STEEL Research
Center
Introduction
It was
in 2006 that IUT’s Deputy for Research & Technology set up an Expert
Committee on Iron & Steel Industry with a mission to organize and promote
the already on-going university-industry cooperation. Members appointed to the
Committee were selected from among academia and industrialists with outstanding
experience and background in the field. Along its mandate, the Committee
undertook an exhaustive review of the experiences and projects over the past
several years to develop a proposal for the establishment of the Steel Research
Center as a new institution with appropriate policies for the qualitative and
quantitative enhancement of university-industry joint activities in steel
industry.
Goals
Steel
Research Center is mandated to bridge the gaps in research and technological
development in the steel industry, to improve steel production quality and
efficiency of the national plants, create and strengthen collaboration between
the steel industry and university researchers, and finally, to set benchmarks
for the evaluation of the pertinent activities. The center committed itself to
undertaking and encouraging applied research for the achievement of the above
objectives.
Why establish Steel
Research Center?
The 4th National
Development Plan of the country demands steel production in Iran to reach 29
million tons per year by the end of the plan period. Achieving this objective
calls for the introduction and application of state-of-the-art technology for
high-efficiency steel production. In order to meet this demand, the development
of the relevant technologies would depend on planning for both applied and
developmental research by both academia and industrial R&D units that can
be transferred and conveniently accommodated to production lines for commercial
production of high quality products. Evidently, capacity building by sound
educational programs and adoption and diffusion of modern technologies is the
cornerstone for any advancement in the field. The bottom-up direction of
educationally-based capacity building to the state-of-the-art research,
commercialization of research findings, and finally, to the efficient
production of steel has its own requisites that need to be located. There would
be no better site than IUT in Isfahan, the national industrial zone.
Scientific Council
Scientific Council is composed
of members selected from among academia and industrialists with outstanding
experience and background in the field.
Research
Associates
M.Sc. and PhD graduates in Steel
Technology Research, and IUT post-graduate students
·
Process Metallurgy
·
System
Engineering
·
Technology
and Nationalization
Industrial
Links
Isfahan,
an industrial zone in Iran, is a unique cradle of not only the steel industry
but also the academic endeavors. The Province of Isfahan houses the major steel
plants and related industries and is nationally recognized as the Center of
Steel Production. Its Isfahan Steel Co., Mobarakeh Steel Co., and Isfahan Alloy
Steel Co. have a great share in the national production of steel.
Steel Research Center, Isfahan
University of Technology (IUT), Isfahan, 8415683111, Iran Tel: +98 311 3913921 Fax: +98 311 3912588 E-mail: info@steel–institute.ir Website: www.steel-institute.ir