A Message from the Dean
To the entire family of the Faculty of Petroleum and Geo-Energy Engineering — colleagues, faculty, students, and staff
Walking through the hallways and seeing them come alive with your energy again is, quite simply, the best part of a new academic year. It signals a fresh chapter, rich with possibility.
To our students — especially those joining us for the first time — I want you to know this: you have just entered the country's leading petroleum and earth-energy engineering school. And this isn't rhetoric. It's a position built squarely on reality — the broadest curriculum in the nation, the most advanced laboratory facilities available, and the strongest pipeline of industry-funded research projects anywhere. The platform is here. Now it's yours to build on.
To our faculty and administrative staff: the standing this school enjoys today does not belong to any single person. It is the sum of your expertise, your dedication, and the countless hours you invest behind the scenes. Please know that your work is seen, and it is valued. I am deeply grateful to represent a team so committed.
Over the past year, major upgrades have quietly reshaped the spaces you learn and teach in — classrooms fully renovated, laboratories refreshed with new equipment. But perhaps most exciting of all, construction has begun on the university's largest council and conference hall, located right next to the faculty. Before long, it will serve as the stage for the major scientific and professional gatherings our community deserves.
On the academic front, the momentum continues. Our weekly seminar series — a platform that last year brought some of the sharpest minds from industry and academia into direct conversation with our students — will come back stronger than ever. At the same time, we're laying the groundwork to host several high-profile specialized conferences this academic year, further raising our national and international profile.
Everything you see taking shape — every renovation, every seminar, every new partnership — is the product of shared effort. And that remains the only way forward. This year, let's set the bar even higher. Let's make it a year that leaves a lasting mark on the trajectory of this faculty as a truly pioneering force in petroleum engineering.
Mohammad Javad Ameri
Dean, Faculty of Petroleum and Geo-Energy Engineering