This paper investigates the construction of the AUT’s female students’ identity through their various modes of engagement with campus life. It also looks into the ways AUT’s female students’ identity formation was influenced by the gender perceptions both by themselves and their male counterparts, as well as the predominant discourses on women’s liberation and perceived limitations. This paper primarily dwells on lived experiences of interviewed female students who entered AUT in the year of its inauguration, 1967, until the 1979 Revolution. The paper argues that the female students’ identity, instead of being constructed in response to oppression expected to be faced by women in the STEM environment of Iran’s 1960s and 70s, was constructed through their encounter with discourses of politicization and modernization and their adherence to ʼinqilābī (revolutionary) values while repudiating qirtī (consumeristic) practices. The paper argues the prevailing revolutionary ideals enabled female students to transgress the boundaries of gendered spaces and conventions. However, they also constrained their lifeworld through regulations constituted by the perceptions of proper ways of being a revolutionary. This paper provides a cultural-historical perspective of Iranian STEM female students as agents of modernization of the nation in the 1960s and 70s. It also expands the debates on twentieth century Iranian intellectual history by assessing these thoughts in relation with the lived experiences of interviewed female students of AUT. This exploration leads to new understandings of the ways these articulated thoughts influenced the shaping of feminism amongst STEM female students as well as the mode of fashion, political approaches, and social values on the campus of AUT.