Innovative projects by CEN students unveiled at 20th Annual Engineering Senior Design Project Competition

Around 20 senior engineering capstone projects from the College of Engineering (CEN) at American University of Sharjah (AUS) competed for top honors at the 20th Annual Engineer Senior Design Project Competition held virtually on May 8.

Organized every year by CEN, the competition encourages students to adopt innovative, sustainable, and entrepreneurial approaches in their capstone design projects. Participating students presented their work via video before their peers, CEN faculty, and judging panels that comprised CEN alumni and industry experts.

Speaking about the event, Dr. Sirin Tekinay, Dean of CEN, said:

“I am delighted to uphold this time-honored tradition despite the current circumstances.  True to engineering spirit, our students have demonstrated they are resilient and innovative. In the year 2020, and we are celebrating the 20thedition of this competition, we called it 'The Pride of CEN'. I am indeed enormously proud of what our students have produced now that we have hosted CEN alumni and experts from the industry to review the projects and announce the winners.”

Projects recognized at the event included:

Department: Chemical Engineering

* First Place: Study of Growth Rate of Tetraselmis striata Microalgae for Biofuel Production, by Dana Kadadou, Rawan Abu Alwan, Maitha Ahli, Youssef ElZnaty, Ghadeer Hegab 

* Second Place: Ultrasonic Release of Anticancer Drug from Metal Organic Framework Nanocarriers, by students Noor Kouli, Youssef Kaddoura, Jumana, Zughayar, Dina Allam, AbdelRahman Samha

* Third Place: Removal, Adsorption of Micropollutants from Aqueous Solutions Using MOF as Adsorbent, by students Samira Zeinab, Katia Faouz, Mariyam Siddiqi, Salma Hassan Pour, Hashem Nasrallah

Department: Civil Engineering

* First Place: Strengthening Performance of FRCM on Reinforced Concrete Columns, by students Mennaallah Raafat Elgharib, Omar Hesham Elrefaey, Ibrahim Wasef Abu Laila, Mazhd Shaban

* Second Place: Utilizing Plastic Drinking Bottles in Reinforced Concrete Slabs, by students Maryam Subhi AlGzeary, Ahmed Hazem Selim, (Mohammad Said) Jamal Abuhalimeh, Mohamed Nashaat Abdel Haleem Singer 

* Third Place: Design and Evaluation of Structural Beam using 3D Concrete Printing, by students Saleh Waleed Alhabili, Abderrahmane Tamdi, Omar Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed, Abdullah Osman

Department: Computer Science and Engineering

* First Place: Smart Campus Mobility System, by students Moustafa Tarek Amer, Danyal Amir Khan, Shavaiz Ahmad Khan, Ahmed Riaz

* Second Place: Camera Trap Image Classification Using Deep Learning on Edge Devices, by students Lana Hasan Alhaj Hussain, Brylle Ryan Gomez, Ali Reza Mohammed Husein Sajun, Dara Yarob Sakhnini

* Third Place: Elderly Behavioral Monitoring System, by students Abdulla Mohammad Alshamsi, Loay Taha Kamel, Eisa Abdalla Sajwani, Hussain Saifee Surti

Department: Electrical Engineering

* First Place: Autonomous Flight of a Quadrotor with Wireless Charging, by students Aljasmi Abdallah, Almatrooshi Omar, Yaghmour Abdulrahman

* Second Place: Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH): Improving Quality of Experience (QoE), by students Abdullah Mariam, Kassem Youmna, Mohamed Lamees

* Third Place: Robot Localization using Convolutional Neural Network, by students Farhana Shereen, loulou Asmaa

Department: Industrial Engineering

* First Place: Smart retail shelf, by students AbdulRahman Al-Bar, Yomna Elkilany, Hind Al-Saeed

* Second Place: Utilization of Machine Learning in Patient Admission into Intensive Care Units, by students Hawazen Diab, Eman Arafeh, Leen Nazzal, Moreeda Nassar

* Third Place: Smart manufacturing system, by students Rowaida Abdelmaksoud, Farah Shahin, Thuraya Bitar, Ameera Hamdan

Department: Mechanical Engineering

* First Place: Energy Harvesting to Power Miniature Sensors, by students ElMehaisi Osman Mehaisi, Ahmed Mahmoud Elsergany, Ahmed ElSheikh, Faiz Basheer

* Second Place: Portable Hybrid Power System, by students Ahmad Abu Sheireh, Abdulrahman Kharoub, Parham Dadash Pour, Rahul Grover, Mohammed Eshbair

* Third Place: Solar Panel Cleaning System, by students Saif Abdelfattah, Khader Alsayegh, Ahmed Eldesouky, Ahmed Abdelgawad, Mohamad Kheir Al Nabulsi

Winners of the Popular Choice Award:

Autonomous Flight of a Quadrotor with Wireless Charging, by students Aljasmi Abdallah, Almatrooshi Omar, Yaghmour Abdulrahman from the Department of Electrical Engineering.

As the largest academic unit at AUS, CEN is known throughout the region for the high quality of its students and faculty members, as well as for building an environment that fosters innovation and research. The competition was yet another proof of CEN’s well-earned reputation, serving as a platform to display a variety of inventive and exciting projects encompassing various engineering disciplines offered at the university, including chemical, civil, computer, electrical, industrial, and mechanical.