Sharif University Branch of Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research (ACECR-Sharif branch) is a public non-governmental foundation that has been established in 1980.
Enrollment of capable manpower and the acquisition of sophisticated technical know-how and available equipment of laboratories and workshops ACECR has achieved a rare standing in engineering and industrial sciences. This branch has completed more than 2300 projects contracts so far. Total solutions are offered, from initial idea to the end result. It is considerable that total annual income of this complex is about 15 million dollars. Sharif ACECR now has 300 full-time members that 200 of them have bachelor’s degree or more.
Sharif University Branch of ACECR comprises 7 research groups and 7 specialized service centers in various technical and engineering fields. Conducting research and providing technical services to several industrial sectors, namely petroleum, gas and petrochemical industries, transportation, automobile and vehicles, communications and electronics. Also this branch is active in education field and offering both products and training services.
Considering the financially autonomous structure of this organization, all of the projects are performed under contracts with customers from industries or government. An outstanding activity of this organization is to develop special high-tech products in limited number with specifications tailored according to the customers' needs.
General duties of ACECR include:
ü To establish appropriate organization for authoring, translating and publishing books, periodicals, research reports, scientific and cultural articles
ü To cooperate in technology transfer
ü To establish domestic technologies
ü Conducting developmental and applied researches
ü Following up the research projects of ACECR until the end of semi-industrial and industrial phases
ü Providing scientific- technical services in different required areas
ü To encourage, support and attract young and talented researchers to plan for and provide necessary requirements and facilities for their scientific and research activities
ü To participate in providing appropriate conditions for more university graduates employment
ü To support B. Sc. and M. Sc. thesis in research centers investigations related fields
ü To execute national and international scientific congresses
ü Cooperate with abroad scientific research centers
ü To offer scientific technical services include conducting quality tests, standard proposals studies, collecting and processing scientific data, publishing documents and scientific data, promoting techniques, conducting scientific consultation, offering technical aids.