Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University, it was as "Tehran American School from 1974", currently, this is a public university. It was established in 1980 as a university. the name of this university is taken of Mohammad Ali Rajaee, he was second president of iran. The university is located in the North East of Tehran, Lavizan Area. The main mission of the Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University is educating the teachers for technical and vocational education schools in iran. So this is a unique university in the country.
Background
Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University provides both undergraduate and graduate programs in eight faculties for typical students and teachers hired by the Ministry of Education. The education programs of typical students are separated from teacher's education programs in order to provide professional education for each group. SRTTU is a public university and therefore, the budget for education and research programs is provided by the government of Iran. Students are accepted into the university by Iranian University Entrance Exam which conducted by the ministry of science and technology, winning prestigious scientific awards like Khwarizmi as well as direct postgraduate programs of the ministry of science for top ranking students. SRTTU is located in the Northern part of Tehran, the capital of Iran. It has therefore the privilege of hosting some top students of provincial universities as guest and transfer students in competitive situations every year. SRTTU is one of two centers of in Iran. The Campus of SRTTU is located in Lavizan, in north east of Tehran. SRTTU has 9 School and Faculty:
SRTTU has Journal of Computational and Applied Research in Mechanical Engineering for publishing recent research in the computational and applied mechanical engineering. Original research papers from all branches of the mechanical engineering are published in the Journal. Journal of Technology of Education is another Journal of SRTTU which has focused on research for increasing quality level of science and engineering education by using new technologies.
Book publishing
Publication office of Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University was established in 1998 in order to publish research books of faculties and researchers of the university.
Facilities
Equipped laboratories for engineering education
SRTTU has many equipped laboratories and workshops for teaching engineering sciences to the students. Metrology lab, machine tools workshop and CNC lab, casting workshop, welding workshops, auto mechanic lab and die designing workshop are some of the university's workshops.
Number of books in service are about 15000 volumes in the English and 39039 title in the Persian languages. Main subjects are periodicals and journals, thesis and reports, e-resources, journals for faculties of sciences, human science and physical education departments.
