Today, Prof. Dr. Ashraf Abdel Basset, President of the University, Prof. Dr. Mohamed Attia, Vice President for Education and Student Affairs, and Prof. Dr. Mohamed Abdel Azim, Dean of the Faculty, inaugurated a number of projects in the Faculty of Engineering, that have taken place in the faculty in the recent period.
This was done in the presence and participation of the vice deans: Prof. Dr. Mohamed Mahdi-Vice Dean for Education and Student Affairs, Prof. Dr. Sahar Sedky-Vice Dean for Community Service and Environmental Development, Prof. Dr. Mohamed Al-Saeed-former Dean of the Faculty, Prof. Dr. Abed Nasr-Former Vice President of Delta University, Prof. Dr. Ibrahim Badran-Director of the Quality Assurance Unit, Prof. Dr. Imad El-Negiri-Director of the Workshops Unit, and a group of academic leaders and faculty members.
The opening ceremony began at eleven o’clock in the morning today, Tuesday, December 1, 2020, with the reception of Prof. Dr./ Dean of the faculty to the attendees. Then a meeting was held in Al Rowad Hall in which His Excellency mentioned that the Faculty of Engineering has recently completed the achievements of the first phase.
Prof. Mohamed Abdel Azim started his speech by saying: Today I am deeply proud inviting you to witness achievements of the second phase of the “development and structural construction” phase, in which the following were accomplished:
⁃ Establishing the Career Development Center, which is one of the largest free training centers for students in their final years or at Level 300 and Level 400, which is a grant from USAID in cooperation with the American University.
⁃ Developing the headquarters of the Center for Studies, Research and Engineering Consultations, working with it and performing its services and the role assigned to it in the form of a company in terms of quality and accuracy of service and a complete distance from the routine and complexities of work procedures.
⁃ Allocating a workspace for our students in the program building as a place for students to meet other during lectures and sessions, to discuss or debate any issues that concern them with each other or with faculty members, or to practice student activity, and thus there is comfort and reassurance for our students.
⁃ Online Classes to record lectures and broadcast them to students to explain some parts of the courses and apply the hybrid education method in order to preserve them according to the emergency conditions we are going through.
⁃ The community and national services that the faculty provides and contributes to as a message that must be performed, such as the road laboratory, which is considered as a reference to be referred to at the level of the Republic and to contribute to the construction of facilities that the state takes upon itself for implementation, and the consultations that are provided to various state institutions in various problems and cooperation in finding solutions to them. Contributing to raising awareness and spreading a culture related to information about the Egyptian code, working according to it and applying it.
⁃ The specific programs that have been developed and other programs that are being approved to develop self-resources, meet the needs of the local and regional community, and maximize the faculty’s competitiveness.
⁃ Adopting and renewing the regulations, 2020-2028, i.e. the possibility of working on them for the next eight years.
⁃ What has been done regarding work to rehabilitate and accredit specific programs and renew the accreditation of the faculty.
⁃ The digital transformation that is taking place now in most of the faculty’s places, according to the state's approach and what it seeks in the near future.
⁃ It is worth noting that the aforementioned achievements were implemented with self-financing from the faculty’s resources, not to mention that this funding is the least spent compared to previous similar periods.
In addition to the faculty's achievements, the third stage projects are being completed, which will be opened soon, represented in: the development of the hydraulic machinery laboratory, the heavy installations laboratory, the physics complex, the chemistry complex, textile workshops, the robotics laboratory, and the electronic testing center, to full readiness according to any requirements. In the future, serving the student or the outside community.
At the end of the meeting, Prof.Dr./ President of the University, Prof. Dr./ Vice President for Education and Student Affairs, and all the attendees, praised the efforts made and the achievements made in the Faculty of Engineering during the last short period of time.