Amirkabir University of Technology

Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT), also known as Tehran Polytechnic, is a public technological university in Tehran, Iran, founded in 1928 as a technical academy and formally opened in 1958 under the name Tehran Polytechnic.阿米尔卡比尔理工大学（简称 AUT），又称德黑兰理工大学，是伊朗德黑兰的公立理工科大学，1928 年创立时为技术学院，1958 年以“德黑兰理工学院”之名正式开办。

It was renamed in 1979 after Amir Kabir, the reforming chief minister of the Qajar era, and it is known in Iran as the mother of engineering universities because of its age and its role in technical education.该校于 1979 年以恺加王朝改革派首相阿米尔·卡比尔之名更名；因其办学历史和工程技术教育地位，在伊朗素有“工程大学之母”之称。

In the 2027 QS World University Rankings it is placed 483rd, and OpenAlex records 50,223 research works and about 2.01 million citations for the university.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，该校位列第 483；OpenAlex 收录其论文 50,223 篇、被引约 201 万次。

History

• The earliest predecessor of the university was the Civil Engineering Institute, founded in 1928 at the site on Hafez Avenue that remains the heart of the present Tehran campus.学校最早的前身是 1928 年在哈菲兹大街现址创立的土木工程学院，这里至今仍是德黑兰主校区的核心。

• In 1957 the complex accepted its first students and equipped six workshops, admitting the initial group through an internal examination rather than a national test.1957 年该教学区招收首批学生并配置了六个实习车间，第一批学生通过校内考试而非全国统考入学。

• After that the engineer Habib Nafisi led the transformation of the two technical institutes into a full-fledged university, and in 1958 Tehran Polytechnic formally began with five engineering degrees.此后工程师哈比卜·纳菲西主持将两所技术学院改造成一所完整大学；1958 年德黑兰理工学院正式开办，最初设五个工程学位方向。

• The two institutes brought together in that merger were the Civil Engineering Institute and the Higher Art Center, which gave the young institution teaching in applied arts as well as in engineering.合并的两所机构分别是土木工程学院与高等艺术中心，使这所新学校除工程外还开设应用艺术教学。

• Those five initial courses were electrical and electronic engineering, mechanical engineering, textile engineering, chemistry, and construction and infrastructure engineering.最初开设的五个方向为电气与电子工程、机械工程、纺织工程、化学，以及建筑与基础设施工程。

• Habib Nafisi served as the first president from 1958 to 1962, and Rahim Abedi held the post briefly in 1962 before Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi took over.哈比卜·纳菲西自 1958 至 1962 年任首任校长，1962 年拉希姆·阿贝迪短暂接任，随后由穆罕默德·阿里·莫杰塔赫迪出任校长。

• Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi, principal of the Alborz High School and a holder of a doctorate from the Sorbonne earned in 1938, was president from 1962 to 1965 and built lecture halls, a dining area, a sports field and faculty buildings.曾任阿尔博兹中学校长、1938 年获巴黎大学博士学位的穆罕默德·阿里·莫杰塔赫迪于 1962 至 1965 年任校长，任内修建了阶梯教室、餐饮区、运动场与各系馆。

• Successive presidents in the later 1960s and 1970s included Bina, Yeganeh Haeri, Mohammad-Jafar Jadd Babaei, Kayvan Najmabadi, Hossein Mahban and Siroos Shafiei.1960 年代后期至 1970 年代，比纳、叶加内·哈埃里、穆罕默德·贾法尔·贾德·巴贝伊、凯万·纳杰马巴迪、侯赛因·马赫班与西鲁斯·沙菲伊先后担任校长。

• Six months before the victory of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Tehran Polytechnic was renamed after Amir Kabir, the chief minister of Nasir al-Din Shah who is widely regarded as Iran's first modernising statesman.1979 年伊朗革命胜利前六个月，德黑兰理工学院以纳赛尔丁沙阿时期首相阿米尔·卡比尔之名更名，后者被普遍视为伊朗近代第一位推行现代化改革的政治家。

• After the revolution the university continued its teaching under the new name and expanded steadily, with presidents including Hasan Farid Alam, Kamaleddin Nikravesh, Hassan Rahimzadeh and Aliakbar Ramezanianpour.革命后学校以新校名继续办学并稳步扩展，哈桑·法里德·阿拉姆、卡马莱丁·尼克拉韦什、哈桑·拉希姆扎德与阿里阿克巴尔·拉梅扎尼安普尔等先后出任校长。

