In the name of God

University of Tehran,

Mohammad Karamouz, Ph.D. PE, Fellow ASCE Professor, University of Tehran

1 Contents

Academic Internalization

Motivations Strengths

Weaknesses (Hurdles/ Barriers)

Certain academic programs with high potential

Background Information – Relevant international Programs

A pilot Program

Concluding Remarks 2 Academic Internalization

Iran has a unique position to offer international programs

Elements of preparedness:  Resources;  Education medium;  Know how’s – Practice Medium

3 Motivation

 Moving towards more international outreach (Coming out of isolation)

 Investing in regional education with high monitory and non-monitory returns

 Regional and Global Diplomacy

 Talented and creative local (Iranian) students – Peer Pressure /competition

 Highly developed engineering culture/specialized human resources: faculty/professors, engineers, scientists

4 Motivation

 Connecting with the world – Education Diplomacy

 Bringing resources to the country (A Business Approach)

Through cultural Commerce, Tourism, Incentives exchanges and Good will training programs

Academic International Investment exchange programs programs

Knowledge Returns in Seed money dissemination Investments

Long term investment in academic internationalization 5 Strengths

 Academic resources- Labs- Computer facilities

 Relatively low cost of education/low cost of living!

 Outstanding faculty

6 Strengths Water and Environment Research & Development (WERD)

1. Operation since 1993 An off UT site for research & development of graduate students residents (attendees) 2. Location and facilities - 160 square meter research facility in the heart of Tehran - Sarve-saee Tower, Suite 905, Vali asr Avenue, Tehran, Iran143389-4579 - Computer facilities: 14 Core i7 and i5 high speed desktops with all peripheral equipment advanced server with high speed internet – The server and data base system contains 25 years of R & D including data, software and publication of 30 National project, 98 Theses and PhD dissertations. 3. Professional activities Over 30 national and international projects with the contracts of over $3M resulted in 110 peer reviewed papers and 7 text books (4 in English). 7 Strengths Water and Environment Research & Development (WERD) An Environment for learning!

8 Strengths Water and environment Research & development (WERD)

Students (Ms.sci.): Current & graduated

Sanaz eimen Mahdi Dehghani Ahmadreza Ghavasie Ramin Akramiafshar Mahdis falahi Mohammad Ali Sherafat Mina Malekazari Mojtaba tajziyechi Peyman pour Qasememi Mohammad reza Seyed abadi Nahid Oloomi Amirreza ahmadi Ana Hoseyn pour Erfan Goharian Amir poor Majid Saberi Navideh Nouri Mohsen Yousefi Ghadir Mohammadnejad Shayan Sabznavid Ehsan Daneshvar Tavakoli far Ehsan Akbarian Majid nikkhooy Ehsan Ahmadi aval haqi Hamid Khodabandeloo Asghar Elyasi Sedighe Torabi Pelt Ali razmi Shahab Araghinejad Saleh Ahmadi nia Heliyeh Abasi Banafshe Zahraie Khamsi Mahdi Alikhani Farzad Emami Elham Rasoul nia Freydoon Jahandide Sepide Toami Behzad Rohani Forough Ahmadvand Leyla khodapanah Banafshe Zahraie Mahdi Ranjbar Amin Zeynol abedin Valiollah Moradi Ali Heydari Saleh Semsar Soroush Zanjani Mojtaba Mahmoodian Masood Mahootchi 9 Strengths Water and environment Research & development (WERD)

Students (Ms.sci.) Current & graduated

Kourosh Behzadian Sara Nazif Leyla Zarei Reyhaneh Rahimi Amin HagNegahdar Amir KhajehZadeh Paniz Mohammad Pour Zahra Heydari Amin KourehPazan Hossein Mohammadi Pouya Khalili Helia Farzaneh Diana Forman Faride Ramezani Mahkameh Taheri Mojtaba Karimi Ahad TikPanah Koushan Mohammadi Farshid Zolfagar Masih Akhbari AzadehYousefi Reza Saleh Alipour Mahmood Hamdpour Maryam Astarabi Imani Javad Teymoori Arash Ghomlaghi Masoud Asadzadeh Rama Hashemi Olya Nahid Katebi Hesam Barkhourdari Bahareh Hafez Aziz Abesi Alireza Raei Nasrin Agaey Ali YazdanPanah Saman Razavi Maryam Rahimi Ali Vegdan Farahani Mina Shahraki Ali Mojahedi Sina Rasaei Kabir Rasouli 10 Strengths Water and environment Research & development (WERD)

