The Faculty Council No. (590) was held on Monday, March 18, 2024, at ten o’clock in the morning in the Faculty Council meeting room, headed by Professor Dr. Sherif Masoud El-Badawy, interim dean of the faculty, and in the presence of vice deans, heads of scientific departments, and directors of specific programs.
Professor Dr. Sherif Masoud El-Badawy, opened the session by congratulating the attendees on the occasion of the advent of the holy month of Ramadan and its coincidence with the holy fast of our Christian colleagues. He invited the attendees to a group breakfast.
He congratulated the faculty members who assumed administrative positions.
Prof. Sherif offered condolences to faculty members or their families who passed away.
- He praised the Civil Engineering Department for increasing publication rates achieved in international classifications.
- He thanked AP. Dr. Abeer Tawakkol, Director of the Huawei Academy at the faculty, for winning first and second places in the Huawei competition in Tunisia (30 teams from 9 countries in North Africa) and qualifying for the global competition in China.
- He praised faculty students’ winning advanced positions in many sports competitions.
- He congratulated Mansoura University team for winning first and second places in the Energy Excellence Center startups competition.
- He spoke about winning (7) students’ projects funded by the Academy of Scientific Research.
- He briefed the attendees on the ceremony of distributing certificates to the winning students in the Faculty of Engineering.
- He praised the participation of the Technical, and Scientific Services Center, Faculty of Engineering, Mansoura University, in the activities of launching Mansoura University institutional project to link scientific research with industry, which is called the Bridges Project.

Prof. Sherif extended his thanks and appreciation to Prof. Dr. Amira Yassin, Vice Dean for Community Service and Environmental Development Affairs, for the effort exerted and the excellence in performance. He also praised the number, diversity, and importance of the topics of the seminars, workshops, awareness campaigns, and student visits to all levels of pre-university education, which are continuously carried out.
- He talked about the ceremony of distributing certificates for the (OSHA) Occupational Safety and Health course.
- He mentioned holding a symposium on the safe use of the Internet.
- He explained the importance of the training that was conducted for the ISO courses in coordination with AP. Dr. Bishoy Elkis, Director of the Strategic Planning Unit.
- He praised the distinguished effort presented by both the Departments of Architecture and Civil Engineering. He also praised the scientific trips that took place for the students of the two departments.
- He congratulated Prof. Abeer Tawakkol and her team for winning third place nationwide in Benha University Hackathon.
-He informed the audience about donating the faculty workshop a machine from Eng. Salem Al-Hawawshi, Director of Al-Salam Company (3 welding machines with modern technology).
- He congratulated Prof. Dr. Adel Al-Hadidi for being nominated as an official speaker in Sharm El-Sheikh Scientific Conference.
- He presented the annual Impact Factor of the faculty’s scientific journal.
- Finally, students who won the Huawei competition were honored.

Then, His Excellency moved on to discuss the topics on the agenda in order to take decisions regarding them with the members of the esteemed Faculty Council.