IEEE Morocco Section Newsletter

Industry University link Program
Made In Your Country Competition
By Mohamed Aboud, Mohamed Ibrahim, Yasser Tawfik
IEEE Egypt Section
Industry University link (IUL) is a
program that encourages cooperation
between industry, University
and government by directing the
engineering faculties' activities,
application researches and projects
toward the development of
the country’s industry. This is
achieved by solving real industrial
problems, creating new industrial
products and meeting our market
needs. University cooperation with
the industry and the government
will be conducted professionally,
based on science and enhanced
training. The aim is to guarantee
high quality end products achieved
by university professors, students
and industrial mentors.
Made In Your Country is one of the
activities running under the IUL
program, it is a competition between
engineering universities
where teams, of students ( in their
final year ) , and doctors with the
help of industrial mentors, will
design and build a graduation
project based on real industrial
cases selected every years by
industrial and academic experts.
The competition organized for the
first time by the IEEE Egypt GOLD,
under the auspices of the minister
of foreign trade and industry and
the minister of the higher education
and scientific research together
with the cooperation of a
number of private and governmental
institutes.
The final project (Prototype) should
achieve at least one of the following:
- Solving a real industrial problem.
- Fulfilling a local industrial need.
- Substituting a similar imported
product.
- Creating a new need in the market.
The goal of the Made in Your
Country competition is to improve
the practical engineering experience
for students and their personal
and leadership skills through
applying theory on a project for a
real industrial case. After the competition,
universities graduates will
be more qualified for the industry
market and will have better opportunities
to start their own small
businesses.
Besides, the industry will benefit
through solving their problems and
produce new product prototypes
and solutions through engineering
universities projects. It will also
have chances to recruit more
qualified graduates.
The university will benefit through
improving students skills, interacting
with the industry and turning
theoretical projects into practical
projects needed by the industry,
thus improving the universities
efforts in the development of our
countries.
The Competition Overview.
Every year the Made In Your Country
competition committees will announce in
all engineering universities a competition
projects needed by the local industry.
You are also required to participate with
your ideas through the application form
abstract (see application form)
www.ieee-egyptgod.org
Doctors and students should apply as a
team to participate in the competition.
The competition projects will also be the
graduation project for the students.
-Competition phases
The Made In Your Country competition
will start in July 2006 where teams will
pass through phases starting by a summer
training camp and ending with the
competition finals in the Egyptian Engineering
Day, EED august 2007.
The competition phases are as follows:
Applying and Selection phase.
The summer training camp phase.
System Level Design and the industrial
visits phase.
Detail Design phase.
Testing and Refinement phase.
Production Ramp-Up phase.
The Finals (will be held in the
Egyptian Engineering Day, EED
2007).
Teams will submit the required reports to
the Made In Your Country committee by
the end of each phase of the competition.
- Teams Selection criteria
The selection committee will evaluate
the project abstracts according to the
following criteria:
1. The real need for the idea by the
industry.
2. The potential impact of the application
on local industry.
3. How practical will the be project and
could it be implemented.
Made In Your Country committee will encourage projects ideas
that replace an imported product or that solves an local industrial
problem.
For more details about the IUL program visit:
http:// www.ieee-egyptgold.org
training camp phase.
System Level Design and the industrial visits phase.
Detail Design phase.
Testing and Refinement phase.
Production Ramp-Up phase.
The Finals (will be held in the Egyptian Engineering Day,
EED 2007).
Teams will submit the required reports to the Made In Your Country
committee by the end of each phase of the competition.
- Teams Selection criteria
The selection committee will evaluate the project abstracts according
to the following criteria:
1. The real need for the idea by the industry.
2. The potential impact of the application on local industry.
3. How practical will be the project ad how it will be possible to be
implemented.
For more details about the IUL program visit: www.-egyptgold.org
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