About IAT

The Institute of Applied Technology

With state-of the-art facilities and excellent support services, the Institute of Applied Technology offers Career-based Technical Education (CTE) in English at the secondary and tertiary levels. In Addition, IAT encompasses well established higher learning programs in aviation, logistics and nursing. The institute has an overall of twenty campuses (fourteen schools, four colleges for Fatma College of Health Sciences and two colleges for Abu Dhabi Polytechnic), located in the United Arab Emirates in Abu Dhabi, Al Ain, Western Region, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al-Quwain, Ras Al Khaima and Al Fujairah; with its directorate based in Abu Dhabi.

The Institute was founded in 2005 through Royal decree of His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates, Ruler of Abu Dhabi as a corporate body with full financial and administrative independence.

Vision

Create a world-class Career Technical Education system that will produce the scientists, engineers and technicians needed for the UAE to build a knowledge-based economy.

Mission

IAT’s integrated system of Career Technical Education (CTE) pathways contributes to the development of the UAE by:

Providing distinctive secondary school programs that integrate career and technical education with a rigorous academic core.
Providing post-secondary CTE programs to meet the industrial needs and requirements of the nation.
Maintaining externally benchmarked standards for all programs offered.
Fostering close and cooperative relationships with the community, industry and government to ensure that IAT is responsive to national needs and expectations.
Organising public and industry continuing education programmes in line with the needs of all stakeholders.

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Providing distinctive secondary school programs that integrate career and technical education with a rigorous academic core.

Providing post-secondary CTE programs to meet the industrial needs and requirements of the nation.

Maintaining externally benchmarked standards for all programs offered.

Fostering close and cooperative relationships with the community, industry and government to ensure that IAT is responsive to national needs and expectations.

Organising public and industry continuing education programmes in line with the needs of all stakeholders.

H.E. the Minister of Education, Eng. Hussain Ibrahim Al Hammadi, is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Institute of Applied Technology (IAT) in the United Arab Emirates since its inception in 2005. H.E. Al Hammadi began his career with the UAE Armed Forces in 1984, and began pursuit of his post secondary education in the United States soon thereafter. In 1989 he earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida.

H.E. Eng. Hussain Ibrahim Al Hammadi
Chairman of IAT Board of Trustees.

Board of Trustees

Policies of the Institute are decided and their accomplishment is overseen by the Board of Trustees whose members are appointed by Royal decree Number 36/2005 of His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates, Ruler of Abu Dhabi.

The mission of IAT as established by the Royal Decree is to prepare, qualify and train the students of the Institute to earn scientific and technological degrees in the specializations approved by the board of trustees whose members are:

H.E. Hussain Ibrahim Al Hammadi
Chairman of the Board, Minister of Education
Dr. Abdulla Nasser Al-Suwaidi
Chairman's Advisor, ADVETI, Vice Chairman
Dr. Adbullatif Alshamsi
Vice Chairman, HCT Vice Chancellor
Dr. Reyadh Abdullatif Almehaideb
Board Member, Zayed University Vice President
Dr. Yousef Ibrahim M. Alakraf
Board Member, Business Support & HR Executive Vice President
Dr. Faisal Mohamed Albakeri
Dr. Faisal Mohamed Albakeri, Board Member, UAE Armed Forces
Ibrahim Hassan Abdulla Nassir
Board Member, Human Capital & Administration Chief
Rabea Saleem Al Junaibi
Board Member, Manager Director
Dhafer Ayed Al-Ahbadi
Board Member, Sennat Advisor

Responsibilities

Realizing that education and training contribute to an individual’s personal development, increase her/his productivity and incomes at work, and facilitate everybody’s participation in economic and social life, the Government of Abu Dhabi established the Institute of Applied Technology to lead the development of career-based technical education. more... The significance of this important step is realized in view of the fact that investing in education and training is an investment in the future; knowledge and skills are the engine of economic growth and social development.

The Imiri Decree 32/2005 stipulates the responsibilities of the Institute as follows:

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