Information Technology

It is noteworthy that IEEE Pioneers is a competition within Entrepreneurship Week launched by the International Society of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). It aims to raise the local community’s awareness of the importance of entrepreneurship. It also aims to support pioneering and creative projects, in addition to qualifying and developing the participants’ skills and technological capabilities that are necessary for preparing projects to suit the requirements of the labour market in light of the global changes in the field of technology and artificial intelligence.

During the signing ceremony, Prof. Dr. Ali Zedan Abu Zuhri, the university president, said, “The agreement is part of a set of agreements that the university is keen to conclude with many unions and institutions. He added that the signing with the Information Technology Syndicate, which was established in Palestine a year ago, is as a support for it in the presence of a large number of IT graduates who need a body that professionally represents and supports them”.

The workshop focused on the challenges that the students and graduates of the Faculty of IT in the applications of the contemporary technology field especially the ones related to the Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of Things, the Data Sciences and the Blockchain. The workshop also focused on promoting students’ capabilities to enable them to realize the challenges that the companies face in building these technology applications, and to introduce them on how to develop their skills to be updated regarding the work opportunities inside and outside of Palestine in this field.