• Mohammad Hossein Salimi Namin served as president from 1983 to 1996, a long period of consolidation in which the university became a national centre of science and engineering.穆罕默德·侯赛因·萨利米·纳明自 1983 至 1996 年任校长，这一长达十三年的时期巩固了学校作为全国科学与工程中心的地位。

• Alireza Rahai first led the university from 1996 to 1997, followed by Abdolhamid Riazi from 1997 to 2001 and Ahmad Fahimifar from 2001 to 2005.阿里雷扎·拉哈伊于 1996 至 1997 年首度执掌学校，其后阿卜杜勒哈米德·里亚齐于 1997 至 2001 年、艾哈迈德·法希米法尔于 2001 至 2005 年任校长。

• In 2001 the Mahshahr campus was constructed in Khuzestan province in order to establish close cooperation with the national petroleum industry.2001 年学校在胡齐斯坦省建成马赫沙赫尔校区，以便与国有石油工业建立紧密合作。

• Also in 2001 the university began building its distance-learning programme, and by 2004 it had become one of the leading Iranian universities in e-learning.同样在 2001 年，学校着手建设远程教学项目，至 2004 年已成为伊朗网络教育领域的领先高校之一。

• Alireza Rahai returned for a second term as president from 2005 to 2014, when the university added laboratories, research centres and industrial partnerships.阿里雷扎·拉哈伊于 2005 至 2014 年再度出任校长，其间学校增设了实验室、研究中心与产业合作项目。

• In 2011 the university founded its Office of Sustainability, making it a pioneer of sustainable development in Iran through energy-saving measures and student volunteer work.2011 年学校成立可持续发展办公室，通过节能措施与学生志愿服务，成为伊朗可持续发展领域的先行者。

• In 2012 the university announced that Iran was preparing to place a home-made satellite named Nahid into orbit, a project associated with its aerospace research.2012 年学校宣布伊朗准备将自制卫星“纳希德”送入轨道，该项目与该校航空航天研究有关。

• Ahmad Motamedi served as president from 2014 to 2021, Hassan Ghodsipour from 2021 to 2023, and Alireza Rahai for a third term from 2023 to 2025.艾哈迈德·莫塔梅迪于 2014 至 2021 年任校长，哈桑·戈德西普尔于 2021 至 2023 年、阿里雷扎·拉哈伊于 2023 至 2025 年第三度出任校长。

• Abbas Soroush became chancellor in 2025 and signed, with the heads of fifteen leading Iranian universities, an open letter addressed to the leaders of 150 universities worldwide.阿巴斯·索鲁什于 2025 年就任校长，并与伊朗十五所顶尖大学校长联署致全球 150 所大学校长的公开信。

• Over the following decades the university also established teaching centres at Garmsar in Semnan province, at Bandar Abbas on the Gulf coast and on Kish Island.此后数十年间，学校又在塞姆南省的加尔姆萨尔、波斯湾沿岸的阿巴斯港以及基什岛设立了教学中心。

• Between 1928 and 2026 the institution grew from a single civil engineering institute into a technological university with 18 departments, five campuses and more than 60,000 graduates.从 1928 年到 2026 年，学校由一所土木工程学院发展为拥有 18 个系、五个校区、逾 6 万名毕业生的理工科大学。

Academics

• Amirkabir University of Technology is organised into 18 departments that are grouped for teaching purposes into six schools covering engineering, science and management.阿米尔卡比尔理工大学现设 18 个系，按教学需要归入六个学院，覆盖工程、理学与管理领域。

• Its departments include Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering and Maritime Engineering.其系科包括电气工程、计算机工程、生物医学工程、机械工程、航空航天工程与海洋工程。

• Other departments are Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mining Engineering, Petroleum and Geoenergy Engineering, Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Polymer and Color Engineering.其他系科还有土木与环境工程、采矿工程、石油与地能工程、材料与冶金工程、化学工程，以及高分子与色彩工程。

• The remaining departments are Industrial Engineering and Management Systems, Management Science and Technology, Mathematics and Computer Science, Physics and Energy Engineering, Textile Engineering and Chemistry.其余系科为工业工程与管理、管理科学与技术、数学与计算机科学、物理与能源工程、纺织工程与化学。

• More than 12,000 students were enrolled in undergraduate and graduate programmes in 2023, including more than 2,000 international students, and the university has produced more than 60,000 graduates.2023 年学校在读本科生与研究生超过 12,000 人，其中留学生逾 2,000 人；学校累计培养毕业生超过 6 万人。

• The university employs more than 500 full-time academic staff and about 550 administrative employees, a ratio of staff to students that is among the most favourable in Iran.学校有逾 500 名全职教学科研人员与约 550 名行政人员，其师生比在伊朗高校中位居前列。

