In 2010, four departments participated in the program and the Awards Committee received 17 projects from Electrical Engineering, 8 from Chemical Engineering, 9 from Chemistry, and 12 from Materials Engineering departments. All projects were peer reviewed by a scientific advisory board including Sharif faculty and alumni working in academia or industry worldwide.

Department	Title	Authors
Electrical Engineering	Extraction of Fetal Cardiac Signals from an Array of Maternal Abdominal Recordings	Dr. Reza Sameni Dr. Mohammad Bagher Shamsolahi Dr. Christian Jutten (CNRS, France)
Chemical Engineering	Pilot Plant for Production of Methanol from Natural Gas	Dr. Fathollah Farhadi Dr. Mohammad Shahrokhi Meysam Bkhshayeshi Yusef Motamed Hashemi Zeinab Hosseini Doost Gholamreza Baghmisheh Hossein Abedini Reza Eslamlueian
Chemistry	Preparation of Multi-Functional Photo Catalyst With Anti-bacterial Properties	Dr. Mohammad Reza Gholami Dr. Mohammad Reza Elahi Fard Dr. Sara Rahim Nejad Saeid Haghighi
Materials Science & Engineering	SUTCAST- A Solidification and Mold Filling Simulation Software	Dr. Parviz Davami Dr. Nasser Varahram Kianush Asgari Alireza Mazaheri Yahya Jaferian

After several months of deliberation and considering close to 20 very qualified candidates, SUTA’s Board of Directors chose Dr. Siavash Shahshahani, the chairman and a long-time professor of the Mathematics department of Sharif University of Technology as the winner of the first Dr. Amin’s Lifetime Achievement Award. His award was presented to him at the 2010 SUTA reunion in Gothenburg, Sweden.