Islamic Azad University of Mashhad

Islamic Azad University, Mashhad Branch

  • دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد مشهد


Dāneshgāh-e Āzād-e Eslāmi Vāhed-e Mashhad

Type private(Islamic Azad University System)
Established 1982
President A. Helmi, Ph.D.
Academic staff
 450
Students 30,000
Location Mashhad, Razavi Khorasan, Iran
Website www.mshdiau.ac.ir

The Islamic Azad University, Mashhad Branch (IAUM), also known as Islamic Azad University of Mashhad, is a private university in Mashhad, Iran. This university is a branch of the Islamic Azad University. It was established in 1982, and offers Bachelor, Master, PhD and M.D. degrees. It is famous for the quality and toughness of its undergraduate education and the success of its students in many national competitions and exams.

About IAUM

Mashhad city, the provincial capital of Khorassan E Razavi, Iran 's largest province. That is the nation's second largest city and also Iran's holiest city and a place of pilgrimage for Shiite Moslems from all over the world. Khorassan is one of Iran 's most important provinces both geographically and historically as well as religious. It is also the cradle of the Persian language and the civilization of eastern Iran, and the homeland of many great Iranian poets, writers and scholars . And today, by the help of God and under the supports of the Islamic Revolution, Mashhad is offering another great opportunity for knowledge production. The Islamic Azad University-Mashhad Branch (IAUM) is one of the main and earliest branches of the Islamic Azad University (IAU). IAU is a chain university with a total of over 350 Branches around Iran, and 5 Branches overseas. The IAUM is established in December 1982, as a response to the high demand for higher education, after the Islamic Revolution in Iran . The institution receives no financial aid from the government. It is self-financed entirely by the fees it receives from the students and is run by a board of trustees. Each one of the Islamic Azad University's branches are a comprehensive university on its own right with many faculties, and offers various degrees up to PhD. This branch became one of the Comprehensive unit in July 2000 and in the second general assembly of the International Association of University, and the Federation of the Universities of the Islamic World, April 2001 Koualalampur, Malaysia, became one of the its active members .

The IAUM has over 547 members of academic staff, and about 25936 students. Students are studying in 124 different subjects in 6 major programs of medical science, science, humanities, engineering, agriculture, art and architecture and in four different degrees of undergraduate, graduate, Master and PHD. Until now more than 60000 students are graduate17d from this university.The administrative staffs of this branch are more than 1175 persons, in which most of them are in graduate and post-graduate level. The university has several faculties including Basic Sciences, Art, Humanities, Engineering, Linguistic, Sport, law, Agriculture and Medicine from undergraduate to post-graduate, level, with wide variety of subjects covering almost every field from social sciences to medicine and from basic sciences to the theology.[1]

Faculties

Medicine Faculty

Active laboratories of the faculties

The Office of Medical Affairs has always tried to provide the appropriate facilities and equipments,especially for faculty's laboratories.

There are 7 active and well equipped laboratories in the faculty:Histology, Pathology, Parasitology and Mycology, Microbiology, Physiology and Biochemistry.

Facilities of Basic sciences faculty

The faculty educational Space

Since the beginning, the faculty's educational and official space has been located in Mashhad, Rahnamaee street,and two other buildings has been used in Rahnamaee and Sanabad street .Now the sciences faculty with 6420 square meters built area in 4 buildings accepts students.

Major part of the space is occupied with classrooms, audio classes or educational workshops. The faculty has 32 classrooms now.[1]

The faculty library

Library of the basic sciences faculty with 444 square meters space is located in south corner of the faculty and includes book storehouse, awarding part, reference part, issues parts, technical part and male and female studying halls.

The references organization system is based on LC classification which is managed on the base of the university libraries technical services. Now, all of the faculty members, the sciences faculty students and personnel are the permanent members of the library. According to topics of IAUM libraries, every student has been able to use every library of the university, that is very good for students in accessing to update references and research. Therefore, permanent and variant members of the library are more than 21000 persons.

Laboratorial equipmentsoloom

Kharazmi research Center

This center, with the goal of research activities harmonization in orientations of the center interdisciplinary, was recommended in 2007 and the implementation is in progress. The research laboratories complex of the center includes: nanotechnology research, chemistry, biochemistry physic, geology, physic, mathematic and statistic laboratories. Up to now, remarkable laboratorial and research equipment has been provided in the nanotechnology, chemistry and

biochemistry physic areas, geology, physic, mathematic and statistic laboratories. Up to now, remarkable laboratorial and research equipment has been provided in the nanotechnology, chemistry and...[1]

Facilities of Engineering Faculty

Library

Membership in the magazines and electronic data base

In order for the students to access to the newest and the most update essays and information of the world, the faculty has managed to get the membership of some magazines and electronic data base so that the students can connect to these sites through the internet and search and receive the essays freely.[1]

Modern assisting educational equipments

Now, about 30 percent of the existing classrooms in the faculty are equipped with the latest technology of assisting educational equipments which include one computer system with the prefellow equipments and appropriate characteristics and facilities, one data projector system, one visualizer system, one video double system and one set of audio-visual desk(includes KVM switch transformer, splitter switch and ...).

By paying attention to ever increasing development of the sciences and the need to use available information in the internet for the most courses, the faculty follows the goal of equipping more classrooms with audio visual equipment gradually

Amphitheater and Auditorium

The faculty has two spaces which are completely equipped with audio visual equipment with about 400 square meters area and also with totally 350 persons capacity for holding different ceremonies and conferences. These halls most used, in different ways, for performing theses defense and students projects, holding miscellaneous classes and educational workshops and also in order to hold gathering and conferences.

