Department of Petroleum and Mining Engineering Islamic Azad (IAU) - South Branch (STB)

1. About Us: The South Tehran Branch (STB) it is a branch of Islamic Azad University and established in June 1985. Faculty of Engineering in STB is serving 20.000 students currently and it is the largest university in and the Middle East. In 2014, “Scimago” introduced the Tehran South Branch as the second-ranking university among all Islamic Azad University branches, after “Science and Research Branch”. The ranking was based on the scientific information of the Scopus database (affiliated with Science Direct). In 2017, STB was ranked second among all branches of IAU, according to Webometric (http://azad.ac.ir/en).

The “Department of Petroleum and Mining Engineering” is one of the long-standing, successful and well-known sectors in STB. The Department it is the leader to fascinate many talented generations to study in the field of energy natural resources.

The department is contributing closely with a variety of industry-related teaching and research criteria. Many ingenious and energetic academics are engaging in department and they are striving to work and share their valuable knowledge with students to make a better future for those peers. All of the experienced academic staff at the “Department of Mining and Petroleum Engineering”, they have numerous journal publications in information Sciences Institute’s (ISI) ranking and universal conference proceedings. Their commitment is to help and guide the students to graduate with a vast knowledge of Science and Engineering in the Petroleum industry as one of the major expertise in this department.

In our department, many of professors and Post /Ph.D. ‘s graduated from first-class in Iran and other countries such as Pennsylvania (USA), Imperial (UK), Exeter (UK), Alberta (Canada), McGill (Canada), Laval (Canada), New South Wales (Australia), Curtin (Australia), Queensland (Australia) and Leoben (Austria).

2. Major Expertise : Some of the research interests in the field of Petroleum Engineering at the department are:

 Well Drilling Engineering  Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR)

 Reservoir Engineering  Hydraulic Fracturing

 Petroleum Production Engineering  Petroleum Geomechanics

  Rock Mechanics Engineering Fluid Flow and Porous Media

3. Who We Are? The Department of Petroleum Engineering at STB has a great ability to provide academic services in most sectors in petroleum engineering. We are a motivated team of scientist and it is an honor for us to serve all students globally to engross them for an engineering life and a shiny career as a petroleum engineer. Also, our team members they are contributing with world prestigious universities and Iranian/International companies in geosciences, geomechanics, mining, and petroleum engineering projects.

4. Laboratory Facilities :

Among all of the professional abilities and expertise at the Department of Mining and Petroleum engineering, a comprehensive laboratory facility is provided for students and industry projects. The laboratory is equipped with the measurement and coring machineries for variety of research categories within the oil and gas industries. Hence, we will able to get comprise and contribute to industry-related missions for attracting scientific research projects and financial supports in related to petroleum categories. Our mission of course it is to instruct future petroleum engineers for their journey through scientific, practical trainings, and theoretical teaching.

Follow are the expressed list of apparatus available at the laboratory’s department:

Professional Academic Staff

1. Seyed Amir Abrishamifar (Assistant Prof.) [email protected] Professions: Mining Exploitation, Mineral Processing, Mine Planning, Mining Optimization

2. Ahmad Adib (Associate Prof.) [email protected] Professions: Structural Geology, Geohazards, Petroleum Geology, Regional Exploration Experience

3. Peyman Afzal (Associate Prof.) [email protected] Professions: Data Analysis, Geostatistics, Fractal Modeling, Ore deposit/oil field Modeling, Geochemical Exploration

4. Amir Hossein Bangian Tabrizi (Assistant Prof.) [email protected] Professions: Mining Exploitation, Mining Optimization, Mine Planning, Environmental Control in Mining Engineering, Reconstruction and Restoration in Mines

5. Masoud Dabir Vaziri (Instructor) [email protected] Professions: Hydrogeology, Petrology, Field Geology, Water resources exploration

6. Faranak Feizi (Associate Prof.) [email protected] Professions: Mineral Exploration, Mineralography, Remote Sensing, G.I.S., Economic Geology

7. Mehran Gholinejad (Assistant Prof. ) [email protected] Professions: Mineral Exploration, Economic Geology, Mineral Processing, Bauxite Exploration

8. Armin Hosseinian (Post Doctorate) [email protected] Professions: Fracture Geomechanics, Fracture Hydromechanics, Hydraulic Fracturing, Well Drilling Engineering, Rock Mechanics, Fluid Flow Numerical Analysis, Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) Methods, Porous Media

9. Navid Hosseini Alaiee (Assistant Prof.) [email protected] Professions: Rock Mechnics, Geotechnics, Mining Exploitation, Tunneling, Stability in mining extraction

10. Ghodratollah Mohammadi (Assistant Prof.) [email protected] Professions: Sedimentology, Petroleum Exploration, Organic Geochemistry, Concrete in Civil Engineering

11. Hossein Maghsoudnia (Assistant Prof.) [email protected] Professions: Mineralogy, Petrology, Exploration of Quarry rocks and Industrial Minerals

12. Ehsan Moosavi (Assistant Prof.) [email protected] Professions: Mining Exploitation, Mining Optimization, Mine Planning, Feasibility study in Mining Engineering

13. Seyed Esmaiel Rahimi (Assistant Prof.) [email protected] Professions: Mining Exploitation, Mining Optimization, Mineral Processing, Mine Planning, Environmental Control in Mining Engineering, Feasibility study in Mining Engineering

Head of Department

14. Reza Shirinabadi (Assistant Prof. ) [email protected] Professions: Rock Mechanics, Geomechanics in Petroleum Eng., Tunneling, Slope Stability, Numerical Modeling, Soil & Rock Dynamics

15. Afshin Shaham (Assistant Prof.) [email protected] Professions: Sedimentology, Technical language

16. Mahmoud Reza Siyavoshi (Instructor) [email protected] Professions: Mining Exploitation, Rock Mechanics, Barite Exploitation, Feasibility study

5. Related Useful Links:

1. National Iranian Oil Company: http://en.nioc.ir/Portal/Home/ 2. Petroleum Engineering and Development Company (PEDEC) : http://pedec.ir/ 3. Iranian Offshore Oil Company : http://www.iooc.co.ir/ 4. Baker Hughes, a GE company : https://www.bhge.com/ 5. Schlumberger : https://www.slb.com/ 6. Islamic Azad University - Central : https://www.iau.ac.ir/en 7. Islamic Azad University - Tehran South Branch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Azad_University,_South_Tehran_Branch http://azad.ac.ir/fa

8. Scimago” Ranking : https://www.scimagoir.com/institution.php?idp=78775