Students (PhD) Current & graduated

Sara Nazif Seyed Jamshid Musavi Masood Taheriyun Banafshe Zahraii Zahra Zahmatkesh Sedighe Torabi Mohammad Fereshtehpour Reza Kerachian Mohammad Ali Olyaei Shahab Araghinejad Davood Mahmoodzadeh Abolfazl Ansari Arman Ganji Elham Ebrahimi Ali Moridi Mahta Nazari Azadeh Ahmadi Mehri Dolatshahi

11 Weaknesses (Hurdles/ Barriers)

 English language

 Visa issues- Social/Policy issues

 Faculty/Instructor ability to communicable in English (Internal PhDs)

 Institutional infrastructure, staff, dorms, foreign affairs

Visa

12 Certain areas with high potential

Development Challenges: Integrated Water & Water Energy Management OBJECTIVE : RESTORATION & TRANSFORMATION

DEGRADED ENVIRONMENT OF WATER & ENERGY RESOURCES Energy

CONTROLLED PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES THROUGH BEST ENVIRONMENTAL & ENERGY MGMT. PRACTICES FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 13 Certain areas with high potential Energy

 Iran is among the countries with rich oil and energy resources in the world – Surrounded by other major players  There has been many development projects, petro-chemical companies, and electric power plants  Academic Electrical/Energy related programs are outstanding  Energy-diplomacy

* Water is the focus of this presentation 14 Certain areas with high potential Water

 Iran has become a real world laboratory for water development  University professor in this area are well know internationality  Hydro diplomacy has a great potential in regional collaborations  Water programs’ international ranking is quite high

15 Strengths

Academic ranking of world university

16 Iran – A real world laboratory for water development Water Conveyance System of Tehran Metropolitan Area

Mazandaran Irrigation Networks

Karaj river

Karaj Dam Sohanak Tunnel Kalan Powerplant TEHRAN Latyan Dam W.T.P No. 5 Pipeline (40 km) Telloo Tunnel Bilaghan W.T.P. W.T.P. No. 3,4 (20 km) No. 1,2 Damavand River

Karaj Irrigation Lands Varamin Irrigation Network 17 Zayandeh rud, Isfahan, Iran

18 Leading Projects on Teleconnections: Prediction of rainfall over Europe and the Middle East

19 Development Challenges: Preparedness Planning – Flood & Disaster management

Phase 1 Phase 3 Phase 5 Normal Alarm danger Crises

Phase 2 Phase 4 20 Harvard Water Program Background ** Harvard’s first international Water program in the 1960’s was a turning point in this field - in path-breaking interdisciplinary work on water, involving primarily engineers, economists and political scientists. New Harvard Water Program  Now Harvard envisions a major, long-term engagement in the area of water security and education.  The Program has initial commitments to five-year funding to $2 million from an anonymous donor and $1 million from PepsiCo. 21 New Harvard Water Program Background

Funding will be sought for specific research topics (for capacity building and education) in :

 Specific places such as effect of glacier melt on hydrology of the Indus River  Overall country programs such as for the Pakistan program  Specific themes in different countries such as the use of information technology 22 Background Environmental Engineering & Science A lean & mean program for NYC practitioners and the world

23 IHE Delft Institute for Water Education is the largest international graduate water education facility in the world MSc Programs: o Water Management and Governance  IHE Delft offers four 18-month Master of Science programs o Urban Water and Sanitation consisting of: o Environmental Science  a fifth, 12-month Master of Science program, which focuses o Water Science and Engineering on non-sewered sanitation.

The structure of the MSc Curricula: 106 ECTS credit points formed from:  The18-month curricula of the MSc Programs consist  Taught Part (61 ECTS credit points) of  Thesis Research Part (45 ECTS credit points).

