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BUE Research Bulletin June 2016

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Foreword

This second issue of BUE’s Research Bulletin brings to light accomplishments which were done quietly in the past six months by BUE’s Academic Staff and Teaching Assistants. I am happy to see books published and awards grant-ed to Teaching Assistants alongside with their Professors in a strong statement of the quality of staff at BUE. This booklet is by no means a complete list of research accomplishments. It provides an update on the overall research per-formance at BUE and compiles notable activities and honours of BUE staff, including editorial board memberships, conference chairmanships, book authorships, received recognitions and won research grants. I invite the reader to visit BUE’s Research Portal and international data-bases for a complete list of publications authored

by BUE’s staff appearing in high impact inter-national journals and conferences. Without the stamina and enthusiasm of BUE’s researchers, the encouragement of BUE’s leadership and the support of BUE’s administration, these accom-plishments would not have happened. I am in-debted to everyone. In particular, I am thankful to colleagues who contributed to this issue of the Research Bulletin, to colleagues in BUE’s Re-search Administration Office and the Faculty of Engineering’s Editorial Office for publication of the bulletin in this fine form.

— Professor Yehia Bahei-El-DinUniversity Vice President for

Research & Postgraduate Studies

BUE Campus (© A. Essam)


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News

BUE in US-News Best Arab Region Universities:• Ranked 44 of 124 universities which have published more than 400 papers

in 5 years.• Ranked 8th in academic reputation.• Ranked 1st in percentage of publications in top 10% and 25% journals.• Ranked 12th in Egypt.• Ranked 1st among private universities; members of the Supreme Council of

Private Universities in Egypt.

BUE in QS Arab Region University Ranking:• Ranked 81-90 of 270 universities surveyed.• Ranked 12th in Egypt.• Ranked 1st among private universities; members of the Supreme Council of

Private Universities in Egypt.• Ranked 6th among all universities in Egypt for number of papers per aca-

demic staff.

University

Ranking 2016

BUE

ResearchAwards

2016

32 Academic staff, Teaching Assistants and Students received research awards for academic year 2015/16. This included certificates and cash re-wards for a total of 284,000 EGP.

• Principal Researcher Award: Dr. Mamdouh Gadalla (Chemical Engineering), Prof. Gamal Nashed (Centre for Theoretical Science) and Dr. Shereen Hassib (Pharmacy)

• Early Research Career Award:Dr. Mostafa Shazly (Mechanical Engineering) and Dr. Elsayed Salama (Basic Science)

• High Impact Researcher Award:Dr. Adel Awad (Centre for Theoretical Physics) and Dr. Islam Ahmed (Chem-ical Engineering)

• Best Publication Award:Dr. Waleed El-Hanafy (Centre for Theoretical Physics), Dr. Hany Bastawrous (Electrical Engineering), Dr. Amr El-Zant (Centre for Theoretical Physics), Dr. George Fam (Mechanical Engineering), Bassam Ayoub (Pharmacy), Dr. Abdulla Gibril (Pharmacy) and Yasmine Abdelfattah (Economics)

• Best Postgraduate Thesis Award:Dr. Yassmeen Attia (Pharmacy), Dr. Islam Ahmed (Chemical Engineering), and Ghada ElNowihy (Chemical Engineering)

• Best Research/Design Graduation Project Award:Sherif Abbas (Business Administration), Rana Ezzeldin (Economics), Reem El-Barbary (Political Science), Mahmoud Elgeziry (Mechanical Engineer-


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BUE

ResearchAwards

2016

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ing), Farah Balaha (Architectural Engineering), Marwa Naeem (Chemical Engineering), Salem Azzam (Civil Engineering), Asmaa Ashraf (Electrical Engineering), Mahmoud ElGeziry (Mechanical Engineering), Radwa Gaber (Petroleum Engineering & Gas Technology), Raghda Abdelhamid (Informa-tion Systems), Ali Mohamed (Computer Networks), Ali El-Karmoty (Com-puter Networks), Marina Halim (Computer Science), Raghda Abdl-Hamid (Information Systems), Ahmed Masoud (Software Engineering) and Taher Taha & Islam Abdel-Rahman (Nursing)

• The Department of Economics welcomed Dr. Andreas Nicklisch of the Department of Economics, University of Hamburg on 30-31 March 2016. Dr. Nicklisch gave a series of workshops to staff and students on behavioural and experimental economics.

