AUT or Tehran Polytechnic, the first University of the country and one of the most experienced institutions of higher education in Iran in the field of engineering. The University, which would later be dubbed, universities in Iran will also build it yourself, Aban 1335 equivalent of the 1958 century. by Mr. Habib Nafisi and ordered Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi was established.

the first course students of this university in the year 1336 through the internal tests were accepted, and from the year 1337, activities, educational, Polytechnic, Tehran, Iran formally with five electrical engineering and Electronics, Mechanical Engineering, Engineering, Textile, Engineering, Chemistry, and engineering, and the building began.

After the year 1357 in solar, the Educational Complex to "AUT" change the name of the alliance, and with the expansion and the accession of two campus in Bandar Abbas and Mahshahr to it. now, about 8400 students in different levels in the university to study, most wise. The University of as the ratio of faculty to student, and also in the field of communication with the industry in the first category the country are located.

Amirkabir University of technology as leading in sustainable development at the International University of Iran, known as the Office of sustainability, Amirkabir University of technology in July 1390 established. The purpose of the formation of the Office System Accreditation and support activities, all professors, staff, faculty and students of the University in order to achieve the objectives of sustainable development.