Amman- 21 December 2017

The German Jordanian University (GJU) won in the Annual Industrial Graduation Projects Competition that was organized by the Jordan Engineer Association (JEA) and Amman Chamber of Industry (ACI).

Students Tareq Mohammad Abu-alrub and Mohammad Yasser Almalla won the first prize for “Energy Audit on Building C of the GJU” project.

The project that was supervised by Prof. Ismael Al-Hinti, included conducting a detailed energy audit of Building C at the GJU campus, with the aim of understanding how energy is consumed in the building and to assess the energy saving potentials. The audit focused on both conservation measures related to management procedures, and efficiency measures related to technology upgrade and replacement. The audit recommended that over 280,000 kWh can be saved annually in building C with minimum investments. 

Whereas students Karam Masadeh and Mohammad Abu Obeid and their supervisor, Dr. Ziad Abuelrub from the Pharmaceutical and Chemical Engineering Department, School of Applied Medical Sciences (SAMS), won the second prize among the projects conducted in the chemical industries in Jordan.

The graduation project has the title “Technical and Economic Evaluation for a PV-Assisted Evaporation Wastewater Treatment Facility at ARAL Plant”. A treatment unit following the anodizing process was designed in order to reduce the contaminants to the allowed limits.

This project was conducted under the supervision of Eng. Azmi Mubarak from ARAL Plant and in coordination with (ACI) and (JEA).  

On another hand student Osama Deeb and his supervisor, Prof. Ala’aldeen Al-Halhouli won the third prize for the project entitled “Development of Autonomous Micro-robots”.

Micro-robots are currently an attractive field for researchers, especially in the area of health care and biomedical applications. The project aims at fabricating and controlling micro scale robots using weak magnetic field.

The general idea of the control is that the robot contains a ferromagnetic martial that allows it to interact with the magnetic field. By developing an exclusive closed loop control system, it was possible to make robots autonomous and for feedback system, an image processing was used along with MATLAB software to detect the robot position at a certain time.