Center
Professional Training

For this purpose, modern equipment and facilities including a wide variety of educational workshops and laboratories, classrooms which are equipped with suitable facilities and accommodation, were brought together. After establishment of Ministry of Energy, training of experts involved in water sector was also assigned to this center.

After the Islamic Revolution, the center was developed by Shahid Dr. Abbaspoor, the Minister of Energy in that time, through his noticeable supports and efforts. Based on the capabilities of the professional training center, Power and Water institute of technology was founded and later, in 2006, promoted to Power and Water University of Technology. This university that was named after Shahid Abbaspoor, later joined Shahid Beheshti University (SBU) in 2013 and its name changed to Abbaspour School of Engineering. Consequently, Professional Training Center also became professional training center of SBU and benefited from scientific capacity of SBU.

While maintaining on original mission, Professional Training Center (PTC) has developed enormously over past five decades. Training about 15,000 to 30,000 individuals per annual, makes PTC the largest academic center offering tailor-made courses all over the country.

The main reasons that make it necessary for PTC to continue its activities and even expand its domain of actions are:

• The gap between actual industry needs and capabilities of university graduates.

• The rapid growth of science and technology and the essence of updating the knowledge and skills of industry’s employees.

• Alteration of organizations’ approach towards knowledge-intensive, the creation of intangible assets and branding on the bases of educated and skilled, scholar and experienced human resources.

• Coordination and preparation of personnel for accepting new responsibilities

 Main Activities of PTC:

Career analysis and need assessment.
Designing training courses.
Designing and preparing educational contents and materials.
Implementation of professional training courses.
Evaluating the effectiveness of training.