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SUTA’s Dr. Mojtahedi’s Innovation Award Ceremony
June 2010
Sharif  University  of  Technology

The ceremony for the first SUTA’s Dr. Mojtahedi’s Innovation Award SUTA membership.was held at Sharif University of Technology (SUT) on Sunday, June 20th, 2010. This program was initiated by Sharif University of Technology Association (SUTA) and recognizes outstanding innovation in research and education at Sharif University. It was carried out in collaboration with SUT Office of Research, and Alumni Association.Funding for this program was provided by contributions from the Over 200 faculty, alumni, students, and guests attended this year's award ceremonies.

Dr. Saeed Sohrabpour, SUT President, Dr. Abolhassan Vafaei, head of SUT International Office, and Eng. Bayati of SUT management, were special guests at this event.  Farrokh Malihi, Foroozandeh Tabibi, and Farzin Radkani, members of SUTA’s Board of Directors organized this year's ceremony.

In his opening remarks, Dr. Sohrabpour thanked board of SUTA for this initiative and remembered Dr. Mojtahedi as his teacher, high school principal, founder and first president of Sharif University of Technology. He highlighted significant increase in the number of publications and funding for research at Sharif University. Dr. Sohrabpour encouraged all alumni of Sharif University to stay in touch with SUT, get involved with educational and research programs, and contribute to the advancement of the university.

The ceremony continued with a video message from the president of SUTA, Dr. Jalil Kamali who expressed satisfaction with the materialization of one of his campaign promises and wished for Dr. Mojtahedi’s award to become internationally recognized in a couple of short decades. Farrokh Malihi, chairman of this year's award program, gave an overview of this program including objective, organization, process, and sequence of events from the call for nominations to selection of top projects. A review of Dr. Mojtahedi's life, and his accomplishments was presented to the audience. This was followed by a presentation from Forouzandeh Tabibi on SUTA's mission, and major activities.  Dr. Zahed Sheikholeslami, former SUTA president, gave the final presentation titled:  Innovation: From Idea to Market. This year's ceremony was conducted by Farzin Radkani who introduced faculty and students for top projects during presentation of awards.

Overall 48 projects from four departments were submitted for this year's program. This included 17 projects from Electrical Engineering, 8 projects from Chemical Engineering, 9 projects from Chemistry, and 12 projects from Materials Engineering departments. All projects were peer reviewed by a scientific advisory board including faculty members of each department and SUT alumni who are currently involved in academic or industrial research at international organizations. Three projects from each department were selected based on an evaluation criteria developed for this program. Details of the project title, project leader, and co-workers for each of the top 12 projects from the above mentioned departments are presented in the attached list.  Each of these projects received an award plaque, certificates for all members of the project, and a special gift (DVD on Ancient Persians Art & Technology).

Top projects for 2010 SUTA’s Dr. Mojtahedi’s Innovation Award Program are presented in the following. Each of these projects received a $1000 cash prize, a plaque, and certificates for all members of the project.

Congratulations to All!

Electrical Engineering Department:

Extraction of Fetal Cardiac Signals from an Array of Maternal Abdominal Recordings

Dr. Reza Sameni, Dr. Mohammad Bagher Shamsolahi, Dr. Christian Jutten (CNRS, France)

Chemical Engineering Department

Pilot plant for production of Methanol from Natural Gas

Dr. Fathollah Farhadi, Dr. Mohammad Shahrokhi

Meysam Bkhshayeshi, Yusef Motamed Hashemi, Zeinab Hosseini Doost, Gholamreza Baghmisheh, Hossein Abedini, Reza Eslamlueian

Chemistry Department

Preparation of Multi-Functional Photo Catalyst With Anti-bacterial Properties

Dr. Mohammad Reza Gholami, Dr. Mohammad Reza Elahi Fard, Dr. Sara Rahim Nejad, Saeid Haghighi

Materials Science & Engineering Department

SUTCAST-  A Solidification & Mold Filling Simulation Software

Dr. Parviz Davami, Dr. Nasser Varahram, Kianush Asgari, Alireza Mazaheri, Yahya Jaferian

We wish to thank all of the faculty, researchers, and students who participated in this year's award program. We also wish to thank all former and current faculty members , alumni, and SUTA members who supported this program with their generous contributions.

Links :

• Photo Gallery
  
• Dr.Mojtahedi Innovation Awards-Top Projects.xls
• Dr.Davami- Materials Eng.pdf
• Dr.Farhadi- Chem Eng.docx
• Dr.Shamsolahi- Electrical Eng.pdf
• Dr.Gholami- Chemistry.doc
• Sponsors.doc
• InternationalAdvisoryBoard.doc

Farrokh B. Malihi, June 22, 2010