Momentum team from the Faculty of Engineering, Mansoura University won the Encouragement Award among 1700 teams worldwide in the AAKRUTI Global 2024 competition, which was held in India from November 14-17, 2024.
The distinguished team qualified in the local competition last September, which was sponsored by the 2BCadcam branch in Egypt, and won first place among 156 participating teams from Egypt to qualify globally to compete with 11 teams from different countries such as India, Spain, Malaysia, Turkey and South Africa in the city of Pune, India.

The competition is organized by Dassault Systèmes, a global company specialized in engineering solutions and software, which it organizes annually in the field of engineering design and innovation.
The Faculty of Engineering team, Mansoura University, received the distinguished award shield with financial support estimated at $ 250, along with many prizes and souvenirs from the parent company organizing the event, including medals, T-shirts and engineering services provided to students by the company.

The innovation presented by the Momentum team is the design of a bottle made of environmentally friendly materials that filters polluted water from any water source and provides clean drinking water called “Bio Bottle”, under the supervision of Dr. Ahmed Sameh Abdel Aziz, a lecturer in the Department of Production Engineering and Mechanical Design. The team members are:
Manar Al-Husseini Rashad, Hadeer Al-Saeed Shalaby, Mohamed Moawad Fouad, Ahmed Hussein Abu Zaid, and Ahmed Mustafa Qandil.