• Noha Abd El-Rahman, Assistant Lecturer, Business Administration, has been chosen a session Chair at the 2nd Academic Interna-tional Conference on Business, Marketing and Management, FLE Learning, USA, 5-7 April 2016.

• Prof. John Adams, Head of Economics, was invited as a Keynote Speaker at the 26th Fac-ulty of Commerce-Mansoura University In-ternational Conference at Sharm El Sheik in April 2016. He gave a presentation on Integrat-ing Universities into the Knowledge Economy.

• Dr. Sara El-Khishin, Economics, received 2 awards; Best Policy Brief Award from Eco-nomic Research Forum in December 2015 for

her policy brief on “Reversing Fertility Trends in Egypt is Key for a Sooner and Longer De-mographic Window”, and Best Presentation Award from the International Research Con-ference on Business, Economics and Social Sciences (IRC), Dubai, December 2015.

• Dr. Sarah El-Khishin was invited to give as a guest speaker at the Bibliotheca Alexandria in December 2015. She spoke on The Impact of Official Data and Information Systems on Public Policies and Planning.

• Dr. Sarah El-Khishin won the Best Presenta-tion Award in the 21st International Research Conference on Business, Economics and So-cial Studies, Dubai, December 29-30, 2015.

• Dr. Karim Hassanien, Economics, was se-lected for presentation in a special session in a joint conference organized by Eurasia Busi-ness and Economics Society (EBES) and the American University in Sharjah, UAE, 9 Jan-uary 2016.

News from the Faculty of Business Administration, Economics and Political Science:


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• Dr. Karim Hassanien received a life time membership of the Eurasia Business and Eco-nomics Society (EBES) starting February 2016.

• Dr. Alaa Ibrahim, Economics, was an Invited Scholar at the University of Hamburg in De-cember 2015.

• Prof. David Kirby, Vice president (Enterprise and Community Service), received Emerald Literati Network Award for Excellence for Highly Commended Paper in 26 April, 2016.

• Prof. David Kirby was invited to be a Keynote Speaker at the International Conference on Globalisation, Entrepreneurship and Emerg-ing Economies organized by the Academy of Business & Retail Management, Alexandria, 15-16 February, 2016.

• Prof. David Kirby was invited to be a Keynote Speaker at the 3rd International Conference on Entrepreneurship (ICE, 2016) organized by the University of Tehran, Iran, 20-22 February, 2016.

• Prof. David Kirby was invited to be a Keynote Speaker at the National Conference on Re-thinking and Foresight in the Iranian Teaching and Learning System organized by UNESCO, Tehran, Iran, 23 February, 2016.

• Prof. David Kirby has been invited to join the Editorial Board of Eurasian Journal of Leader-ship starting October 2015.

• Dr. Reham Rizk, Economics, was selected by The American Political Science Association as a Workshop Fellow for the 2016 APSA MENA Workshops for two weeks. The first week was held on Beirut, Lebanon and the second week

will be held at the American University in Cai-ro.

• Dr. Reham Rizk was an invited Speaker at the Global Development Network’s 17th Annual Global Development Conference, Lima, Peru, 17-18 March 2016.

• Prof. Aida Rizkalla, Head of Business Ad-ministration, was appointed as Chair of the Session on Consumer Behaviour at the Inter-national Conference of the Academy of Busi-ness and Public Administration Disciplines, Orlando, Florida, USA, January 2-5, 2016.

• Prof. Aida Rizkalla was appointed as Chair of the Marketing Session at the First Interna-tional Conference on Business in A Dynamic World, Limassol, Cyprus, January 14-16, 2016.

• Dr. Gamal Selim, Political Science, has been serving as a Reviewer in the Mediterranean Review Journal of the Institute for Mediter-ranean Studies (Pusan University of Foreign Studies, South Korea) since May 2013.

• Dr. Gamal Selim has been appointed a Mem-ber of the Conference Organising Commit-tee and a Panel Chair at the 4th International Conference of the International Association of Contemporary Iraqi Studies (IACIS) organ-ised jointly with The American University in Cairo, Egypt, 5 – 7 November, 2015.

• Dr. Zeinab Younis, