Kharazmi University
Kharazmi University (Persian: دانشگاه خوارزمی) is a major public research university in Iran, named after Khwarizmi (780-850c), Persian mathematician, astronomer and geographer, offering a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate programs in a variety of disciplines. Kharazmi University is considered as the oldest institution of higher education in Iran. It was established in 1919 as the Central Teachers' Institute and gained university status as Tarbiat Moallem University of Tehran in 1974. It changed its name to Kharazmi University on January 31, 2012.
دانشگاه خوارزمی | |
Former names | Tehran University of Teacher Training |
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Motto in English | Better Education for Better World |
Type | Public |
Established | 1919 |
Chancellor | Azizollah Habibi |
Academic staff | 541 |
Students | ~14,500 |
Location | , Iran |
Website | khu.ac.ir |
In 2015, the University of Economic Science was merged into Kharazmi University as its faculty of management, faculty of financial sciences and faculty of economics. The university has two main campuses, the main campus including administration offices located in Tehran, another is in the Hesarak district of Karaj.
Times ranking
Kharazmi University School of Engineering won international rankings of 601-800th in 2019,2020,2021 and ranked 6th and 10th in order to industrial incomes among Iranian universities in 2020 ranking in Civil Engineering and another branches Education[1]
History
The first teacher training institution for primary schools in Iran was established as Darol-Mo'allemin Markazi (Central college of Teachers) in the building of the Culture Ministry in Takht-e-Zomorod area of Tehran in 1919. With the increase in the number of schools in Iran and the increasing need for trained teachers, Darol-Mo'allemin Markazi was developed into Darol-Mo'allemin Aali (Higher college of Teachers) at the Higher Council for Sciences in October 1926. In December 1927, the Iranian Parliament passed a law to modify the statute of the latter institution to support it further and help employ its graduates nationwide. From then on, Darol-Mo'allemin Aali was divided into the two major ‘sciences' and ‘literary' departments. In 1932 and with expansion of the courses offered, Darol-Mo'allemin Aali moved to Negarestan building, which had, as part of the Negarestan Garden, started its history as the summer residence of Fath-Ali Shah Qajar, the second king of the Qajar dynasty in 1808. Darol-Mo'allemin Aali changed its name to Daneshsaraye Aali (Higher Training College) in 1933. In 1963, the board of ministers supplanted the Danesh-saraye-ali with the organization for Teacher Education and Educational Research. The organization was rebadged again as Danesh-saraye-ali, however, and came to be sponsored by the Ministry of Higher Education after the latter was founded in the country in 1967. In 1974, with the approval of the Council for the Expansion of Higher Education at the Ministry of Higher Education, Danesh-saraye-ali turned into Teacher Training University with its own dedicated board of trustees. The university was subsequently assigned with the task of developing teacher education programmes across the country and Danesh-saraye-alis or Higher Training Colleges were duly established in Zahedan, Sanandaj and Yazd and the Science Schools in Arak and Kashan were affiliated with Teacher Training University. The two final branches of the university were finally established in Sabzevar and Tabriz in 1987 and 1989 respectively.
In 1990, all the higher education institutions affiliated with or established by Teacher Training University were separated from and granted independence by the Council for the Expansion of Higher Education at the Ministry of Higher Education. The university changed its name to Kharazmi University January, 2012 to further expand and strengthen the educational and research activities at the university, the University of Economic Sciences was incorporated into Kharazmi University according to the decision made on 15.03.2015 at the Council for the Expansion of Higher Education at the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology.
Campuses
Tehran Campus
The Tehran Campus has as one of its attractions national the heritage building designed by the Russian-Iranian architect Nikolai Markov in the late 1920s—is located in an area of 2 square kilometers on Mofatteh Ave. This place is located in central Tehran.
Karaj Campus
With the increase in the courses offered and the activities at the university generally the construction of a second campus started in 1977 in the city of Karaj, west of the province of Tehran. The Karaj Campus covers almost 200 hectares of land and it includes, in addition to a central administrative building, the buildings of the Faculty of Science, Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Faculty of Psychology and Education, Faculty of Education and Literature and Faculty of Humanities as well as student dormitories, staff houses, recreational facilities and other installations. The university's board of trustees approved of the foundation of another independent campus in Tehran in Nov. 2012 with the purpose of further expanding the university's research and educational activities and boost the number of students admitted in its postgraduate programmes. The construction of purpose-built and dedicated buildings for the faculty of Chemistry, Psychology, Engineering and Life Science are soon to start.
