The Awards Committee is honored to announce the 2022 kickoff of the SUTA Awards Program. This bi-annual award program will be held for the sixth time in conjunction with the 2022 SUTA Reunion. These awards will be given in three categories as follows.
1. Dr. Amin’s Lifetime Achievement Award
To recognize a scholar with outstanding contribution to the university.
The former recipients of this award are Professor Siavash Shahshahani (2010), Professor Saeed Sohrabpour (2012), Professor Reza Mansouri (2014), Professor Mohammad Ghodsi (2016), professor Firooz Partovi (2018) and Dr Mohammad Durali (2020).
2. Alumni Achievement Award
To recognize an alumnus with outstanding achievement in industry or academia. The former recipients of this award are Professor Behrokh Khoshnevis (2012), Professor Mahmood Tabiani (2014), Mr. Hesam Armandehi (2016), Dr. Mona Jarrahi (2018) and Dr. Adel Ferdosi (2020).
3. Distinguished Service Award
To recognize an alumnus or university staff with outstanding service to the university, SUTA, or the society. The former recipients of this award are Professor Alinaghi Mashayekhi (2012), Mr. Alireza Hamzelou, Mr. Mehdi Hakimpour, Ms. Afsaneh Tehrani and Mr. Mansour Ajoudani (2014), Mr. Ehsan Arzpeyma (2016), Mr. Hassan Noorbakhsh (2018) and Ms. Mehrnoush Naderi (2020).
We are now inviting the membership for nominating appropriate candidates for all of the above categories. The nominations must be submitted electronically by extended date of May 1st, 2022 to the email address awards@suta.org and should include a short biography of the candidate and an explanation to justify the candidacy.
4. Dr. Mojtahedi’s Innovation Award
We are also announcing the 2022 Dr. Mojtahedi’s Innovation Award (file) to recognize the best research conducted in every department of Sharif University of Technology and the announcement is made separately (application file).
5. Dr. Hojabri’s Award
This award has been established in 2022 by the SUTA board of directors in honor of the late Dr. Fredun Hojabri to recognize a SUTA Member with outstanding service to SUTA.
For further information about the awards and their past recipients, interested members are encouraged to visit SUTA website and read Dr. Jalil Kamali’s article in SUTA Newsletter No. 77.
Best Regards
SUTA Awards & Grant Committee
