Saeed Sohrabpour

After returning to Iran in 1971, he started teaching at the University of Shiraz, faculty of mechanical engineering, as an assistant professor. To spend his first sabbatical, he was admitted to the University of California at Los Angeles in 1976. He was the vice chancellor for student affairs and later took over the position of vice chancellor for development at University of Shiraz in 1978-1981.

Sohrabpour became the vice president of Imam Khomeini International University while he was transferring as an associate professor and faculty member to the Sharif University of Technology in 1989. Having completed his second sabbatical in 1990 at the University of New Mexico, he was appointed to the development vice chancellor of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education Archived 2017-12-04 at the Wayback Machine and a member of the Academy of Sciences. In 1994 he was appointed construction vice chancellor for the Ministry of Culture and Higher Education Archived 2018-05-12 at the Wayback Machine. Sohrabpour was elected president of Imam Khomeini International University in 1995. In 1997 he was appointed vice president for the Ministry of Culture and Higher Education Archived 2018-05-12 at the Wayback Machine.

In 1998, the Minister of Culture and Higher Education appointed Sohrabpour as the president of Sharif University of Technology, recommended by the university's faculty members, and stayed in the position from 1997 to 2010 until his resignation. He is the only president of a public university in Iran to keep the position in more than one governmental presidency for several years and terminate his official role upon his own decision. This demonstrates his positive contribution to the advancement of the university and his high position among all parties and communities in Iran.^[1] Many experts believe that during his university presidency, the University had high stability and an upward trend that paved the way for the university to develop in terms of scientific, cultural, educational, and physical features and turned it as the country’s highest education index.

Sohrabpour was the head of the mechanical engineering group in the Academy of Sciences in 1998. He is also the chairman of the board for Iran Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise Award (MAKE), Center for Knowledge-based Management since 2011 and Iran EFQM Representative since 2016 that are helping and guiding more than 500 Iranian companies. Sohrabpour is also the president of Research Institute for Science, Technology and Industry Policy Making at the Sharif University of Technology. He is a member of the board of trustees of Iran’s National Library and Archives of I.R. Sohrabpour has published many scientific papers.

In February 2019, Sohrabpour was elected a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Engineering "for establishing Sharif University as an academic Center of Excellence and advancing engineering and science education in Iran."^[2]

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