Malek Ashtar University of Technology (MUT) ( fa, دانشگاه صنعتی مالک اشتر, Dāneshgāh-e San'ati-ye Mālek Asht'ar) is a public research university of

engineering Engineering is the use of scientific principles to design and build machines, structures, and other items, including bridges, tunnels, roads, vehicles, and buildings. The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad range of more speciali ...

science Science is a systematic endeavor that Scientific method, builds and organizes knowledge in the form of Testability, testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earli ...

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

. Founded in 1984, MUT's main campus is located at

Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...

, the capital of

. Its other campuses are located in Isfahan and

Urmia Urmia or Orumiyeh ( fa, ارومیه, Variously transliterated as ''Oroumieh'', ''Oroumiyeh'', ''Orūmīyeh'' and ''Urūmiyeh''.) is the largest city in West Azerbaijan Province of Iran and the capital of Urmia County. It is situated at an al ...

. The university is named after

Malik al-Ashtar Malik al-Ashtar ( ar, مَالِك ٱلْأَشْتَر), also known as Mālik bin al-Ḥārith al-Nakhaʿīy al-Maḏḥijīy ( ar, مَالِك ٱبْن ٱلْحَارِث ٱلنَّخَعِيّ ٱلْمَذْحِجِيّ), was one of the loyal ...

, one of the most loyal companions of Ali Ibn Abi Talib. MUT provides both undergraduate and graduate programs. It is organized into more than twenty schools, colleges, and institutes, located in six centers throughout

Lavizan Lavizān ( fa, لویزان) is a north-eastern neighborhood of Tehran, the capital of Iran. Lavizān area consists of a residential area and forested recreation area called Lavizān Forest Park. The neighborhoods surrounding Lavizan are Majidab ...

Shahin Shahr Shahin Shahr ( fa, شاهين شهر،شایین شهر, also Romanized as Shāhīn Shahr) is a city and capital of Shahin Shahr and Meymeh County, Isfahan Province, Iran. At the 2016 census, its population was 173,329 in 35,827 families. Shahin ...

in Isfahan province,

Karaj Karaj ( fa, کرج, ) is the capital of Alborz Province, Iran, and effectively a satellite city of Tehran. Although the county hosts a population around 1.97 million, as recorded in the 2016 census, most of the county is rugged mountain. The urb ...

in Alborz province, Fereydunkenar in Mazandaran province,

Bandar Abbas Bandar Abbas or Bandar-e ‘Abbās ( fa, , , ), is a port city and capital of Hormozgān Province on the southern coast of Iran, on the Persian Gulf. The city occupies a strategic position on the narrow Strait of Hormuz (just across from Musand ...

in Hormozgan province and

History

In late 1981, the Iranian government brought together all military-industrial units and placed them under the

Defense Industries Organization The Defense Industries Organization (DIO) is a Conglomerate (company), conglomerate of companies run by the Iran, Islamic Republic of Iran whose function is to provide the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Armed Forces with the necessar ...

(DIO). By 1984, a large number of infantry rifles, machine guns, and mortars and some small-arms ammunition were being manufactured locally. They also established three universities to educate experts for Iran's industrial and research centers: Imam Hossein University, Baqiyatallah Medical Sciences University, and Malek Ashtar University. Malek Ashtar University of Technology was approved in 1984 by the Iranian Ministry of Science, Research and Technology. It was then recognized as a university in 1984.

Campuses

MUT had only one campus in Shahinshahr, Isfahan. In 1999, another campus was established in

and known as main campus. Its faculties include aerospace engineering, applied sciences, electrical engineering,

management Management (or managing) is the administration of an organization, whether it is a business, a nonprofit organization, or a Government agency, government body. It is the art and science of managing resources of the business. Management includ ...

and

industrial engineering Industrial engineering is an engineering profession that is concerned with the optimization of complex processes, systems, or organizations by developing, improving and implementing integrated systems of people, money, knowledge, information a ...

marine sciences Oceanography (), also known as oceanology and ocean science, is the scientific study of the oceans. It is an Earth science, which covers a wide range of topics, including ecosystem dynamics; ocean currents, waves, and geophysical fluid dynamic ...

and engineering, materials and manufacturing technologies and information, communications and security technologies, and rector as of 2006.

