User:Buein Zahra Technical University
Buein Zahra Technical University Buein Zahra Technical University (BZTE) is one of the Iranian public universities focused on technological and engineering courses, located in Buein Zahra, Qazvin province, Iran. The BZTE founded in 2012 comprising of 45 students enrolled in 2 bachelor's programs, namely Industrial engineering and software engineering. Presently, BZTE enjoys with two faculties covering five technical groups that handle 2400 students in 17 engineering courses. Being an Agile, Entrepreneur and Professional institution are part of the visions for BZTE 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 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 centre that offers engineering courses representing the global compliance with engineering degree standards and accreditation. The university has undergone 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 words, the university was determined to design an unique educational metric system capable of diagnosing bottlenecks, offering alternative remedial and then study results of prescription made on the system. Such a quality control mechanism allowed incorporating ever-growing technologies into courses, educational transparency and fairness, further involving students to the concept, deeper life-long learning and self-directed culture, fostering higher flexibility with ever-changing working environment as agility may strongly demand. In short, under OBE education system, the BZTE 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 BZTE 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 BZTE has made somehow addressing 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 BZTE 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.