Amman- May 7, 2017
Within the 10th National Technology Parade that was hosted by the German Jordanian University (GJU) under the title of “Innovation, Development, and Entrepreneurship Forum“, GJU won 7 prizes in different categories.
Under the track of Industrial and Productivity Technology, GJU student Abdulrahman Alshawakri and supervisor Dr. Bassam Alasir won the first prize for their project “ Improving Driven Cable Robot Accuracy Using External Sensors“.
In the track of Medical and Bio Technology, GJU students Abdullah Al Husseini , Dima Shihan and Ekhlass Alhwayan and supervisors Dr. Mohammad Daoud and Dr. Rami Al-Azrai received the first prize for their project, “a game-based rehabilitation approach for assisting children with upper limb cerebral palsy”. Moreover, the same project received GJU’s special award for Innovation, Development, and Entrepreneurship. The third prize in the Medical and Bio Technology track went to GJU students Muhannad Abdullah and Merna Haddad and supervisor Dr. Nasim Alnu'man for their project, “Neuromuscular Control for Functional Transracial Prosthesis with minimal number of electrode setup“.
GJU student Azhar Alrawi and supervisor Dr. Raed Mesleh received the first prize in the Information Technology track for their project “Self-powered VLC System through Solar Panels“.
In the track of Engineering Design and Simulation, the second prize went to students Sarah Muhamadieh and Amjad Jitan from GJU for their project “Simulation of Petra Plastic Factor “.
The project “ Infrastructure-less Communication System for Border Monitoring and sensing", which was presented by the GJU students Issa Haroun , Shams Auda , and Yahya Maqableh and supervisor Dr. Ala Khalifeh, received GJU’s Special Award for Industrial Links.
It is worth noting that that the student competition this year was tough. In fact, a total of 182 student projects were submitted to the parade from all Jordanian universities. Each project was carefully reviewed by two faculty members from different universities to evaluate its quality. The best 66 projects were selected to participate in the parade. At the end of parade, the top three projects in each of the eight competitions tracks were awarded prestigious prizes.
Congratulations to our GJU distinguished students, we are proud of your success and wishing you all more progress and prosperity.
