The Faculty Council No. (566) was held on Monday, March 14/2022, at ten o’clock in the morning in Prof. Dr. / Al-Saeed Ashour conference hall. The council was chaired by Prof. Dr. Mohamed Abdel Azim, Dean of the Faculty, in the presence of Vice Deans, heads of departments, directors of specific programs and representatives of some external community bodies.

The session was opened by Prof. Dr. Mohamed Abdel Azim, Dean of the faculty , where His Excellency :

- offered words of welcome to all the attendees.

- offered words of condolences for the death of Prof. Dr. Abdel Razek Zeidan, Emeritus Professor at the Department of Irrigation and Hydraulics Engineering.

- Extended words of thanks and appreciation to all those who participated in the completion and success of the robotics course for children.
- Expressed his deep gratitude for Dr. Hossam Al-Hilali, Professor of Sociology, for his effective role in this course.

- Congratulated the faculty members who were promoted: Prof. Dr. Mosbeh Rashid as professor in the Department of Public Works Engineering, Assistant Prof. Dr. Rami Salah El-Imam as assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Power Engineering, and Assistant Prof. Dr. Mahmoud Saafan as assistant professor with Scientific Excellence, Department of Computer and Systems Engineering.

- Expressed his pride of the students who participated in the Triple S competition, where Mansoura Engineering students monopolized first places in all competition activities. He also congratulated student, Mohamed Ali for winning first place in chess competition at the university level.

- Offered words of congratulations, support and motivation for Aya Assem, researcher in the Department of Public Works Engineering for obtaining the grant of the Next Generation Scholars Program.

-Thanked the work team: Prof. Sherif El-Badawy, Prof. Alaa Gabr and Dr. Ahmed Awad.

- Honored the researcher and the work team by giving them certificates of appreciation. He also urged the necessity of presenting and participating in a larger number of similar grants.

- Spoke about funded student projects.

- Informed the attendees about the accreditation of two (2) programs by the National Authority for Quality Assurance and Accreditation of Education, namely: the MPE program and the MTE program, assuring the attendees that the steps for accrediting the rest of the faculty’s programs are being completed.

- Briefed the attendees about the celebration of the second loyalty Day to honor the symbols of the administrative system who have reached the retirement age, in the previous years. Prof. Dr. Abdel Azim proposed and issued directives to implement the idea as a sign of gratitude and appreciation of their efforts. Prof. Abdel Azim wished that this would be an approach implemented in all civil society institutions, as a contribution from the Faculty of Engineering to export this noble idea and to help in the growth of community participation.

- Mentioned both the projects which are being completed and those which are about to be completed.
Then, His Excellency moved to discuss the topics on the agenda and took decisions on them with the distinguished members of the Faculty Council.