Talk:Buein Zahra Technical University

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Imam Khomeini International University-Buein Zahra Technical University (IKIU-BZTU) is one of the Iranian public universities focused on technological and engineering courses, located in Buein Zahra, Qazvin province, Iran. The IKIU-BZTU was founded in 2012 comprising 45 students enrolled in 2 bachelor's programs, namely Industrial engineering and software engineering. Presently, BZTE enjoys 2 faculties embracing 7 technical groups that handle over 2400 students in 17 engineering courses. Being an Agile, Entrepreneur, and Professional institution is part of the vision for IKIU-BZTU to meet national higher educational horizons set by Iran's Ministry of Science, Research and Technology. Since 2012, Dr. Mohammad Anisseh has been the chancellor of the university. He and his industrious management team had set a number of initiatives to make the university nationally leading and internationally competitive both in education quality and research outcomes. For instance, an Outcome-Based Education (OBE) system has newly been implemented in all programs to build a world-class higher education center that offers engineering courses representing global compliance with engineering degree standards and accreditation. The university has undergone a tremendously twofold progress of soft and hard development. As a way towards a cost-effective and scrum university, the top management had come up with 20 Hectares project that encompasses only two faculty of "Industrial and Mechanical" as well as" Mathematics and Computer Science". Likewise, the soft development (currently employed a total number of 45 lecturers holding Ph.D. degrees) has initiated quite earlier than the hard project of building, all in a way to establish a tractable education system that enables self-healing and justly performance tracing and evaluation. In another word, the university was determined to design a unique educational metric system capable of diagnosing bottlenecks, offering alternative remedial, and then studying the results of prescriptions made on the system. Such a quality control mechanism allowed the incorporation of ever-growing technologies into courses, educational transparency, and fairness, further involving students in the concept, deeper lifelong learning, and self-directed culture, fostering higher flexibility with an ever-changing working environment as agility may strongly demand. In short, under the OBE education system, the IKIU-BZTU faculty members and invited lecturers will re-struct the curriculum to be fully learning-outcome-based and productive courses that can intentionally orient students both in theory and practice key learning points revolving around the subject. Interestingly, the IKIU-BZTU university has recently provided a fantastic learning management fleet to easily commute the learning outcomes of the course within Schoology as a free LMS system. One may notice that every plan IKIU-BZTU has made somehow addresses a complete Agile university which can then be represented by a bi-level optimization model. In this fashion, minimizing costs while maximizing the flexibility (agility) of the system would simultaneously take place. The Agile IKIU-BZTU university will faster deliver all the learning outcomes, program outcomes, missions, and visions of the university while operational and construction (soft and hard) costs are kept as minimum as possible, thus it is an optimal system.