Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University

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Shahid Rajaee University
دانشگاه تربیت دبیر شهید رجایی
Daneshgah-e Tarbiyat-e Dabir-e Shahid Rajaei
SRTTU.jpg
Type Public
Established1980
Chancellor Jamal-e-Din MahdiNejad
Academic staff
200
Administrative staff
400
Students7500
Location,
35°46′50″N51°29′33″E / 35.78056°N 51.49250°E / 35.78056; 51.49250
Campus Urban
Website www.sru.ac.ir/en

Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University (SRTTU), is a public university in the Islamic Republic of Iran. The university is named for Mohammad Ali Rajaee, the second president of Iran. The university is located in the North East of Tehran, in the Lavizan neighborhood. The university was founded in 1980 on the premises of the former Tehran American School (1974-1979).

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The main mission of the Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University is to prepare teachers to teach curriculums at technical and vocational education schools in Iran. This is a unique program among Iranian universities.

Background

Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University (SRTTU) provides both undergraduate and graduate programs in eight faculties for typical students and teachers hired by the Ministry of Education. The education programs of typical students are separated from teacher's education programs in order to provide professional education for each group. SRTTU is a public university and therefore, the budget for education and research programs is provided by the government of Iran. Students are accepted into the university by Iranian University Entrance Exam (Konkur) which conducted by the ministry of science and technology, winning prestigious scientific awards like Khwarizmi as well as direct postgraduate programs of the ministry of science for top ranking students. SRTTU is located in the Northern part of Tehran, the capital of Iran. It has therefore the privilege of hosting some top students of provincial universities as guest and transfer students in competitive situations every year. SRTTU is one of two centers of UNEVOC-UNESCO in Iran. [1] The Campus of SRTTU is located in Lavizan, in north east of Tehran.

SRTTU has 9 School and Faculty:

Rankings and reputation

The Shanghai Ranking ranked the Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University 1001 among world universities in 2021. Also, The Shanghai Ranking ranked the Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University 1201 among world universities in 2022.

Research

Journals

SRTTU has Journal of Computational and Applied Research in Mechanical Engineering (JCARME) for publishing recent research in the computational and applied mechanical engineering. Original research papers from all branches of the mechanical engineering are published in the Journal.

Journal of Technology of Education (JTE) is another Journal of SRTTU which has focused on research for increasing quality level of science and engineering education by using new technologies.

Book publishing

Publication office of Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University (SRTTU) was established in 1998 in order to publish research books of faculties and researchers of the university.

Facilities

Equipped laboratories for engineering education

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CNC lab

SRTTU has many equipped laboratories and workshops for teaching engineering sciences to the students. Metrology lab, machine tools workshop and CNC lab, casting workshop, welding workshops, auto mechanic lab and die designing workshop are some of the university's workshops.

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Casting Engineering Workshop

Sport complex

The university has good sport facilities such as covered swimming pool, soccer place and tennis courts.

Central library

Number of books in service are about 15,000 volumes in the English and 39,039 titles in the Persian languages. Main subjects are periodicals and journals, thesis and reports, e-resources, journals for faculties of sciences, human science and physical education departments.

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References

  1. "UNESCO-UNEVOC SRTTU Tehran conducts training programmes". www.unevoc.unesco.org. Retrieved 2016-10-13.