Research

Aerospace research

Malek Ashtar University of Technology is among top five public universities in Iran that provide aerospace research and programs at

undergraduate Undergraduate education is education conducted after secondary education and before postgraduate education. It typically includes all postsecondary programs up to the level of a bachelor's degree. For example, in the United States, an entry-le ...

and

postgraduate Postgraduate or graduate education refers to academic or professional degrees, certificates, diplomas, or other qualifications pursued by post-secondary students who have earned an undergraduate ( bachelor's) degree. The organization and ...

levels. (These universities includes K. N. Toosi University of Technology,

Sharif University of Technology Sharif University of Technology (SUT; fa, دانشگاه صنعتی شریف) is a public research university in Tehran, Iran. It is widely considered as the nation's most prestigious and leading institution for science, technology, engineering ...

Amirkabir University of Technology Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT) ( fa, دانشگاه صنعتی امیرکبیر), also called the Tehran Polytechnic, is a public technological university located in Tehran, Iran. Founded in 1928, AUT is the second oldest technical uni ...

, and Malek Ashtar University of Technology. The Sharif University of Technology was the first university with an Aerospace Engineering degree since 1987. The K.N. Toosi University of Technology offered Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering in a joint program with

Moscow State Aviation Technological University Moscow State Aviation Technological University is a university in Moscow, Russia. The modern name of this university is «MATI» – Russian State University of Aviation Technology (russian: Российский государственный � ...

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eig ...

. In 2003,

Iranian Space Agency The Iranian Space Agency (ISA, Persian: ''Sāzmān-e Fazāi-ye Irān'') is Iran's governmental space agency. Iran became an orbital-launch-capable nation in 2009. Iran is one of the 24 founding members of the United Nations Committee on th ...

was established in an uninhabited desert area in Semnan Province, southeast of

. The Aerospace Research Institute affiliated to the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology is active organization in the space science and technology applications. Five public universities, one private university (Azad University Science and Research Branch), and one college (Civil Aviation Technology College) provide higher education and research in aerospace engineering. Since the 1990s, Iran started to develop a launch vehicle based on

Shahab-3 The Shahab-3 ( fa, شهاب ۳, Šahâb 3; meaning "meteor-3") is a liquid-propelled medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) developed by Iran and based on the North Korean Nodong-1. The Shahab-3 has a range of ; a MRBM variant can now reach (ca ...

. The Iran Space Research Center started testing launch capabilities since early 2007 reaching 150–200 km altitude based on

series. In 2008, they developed a two-stage launch vehicle Safir-1. In 2009, they launched a satellite named Omid into orbit using the domestically built launch vehicle Safir-2, making Iran the ninth nation capable of producing and launching a satellite.

Biological research

According to the

Center for Strategic and International Studies The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is an American think tank based in Washington, D.C. CSIS was founded as the Center for Strategic and International Studies of Georgetown University in 1962. The center conducts polic ...

(CSIS) report on the biological activities in Iran, genetic cloning is being carried out at the Malek Ashtar University of Technology. The Iran's activities about biological weapons began in 1985. By 1986, they established a research center in Tehran's

Pasteur Institute The Pasteur Institute (french: Institut Pasteur) is a French non-profit private foundation dedicated to the study of biology, micro-organisms, diseases, and vaccines. It is named after Louis Pasteur, who invented pasteurization and vaccines ...

to work on toxic fungus and microbial substances. The center succeeded in producing

toxic Toxicity is the degree to which a chemical substance or a particular mixture of substances can damage an organism. Toxicity can refer to the effect on a whole organism, such as an animal, bacterium, or plant, as well as the effect on a subs ...

fungus A fungus ( : fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms. These organisms are classified as a kingdom, separately from t ...

, and

aflatoxin Aflatoxins are various poisonous carcinogens and mutagens that are produced by certain molds, particularly ''Aspergillus'' species. The fungi grow in soil, decaying vegetation and various staple foodstuffs and commodities such as hay, sweetcorn ...