: On average, one ECTS credit point equals between 25-30 working hours. NYU and the Emirate of Abu Dhabi Background Innovations in international program offering Graduation Requirements  Two Core Colloquia,  Core courses  Four Core Competency Courses, one  Writing Seminar each in the four categories.  General electives  Capstone project  Additional requirements  Quantitative Reasoning  Experimental Inquiry  Islamic Studies requirement. 25 Cornell university-Sharjeh, United Background

Arab Emarats Curriculum Students enroll in five classes per semester: 1 elective with a Gulf or Middle Eastern focus 4 additional elective courses Arabic Language All participants in this program are required to take at least one Arabic language course.

26 National University of Singapore Background  M.Sc. (Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management)  hosted by the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering  The program accepts both full time and part time students  Students now have an option to participate in an exchange program with Delft University of Technology (TUD)  The program is now supported under Skills Future Study Award (EDB), Clean Tech. Singapore

 Wave Hydrodynamics and Physical, Oceanography  Offshore Moorings and Risers  Coastal Processes and Sediment Transport  Environmental Engineering Principles  Hydroinformatics  Water Treatment Processes  River Mechanics  Environmental Risk Assessment  Project  Environmental Management Systems  Groundwater Hydrology  Environmental Technology  Engineering Economics and Project Evaluation  Decision Analysis  Topics in Hydraulic & Water Resources - Environmental Hydraulics  Water Policy and Governance  Design of Floating Structures  Dynamic Modelling of Public Policy Systems University Kuala Lumpur Background

 Master of Science in Water Resources (Mixed-Mode)  Faculty of Engineering and Technology Infrastructure  Full Time: 1 ½ – 2 years  Student will be trained with technical and managerial knowledge and skills to:  Successfully plan, design, operate and manage water resources projects  Advice and support authorities in decision-making and policy-making that enhances the safe exploitation and re-use of water and the equitable distribution and conversation of local, regional and global water resources.

 Research Methodology  Hydraulics Structures  Water Resources Management  Open Flow Hydraulics  Hydroinformatics and Decision Support Systems  Water Quality Modelling  Advanced Water & Wastewater Treatment (Elective)  Surface Hydrology  Environmental Impact Assessment (Elective)  Hydrogeology  Sediment Transport (Elective) Cologne University-Germany Background

 MSc in Integrated Water Resources Management International  Institute For Technology And Resources Management in the Tropics and Subtropics (ITT)  4 semesters  The IWRM MSc programme focuses on water resources management in the context of water scarcity in the MENA region.  The Master's thesis is completed in the framework of a water-related research project of the ITT, GJU (German Jordanian University) or with a partner institution from the MENA region.

 Flood risk  Watershed management  Hydrology  Water supply and demand  Water system analysis  River engineering  Water governance  Sanitation and public health  Social-economical aspects A pilot Program for Iran & the region Water Engineering and Management An elite regional water security and hydro-diplomacy program

30 Motivation

Three pillars of water education

Students Faculty University

The robust filtering Competing of the best high with the best International High level of Physical school students Interuniversity professors competency space - collaboration facilities

University, industry, and government close ties

31 Program- MS with or without thesis  Advanced Hydraulics (3)  Advanced Hydrology (3) . Core courses (12Units)  Groundwater Hydrology (3)  Analysis of Water Infrastructure Systems (3)

 Coastal Engineering (3)  Sediment Engineering (3) . Elective courses (12 Units)  Water Quality Management (3)  Advanced Water and Wastewater Treatment (3)  Operations Research(1) (3)  Hydroinformatics and Decision Support Systems (3)  Water diplomacy: social economic aspect (3) . Training/ field work: 2 Units  Dynamic Modelling of Public Policy Systems (3) . 2 Units of Farsi language . Thesis- 6 Units or 9 elective Unites

Total Units : 34 or 37 Preparatory program : 30 days 32 Spirit - Show casing! We are here for the Branches (students) Our Roots goes back to 2500 years of water development enhanced by best academic water programs in the world

Focus: “Water students and young faculty “ Capacity Building!

