technical College located in Varzeqan in the vicinity of Sugun copper mine located in 97 km of Tabriz, offering technology and engineering education. SUT operates academic faculties and research institutes and centers to provide education and research activities. SUT offers over 20 BSc programs and more than 100 graduate programs of study in engineering, science and technology. More than half of students are enrolled in post-graduate courses. Our 190 outstanding mostly young academic staff along with a few thousand research associates, post-doctoral and post-graduate students conduct research in 32 research centers in various areas including Petroleum and Gas, Nanotechnology, Renewable Energy, ICT, Environment, Biotechnology, Mineral Processing, Advanced Materials, Structures, Automotive, Medical Engineering, and Productivity and have been able to perform finalized or in-progress research projects with an overall number of more than 400. I would like to say that SUT is proud of being the first organization to initiate the creation of self-funded demand-driven research centers being independent of government funds. In this regard, the research activities are funded solely through one-to-one contracts with various industries and companies.