. In 1987, they moved the facilities to the Imam Hossein University. A number of foreign experts from China,

North Korea North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu (Amnok) and T ...

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

, and

have cooperated with the Ministry of Defense of Iran. The Research Center for Direct Biotechnology, which does not directly work on microbial weapons, is used as the center for biological researches and actively works with the Malek Ashtar University of Technology, Imam Hossein University, and Baqiyatallah Medical Sciences University. However, the Centers for Science and Technological Growth of the Biological Research Center of the Malek Ashtar University of Technology, affiliated with the defense industries, are in charge of mass production of biological weapons.

Academics

Schools and colleges

The main campus located in

include: * Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Complex * Electrical and Electronics Engineering Complex * Management and Industrial Engineering Complex * Communications and Security Technologies Complex * Modern Sciences and Technologies Complex * Non-factor Defense Institute * Aerospace Department Shahinshahr campus include: * Applied Sciences Complex * Marine Science and Technology Complex * School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering * School of Material Engineering * School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering * School of Industrial Engineering * School of Marine Science and Engineering MUT has two libraries, the Dr Chamran library on the Shahinshahr campus, and the Khawrazmi library on the Tehran campus. The university also co-operates with several independent research centers. Among those: * Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) * Ministry of Defense of Iran *

University of Tehran The University of Tehran (Tehran University or UT, fa, دانشگاه تهران) is the most prominent university located in Tehran, Iran. Based on its historical, socio-cultural, and political pedigree, as well as its research and teaching pro ...

*University of Science and Defense Technologies (USDT) *

Baltic State Technical University Baltic State Technical University "Voenmeh" D.F. Ustinov (russian: Балтийский государственный технический университет "Военмех" им. Д.Ф.Устинова; abbreviated BGTU) is a Russian tec ...

(until 1998) *

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, or CASC, is the main contractor for the Chinese space program. It is state-owned and has subsidiaries which design, develop and manufacture a range of spacecraft, launch vehicles, strategi ...

*Centers for Science and Technological Growth *Biological Research Center of Malek Ashtar University *Research Center for Direct Biotechnology *Sina Industry (Vira Laboratories) *Aerospace Industries Organization (AIO) *Biological Research Center of SIO *Damghan's Weapons Industry *National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Research *The Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics (IBB) *Tehran's Biochemical and Bioenvironmental Research Center *Group of Fermentation and Biological Technology *Missile Industrial Group at Parchin *Shahid Babaye Industrial Complex (SBIC) *Mechanical Systems Industrial Group (MIG) *Special Industrial Groups of the Ministry of Defense (MIDSPCIG)

Admissions

Admission in MUT is highly competitive and only top students may achieve this honor and all undergraduate and graduate programs requires scoring among top 1% of students in the

Iranian University Entrance Exam The Iranian University Entrance Exam, simply known as Konkour ( Persian: کنکور; from the French ''Concours''), is a standardized test used as one of the means to gain admission to higher education in Iran. Generally, to get a Ph.D. in non-me ...

, known as Concours (from the French; Konkoor, Konkour, and Konkur are transliterations of the

Persian Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language ** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples ** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...

Rankings

*According to

Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics The Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics (MODAFL; fa, وزارت دفاع و پشتیبانی نیروهای مسلح, vezarat-e defa' va poshtibani-ey niruha-ye mosallah) is the defence ministry of the Islamic Republic of Iran and pa ...

policy there is no reliable source of MUT's researches, citations, teaching and industry income for international ranking systems. *Top Ranks in the research tournament in Iran indicate that this university has a high scientific level. *However, according to the evaluation of technical universities in Iran by ISC(Islamic World Science Citation Center), this university was ranked 8 in 2015-2016 and in 2016-2020 ranked 6-10 among all the technical universities of Iran. *In the ranking of world universities by

SCimago Institutions Rankings The SCImago Institutions Rankings (SIR) since 2009 has published its international ranking of worldwide research institutions, the SIR World Report. The SIR World Report is the work of the SCImago Research Group,CWTS Leiden Ranking The CWTS Leiden Ranking is an annual global university ranking based exclusively on bibliometric indicators. The rankings are compiled by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies ( Dutch: ''Centrum voor Wetenschap en Technologische Studies ...

