Shahrood University of Technology

Shahrood University of Technology was established in 1973 as the first University in Semnan province and currently is the only technological University in the province having 10,000 students and 330 faculty members who are studying and doing scientific and research activities in 187 different programs including 43 under graduate, 107 Master and 37 PhD majors.

Shahrood University of Technology is composed of 14 faculties, one E-learning center and four campuses (Pardis) including: 1) Central, 2) Engineering and New Technology, 3) Agricultural Engineering, and 4) Educational Mine. In 2012, Shahrood University of Technology was ranked the sixth among 17 technical universities by Islamic World Science Citation Center. Currently, Prof. Mohammad Mehdi Fateh, who is a faculty member in Electrical & Robatic Engineering, is the president of Shahrood University of Technology. The strategies of University could be summarized as follows:

Education: Education based on research, improving education quality, quantitative expansion based on the country's need, product and demand oriented.

Research: Solving the country's challenges, moving toward knowledge horizons, demand oriented, new technologies, entrepreneurship and improving university’s scientific rank.

Management: Planning, having specialized committees, responsibility, managing coordination, integrated control, public relation and automation improvement.    

Cultural and student affairs: Improving religious beliefs, scientific knowledge, ethics, national unity, being critic and accepting criticism.