Activities
November 2011, SIC participated in the 8th German IT Network meeting which was held in Brandenburg, Germany. The Network comprises of 12 German partner universities of applied science supporting SIC in curricula development, project cooperation, hosting students in their German year and supporting them in the internship in German industry. The meeting addressed issues related to
December 2011, SIC hosted a guest from the University of Tokyo to showcase research collaboration and staff exchange. Dr. Kunihairo Asada introduced technology advancements in the design and engineering of VLSI. Dr. Saad Bushnaq gave a lecture entitled "Discover your inner potential".
In February 2012, SIC submitted a comprehensive self-assessment report on its current status, progress and achievements to the DAAD Evaluation Committee, which is composed of quality, accreditation and education experts. The report mainly identified the achievements of SIC and strategic directions around academic excellence, the German dimension, research and innovation, and physical
In March 2012, the IT.Net Student Club was successfully re-established for the 2011/2012 academic year. Their main activities this year include for example supporting students to acquire programming skills inside and outside university courses, organizing presentation of the latest technologies from Microsoft, as well as organizing a programming competition for GJU
March 2012, SIC hosted a symposium entitled “The Bologna Process; Learning outcomes as a means to improve the quality of graduates in coordination with the Jordanian National Tempus Office. The list of speakers included Dr. Ahmed Abu Al-Hija, Dr. Issam Zabalawi, and Dr. Rana Al-Dajani. Present the Bologna process and its role in education reform to meet the competencies needs of
April 2012 Mr. Suleiman Al-Battat - Microsoft - Jordan presented a seminar entitled "Application Lifecycle Management in the Cloud". In his presentation, Mr. Batat gave an overview of Application Lifecycle Management and Application Development using Visual Studio 2010 products. The Microsoft Cloud Platform was introduced with a focus on ALM implementation using Visual Studio 2010
April 2012, Mr. Alaa Al-Masry - Cisco-Jordan presented a seminar entitled "Virtualization Experience Infrastructure", explaining how virtualization enables organizations to provide a suite of collaboration tools, desktop applications, and secure employment flexibility for employees anywhere from any device.
May 2012, Seven students from the School of Information Technology and Engineering held a presentation about their "Android Mobile Applications Development", to share their experiences, sample tasks, and gave helpful hints for future outgoing. The internship companies included Computer Zentrum, EADS, Texas Instruments, Bosch Engineering, Continental and SAP. The presentation was
May 2012, Mr Amer Obeidah - Pencilo - Research and Development Manager and co-founder, held a presentation to a group of GJU students and lecturers, about "Android Mobile Applications Development", addressing the power of Andriod, and how it works. More information:
October 2012, SIC hosted the 9th German IT Network meeting. The Network comprises of 12 German partner universities of applied science supporting SIC in curricula development, project cooperation, hosting students in their German year and supporting them in the internship in German industry. The meeting addressed issues related to developing the IT network platform, strengthening
November 2012, SIC hosted a kickoff meeting of the Tempus Funded project on “Exporting Master Program in Enterprise Systems Engineering to Jordan, Syria, Tunisia and Egypt” with partners from the region and Europe.
December 2012, Mr. Rafiq Al-Daas gave a seminar entitled “ICT Workforce Training Needs Survey” talking about Jordan Computer Society (JCS), The Gap between the Academy Sector and the Market needs as per the survey we made it last year and Graduates Internship Program: JCS is member of this program with MOICT, MOL, and INTAJ.
December 2012, Dr. Abou-Tair's paper was selected against highly advanced criteria; originality, novelty, technical features and significant contribution to the field of Communication Technology. The paper is entitled “A Generic Location-Based Mobile Application Framework Supporting Privacy-Preserving End-user Tailor ability”.
January 2013,Ms. Nadia Abusaymeh gave a seminar entitled “Choice Overload: Recommender Systems to the Rescue” giving a short seminar introduction into recommender systems, its applications and the research areas that are involved in the development of these systems.
February 2013, Dr. Hassan Al-Sukhni, gave a seminar entitled “Improved Stride Prefetching using Extrinsic Stream Characteristics” explaining how Stride-based prefetching mechanisms can be improved by studying the properties of regular streams. As evidence of this, the establishment of metrics to quantify intrinsic characteristics of regular streams has been shown to enable software-
March 2013, Dr. Shadi Harb gave a seminar entitled” A Sub-1V CMOS Voltage Reference Generator” introducing a compact new sub-1-volt, resistor-free, voltage reference in CMOS digital technology. The design provides a low temperature coefficient of 12.8 ppm/0C over a temperature range from 25 to 100 0C and occupies an area of 0.037 mm2 based on AMI 0.5 μm CMOS process. Circuit
March 2013, SIC hosted a kick-off meeting of the “Double Degree in Computer Engineering” with Bonn-Rhine-Sieg University delegation. The program will be offered in Fall in 2013 with one year in Jordan and one year in Germany.
March 2013, Professor Paul G. Plöger, gave a seminar entitled “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Robotics but were Afraid to Ask” giving a brief motivation of why we concentrate on service robots exclusively by now and in which funded research projects we have been involved during the last couple of years (DESIRE, XPERO, BRICS) and giving an account on what and how we
March 2013, Professor Rainer Herpers, gave a seminar entitled “Visual Perception in Virtual Environments” giving a short introduction into the context and terminology of virtual environments and the special conditions of perception in virtual environments. Results obtained from several research projects were presented and discussed.
March 2013, GJU Information Technology Club has been reestablished. The GJU IT Club serves as a place where all students at GJU who have an interest in ICT - not just computing students - gather to discuss topics of professional interest, exchange experiences, and get a chance to innovate and turn ideas into real life projects. This club also serves as support to students in their
April, 2013, the Computer Science Department of SIC, GJU has joined the SAP® University Alliance program, a global community network that provides faculty members access to SAP knowledge pool and enterprise solutions to stimulate students’ learning of integrated business and systems concepts relevant to their chosen fields. The program enables students to gain hands-on experience