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01/11/2009
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Two AUB students win the 1st and 3rd price in "Stars of Science" TV show
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http://www.annahar.com/content.php?priority=2&table=tarbia&type=tarbia&day=Thu
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=106319
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| Posted on:
09/07/2009
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Project competition on sustainability
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A project competition on sustainability was held in BEIL on June 17 - 19, 2009, as part of “Sustainability Week”. The competition was open to all students (undergraduates and graduates) from Architecture and Engineering schools in Lebanon. The final results were announced on Friday, July 3, 2009 in the Order of Engineers & Architects in Beirut.
We are very proud that the first prize and the third prize went to students from FEA:
* 1st prize went to:
Winning Student Name: “Wassef Dabboucy”
Project Name: “Pottery factory at Chabrouh”
University/ Department: AUB/ FEA/ Architecture
(This prize includes a symbolic reward “check” for US$550)
* 2nd prize went to:
Winning Student Name: “Joan Abu Haidar”
Project Name: “Durable Hotel”
University/ Department: Lebanese University/ Architecture
(This prize includes a symbolic reward “check” for US$450)
* The 3rd runner up went to
Student Name (s): “Carl Madi, Said Hobeika, Naaman Bejjani, & Toufic Rahal”
Project Name: “Wind Turbines: Stacks for power generation inside Beirut”
University/ Department: AUB/ FEA/ Engineering
(This rank does not have a monetary prize)
The jury that selected the winning projects included international experts in the field:
Dr. Georges Abou Jaoudé, Dr. Tobias Bube, Ms. Karin Geifer, Ms. Suzanne Mondello, Dr. Sadek Owainati,
Mr. Mohamed Trigui and Mr. Sami Marrouki.
Wassef Dabboucy is a third year student in Architecture. His project “A Pottery Factory in Chabrouh
was developed in the architecture design vertical studio “Gaia” during Fall 2008-09 with Prof. Simone Kosremelli and Karim Nader.
The design relies on sustainable strategies covering various aspects:
· The project is site specific: Located in the area of the Chabrouh Dam, it collects in the summer the annual sedimentation
of the dam thus keeping the stability of the water storage while using the sedimentation as raw material to produce clay
production (recycling)
· The building sits gently on the slope with minimal excavation
· The building is properly oriented using sun-protection and natural ventilation
· Sustainable materials locally available are used such as a concrete skeleton and walls of rammed earth.
· Passive heating and cooling
· Active systems: photovoltaic panels act both as sun protection and energy production
The poster is currently exhibited in the Department of Architecture and Design.
Carl Madi, Said Hobeika, Naaman Bejjani, & Toufic Rahal are fourth-year students in Mechanical Engineering (they’ve now graduated). Their project was a final year project supervised by Prof. Issam Lakkis in Mechanical Engineering.
We would like to thank Mohamed Tassi, member of the Energy Committee in the Order of Engineers and Architects, ECE graduate student Elie Awwad, who coordinated the FEA contribution, and Aram Yeretzian, Brian Holland and George Arbid who contributed to the selection of two projects to represent the Architecture and Design Department (Wassef Dabboucy and Joelle Khoury), and to Prof. Lakkis, who supervised the mechanical Engineering projects.
Congratulations to all.
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| Posted on:
29/06/2009
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Stars of Science Competition
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Stars of Science Competition 2009
“Stars of Science" is a new Arab reality TV competition organized by the Qatar Foundation in Qatar, Doha. Professor Fuad Mrad, Electrical and Computer Engineering, who spent a research leave at the University of Qatar during the spring 2009 semester, was selected to be the Program Technology Advisor and the Engineering Phase Mentor. He was able to fulfill his job with the help of Mr. Khaled Joujou, ECE Laboratory Manager. Two FEA graduate students participated in the Program. They were selected to be among 16 top contestants from the Arab World. The 16 contestants were selected after conducting 600 interviews from among 5,700 online applications.
The two AUB students were Bassam Jalgha, Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Mohammad Amin Abu Harb, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Stars of Science competition was held in Qatar during the past 4 months and aired on many regional TV channels. The final episode was aired on June 26, 2009.
Bassam Jalgha, won first prize, which consisted of $300,000 ($100,000 in cash and $200,00 to further develop his invention and commercialize it). His project was entitled “Portable Automatic Tuner of String-Based Arabic Musical Instruments”, also named “Douzan”, which is an automatic tuner that can tune any Arabic string instrument.
Mohammad Amin Abu Harb, received third prize. His project was entitled “Dual TV Watching Using Electronic Goggles”, which allows two viewers to watch two different channels on the same TV using an external device and smart goggles.
For more information about the Stars of Science Competition check http://www.starsofscience.com/phase-3/english.htm
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| Posted on:
02/02/2009
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Omar Hamasni receives an outstanding award of Masters degree with Distinction
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Omar Hamasni (Mechanical Engineering, 2007)receives an outstanding award of Masters degree with Distinction from the University of Management School, Lancaster, UK
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Lancaster University.pdf
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| Posted on:
28/01/2009
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First place Prize in the Young Engineer paper contest
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Wafa Karaki, Jack Abboud, Nancy Daher, and M. Hussein Osman won first place prize in the Young Engineer Paper Contest which was held as part of the ASME-IMECE International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exhibition in Boston, in November 2008.
The prize included a 500 USD cash award, a 750 USD travel subsidy, and waiving of the conference fees. Jack Abboud who will be defending his MS thesis in the coming month, flew to Boston and presented the paper for the contest. The paper was entitled "PIV measurements in the wake of a cactus shaped cylinder".
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Young Engineer paper contest.zip
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| Posted on:
08/10/2008
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Alumnus Nour Shublaq
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Nour Shublaq oxford video (BBC online story): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7502665.stm (Oxford Science Blog): http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/science_blog/080916.html
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nour shublaq.zip
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| Posted on:
08/07/2008
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AUB teacher-student team builds first solar car in Arab region
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Led by Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Daniel Asmar, the team of Elie Maalouf, Amin Kanafani, Ahmed Hammoud, and Rawad el-Jurdi (Mechanical Engineering 08), built the first solar-powered vehicle in the Arab region. The Chariot was named Apollo's Chariot in reference to the Greek god of the sun.
Congratulations!
Please see attached articles about this achievement.
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First solar car in the region.zip
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| Posted on:
30/06/2008
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First solar car in the Arab region
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http://www.aub.edu.lb/news/archive/preview.php?id=84821
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solar car.doc
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