UAEU innovations achieve sustainable development and wellbeing

This morning, the United Arab Emirates University launched the Innovation Month 2020, which aims to spread and consolidate the culture of innovation as a basic concept for achieving sustainable development and wellbeing, with the participation of the university's colleges, departments and academic departments.

Prof. Ghaleb Ali Al Breiki, Acting Vice Chancellor, stressed that the UAE Innovation Month has become an important national event celebrated by the UAE with the aim of spreading knowledge and promoting a culture of innovation as a basis for achieving sustainable development and wellbeing. The official attention that innovation attracts in the UAE truly reflects the vision of the leadership in foreseeing the future, and applications of academic research and innovation as a well-established culture in the UAE educational institutions.

He said, "Today, from the UAE University, the flagship national university - the University of the Future - that prepare a generation of innovators who contribute to achieving growth and prosperity for the human being and supporting creativity and excellence.  We launch multiple and distinct innovations for researchers." The faculty members and university students continue throughout this month ..the month of innovation.. We have dedicated innovative and specific events that vary through different activities, such as lectures, workshops, presentation of innovations and developments in research, discussions, seminars, and conferences in innovation and excellence, that the university works constantly creating a suitable environment for its students to come up with creative projects and innovations.

Innovation events attended by provosts, deans, faculty members and a number of students The most significant innovation events include:

Day 1

• Innovative Media

The innovative media focuses on broadcasting some quotes and phrases in support of the UAE Innovation Month, in addition to holding short meetings with attendees and innovators (such as faculty members, students or staff) to talk about the importance of innovation from their point of view), as well as broadcasting short films to support innovation.

• College of Food and Agriculture open days

The College of Food and Agriculture offers visitors and students its facilities in providing innovative approaches to teaching and research. Thus, UAEU people have the opportunity to sit in the classroom, visit laboratories and farms, in addition to attending lectures on innovation in agricultural research and food industries, as well as testing innovative pedagogical tools/methods used in the classroom. They can also visit laboratories to hear from technicians, researchers, and graduate students about the use of equipment and facilities, research projects, and to participate in a simple lab experiment. Tours of the Al Foah Farm and the laboratories of the Falaj Hazaa Campus are available for visitors to learn about the ongoing experiments and the water system.

• Innovative spatial technologies in buildings

The workshop addresses innovative location-based technologies covering outdoor and indoor positioning and navigation (INIP), indoor positioning - BLE, GeoMagnatic, UWB, 5G and indoor mapping: web services embedded in applications servers back-end servers, dashboards for map creation and content management, indoor application: Web and mobile-based applications - case-oriented functions and provide a real world model -InNav  Platform and Mobile Applications.

Day 2

• Innovators under 25 years of age

Innovators under the age of 25: is an initiative that highlights innovations by UAEU youth, specifically entrepreneurship students who focus on various sectors related to the UAE National Innovation Strategy.

• Innovation Exhibition - UAEUX50

The Innovation Exhibition will take place during the period from 3 to 5 February 2020. It is a platform for the most important innovations offered by public institutions in the country, as it will provide a space for the exchange of ideas and innovations between the innovative entities and the UAE youth. Moreover, it is an opportunity for companies and visitors to adopt innovative ideas, from students and government institutions.

• Entrepreneurship Club: Innovation Hub

The UAE innovators works are displayed in various sectors (technology, space, health, education, transportation, water, energy) by the Entrepreneurship Club.

• Innovation Competition

In this competition, students will be required to submit an innovative project idea to solve problems in specific topics, which will be evaluated by a committee. Ideas will be submitted as a poster, and prizes will be awarded to the winners.

• Geological Drone

An interesting view of a geological drone to explore different geographical terrain.

• UAEU Well-being Program

The program aims to introduce the concept of well-being in a series of workshops focusing on four main concepts: psychological well-being, physical well-being, occupational well-being, and financial well-being. An exhibition of the Wellbeing Program will also be held in the Great Hall.

Interdisciplinary Bootcamp on Artificial Intelligence - Blockchain for Smart Healthcare, AI for Energy Saving in Cloud Computing.

Interdisciplinary Bootcamp on Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Blockchain for Smart Healthcare and AI for Energy Saving in Cloud Computing: The workshop contains a series of presentations and hands-on sessions focusing on the era of AI ecosystems with software embedded in new Blockchain technology and smart cloud computing. The Machine Learning and Python workshop paves the way for attendees to understand how this innovative technology works in a real-world solution to smart healthcare and a sustainable green environment in smart cities through discussions and hands-on training.

Dr. Laila Ismail and her team at Smart Cloud and Distributed Computing Systems lab - College of Information Technology organize the activity with a medical doctor and a researcher in smart healthcare using Blockchain.

 

• Discovering Diamonds: innovative ideas

Inviting students and graduates of the College of Education to provide examples of innovative ideas and their impact on teaching and learning.

• Competition and events in Nutrition and Agriculture

The workshop invites students to participate in a competition to design an innovative product, technology, or application to advance or improve methods for assessing the nutritional properties of foods. This competition requires the students to express their ideas effectively and convincingly. This competition is expected to encourage dialogue to improve current methods of measuring nutritional status and improving nutritional quality of foods. It then generates innovation in important food areas. In fact, the nutritional condition of individuals determines their risk of disease resulting from malnutrition that may affect their well-being and ultimately physical performance. Effective and efficient tools are needed to assess nutritional condition and make early diagnosis. Besides, providing healthy food is a health condition in itself.

• Innovation in Law

A lecture on innovative methods in legal practices.

• Fifth UAE Joint Symposium on Social Robotics

The UAE is emerging as an international hub for innovation. Thus, the UAE promotes progress towards robotic-based applications for various people activities and business proposals that can bring the greatest benefits to society. UAEU is organizing the Fifth UAE Joint Symposium on Social Robots (JSSR2020) as a participation in the Annual Innovation Conference 2020. This event provides a multidisciplinary program and brings together developers, robotics and social scientists to discuss the latest developments in social robotics. Don't miss this exciting event, be part of a group of international experts, along with sharing your research, checking out new robot technology, and discussing the latest innovations in the field.

• Innovation using 3D Technology

There has been a sudden boom in 3D printing technologies over the past few years. Hence, many educational institutions are trying to incorporate 3D printing to make their curricula more interesting and attractive. However, the process is complex as it requires extensive IT and professional expertise to select and hire the best courses and practices for the matter. This workshop is intended to sharing best practices and procedures for applying 3D printing in mechanical engineering curricula at UAEU. Undoubtedly, the use of 3D printing in various mechanical courses has motivated students in the mechanical engineering to get more involved in the learning process and enhance their hands-on experience in manufacturing techniques.

Visual Studies and Creative Industries Workshop

• Photo / Video

The workshop discusses how to produce photos and videos using visual and creative techniques.

• Entrepreneurs Day

Fostering a Culture of Innovation: Presentations by national and international speakers on the topics of innovation and entrepreneurship.