The Faculty of Engineering’s team wins first place in the world in the Show of the Future competition – Shell Environmental Marathon

Under the auspices of Prof. Dr. Mahmoud El-Metini, President of Ain Shams University, and Prof. Dr. Abdel Fattah Saoud, Vice President for Education and Student Affairs, and Prof. Dr. Omar Al-Husseini, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, and Prof. Dr. Mostafa Refaat, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Engineering for Education and Student Affairs, and supervised by Dr. Mohamed Abdel Aziz, Head of the Automotive Department at the faculty, the racing team of Ain Shams University at the Faculty of Engineering, in the Future Show competition - Shell Environmental Marathon, entitled: Enhancing the knowledge of self-driving vehicles, won first place in the world, and a prize of $1,500.

It is worth noting that the competition aimed to find out “How can the human factor be replaced by artificial intelligence to create a seamless experience for a self-driving vehicle?”, where the team impressed the judges with a creative and effective solution to the serious issue of theft of self-driving cars and proposed a modification to the vehicles that gives them the ability to detect suspicious activities and protect Passengers through decision-making models using data collected by vehicle sensors.

The jury chair commended the team commenting that “a great job by the team, strong presentation skills using dramatic video backed by mature and robust simulation where a very special issue was chosen, which captured the judges’ imaginations.”

Students participating in the competition:

Karim Mohamed Abdel Hamid Ragaa Al-Sawah - Third Year - Computer and Systems Engineering.

Emad Mostafa Mohamed - Third Year - Computer and Systems Engineering.

Muhammad Mustafa Ibrahim - Third Year - Computer and Systems Engineering.

Hadeer Mahmoud Taha Abdel-Gawad - Third Year - Computer and Systems Engineering.

Mustafa Hossam El-Din El-Sayed El-Sharif - Third Year - Computer and Systems Engineering.

Hebat Allah Ayman Muhammad Mukhtar Abdel Aziz - Second Year - Computer and Systems Engineering.

Ibrahim Abdel Ghaffar Ibrahim - Third Year - Mechatronics Engineering.

Omar Shawqi Muhammad - Third Year - Mechatronics Engineering.

Mazen Ahmed Al-Arabi - Second Year - Electronics and Communications Engineering.

Gilan Essam El Din Abdel Hai - Third Year - Design and Production Engineering.

Mohamed Walid Mohamed Abdel Wahab Nassar - First Year - Mechatronics Engineering.

Rafik Tamer Magdy - first Year - computer and systems engineering.

Ahmed Mohamed Abdel Hamid Al-Ra'i - Second Year - Mechanical Power Engineering.

Alaa Osama Abdel Moneim Mahmoud - Second Year - Mechatronics Engineering.