The three-year sociopolitical closure of Iranian universities under the "Cultural Revolution" slogan, brought about by radical students in June of 1980, was unfortunate in many respects, but it did provide an opportunity for injecting drastic changes into the academic curricula and sketching a master plan for computer science and engineering education in Iran. Changes of this magnitude and scope would have been impossible to institute under other circumstances. This paper presents our experiences and results in developing integrated hardware/software educational programs which are both modern and relevant to Iran's special needs. After presenting the principal elements of our computing scene, some implications of Iran's version of the "Cultural Revolution" are discussed. The structure and contents of Iran's current nationwide computer science and engineering programs leading to the "industrious" (technician-level), "applied expert", "expert" (bachelor's-level), and "senior expert" (master's-level) degrees are presented. This is followed by a discussion of the hardware/software controversy and its effects on the design and implementation of the programs.