Mechanized system

The students of Technical and Engineering faculty conduct all their affairs related to educational and financial and other student issue areas such as course selection, omission and addition, education engagement deposition and grades receiving and report card through the internet. Performing financial affairs and food reservation is done through the internet and in mechanized manner. In this regard, in the course selection time and also in omission and addition time, the place is being used by the students freely.

he equipped computer hall

In the Technical and Engineering Faculty, different welfare facilities have been provided for the students' utilization among these facilities, one can mention equipped hall of computer for every students' use. The hall is located in 170 square meters area and in the ground floor of the Engineering Faculty. The space of the hall is designed in a such manner that the place and the equipment can be used best and at least 60 systems are used.self1

The place, in addition to speedy internet service related to the university ISP, is used for the students who have project course. From vantages of the university ISP, in addition to high speed, is the possibility of digital library use.[1]

Cafeteria and self-service

Among other welfare facilities in the Technical and Engineering Faculty are cafeteria and self-service halls for use of all students. In the north side of the faculty, an appropriate space in three floors, in an area more than 3000 square meters, is allocated as the faculty cafeteria and self-service. The place has an equipped cookery that serves hot foods at noon every day (except holidays) to the university students, professors and personnel with low prices. In the cafeteria, tea,

drinks of different kinds and cold meals is accessible for the students, in the morning and in the afternoon, with low prices.

Communication services

For the students' comfort, several buses is devoted, in the student high traffic routs of the students throughout Mashhad, to transfer the students to the faculty and vice versa. The services during week (except holidays) and during the term commute almost every hour in these routs. Students' reception of these services is noticeable.

Facilities of Law, Political Sciences and Foreign Languages Faculty

There are 17 classrooms, 4 full equipped audio visual rooms.

Doctor Sheykholeslami (Department of Law), Doctor Modirshanehchi (Department of Political Science) and Doctor Mohammad Javad Kamali (Founder of the French Department) are the most famous professors of this faculty.

Amphitheater with the capacity of 230 people

Coffee net with 20 computers and printers

English laboratories with 24 cabin and instructor desk, Latin type laboratories with 20 computers and 7 typing machines

2 cafeterias for male and female students

Library of faculty

There are 26000 books in Law, Political Sciences, English and French. 18000 of them are in Persian and 8000 are in English and French. This library is also the member of 15 scientific journals. In this library there are CD bank, educational video cassettes and two studying hall for male and female students.

Facilities of Paramedical Faculty

Educational classrooms and audio-vision facilities

This faculty has 5 educational classrooms with the capacity of 85 students and the classes are equipped with assisting educational modern technology. Data projector, LCD, visualize, VCD and overhead are among the facilities available in the faculty's classrooms

The libraryparamedical1

The library of Para Medical Faculty was established in 2003 in a limited space with about 60 volumes of book n the location of the faculty. Now, sum of the references include about 5270 Persian and Latin books which are classified with congress library method and also has 240 Persian and Latin magazines. The present area of the faculty's library is 110 square meters, includes store and male and female studying halls. This library is equipped with computer and internet systems and is connected to through network of the university and digital library.

Computer workshop

The faculty has two computer workshops separately for females and males, the workshops have necessary equipment such as computer and printer, they present services in different hours of the day. Beside during the term, students can use them at of course selection and omission and addition time. Also in order to perform research activities and access the internet sites and digital library, all of the available systems have the possibility of being connected to the internet and are usable for research activities of the students and professors.

Dynamic site

In the faculty site with the address of http://pmd.mshdiau.ac.ir, the latest news and information about the educational departments of the faculty are accessible by the students and professors and become update regularly.

In the main page of the site, information of the educational departments, faculty member, regulations, conferences and gatherings, educational calendar, introduction of the faculty, facilities and officials of Para Medical Faculty are in access of public.

Specialized piratic workshopparamedical4

This workshop has been established for the students of Anesthesia and Operating-Room to perform caring techniques on simulation manakins and to achieve clinical skills. Theworkshop is equipped with modern digital manakins,instruments and equipmentof operating-room, instruments and equipment of hospital sections and is anappropriate place for students to gain necessary related skills before direct contact with patient.

This workshop includes three sections of Operating Theater, Nursing care and skill lab in which, regarding to topics of students' practical courses, students become familiar with specialized techniques of their field and gain related skills.

Equipment of the specialized piratic workshop

Pharmacology and Moullage workshopparamedical3

The workshop has modern available moullage in order to make students of different fields familiar with body anatomy of man. In this workshop, even anatomic details such as *routs and fingers' nerves also, in the frame of *, are inaccess of the students. This

workshop is establish in order to teach Anatomy courses of I and II. So, beside using for practical course, it is usable in teaching theory anatomy course for students to learn the body structure better by using simulated moullage of man body.

The pharmacology workshop has been established in order to make students familiar with different fields of medicines. In this workshop more than 100 items of medicines, available in Iran's bazaar, are provided.[1]

Hygiene workshop

This workshop has been established for students of School Hygienic to gain skills in performing hygienic and therapeutic cares of elementary school and it is equipped with all facilities needed in an hygienic.

and therapeutic center Among the courses presented in this workshop, ispractical innunization making the students gain necessary skills in this course with available advanced manakins of children and adults injection.

Also in these shops, there are nstruments and facilities related to children growth caring and pregnancy period cares and under- six -year children care.

IAUMg, Student Association of IAUM

Student Association of IAUM (Islamic Azad University of Mashhad) which called "IAUMg", Dependent on KAVA Academic Center, has begun its activity since summer 2009. IAUMg has been approved by IAUM Public relations (iaumnews.ir) and Cultural Deputy of University (License Number: 31395/d).[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Islamic Azad University Mashhad
  2. ↑ IAUMg.com, Student Association of IAUM

External links

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