Ain Shams University Council honors university students who won international competitions

Ain Shams University Council, headed by Prof. Dr. Mahmoud Al-Metini, President of the University, and in the presence of Prof. Dr. Abdel Fattah Saoud, Vice President of Education and Student Affairs, Prof. Dr. Ayman Saleh, Vice President of Graduate Studies and Research, Prof. Dr. Hisham Temraz, Vice President of Community Service and Environmental Development, and Prof. Dr. Omar Al-Husseini, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, honored the Faculty of Engineering team that won first place in architecture and ranked fifth in the world in the earthquake design competition in the United States of America, and the Faculty of Engineering team won third place in the Robothon competition for the year 2021 organized by the Technical University of Munich (TUM).

The council also honored the third year student, Reham Shaalan, at the Faculty of Pharmacy, for winning the second place in the Abu Dhabi Competition for University Researchers, in its eighth session at Abu Dhabi University, in the field of creativity, with the subject of "recycling and treatment of industrial wastewater" Sciences.

Prof. Dr. Mahmoud Al-Metini expressed his pride in the university students and their scientific and creative level, which qualified them to win prizes in international competitions that witnessed competitions with teams from all universities of the world.

He stressed that the university pays special attention to the innovation and creativity system, which provides the labor market with a distinguished graduate at all levels.

It is noteworthy that the Chapter Student EERI ASU team from Ain Shams University affiliated to the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute in the United States of America (EERI) participates annually in the International Seismic Design Competition (SDC), and in the competition in 2021 it managed to win the fifth place at all levels of the competition, the team won the award for the best design of an earthquake-resistant skyscraper model from a structural and practical point of view, in competition with more than 40 teams from universities in the United States of America and all over the world, where each team participated in designing a model of a skyscraper made of balsa wood, tested on a vibrating table, and subjected to Participants in the competition are evaluated by a jury that includes specialists in the field from several universities.

The team consists of:
- Dr. Mohamed Kahil Mohamed Fayez, assistant professor in the Department of Structural Engineering at the university
- Student / Aladdin Tariq Lotfi Badr Suleiman
- Student / Mina Fathi Abadeer Fakih
- Student / Hania Mohamed Ismail Tounsi
- Student / Dina Hamza Halim Hamza
- Student / Amal Nagy Ezzat Ahmed Mansour
- Student / Doaa Ahmed Naeim Khalil
- Student / Hajar Atef Mahmoud Ali Hammad
- Student / Adham El-Sayed Ahmed Abdel-Majeed
- Student / Ahmed Mohamed Saber Desouky Mahmoud
- Student/ Islam Amr Saad Hassan
- Student / Fadi Mohamed Hassan Mohamed Ahmed Desouky
- Student / Karim Ali Mohamed Bassiouni
- Student / Mina Nabil Gerges Fahmy
- Student / Shady Essam Abdel-Wahab El-Khouly
- Student / Samuel Mohsen Makram Jabra
- Student / Suryal Walid Attia Ayyad
- Student / Sarah Kamel Muhammad Saeed Muhammad
- Student / Heidi Abdel Hamid Mohamed Shawky Abdel Samee
- Student / Abdul Rahman Hamada Mamdouh Mohamed Ali
- Student / Youssef Mohamed Sayed Abu Zeid
- Student / Mahmoud Hamdi Sayed Ahmed
- Student / Hania Atef Mohamed Saleh
- Student / Ahmed Abdel Hamid Ahmed Abdel Hamid Ahmed Hussein.

As for the RAND-E team, consisting of final year students in the Mechatronics and Automation Program at the Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University and affiliated to the University’s Robotics and Automation Laboratory, it managed to win third place in the Robothon® Grand Challenge 2021 competition organized annually by the Technical University of Munich in the period from 5/14/ 2021 to 06/22/2021, which witnessed the participation of fifteen teams from all over the world and aims to shed light on environmental issues of importance such as dismantling and sorting electronic waste.

The team was also able to complete all the tasks set in half the time available to the rest of the teams and accordingly, they were awarded a special “Lightspeed” award.

The team consists of:
- Dr. Mohamed Ibrahim Mohamed Hassan Awad, assistant professor in the Department of Mechatronics Engineering at the university
- Dr. Shadi Ahmed Maged Ahmed Mohamed Othman is a teacher in the Department of Mechatronics Engineering at the university
- Eng. Abdel Rahman Medhat Mohamed Bassiouni is a researcher at the Institute of Robotics and Automation in Ain Shams Engineering
- Eng. Abdel Rahman Salah Ali Salem Farhan is a researcher at the Institute of Robotics and Automatic Control at Ain Shams Engineering
- Student / Amr Mustafa Kamal El-Din Mohamed Fadlallah
- Student / Mohamed Adel Al-Tohamy Sheikh
- Student / Youssef Taher Abdullah Mohamed Afifi
- Student / Khaled Shawky Mohamed Wahba El-Anany
- Student / Abdul Rahman Amr Jamal Mohamed Jamil
- Student / Michael Ashraf Bahor Shehata Riad