Engineering

The workshop was inaugurated with the presence of the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Dr. Hazem Khanfar, and the Dean of the Faculty of Information Technology, Dr. Muhammad Mar’i. The workshop dealt with the design of user interfaces, their basics and its importance in the current era as well as the concept of API. The workshop also dealt with comprehensive plans for students who want to develop their programming skills, and the common programming mistakes among students in addition to self-marketing for services and freelancing.

Dr. Mays Awwad, the director of the Hassib Sabbagh IT Center of Excellence at the University, said: “The idea of the challenge is to be an opportunity to present innovative and pioneering ideas and solutions to the problems that will be presented on the day of the competition. The challenge will be launched for all teams to find the most appropriate and applicable solutions in a creative, pioneering manner and the Center will offer financial rewards to the first three teams after going through the experience of presenting ideas and being judged by jury committees.

The competition comes in line with the vision of the two faculties to represent the University in local and international programming competitions. This year, 25 male and female students participated in the competition, undergoing a distinct test to develop codes and solutions to various programming problems in order to select the distinguished among them to be the teams which will represent the University.