Structure
The university has 5 deputy departments, 16 faculties, 4 research institutes, 4 research centers, and 2 national centers of research excellence. There are 450 members of academic staff: 40 professors, 90 associate professors, 287 assistant professors, and 33 instructors. There are more than 900 non-academic staff members.
Faculties
The university has the following faculties:
- Faculty of Physical Education and Sport Sciences
- Faculty of Physics
- Faculty of Mathematical Sciences and Computer
- Faculty of Geographical Sciences
- Faculty of Management
- Faculty of Psychology and Education
- Faculty of Law and Political Sciences
- Faculty of Biological Sciences
- Faculty of Earth Sciences
- Faculty of Chemistry
- Faculty of Literature and Languages
- Faculty of Engineering: The Faculty of Engineering The Faculty of Engineering of Kharazmi University was established in 2003 with the aim of training capable and creative engineers using the highest educational and research standards to prepare them to provide specialized services related to the specialty and by continuing their studies up to the doctoral level. At present, the school has four departments: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Civil Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels. At present, this faculty is one of the most prestigious and strong technical and engineering faculties in the country and with 63 experienced faculty members, 742 undergraduate students, 812 postgraduate students in 5 majors and 19 majors and 82 doctoral students in two majors and three majors It pursues its goals with significant laboratory, laboratory and research facilities and equipment. The new building of the Technical College with about 9000 square meters of infrastructure is under construction and will be put into operation soon. Civil Engineering Group Kharazmi University Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, as the first department of the faculty, started its activities in 2003 with the launch of the Master of Geotechnical Engineering. The group currently accepts students in seven majors: geotechnics, structures, environment, earthquake, hydraulic and hydraulic structures, roads and transportation, engineering and construction management. The group also accepted students in October 2009 through the national entrance exam for the bachelor's degree in civil engineering and from October 2013 for the doctoral degree in the fields of civil engineering and geotechnics. The group currently has more than 44 PhD students, 273 graduate students and 188 undergraduate students. The laboratories of this group have the research facilities required to conduct applied research in various fields of civil engineering. Civil Engineering Group Laboratories: Soil Mechanics Laboratory and Concrete Technology Laboratory Material Strength Laboratory Hydraulic and Environmental Laboratories Road and Transportation Laboratory Future Plans Launching PhD in Environmental and Earthquake Engineering Launching Specialized Journal of Civil Engineering Special and High Structural Civil Design Seismic Improvement Studies Structures Reinforcement and Improvement of Non-Structural Components Design of Industrial Structures Laboratory Studies Geotechnical Engineering Seismic Improvement Studies and Soil Reinforcement Seismic Link and Seismic Geotechnical Studies Design of Earth Structures (Tunnels, Earth, etc. مطالعات (Studies and solutions for drilling, design of all types of foundations and deep foundations, environmental studies, water purification, air and soil pollution removal, hazardous pollution management, modeling and water quality management, concrete technology, road geometric design studies Transportation and Traffic Engineering Studies Optimal Infrastructure Design and Road Pavement Classes and Training Courses Feasibility Studies and Construction Project Management Industrial Engineering Group Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kharazmi University in 2006, due to a wide range of topics in the field of providing services to service units, organizations and industries licensed by the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, in the Master of Industrial Engineering - The industry and the management and efficiency of the system began to nurture the talents and young managers of the region. Currently, the group accepts students in four majors: systems optimization, logistics and supply chain engineering, engineering management, and socioeconomic systems engineering. The group also accepted students in October 2009 through the national entrance examination for a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering and from October 2013 for a doctoral student. The group currently has 188 undergraduate, 319 graduate and 38 doctoral students. The group held the Twelfth International Conference on Industrial Engineering on February 26 and 27, 2016. The group also publishes the scientific journal Journal of Supply of the International Journal (IJSOM). Laboratories Workshops Welding Machinery Industrial Engineering Group Future Programs Department of Industrial Engineering Setting up PhD in Industrial Engineering - Procurement and Supply Chain Mastering in Industrial Engineering - Trend in Healthy Systems Setting up in M.Sc. In setting quality and productivity in MSc in Industry - Project Management