• Its research record includes more than 30,000 peer-reviewed journal articles, more than 1,200 patents and more than 15 nationally granted mega projects funded by the government.学校科研产出包括逾 30,000 篇同行评审期刊论文、逾 1,200 项专利，以及 15 个以上获国家立项的重大项目。

• The university operates 25 research centres and institutes, among them the Laser and Optics Research Institute, the Oil, Gas and Petroleum Engineering Research Institute and the Space Sciences Research Institute.学校设有 25 个研究中心与研究所，其中包括激光与光学研究所、石油与天然气工程研究所和空间科学研究所。

• Other research units include the Advanced Processes and Materials Research Institute, the IT and Communications Research Institute, and the Institute of Water, Environment and Sustainable Development.其他研究机构还包括先进工艺与材料研究所、信息技术与通信研究所，以及水、环境与可持续发展研究所。

• Iran's Ministry of Science and Technology designated the university a Centre of Excellence in biomechanics, power systems, radiocommunication systems and thermoelasticity.伊朗科学与技术部将该校认定为生物力学、电力系统、无线通信系统与热弹性力学领域的卓越中心。

• The university houses a supercomputer capable of about 34,000 billion operations per second, the machine being available both to researchers inside the university and to outside research teams.学校拥有运算速度约每秒 34 万亿次的超级计算机，校内研究人员与校外团队均可使用。

• The library and documentation centre, with a central library and 16 satellite libraries in Tehran and Bandar Abbas, is one of the richest technical collections in the region.图书馆与文献中心由中央馆及分布于德黑兰与阿巴斯港的 16 个分馆组成，其工程技术馆藏位居本地区前列。

• The university publishes the Amirkabir Journal of Science and Technology and the AUT Journal of Mathematics and Computing, both peer-reviewed research journals.学校出版《阿米尔卡比尔科学与技术杂志》与《AUT 数学与计算杂志》，均为同行评审研究期刊。

• Its Polymer Engineering department is the first and most prestigious polymer engineering programme in Iran.其高分子工程系是伊朗最早且最具声望的高分子工程专业。

• The university holds 99 memoranda of understanding with institutions in 30 countries and 94 memoranda of agreement with partners in 22 countries.学校与 30 个国家的机构签署了 99 份谅解备忘录，并与 22 个国家的伙伴签署了 94 份合作协议。

• Joint degree programmes are run with institutions such as the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Delft University of Technology, Arts et Metiers ParisTech and the Maastricht School of Management, and a joint programme exists with the University of Birmingham.学校与洛桑联邦理工学院、代尔夫特理工大学、巴黎高科工艺学院与马斯特里赫特管理学院等开展联合学位项目，并与伯明翰大学设有合作项目。

• Admission is highly competitive, since undergraduate applicants must place among roughly the top one per cent of candidates in Iran's national university entrance examination, known as the Konkour.入学竞争极为激烈，本科申请者须在伊朗全国大学入学考试（Konkour）中取得约前百分之一的成绩。

• The university's Research and Technology Center and its Technology and Innovation Park link its laboratories with industry, and industrial companies fund many of its research projects, especially in oil and gas.学校的研发中心与科技创新园把实验室与产业连接起来，石油天然气等领域的许多研究项目由企业资助。

• The chancellor is appointed by Iran's Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, and the executive branch of the university consists of four departments that receive guidance from university councils on planning and administration.校长由伊朗科学、研究与技术部任命；学校行政部门由四个部门组成，在规划与管理事务上接受校务委员会的指导。

Campus

• The main campus stands at 424 Hafez Avenue, close to the Vali Asr crossroads where Enghelab Street meets Vali Asr Street in the very centre of Tehran.主校区位于哈菲兹大街 424 号，紧邻德黑兰市中心恩格拉布街与瓦利阿瑟街交汇的瓦利阿瑟路口。

• Many students commute by metro, using the Teatr-e Shahr station on the Tehran Metro near the campus, and the site lies within walking distance of the city's central bookshops and cafes.许多学生乘地铁通勤，使用校区附近德黑兰地铁剧院站；校区步行可达市中心的书店与咖啡馆一带。

• The university runs five campuses: the main campus in Tehran and branches at Mahshahr, Bandar Abbas, Garmsar and Kish Island, which together extend its teaching and research from the capital to the Gulf coast and the southern islands.学校共有五个校区：德黑兰主校区，以及马赫沙赫尔、阿巴斯港、加尔姆萨尔与基什岛四个校区，使其教学科研由首都延伸至波斯湾沿岸与南部岛屿。

