Abu Dhabi University organises and hosts the Undergraduate Virtual Research Competition (URC) each year, under the Patronage of H.E. Hussain Ibrahim Al Hammadi, Minister of Education. The URC is the largest undergraduate research event in the region and targets all major disciplines from the Middle East and North Africa region. It has witnessed over its lifespan an impressive growth in attracting undergraduate students from all over the region.by

This year was the 8th research competition to be organized and hosted by Abu Dhabi University and sponsored by ExxonMobil. Due to the current pandemic, the competition and award ceremony were held online in lieu of being held in Abu Dhabi. The total number of participating teams from the MENA region was 315 from 87 universities.

A team from the department of Mechanical Engineering participated with a research project titled: “Development of a Soft Prosthetic Arm Controlled by the Brain”. Upon progressing through the preliminary stages of the Abu Dhabi 8^th Undergraduate Research Competition for 2021, in the final stage, the BUE department of Mechanical Engineering team was awarded the second place in the Biomedical Engineering category. The project team was supervised by Prof Ayman Salah Abbas head of the Mechanical Engineering Department at the British University in Egypt.

The Architectural Engineering Department that won the 4^th place in the Young Architects Competition 2021 which was organized by CAIRO CONSTRUCTION HUB (CCH). The BUE team won the competition for designing the exterior and interior space of a medical hub to face the challenges imposed by the Corona pandemic “COVID-19” to achieve maximum health safety for users.

BUE Team faced more than 90 participating teams from local and international designing firms and universities.

The team consists of five BUE staff members as shown below:

Team Leader: Rania Rushdy Moussa (full-time lecturer)

Team member: Omar Ain (Teaching assistant)

Team member: Naglaa Youseff (Research assistant in project 33460)

Team member: Mirette Asser (Teaching assistant)

Team member: Yostina Yacoub (Teaching assistant)

7th Industrial linkage Seminar: Industry Responses During Covid-19 Pandemic, Sunday 4 October 2020

About the Seminar

Inaugurated by speech of Faculty Dean, then managed by Dr. Sayed Akl, Vice Dean for Community Service. The Target of the Seminar is establishing sustainable, deep and strong collaboration with Industry as a great role for the Community Service.

Programme

Seminar Programme