We are determined to motivate you, to encourage you and to bring excitement to water education and profession Ola !!

33 Strengths Where did we come from (water education-roots)? Vision & Products Water History & Heritage in Iran …… 1960s Vision: Harvard Water Program – Systems Thinking The famed Harvard Water Program of the 1960s – in path-breaking interdisciplinary work on water, involving primarily engineers, economists and political scientists. Arthur Maass, Myron Fiering, 1970s Vision: MIT, David Marks, Jerad Cohon (my students academic root) Johns Hopkins University Chuck Revell, Mark Houck University of Illinois, V. T. Chow, Larry Mays, David Maidment 34 Strengths Where did we come from (water education - roots)? Vision & Products

3 Decades of preparation and capacity bldg. in Iran 1990s Hydraulic & Systems Engineering Vision of: Purdue University, Cornell University, Princeton University, CSU (Colorado State University), UC Davis University of Arizona Major colaaborators: Daniel Loucks, John Labadie, MigueL Marino, Soroosh soroushian, Jacque Delleur, Majid Hasanizadeh, Mohammad Karamouz, Abbas Afshar, Ahmad

Abrishanchi, Dara Entekhabi, Behzad Ataie Ashtiani 35 Strengths Where did we come from (water education- branches)?

Vision & Products (Iran) Vision 2000s Shaping the national water systems analysis laboratory!

: Tehran Polytechnic – Branches … Jamshid Mousavi; Banafshe Zahraie; Sedighe Torabi; Reza Kerachian; Arman Gangi; Shahab Araghinejad; Ali Moridi Many Products including: – 5 major text books 36 Strengths Where did we come from (water education - branches)?

Vision & Products (Iran) Urban Water – Mega Cities Water Challenges Vision 2010s: University of Tehran - Branches … Azadeh Ahmadi Sara Nazif Masoud Taherion Zahra Zahmatkesh Mohammad Ali Olyaie Mohammad Fereshtepoor Many Products including: 4 major English text books – International Awards … 37 Strengths -

Show Casing!

38 Strengths- Show Casing!

39 2018 - ASCE Hydraulic Engineering Award!

40 Where are we?

 A great deal of progress in offering widespread traditional and new water programs (estimated over 5000 MS/PhD water graduates) in the last 25 years.

41 In our journey toward developing working plans and reaching to a shared vision, we have two main challenges.

(1) Design and implementation of:  A new operating system (Faculty development and mentoring)  Transformation of a vision into the body of knowledge (Developing a shared vision among the players and stakeholders). Resource generation, adaptation and Impacts mitigation:

In order to place these challenges into a resiliency framework the criteria of robustness and resourcefulness should be strengthen.

42 As for robustness the emphasis should be place on:

 Developing unique education and research strengths;

 Continuous integration of technological, social and educational challenges into

the program;

 Continuously improving course curricula; mentoring programs for students and

young faculty;

 Regional hydro-diplomacy to mobilize knowledge transmutation and cultural

exchanges. 43 As for resourcefulness the emphasis should be place on:

Rebuilding our educational infrastructures and facilities, and

organizational structure

Resource generation and information gathering utilizing knowledge

economics

Hiring and retaining world class faculty

Alumni development, fund-raising and lifelong learning 44  Where are we going to go?

A Wish list! – doable if the vision is shared and there are political wills among university and water executive branch leaders.

Promoting Water eco-system sustainability through education and capacity bldg.

Promoting ecological/holistic/systems thinking in all aspects water education and practice (a ten year integrated plan!)

An elite regional water security and hydro-diplomacy program that will train a new generation of “specialized integrators”.

45 Concluding remarks We have come a long way in making a strong foundation for water education in Iran.

Still many attributes of connecting regional challenges with water education are missing.

Quantitatively we have been very successful, qualitatively, we have all the know how skills/resources, socially we need political will, we needs a major overhaul to offer academic packages that can be marketed… The challenges are mostly non-technical!

Building resilience in Water Education needs a shared vision to bring regional resources and scholars to truly promote our last 20 year success stories……

…….and to have the cutting edge advancement in sound capacity building for the 21 century UN development goals in the region. 46 [email protected]