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| Dr.
Hisham Bsat presents donation to President Waterbury in the presence
of Mr. Fady Chammas, Mr. Nazih Zeidan and Mr. Sadek al-Assa'd. |
For the second
year in a row the Arabia Insurance Co. Ltd., SAL has contributed $50,000
to support the two scholarship funds it established in academic year 1999-2000:
Arabia's Basim A. Faris Memorial Scholarship and Arabia's Bader Al Fahoum
Memorial Scholarship. Each scholarship has provided funds to five needy
and qualified students.
Arabia's Basim A. Faris Memorial Scholarship was awarded in 1999-2000
to two students in the Department of Mathematics: Wassim Ghassan Moukaddam
and Razan Adnan Harb, and to three students majoring in Computer and Communication
Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering:
Carine Hassane Daouk, Randa George Zakhour and Imad Adolphe Ferzli.
Arabia's Bader al Fahoum Memorial Scholarship was awarded to two
students in the Department of Economics: Sandra Maria Stavro Cortis and
Rania Adnan Jibai, and to three students in the Graduate School of Business
and Management: Suha Ali Kobeissi, Maya Marwan Zanhour and Maybel Antoine
Saleh. All ten students have sent letters of appreciation to the Arabia
Insurance Company expressing their deep gratitude.
The check for $50,000 was presented to President John Waterbury
on October 13 by Arabia Insurance Company's Chairman and General Manager,
Dr. Hisham Bsat, and by its General Manager, Mr. Fady G. Chammas. Mr.
Nazih Zeidan, Special Assistant to the President for Development and Alumni
Affairs, and Mr. Sadik Al-Assa'd, Acting Director of Development, were
also present for the occasion.
Both Dr. Bsat and Mr. Chammas expressed Arabia's continued confidence
in AUB's program and their full support for President Waterbury's leadership.
They emphasized the fact that both Basim Fares and Bader El Fahoum would
have been pleased that the scholarship funds in their names are being
used to provide educational opportunities to talented young students who
would otherwise find it difficult to pursue a university education.
Lebanese
Industrial Research Achievements Conference
The fourth conference and exhibition of LIRA (Lebanese Industrial
Research Achievements) took place July 18-23 at the UNESCO Palace in Beirut.
Organized by the National Council for Scientific Research (NCSR) and the
Association of Lebanese Industrialists (ALI), the event was held under
the auspices of the Lebanese President, Emile Lahoud.
AUB's Faculty of Engineering and Architecture participated with
17 projects from the Electrical, Computer and Mechanical Engineering Department.
The Department's Professor Fouad Mrad represented AUB on the organizing
committee and Vice President Georges Najjar chaired a conference session
entitled "Culture of Excellence for Sustainable Industry."
At the end of the five-day conference and exhibition, an action
plan for next year was adopted, along with a set of re-commendations.
Out of the 85 projects submitted, 55 were selected for exhibition.
Of these, ten, including four from AUB, were given awards.
Based on their technical evaluation, a jury representing the Industrialists'
Association and the National Council for Scientific Research distributed
the awards to the most innovative projects. Three were tied for first
place.
* First prize in Computer Software was awarded to the AUB project
"Performance Testing and Evaluation of Refrigerators using Fuzzy
Logic Inference Methodology under LabVIEW." Executed by Isam Damaj,
the project was supervised by Professor Jean Saade, and Hassan Diab.
* First prize in Computer Software was awarded to the AUB project
"Optimal Configuration for Power Distribution Networks Using Geographic
Information System." Executed by Nicolas Hobeila, Elie Matar and
Ara Auedikian, the project was supervised by Professor Mounir Yehia.
* First prize in Computer Software was awarded to the AUB project
"Intelligent Remote Control using LabVIEW Real-Time." Sponsored
by National Instruments - Austin, Texas the project was executed by Nabil
El-Hasan, Samer El-Hajj, Fadi Adlouni, and Basil Alawieh under the supervision
of Professor Fouad Mrad.
* Second Prize in Mechatronics was awarded to the AUB project "Inject
Molding Machine" which was sponsored by Kamaplast, Lebanon. Executed
by Rabih Zaouk, Firas Matarji, Abdel-Ghaffar El-Hajjar, Fadi Adra, Camille
Abdelnour, and Zafer Zaatari, the project was supervised by Professors
Ramsey Hamade, and Fouad Mrad.
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