• The Mahshahr campus in Khuzestan province was built in 2001 to work closely with the national petroleum industry, and the Bandar Abbas campus serves Iran's marine industries.位于胡齐斯坦省的马赫沙赫尔校区建于 2001 年，与国有石油工业紧密合作；阿巴斯港校区则服务于伊朗的海洋产业。

• The Garmsar campus in Semnan province and the Kish Island campus were created both for regional cooperation and to relieve pressure on the crowded Tehran site.塞姆南省的加尔姆萨尔校区与基什岛校区，既为区域合作而设，也为缓解德黑兰校区的拥挤压力。

• The library system comprises the central library on the Tehran campus and 16 satellite libraries spread across Tehran and Bandar Abbas.图书馆体系包括德黑兰校区的中央图书馆，以及分布于德黑兰与阿巴斯港的 16 个分馆。

• During Mojtahedi's presidency the campus gained an amphitheatre, a dining area, a sports field and new buildings for the faculties, which still form the core of the teaching space.莫杰塔赫迪任校长期间，校园增建了阶梯教室、餐饮区、运动场与各系新楼，这些建筑至今仍是教学空间的主体。

• The Research and Technology Center and the Technology and Innovation Park occupy campus buildings and host start-up teams, industrial projects and joint laboratories.研发中心与科技创新园设于校内建筑，入驻创业团队、产业项目与联合实验室。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings Amirkabir University of Technology is placed 483rd, as published in that year's table, keeping it among the world's top 500 universities.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，阿米尔卡比尔理工大学位列第 483，稳居全球前 500 之列。^[1]

• In the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings it stands in the 401-450 band, a stronger showing than several larger Iranian universities.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校处于 401 至 450 区间，表现优于若干规模更大的伊朗高校。

• In the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking it is placed 791st.在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中，该校位列第 791。

• In the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities it lies in the 801-900 band.在 2026 年世界大学学术排名中，该校位列 801 至 900 区间。^[2]

• In the 2021 QS World University Rankings the university stood 477th, second among Iranian institutions behind Sharif University of Technology at 407th, and by 2023 it had risen to 443rd.在 2021 年 QS 世界大学排名中，该校位列第 477，在伊朗高校中仅次于排名第 407 的谢里夫理工大学；到 2023 年其名次升至第 443。

• OpenAlex records 50,223 research works and about 2.01 million citations for the university, an output concentrated in engineering, materials science, chemistry and computer science.OpenAlex 收录该校论文 50,223 篇、被引约 201 万次，产出集中于工程、材料科学、化学与计算机科学。

• The university ranked first among Iranian universities in the 2014 CWTS Leiden Ranking, and in the 2014 U.S. News subject rankings it placed 89th worldwide in engineering and 90th in computer science.该校在 2014 年 CWTS 莱顿排名中居伊朗高校首位；在 2014 年 US News 学科排名中，其工程学位列全球第 89、计算机科学位列第 90。

• Its computer science programme was ranked in the global 100-150 band in the 2013 Shanghai subject rankings and its engineering sciences programme in the 151-200 band in 2014.在 2013 年软科学科排名中，其计算机科学位居全球 100 至 150 区间；2014 年其工程科学位居 151 至 200 区间。

• On the university's own figures, 48 of its faculty members and researchers were listed among the top two per cent of scientists worldwide in the latest Stanford assessment.据校方数据，在斯坦福大学最新评估中，该校有 48 名教学科研人员进入全球前 2% 科学家名单。

• Its 2023 profile also reported a global rank of 19th for citations per faculty and a world rank of 37th for its mathematics department.该校 2023 年的资料还显示，其师均被引次数居全球第 19，数学系位居全球第 37。

Student life

• Students call the university the mother of engineering universities, a nickname earned by its age and by the number of Iranian engineering faculties whose staff trained there, and the institution is also widely known by its English name Tehran Polytechnic.师生称这所学校为“工程大学之母”，这一别称来自其悠久历史，以及伊朗众多工科院系中在该校受训任教的规模；学校也常以其英文名“Tehran Polytechnic”为人所知。

• The Office of Sustainability, founded in 2011, gives students coursework, volunteer opportunities and research projects on energy saving, emissions and campus sustainability.2011 年成立的可持续发展办公室为学生提供节能、减排与校园可持续议题的课程作业、志愿机会与研究项目。

• Entrepreneurship is promoted through events such as Startup Weekend, TEDx Tehran, the Falling Walls Lab and the Idea Bazaar, held with the university's innovation park.学校通过创业周末、TEDx 德黑兰、Falling Walls Lab 与创意市集等活动推动创业，并与校内科创园共同举办。

