AUS students shine with out-of-the-box projects
The American University of Sharjah (AUS) celebrated the spirit of innovation and creativity among its graduating engineers at the annual College of Engineering (CEN) Senior Design Projects Competition.
Held in the presence of Sheikha Bodour Bint Sultan Al Qasimi, President of American University of Sharjah, the event brought together students, faculty and industry partners to witness a remarkable display of technical excellence.
A total of 124 projects were presented across seven academic departments, each reflecting the university's commitment to applied learning and real-world problem-solving.
From the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, first place was awarded to Ahmed Alruzzi, Banan Mohgoub, Eman Adnan and Rahma Al Barghouthi for their project Rendering nanocarriers more responsive to ultrasound, supervised by Dr. Ghaleb Husseini, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and Professor of Chemical Engineering.
Second place went to Noura Alsuwaidi, Ruwda Altayyari Baniebrahim and Shamma Alfalasi for Silica-enrichment and aerated light concrete for sustainable construction, under the supervision of Dr. Sameer Al Asheh, Professor and Head of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Ahmed Aidan, Senior Laboratory Instructor.
Third place was secured by Salma Mansour, Fatma Al Redha, Yahia Elsawaf and Mohammad Alawneh for Algae bioreactor performance, advised by Dr. Zarook Shareefdeen, Professor of Chemical Engineering, and Aidan.
Civil Engineering prize: In the Department of Civil Engineering, the top prize went to Hamze El Khatib, Mustafa Mohamed Elsayedelroubi, Habiba Amr Atta and Ahmed Ali Gah Alla Ahmed for their project Utilization of concrete washout water in sustainable concrete production, supervised by Dr. Sherif Yehia and Dr. Akmal Abdelfatah, Professors of Civil Engineering. Second place was awarded to Abdulaziz Mohammad Sharif, Ansar Kaddunabbi Lubega, Malak Ahmad Allan and Khalid Ayman Aboukaram for their study Ultra high performance engineered cementitious composite (UHP-ECC) columns reinforced with high-strength steel, under the guidance of Dr. Mohammad AlHamaydeh, Professor of Civil Engineering.
Third place went to Mustafa AlSarraj, Saif Ismail Gobran, Firas Barake and Mohammad Jehad Almazouni for Design of breakwater D-Marin Didim, Turkey, under the supervision of Dr. Serter Atabay, Professor of Civil Engineering.
Computer Science: Representing the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (computer science program), Ahmad Hassan Zaher, Ahmad Adil Al Shadid, Hamza Khan and Hala Moh'd Ma'adi won first place for KALAM: EEG-based imagined speech recognition for the Arabic non-verbal community, supervised by Dr. Mohammad Daoud, Visiting Professor of Computer Engineering.
Second place went to Abdulrahman Mohamed Hassan, Jawdi Ahmad Alchurbaji, Tariq Ibrahim Bal'awi and Deena Ammar Al Muwahed for Gaze control: A new frontier for disability assistance, guided by Dr. Raafat Aburukba, Associate Professor of Computer Engineering, and Dr. Daoud.
Third place was awarded to Nabil Bukhary, Karim Rashad Abdelwahed and Maaz Zahid Ahmad for Utilizing vision-language models to automate defect detection in autonomous vehicle requirements documents, advised by Dr. Dana Dghaym, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering.
Students from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (computer engineering program) impressed judges with advanced, interdisciplinary solutions.
First place was awarded to Ahmad Mohammed Alsaleh, Malik Belal Hader, Adham Mohamed Elmosalamy and Yousef Belal Irshaid for Shaheen: A fast interference and ultra-low power platform for desert search and rescue, supervised by Dr. Mohamed Al Hajri, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. Second place went to Gayatri Lakshmi, Elisha Mary Thomas, Sneha Athota and Zoya Muneeb for Drone and machine learning-based railway inspection system, advised by Dr. Abdulrahman Al-Ali, Professor of Computer Engineering, Dr. Salam Dhou, Associate Professor of Computer Engineering, and Dr. Mohammad Jaradat, Professor of Mechanical Engineering.
Third place was claimed by Karim Mahmoud Elsayed, Abdullah Shahid, Mustafa Ashraf and Adam Aliasgar Burhanpurwala for Roya: A deep learning approach for human activity recognition, supervised by Dr. Daoud.
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