theses, for example the doctoral dissertation "Prescribing ... Strategies for ... Systems" by allied defense physicist Robert Donald Green, Ph.D. UPenn 1989.
He has lectured widely to the international audiences in US, Japan, Korea, China, Italy, Mexico, Brazil, South Africa, Poland, Iran, and England.
He has served as consultant or lectured to several major companies or governmental agencies such as AT&T, Dow Chemical, Anheiser-Busch, Delaware Public service Commission, New York State Commission on Higher Education, Office of Technology Assessment of the US Congress, City of Philadelphia and others.
He has served as the principal investigator of numerous multi-year research contracts including several grants from National Science Foundation, US Bureau of Mines, US Environmental Protection Agency, US Department of Transportation, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, Ben Franklin Technology Partners, The Pew Charitable Trusts, US Army, US Air Force, and companies such as Anheuser-Busch, ALCOA, Owens-Illinois Glass, Continental Can Company, and others.
[6][7] Since 2010, UPenn Engineering has annually awarded the Iraj Zandi Scholarship to a deserving "systems thinking" undergraduate.
The 15th International Freight Pipeline Society Symposium was held on June 24–26, 2014 in Prague, Czech Republic and managed by IFPS.
In 2016 the 31st International Conference was held in Philadelphia under Chairmanship of one of Zandi's former students, Professor Ronald L. Mersky of Widener University.
JRMT was later renamed to The Journal of Solid Waste Technology and Management under Editorship of Professor Ronald L. Mersky of Widener University (a former military academy).