in 2020(Time period:2015–2018), it has been ranked 1055. *In the ranking of world universities by CWTS Leiden Ranking in 2021(Time period:2016–2019), it has been ranked 1077. * The global ranking of Malek-Ashtar University of Technology in the field of engineering in 2021 in CWTS Leiden Ranking is 481 and in SCimago Institutions Rankings is 523. *According to the results of the World Rankings in 2022 by EduRank institute(https://edurank.org/uni/malek-ashtar-university-of-technology/rankings/), the world ranking of this university in the fields of Metallurgical Engineering,Nuclear Engineering,Marine Engineering,Chemical Engineering,Materials Science,Aviation and, Aerospace Engineeringis 525, 556, 689, 878, 888, 928 and, 1000,respectively. *In the 2020 assessment of the Essential Science Indicators (ESI) belonging to Clarivate Analytics (ISI), Malek-Ashtar University of Technology ranked among the top 1% universities of the world with the most impact based on citations.

Student life

Residential life

In addition to the sports teams, fraternities, sororities, and study clubs, there are many organizations on campus that focus on entertainment, arts, and culture.

Groups and activities

MUT has many scientific societies include: * Language Scientific Society * Physics Scientific Society * Chemistry Scientific Society * Password and Encryption Scientific Society * Astronomy Scientific Society * Marine Engineering Scientific Society * Materials Engineering Scientific Society * Scientific Society of Mechanical Engineering * Scientific Society of Aerospace Engineering * Scientific Society of Optical Engineering * Information Technology Scientific Society * Electrical and Electronic Engineering Scientific Society The Materials Engineering Scientific Society selected as the best national scientific Society by Ministry of Science, Research and Technology in 2009, 2010 and 2011. Also, MUT Physics Scientific Society was honored in Harkat National Festival and selected as a third center of excellence in Iran Scientific Society of Physics.

Athletics

MUT students compete in club and intramural sports, including soccer,

volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Sum ...

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...

badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players p ...

tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

and

ping pong Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...

. A wide variety of sports facilities are available at Malek Ashtar University of Technology. The Sports and Recreation Center serves various facilities and fields throughout both Isfahan and

campuses to athletic teams.

Sanctions

The

United Nations The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmoniz ...

, the

European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been de ...

Council Regulation (EU) No 267/2012 of 23 March 2012 concerning restrictive measures against Iran and repealing Regulation (EU) No 961/2010
/ref> and American officials believe the university is involved in the nuclear program of Iran and that it has served as a cover for the organization responsible for the manufacturing of

nuclear warheads A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb), producing a nuclear explosion. Both bomb ...

. The university is not open to visitors and inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency have not been allowed to interview staff. The university has been under sanctions from the

and from the

. This only includes research groups previously falling under the Physics Research Center (PHRC) subordinate to the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran. Exiled Iranian opposition groups have claimed the university has assisted in developing

biological weapons A biological agent (also called bio-agent, biological threat agent, biological warfare agent, biological weapon, or bioweapon) is a bacterium, virus, protozoan, parasite, fungus, or toxin that can be used purposefully as a weapon in bioterrorism ...

Notable faculty and alumni

Ardeshir Hosseinpour Ardeshir Hosseinpour ( fa, اردشير حسين پور, 1962 – 15 January 2007) was an Iranian nuclear scientist, physics professor, and electromagnetism expert who was involved in the Iranian nuclear program. He died mysteriously in early 20 ...

* Darioush Rezaeinejad *

Shahram Amiri Shahram Amiri ( fa, شهرام امیری ''Šahrâm Amiri''; 8 November 1978 – 3 August 2016) was an Iranian nuclear scientist who disappeared from Iran during 2009–2010 under disputed circumstances, and was executed by the Iranian government ...

Mohammad Reza Aref Mohammad Reza Aref ( fa, محمدرضا عارف, born 19 December 1951) is an Iranian engineer, academic and reformist politician who was the parliamentary leader of reformists' Hope fraction in the Iranian Parliament, representing Tehran, Rey, S ...

* Ali Mohammadi

References

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