" Information Technology Engineering: e-commerce "

1-   Introduction

Due to increasing growth of information and the its indispensable role in quality of management and governance and also instrumental role of computer technology in quality of information collection and organization and the role of internet facilities in its fast transmission, the Information Technology program is formed. The program with the field of electronic commerce was defined to train specialists with the ability of strategic planning and designing and managing of e-commerce systems to eliminate the practical obstacles of information technology and e-commerce potentials.

2-   Definitions and Objectives

The information technology engineering program is a coordinated set of educational and research activities in different fields including management information systems, electronic commerce, multimedia systems, information security and computer networks. The scientific activity pivot, based on the topic, is theoretical research, empirical research or combination of both and education is an instrument to overcome the information shortcomings and pave the way to achieve the research goals.  

Among the objective of the program can be mentioned as the following:

1-     Enveloping to important scientific works in a particular field of information technology engineering.

2-     Familiarizing with advanced research methods and attempt to make innovation in this context.

3-     Achieving to the latest scientific, research and technological principles in the context of e-commerce and e-business.

4-     Achieving to the newest technologies to naturalize them.

5-     Innovation in scientific and research aspects.

6-     Help in developing and expanding the boundaries of knowledge.

7-     Mastering in education, research, planning, implementation, guidance, supervision, evaluation, analysis, and solve the scientific problems and unlocking practical problems of society in one aspects of information technology engineering.   

3-   Graduate Skills

Graduate of this program will be able to use knowledge gained in this program to create new jobs in the fields of research and development of electronic businesses, creation and development of information systems and design and analysis of information resources and even to provide advice in the field of information systems and e-commerce for other public and private organizations.  

4-   Curriculum

The program leading to PhD degree consists of educational stage, comprehensive exam and research stage as follows:     

I.  Educational Stage

In Educational Stage of PhD degree in IT Engineering- Electronic Commerce, spending a total of 15 credits (5 courses) related to the field of student research and based on administrative detection, from the table of tendency (following table) is essential. The comprehensive exam will be held for only 3 courses. Meanwhile, students can take one course (3 credits) from other disciplines in industrial engineering, electrical engineering and computer engineering with the approval of administrator and in connection with their research area.

II. Comprehensive Exam

Students who have successfully passed all courses in educational stage, can participate in comprehensive exam that is held in both written and oral form. This exam is carried out on PhD course contents passed by student (at least 3 courses) and student at most can attend two times in the exam.

The details and conditions of examination are adjusted according to guidelines.  

III. Research Stage

Students who were accepted in comprehensive exam, will enroll in taking thesis proposal stage. The total number of credits that student should be taken in research stage, with the title of "research project" is 21 credits. The thesis credits are not necessarily mean adoption and acceptance of the thesis and thesis evaluation is done in accordance with PhD program regulation.