Orientation Specialized axes of Industrial Engineering Group Evaluation systems design and selection of managers, evaluation of strategic planning performance, organization and leading in reorganizing process systems Organization of quality and interest management systems Veri, Quality Engineering Value Engineering Knowledge Management Social Responsibility of the Company and Sustainable Development of Supply Chain Management and Production and Inventory Control and Scheduling Planning and Sequencing of Project Management Operations, Selection and Scheduling of Computational Intelligence Project and Development of Accurate, Innovative and Trans-Innovative Algorithms Decision support systems in industry and data-driven modeling Simulation of complex decision systems in financial engineering uncertainty, financial management and financial risk management of physical assets, maintenance and maintenance of the program, reliability of new production methods, development of programs Feasibility studies and feasibility studies for modeling sound systems Electrical and Computer Engineering Group The Computer Engineering Department started its activity in 1995 by accepting students in the field of Computer Engineering (Software). After establishing the Faculty of Engineering in 2007, he left the Faculty of Mathematics and continued his activities in the Faculty of Engineering. At present, this group of electrical and computer engineering, in addition to a bachelor's degree in software engineering, is called software orientation, master's degree in computer engineering in both artificial intelligence and computer systems architecture, and in the master's degree in electrical engineering. . It currently has more than 156 undergraduate students and 220 undergraduate students. The laboratories of this group have the research facilities required to conduct applied research in various fields of electrical and computer engineering. Laboratories Neural Networks Research Laboratory Electrical and Computer Engineering Group Data Mining Research Laboratory Electrical and Electronic Circuits Laboratory Logic and Architecture Laboratory and Microprocessor Computer Networks Research Laboratories Future Programs Electrical and Computer Engineering Group Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Engineering Trends Computer Orientations - Computer Systems Architecture and Secure Computing Degrees in M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering - Telecommunications, M.Sc. in Computer Science - Data Mining and Computer Engineering - Cognitive Software Orientation Software M.Sc. PhD Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Computer Software Production Wireless Networks Security Network Design of Video and Video Processing Systems Design and Analysis of Control Systems Modeling of Industrial, Economic and Financial Systems Advanced Information Processing and Mining Data and Exploration Compression knowledge Digital image retrieval Text and image Recognition of documents Identification of human activities Design of fault tolerance systems Group mechanical engineering The Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering and Technology of Kharazmi University, as the youngest department of the faculty, started its activities in 2012 with the start of the Master of Applied Design Engineering. Also, this group accepted undergraduate students in mechanical engineering through the national entrance exam in October 2014. The group currently has more than 146 undergraduate and 64 graduate students. The laboratories of this group have the research facilities required to conduct applied research in various fields in the field of mechanical engineering. Laboratories of Mechanical Engineering Department Robotics Laboratory Group Vibration Laboratory Laboratory of Dynamics Laboratory of Liquids Laboratory of Thermodynamics Laboratory of Mechanical Engineering Future Programs Department of Mechanical Engineering Setting up PhD in Mechanical Engineering Setting up energy conversion to M.Sc. Analysis, drone dynamics and vibration, random vibrations in industrial systems, analysis of oil drilling rig vibrations, design and analysis of mechanical parts of micro-sensors and micro-reactors, failure mechanics, stress analysis of structures, penetration, explosion and impact control and systems Optimization of structural reinforcement using composite materials, design and construction of bulletproof shields, design and construction of advanced structures Design of pressure vessels - heating facilities, air conditioning system g to reduce energy consumption in the building, optimization of energy systems - Engine site design of Kharazmi Faculty of Engineering computer site has been launched since 2009. Which currently consists of three parts. Masters and PhD site) 16 systems (Bachelor site) 20 systems (workshop site site) 20 systems Address: Faculty of Engineering, Alborz, Karaj University, South Mofteh St., Karate, Kharazmi University, Faculty of Engineering, Tehran, Iran
- Faculty of Financial Sciences
- Faculty of Economics
- Faculty of Humanities and Social Science
- Faculty of art and architecture
- Central building
- Faculty of Physical Education
- Hesarak Campus
- Hesarak Campus
- Amphitheatre
Research Institutes
