Editing Sharif University of Technology (section)

==History==
[[File:Շարիֆի գիտական խորհուրդ.jpg|thumb|left|[[Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi]] and members of the scientific board of Sharif University of Technology in 1967.]]
The university was founded in 1966 with the name ''Aryamehr University of Industry'' by [[Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi]]. At that time, there were 54 faculty members and a total of 412 students who were selected by national examination. Also, only four departments were established: Electrical, Metallurgical, Mechanical, and Chemical Engineering.<ref name="SharifBooklet">{{cite book
  | last = Mirzayi
  | first = Mohammad
  | title = Sharif University of Technology Booklet
  | publisher = Sharif University Press
  | year = 2005
  |language=fa}}</ref>
In 1972, [[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi]] appointed [[Hossein Nasr|Sayyed Hosein Nasr]] as president of the university with the goal of modeling the school based on the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]], but with roots in Iranian culture.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.nasrfoundation.org/bios.html
|title=Biography / Dr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr
|access-date=28 May 2008}}</ref><ref>
{{cite journal
  | last = Leslie
  | first = Stuart W.
  |author2=Robert Kargon
   | title = Exporting MIT: Science, Technology, and Nation-Building in India and Iran
  | journal= Osiris
  | year = 2006
  |pages=123
  | issue = 1
  | volume=21
  | doi = 10.1086/507138| s2cid = 146272994
 }}</ref> In 1974 a new campus of the university was established in [[Isfahan]]. But later that campus became an independent university, named [[Isfahan University of Technology]] (IUT). The emblem of IUT still closely resembles SUT's emblem {{Citation needed|date=November 2008}}. Following the revolution, the university was named after [[Majid Sharif Vaghefi]], who was one of the [[People's Mujahedin of Iran]] group's leaders who was killed by the members of a splinter group (later renamed to Peykar Organization) who had recently converted from Islam to Marxism and were adamant to forcefully change the Mujahedin's organization's ideology to Marxism.

Currently, the university has about 12,000 students and over 700 faculty members in 16 main departments.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.sharif.ir/web/en/10
|title=Sharif University Introduction
|access-date=5 December 2020
|archive-date=25 December 2018
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225072147/http://www.sharif.ir/web/en/10
|url-status=dead
}}</ref> During the [[Mahsa Amini protests]] in 2022, many students participated, with video footage of the protest and subsequent response by Iranian security forces published first to social media and then by major news organizations. Iranian state news agency [[Islamic Republic News Agency|IRNA]] reported that at least 37 students were arrested and most were released shortly afterwards.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=2022-10-03 |title=Iran protests: riot police use teargas on students at Sharif university |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/03/iran-protests-riot-police-clash-with-students-at-sharif-university |access-date=2022-10-18 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last1=Rebane |first1=Teele |last2=Ritchie |first2=Hannah |last3=Karadsheh |first3=Jomana |last4=Fox |first4=Kara |date=2022-10-03 |title='It was a warzone.' Iranian security forces beat, shot and detained students of elite Tehran university, witnesses say, as crackdown escalates |url=https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/03/middleeast/iran-protests-sharif-university-crackdown-intl/index.html |access-date=2022-10-18 |website=CNN |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Ershad |first=Alijani |date=2022-10-04 |title='They shot at us': A Sharif University student recounts 'apocalyptic' repression of protests in Iran |url=https://observers.france24.com/en/middle-east/20221004-it-was-apocalyptic-a-sharif-university-student-recounts-violent-repression-of-iran-protests |access-date=2022-10-18 |website=The Observers - France 24 |language=en}}</ref>