The Ministry of Higher Education announces the winners of the national competition for projects of technical colleges

Sana'a - Sheba: local on September 30, 2019

The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research announced today the winners of the national competition for graduation projects for students of technical colleges in Yemeni universities, which is adopted by the Ministry's Information Technology Center. Where the project of designing and implementing a digital machine for writing and laser engraving from the Department of Mechatronics Engineering, College of Engineering at the UAE University won first place, and a graduation project submitted by a group of female students at the College of Computer Science and Information Systems at Dhamar University won second place for their project “I see for the blind” for smart phones, The self-slicing machine project submitted by the University of Hodeidah won the third place. In the honoring ceremony, Minister of Higher Education Hussein Hazeb praised the initiative of the Information Technology Center in launching the national competition for graduation projects. He pointed out the importance of the competition in shedding light on the creative projects of Yemeni university students and encouraging them to innovate and compete in the production and development of technology, linking quality project owners with investors and academics to provide support to enter the labor market and measure the extent to which the idea can be converted into a project that serves development. Minister Hazeb commended the participating and winning projects in the national competition and the efforts of everyone who contributed and participated in supporting and making this competition a success in its first edition. He pointed to the importance of diversifying the services and activities of the Information Technology Center in addition to its tasks in the electronic portal for coordination, registration and unified electronic admission in public and private universities, which addressed many of the imbalances that accompanied the coordination and registration process. He stressed the need for the center to play its role in completing the executive regulations of the center to ensure the organization of its various tasks and activities, stressing the importance of cooperation with the center and strengthening the technical and administrative relationship between the center and Yemeni universities for the success of its tasks. For his part, Deputy Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Dr. Ali Sharaf El-Din, considered the projects participating in the national competition an added value in the educational process that contributed to enhancing competition between universities by granting winners privileges, cash prizes, shields of excellence and certificates. Dr. Sharaf El-Din explained that the ministry is in the process of establishing an information bank that contains titles for the research that the country needs and that it put forward for graduation projects and master's and doctoral theses in development fields and to provide universities with them. For his part, the Executive Director of the Information Technology Center, Eng. Mustafa Al-Khaled, and the Director of the National Competition, Dr. Abdullah Rashid, reviewed the center’s objectives in computerizing and automating the activities and systems of Yemeni universities and all its money related to educational institutions by employing its capabilities to improve the quality of performance and improve the quality of outputs. They explained that the number of projects that were submitted to compete for the best technical project amounted to 65 projects from various Yemeni universities. 49 projects were selected in the first phase, which varied between service applications, artificial intelligence projects, smart solutions projects, information security and encryption, car security, solving billing problems, prosthetic legs, wheelchairs and drones. And projects related to modern technological systems that keep pace with developments in this field. Al-Khaled and Rashid pointed out that 11 projects were selected for the second phase, two of which were absent, and a comparison was made between nine technical projects, three of which were won by Emirati universities, Dhamar and Al-Hodeidah. While speeches were delivered from the evaluation committee by Dr. Naef Al-Sharabi and Dr. Fouad Hassan, and about the contestants, Abdullah Tamish, she pointed to the importance of the competition in enhancing the spirit of competition between universities to produce quality projects that contribute to the development of the field of information technology systems. During the honoring, the three winning projects of the national competition for graduation projects of technical colleges students, their importance, advantages and the possibility of converting them into projects serving the development of the country were reviewed. At the conclusion of the ceremony, which was attended by the Chairman of the Academic Accreditation Council, Dr. Ali Al-Kaf, leaders of the Ministry of Higher Education and the Information Technology Center, and a number of heads and representatives of public and private universities, the owners of the three winning projects were honored with cash prizes, memorial shields and certificates of appreciation, and the sponsors and contributors to support and success were honored. Competition.