Within the activities of UAEU Innovates

The United Arab Emirates University organizes activities during the first week of the UAE Innovation Month. The university’s centers and colleges conducted a series of events from workshops on innovation management through scientific planning, designing a robot to overcome barriers and innovation in water resources management, and innovation challenge by the UAEU Youth for students from all colleges.

Student Innovations

The Innovator Student / Saeed Al Yahyai - UAEU presents an App called Sporch

It is a program that helps enhance communication, gathering and meeting between those interested in certain kinds of sports. There is a special group for each kind of sport that provides contacts of sport coaches and safe sport training places and gyms.

Innovator student / Rania Hesham also presented an innovation, REDY VIVA Sort smartly: Rania said about her new innovation: This innovation is a recycling bin for waste, but this bin is different because it is divided into four sections. Each section has a sensor that helps us to organize the process of sorting different types of plastic, paper or metal waste.  

 

 

Student Aisha Al-Kaabi new innovation: fire Extinguisher Drone

Al-Kaabi, the innovator, indicated that the idea of the project helps extinguish fires faster, and each drone carries four balls, and each ball contains potassium carbonate with water. It is controlled by the app and camera. The Civil Defense can determine the number of balls that are thrown on the fire to extinguish the fire. When the ball is thrown on the fire, a chemical reaction occurs by cooling and reducing the oxygen in the room or the target place for 30 minutes, controlling the fire until the civil defense arrives at the scene of the fire.

 

 

Innovation in Rater Resource Management

The National Water Center at the UAE University conducted a workshop on “Innovation in Water Resources Management”, which brought together a number of experts, scientists, students and those who are interested in water resources under one roof to discuss innovative topics in the areas of water resources management. The speakers discussed the latest studies and results on water resources and exchanged their experiences with the university attendees. It presented the most important researches, findings, recommendations and innovation methods in managing environmental resources. Dr. Mohammad Al Zaabi - Assistant Vice President of the American University of Ras Al Khaimah for Community Service Affairs - presented a paper on the link between energy, water and food. In addition, Dr. Mahmoud Hajjaj - from the College of Engineering at the UAE university - discussed a study on non-traditional alternatives to the rainwater drainage system in Khalifa City and West Baniyas. The workshop concluded with an open discussion on the methods of managing water in the future.

 

Youth Circle" Student Seminars Discuss National Innovation Strategy

The College of Business and Economics conducted an event to support innovators and young entrepreneurs. Dr. Maysam Al Abadi, Professor at the College of Business and Economics, indicated that the challenge is divided into 3 student seminars that discuss the challenges in the National Innovation Strategy. It is intended to motivate innovation in a number of key national sectors through the presentation of the ideas of the students participating in the seminars. It is also intended to anticipate the future and ask a question “How can technology achieve a radical transformation?” 3 winning student teams were also announced in the challenge, who presented innovative ideas in a number of areas, the most important of which is environmental and health innovation.