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IDCDC’s peer-to-peer learning space, open to contributors of every background; it is not a university and grants no degrees. IDCDC’s peer-to-peer learning space, open to contributors of every background.

A group of practitioners of one field who work together on courses, toolkits and the field itself; the charter calls it a College.

Engineering and Technology

A A proposal only, which exists once the governing body the charter names decides. community of practice for engineers and technologists. It would produce reviewed guides, standards and curricula for the diaspora and for public knowledge.

Register interestCommunities of practice

Status
Proposed
What it offers
4
Courses
2
Country programmes
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Before you begin IDCDC is a peer-to-peer network. It is not a university and acts for no government, party, corporation or faith body.

A set of lessons with an outline, written and reviewed by peers; it carries no academic credit. are written and reviewed by peers. A course plan with outcomes, modules and assessment, written before the lessons and reviewed before teaching starts. are A text awaiting review; it can change before it is used. until expert review.

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Sources

Open scholarly records on this subject, from approved indexes. Listed for reference, not yet reviewed.

  1. Pardis Rahmatpour, Samaneh Mirzaei, Roohangiz Norouzinia (2026). Predicting factors of Iranian nursing students’ attitude toward brain drain: a cross-sectional study. BMC Medical Education. DOI 10.1186/s12909-025-08546-0
  2. Ghanbari-Jahromi M, Ahmadi Marzaleh M (2024). Factors Affecting Brain Drain and a Solution to Reduce it in Iran’s Health System: A Qualitative Study.. Arch Iran Med. DOI 10.34172/aim.28863
  3. Zeinab Khaledian, Maryam Tajvar, Elham Ehsani-Chimeh (2025). Medical Elite Migration in Iran: Transforming Brain Drain into Brain Gain. Iranian Journal of Public Health. DOI 10.18502/ijph.v54i8.19590
  4. Iranian Brain Drain: A Human Rights Approach. Human Rights Documents Online. DOI 10.1163/2210-7975_hrd-9969-2016063
  5. Akbar E. Torbat (2002). The Brain Drain from Iran to the United States. The Middle East Journal.

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01What it offers

  • 01

    Technical guides

    Guides on safe building, water and energy systems.

  • 02

    Seismic knowledge

    Reviewed material on building safety in earthquake zones.

  • 03

    Digital safety

    Reviewed guidance on digital safety for the community.

  • 04

    Mentoring

    Support for engineers re-qualifying abroad.

02Who it is for

  • Engineers
  • Software and data professionals
  • Architects
  • Students in technical A narrower topic within a discipline.

03How it works

Proposal
the community of practice is put to the Governing Board.
Decision
the Governing Board decides whether to create it under the charter.
Membership
professionals in the field register interest and declare their interests.
Work
members draft outputs in small groups.
Review
every output is peer reviewed and sourced before publication.

04What it always keeps

  • The community of practice is independent of any party, faction or government.
  • Members declare An interest of a person, such as money, family, an employer or a political role, that could make them decide differently from a fair person in the same place..
  • Every output is reviewed and sourced.
  • No output is published in IDCDC’s name without approval.

05Disciplines

  • A group of related disciplines within a faculty; it is an arrangement of subjects, not an institution. of Civil Engineering

    Civil engineering

    Civil engineering designs and builds roads, bridges, buildings and public works.

    0 courses4 fields Proposed

  • Department of Civil Engineering

    Earthquake engineering

    Earthquake engineering makes buildings and towns safer when the ground shakes, a constant need across Iran.

    0 courses4 fields Proposed

  • Department of Electrical and Information Engineering

    Electrical and electronic engineering

    Electrical engineering designs circuits, machines and power networks.

    0 courses4 fields Proposed

  • Department of Electrical and Information Engineering

    Telecommunications and information engineering

    Telecommunications engineering builds the networks that carry voice and data.

    0 courses4 fields Proposed

  • Department of Mechanical, Chemical and Materials Engineering

    Mechanical engineering

    Mechanical engineering designs machines, engines and thermal systems.

    0 courses4 fields Proposed

  • Department of Mechanical, Chemical and Materials Engineering

    Chemical engineering

    Chemical engineering turns raw materials into useful products at scale and safely.