- Institute for Educational Research: the institute was established in 1969 and its academic members of staff at present include one associate professor, one assistant professor and one instructor. It publishes a number of ISSN educational and research publications including The Educational Research Quarterly and The Education Index, a yearbook and yearbooks and indices of psychology and education. Dr. Mosaheb Institute for Mathematical Research: the institute was established in 1965; it is active in the fields of fundamental research in pure and applied mathematics, computer science and statistics at a global level, is in touch with mathematical research institutes in other countries, organizes scientific seminars and research workshops, publishes research done by the institute's scholars and educates scholars and instructors of mathematics for the universities across the country. Institute for Foreign Language Research: the institute carries out research projects in the area of languages and applied linguistics, develops the facilities necessary for the promotion and publication of research done by postgraduate students of languages at master's and Phd levels and publishes the biannual Iranian Journal of Applied Linguistics. Bahar Institute for Persian Language and Literature Research: the institute was established in 2004 and is active in the fields of Persian literature, language, writing and language skills and computer research in literature. It plans to develop an ISI-style database for scientific articles on Persian language, literature and culture, establish an electronic database for Persian texts. The institute is also concerned with the state of Persian language and literature teaching and evaluating research priorities in the field of Persian language and literature. Research Centers of National Excellence provide paradigms of organized research activity by select members of the academic staff of select universities in the country capable of carrying out high-profile scientific activity in applied or fundamental sciences. They focus and organize their activities in highly specialized fields to innovate and achieve scientific excellence in at the national, regional and international level to meet the country's urgent research needs.
- Research Center of National Excellence for the Spatial Analysis of Environmental Disasters: The center deals with both human and natural disasters which would collectively include natural phenomena such as floods, storms, torrential rains, in- and out-of season freezing periods, spread of unknown and strange diseases and hundreds of disasters resulting from undue human activity.
- Research Center of National Excellence for Stress Psychology The center was established in 2005 in accordance with the plan developed by the department of psychology at the university and approved by the relevant Research Centers of National Excellence across the country. It has the following objectives: Theoretical objectives: Scientific participation to develop boundaries of knowledge in the field and educating the required committed and experts to meet society's needs in this regard Executive objectives: this includes, among other objectives, the publication of two government-authorized research journals from 2007. Research centers.
- Plasma Research Center: the center was established in 2005. It has received Ministry permission to work on the charged particles instrument and microwave lamps and plasma in the solid state. The center is at present active in the fields of plasma engineering, nanotechnology and space physics.
- Fundamental and Applied Science Research Center: the center was established in 2005 to further take advantage of the capabilities and potentials in the fields of fundamental and applied sciences at the university and to help achieve the objectives of the fourth economic, social and cultural development for the expansion of research in the country. There are at present photonic and the solid state, cellular-molecular and genetic and paleontology and economic geology research departments at the center.
- Human Kinetics Research Center: the center was established in 2006 with 11 members of academic staff. It is active in the following areas: -Development and expansion of research in Physical Education and Sports Sciences -Promotion of research activities in Physical Education and Sports Sciences to boost the general academic level and help theory and practice come together in the field -Cooperation with other research and educational centers in the areas of Physical Education and Sports Sciences to promote the quality of researches done in the field -Cooperation with other institutions and organizations involved directly or indirectly in sports for the people.
- Comparative Philosophy and Law Research Center: the center was established in 2007 with Human rights, Comparative philosophy and Comparative Law departments. It has the following objectives: - Acquaintance with different viewpoints across the academic centers of the world in the fields of law and philosophy, transfer of global experiences in law and philosophy, particularly modern legal achievements in the world. -To present and compare Islam's legal and philosophical potentials and strengths with other schools of law and philosophy to develop a better understanding of our native legal and philosophical systems in scientific centers.
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