The Faculty Council No. (569) was held on Wednesday, June 15, 2022 at exactly ten o’clock in the morning in Prof. Dr. / Al-Saeed Ashour hall, with the application of precautionary reserves, the council was chaired by Prof. Dr. / Mohamed Abdel-Azim, Dean of the Faculty, and in the presence of Vice Deans, Heads of departments, managers of specific programs and representatives of some institutions of the external community.
The session was opened by Prof. Dr. Mohamed Abdel Azim, Dean of the faculty where his excellency:
⁃ Began the meeting by offering words of welcome to all the attendees.
⁃ Offered his condolences on the death of the President of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
⁃ Offered condolences on the death of the father of Prof. Dr. Mohamed Abdel Alim Yaqout, Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering.
⁃ Congratulated all the promotions of the faculty members, namely: Dr. Nasser Al-Badawihi, Director General of the Faculty for obtaining a Ph.D.
⁃ Praised the faculty winning of the Khalifa Educational Award.
⁃ Spoke about the training courses that were conducted for the administrative staff of the faculty in order to develop their skills and raise the accuracy and quality of performance in their work.
⁃ Praised the workshop
and exhibition of architectural design for the students of the construction and building program as a contribution to beautifying the city of Mansoura.
⁃ Accredited the exhibition of sustainable architecture.
⁃ Spoke about what happened in the Student Visions 2 competition, which had the theme of "Digital Transformation Issues and Climate Change", expressing his pride and gratitude for what happened.
⁃ Suggested selecting (5) students from the students applying for the competition, to travel abroad to distinguished international universities. It was agreed to select a committee of faculty members to select students, taking into account that the students would not bear any expenses.
⁃ Prepared a statistic on the number of faculty members and the supporting body in all scientific departments at the present time, then discussed the expected situation as a future vision, what are the expected needs and how to provide that.
⁃ Briefed the attendees about the projects that are being developed at the faculty, the projects that have been established and that will be inaugurated on the 30th of June, namely: the innovation lab (satellite), the wireless communications lab, the IOT lab, the IO lab, the water quality lab, the BIM lab, the building hall 1, Building Hall 2, evaluation hall, microscopic examination lab, architectural models lab, roads lab, transportation and traffic lab, heavy installations lab, surveying lab, dynamic vibration lab, solar energy lab, solar energy administrative headquarters, architectural arts lab, graduate follow-up unit, legal affairs, non-traditional employment lab, and international students office.
⁃ Put forward a proposed plan to develop the offices of the heads of scientific departments and the faculty members of the faculty with unified designs for offices.
⁃ Put forward a proposal for a complete re-design and development of all the faculty’s toilets.
Then, His Excellency moved to discuss the topics on the agenda and take decisions on them with the distinguished members of the Faculty Council.