    0 courses4 fields Proposed

  • Department of Energy and Environmental Engineering

    Energy systems

    Energy systems engineering plans how power is made, stored and shared, including solar and wind in Iran.

    0 courses4 fields Proposed

  • Department of Computing and Information Sciences

    Computer science

    Computer science studies computation, algorithms and the software built on them.

    0 courses5 fields Proposed

06Courses

  • Disaster risk reduction · Foundations

    Earthquakes and preparedness

    Outline in preparation.

    Wave 3 Planned

  • Information security · Foundations

    Digital safety for families

    Practical protection for families who may be watched, phished or pressured because of who they are.

    Wave 1 · 8 h Outline drafted

A A record of what was studied and assessed in a course or pathway; it is not a certificate or a qualification. shows what was studied and assessed. It is not a certificate or a qualification.

07Communities of practice

  • Proposed

    Medicine and Health

    A proposed community of practice for health professionals of the Iranian diaspora.

  • Proposed

    Law and Justice

    A proposed community of practice for lawyers and legal scholars of the Iranian diaspora.

  • Proposed

    Education and Pedagogy

    A proposed community of practice for teachers and educators of the Iranian diaspora.

  • Proposed

    Finance and Economy

    A proposed community of practice for finance and economics professionals of the Iranian diaspora.

  • Proposed

    Arts and Culture

    A proposed community of practice for artists and cultural workers of the Iranian diaspora.

  • Proposed

    Media and Information Integrity

    A proposed community of practice for journalists and information professionals of the Iranian diaspora.

  • Proposed

    Environment, Water and Energy

    A proposed community of practice for environmental and energy specialists of the Iranian diaspora.

  • Proposed

    Governance and Public Administration

    A proposed community of practice for public administration and governance specialists of the Iranian diaspora.

  • Proposed

    Science and Research

    A proposed community of practice for scientists and researchers of the Iranian diaspora.

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APA

Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council. (2026). Engineering and Technology. iranians.global. https://iranians.global/learn/communities/engineering-technology/

Chicago

Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council. 2026. “Engineering and Technology.” iranians.global. https://iranians.global/learn/communities/engineering-technology/.

BibTeX
@misc{idcdc2026_learn_communities_engineering_technology,
	author = {{Iranian Diaspora Cooperation \& Development Council}},
	year = {2026},
	note = {Licence: CC BY 4.0},
	title = {Engineering and {Technology}},
	url = {https://iranians.global/learn/communities/engineering-technology/},
	howpublished = {https://iranians.global/learn/communities/engineering-technology/},
}

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08Research and sources

Recent and relevant work on this page’s subject, from approved open scholarly sources. Metadata and links only. Titles stay as published. Not yet reviewed.

  1. Predicting factors of Iranian nursing students’ attitude toward brain drain: a cross-sectional study

    Pardis Rahmatpour, Samaneh Mirzaei, Roohangiz Norouzinia · 2026 · BMC Medical Education

    ArticleCrossrefEurope PMCOpen accessCC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

  2. Factors Affecting Brain Drain and a Solution to Reduce it in Iran’s Health System: A Qualitative Study.

    Ghanbari-Jahromi M, Ahmadi Marzaleh M · 2024 · Arch Iran Med

    ArticleEurope PMCOpen access

  3. Medical Elite Migration in Iran: Transforming Brain Drain into Brain Gain

    Zeinab Khaledian, Maryam Tajvar, Elham Ehsani-Chimeh · 2025 · Iranian Journal of Public Health

    ArticleCrossref

  4. Iranian Brain Drain: A Human Rights Approach

    Human Rights Documents Online

    DatasetCrossref

  5. The Brain Drain from Iran to the United States

    Akbar E. Torbat · 2002 · The Middle East Journal

    ArticleOpenAlex

Sources, licences and fetch dates: Crossref (Metadata facts, any use; abstracts may be publisher-owned and are never shown), 2026-10-23; Europe PMC (Metadata reusable; full text under each article’s licence), 2026-10-23; OpenAlex (CC0-1.0 data; metered API (free key)), 2026-10-23.