• Scientific associations, such as the Scientific Association of Physics, help students move from coursework into the wider professional community of their fields, and the university publishes their websites and activity lists.物理学会等学生学术社团帮助学生从课程学习走向本领域的专业社群，学校也公布这些社团的网站与活动清单。

• The Department of Physical Education reported in 2026 that it had repaired and equipped all of the university's sports complexes for student use.体育部在 2026 年表示已对学校全部体育场馆完成修缮与器材配置，供学生使用。

• The Amir Kabir Artificial Intelligence Competition is run by the university, and its eighth edition brought 30 teams to the final round.学校主办阿米尔卡比尔人工智能竞赛，第八届决赛有 30 支队伍参加。

• More than 2,000 international students study at the university, and international activities include Erasmus exchanges, international internships and joint innovation centres with partner universities.在校留学生超过 2,000 人；学校国际活动包括 Erasmus 交换、国际实习以及与伙伴院校共建的创新中心。

• Dual-degree routes allow postgraduate students to split their studies between Amirkabir and partner institutions in Europe, with programmes in energy management and business administration among them.联合学位通道使研究生可以在阿米尔卡比尔与欧洲伙伴院校之间分段学习，方向包括能源管理与工商管理等。

• Students can also follow courses through the university's e-learning system, which has operated since the early 2000s and serves learners across Iran.学生也可通过校方网络教学系统修课，该系统自 2000 年代初运行，服务伊朗全国的学习者。

Notable people

• Habib Nafisi, the engineer who turned the two technical institutes into Tehran Polytechnic, was the university's first president from 1958 to 1962.工程师哈比卜·纳菲西将两所技术学院改造为德黑兰理工学院，并于 1958 至 1962 年出任首任校长。

• Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi, president from 1962 to 1965 and previously principal of the Alborz High School, shaped the physical layout of the Tehran campus.穆罕默德·阿里·莫杰塔赫迪于 1962 至 1965 年任校长，此前长期担任阿尔博兹中学校长，塑造了德黑兰校区的空间格局。

• Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl, a professor emeritus of civil engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, studied the collapse of the World Trade Center after 2001.加州大学伯克利分校土木工程荣誉教授阿博哈桑·阿斯塔内—阿斯尔，2001 年后参与了世贸中心倒塌事故的研究。

• Mohammad Reza Eslami, a mechanical engineer counted among the most cited scientists of Iran, is an alumnus of the university.被列为伊朗被引最多的科学家之一的机械工程师穆罕默德·礼萨·埃斯拉米是该校校友。

• Reza Iravani, a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Toronto, and Mohammad Modarres, a professor of mechanical and energy engineering at the University of Maryland, are both alumni.多伦多大学电气工程教授礼萨·伊拉瓦尼与马里兰大学机械与能源工程教授穆罕默德·莫达雷斯，均为该校校友。

• Bahaedin Adab, an alumnus, co-founded Karafarin Insurance and Karafarin Bank and served as a member of the Iranian parliament from Kurdistan.校友巴哈丁·阿达卜参与创办卡拉法林保险与卡拉法林银行，并曾任库尔德斯坦地区的伊朗议会议员。

• Mostafa Mirsalim, a former Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance, and Ahmad Vahidi, a former Minister of Defence, are alumni of the university.前文化与伊斯兰指导部长穆斯塔法·米尔萨利姆与前国防部长艾哈迈德·瓦希迪均为该校校友。

• Ezzatollah Zarghami, a former head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting organisation, and Behzad Nabavi, a former Minister of Industry and deputy speaker of parliament, also studied at the university.伊朗国家广播电视机构前负责人埃扎托拉·扎尔加米，以及前工业部长、议会副议长贝赫扎德·纳巴维，也曾在该校就读。

• Ahmad Motamedi, a former Minister of Communication and Information Technology, later served as president of the university from 2014 to 2021.前通信与信息技术部长艾哈迈德·莫塔梅迪其后于 2014 至 2021 年出任该校校长。

• Majid Tavakoli, a prominent Iranian student leader and human rights activist, studied at the university, and Davood Mirbagheri, a screenwriter and film director, is also an alumnus.知名学生领袖与人权活动人士马吉德·塔瓦科利曾在该校就读；编剧兼电影导演达武德·米尔巴盖里也是该校校友。

• Abbas Soroush has been chancellor of the university since 2025, and in that year he joined the heads of fifteen leading Iranian universities in an open letter to 150 universities worldwide.阿巴斯·索鲁什自 2025 年起任该校校长，同年与伊朗十五所顶尖大学校长联署致全球 150 所大学的公开信。