Damascus-Sana
One hundred twenty projects and applied research hosted by the third exhibition of outstanding student research and graduation projects for the year 2020, which is being held by the Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering at the University of Damascus in cooperation with the College of Informatics Engineering, the College of Applied and the Higher Institute for Applied Sciences and Technology and a number of scientific institutions, private universities, companies and economic activities.
The exhibition, which is held under the title (A Community Partnership for a Bright Tomorrow) will continue until the 26th of this month and aims to develop students' inventions and projects and their applied and research innovations to become a marketable product and create job opportunities for communication between industrial companies and each of the educational body supervising the projects and students who have implemented the projects And to achieve communication with entities and companies wishing to put forward topics or projects for their development in the following years.
SANA met a number of the exhibition organizers and students participating in it, where the student, Muhammad Malatya, who specializes in control engineering at the Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering at the University of Damascus, told me that he designed a multi-directional electronic conveyor that moves items from one point to another with the aim of helping the traditional production lines so that we can achieve flexibility on production lines and sort goods Within the laboratories according to their types and colors, and also it is possible that this carrier is a grouping of production lines and has more than one entrance and exit or a single entrance and the goods go out to more than one exit
Student Muhammad Hamza Atefa from the Department of Electrical Power Engineering pointed out that he and his colleagues worked on establishing a smart control system that automatically adjusts the physical variables in the greenhouses in proportion to the crop grown in it so that it is possible to obtain via the Internet the expected weather information for the coming hours and to do some procedures from It will protect the crop grown in the greenhouse from sudden fluctuations in the weather and save energy by adjusting the values of the heaters in proportion to the expected temperatures and also through the Internet. Measurements can be transferred to the user's smartphone with the possibility of manual control of the variables remotely from anywhere in the world. The project aims to rely on renewable energy sources to secure the electrical energy needed for the operations taking place inside the greenhouse.
Student Khaled Al-Haimed from the College of Engineering and Technology at the International University for Science and Technology indicated that he designed a project to control electrical home systems via Bluetooth using mobile phones, which have become a pivotal and important element in society during the current period.
The student Maysam Belouni, specializing in computers and automation, explained that the goal of her project is to detect Covid 19 disease through chest CT scans using deep learning techniques (neural networks) and showed the importance of employing artificial intelligence in a way that helps the speed and accuracy of diagnosing cases infected with the emerging corona virus by applying artificial intelligence algorithms. On a chest CT scan with knowledge of the patient's medical history, which leads to determining the extent of a person's infection with the disease at 92 percent and with a sensitivity equal to that diagnosed by a chest radiologist.
Student Muhammad Dabbas from the Department of Mechanical Design Engineering said that his project and colleague is a 3D printer that provides unprecedented opportunities for manufacturing in many industries around the world because of the features of this technology that make it different from other technologies by simulating any 3D model Or anthropomorphic and transforming any form to form an exact copy of it on the ground, which paves the way for its formation in a promising future for many fields and disciplines of all kinds.
Engineer Faisal Al-Tarawi, a graduate of the Department of Automotive Engineering and Heavy Machinery, said that he and his colleague designed a manual control device for driving a car that helps people with disabilities and enables them to drive the car on their own and enables the person to control the gas and brake pedals through an easy and simple movement represented by the movement towards the back to press the fuel and the spontaneous movement forward when The need to press the brake pedal and in sudden cases, indicating that this device helps the war-wounded, who have lost their lower limbs, to drive the car on their own and enables them to lead a normal life.
Dr. Mustafa Al-Mawaladi, Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering at the University of Damascus, praised the level of projects presented by students at the exhibition and considered that the students and graduates' implementation of applied projects bearing the nature of scientific research is evidence of students ’competence and their benefit from the scientific knowledge they received on the study seats by harnessing it to serve distinguished research and projects.
Al-Mawladi stressed that the exhibition constitutes an important step on the right path for marketing and investing the outputs of scientific research, expressing his hope that companies and public and private institutions will support them in a way that contributes to the university's involvement in finding solutions to community problems and contributing to developing products according to a real vision that meets the needs of the market as well as creating job opportunities For newly graduated students.
Among the companies sponsoring the exhibition, Khaldoun Abdullah, Director of Communication and Advertising Unit at Certel, pointed out that the company's participation in this exhibition comes as an affirmation of its confidence in the youth of Syria and its permanent and continuous support for their scientific competencies that will benefit in the industrial and commercial fields and to be alongside these graduates in their first practical step To be realized on the ground.
The activities of the exhibition, which opened yesterday, include introductory lectures on modern communication systems, scientific institutions and universities sponsoring the exhibition.
The Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering was established in 1962 as an industrial higher institute and turned into a college in 1972 based on Legislative Decree No. 38 of 1972 and includes eight engineering departments in addition to the Department of Basic Sciences and is one of the largest colleges of the University of Damascus, with more than 17 thousand students.
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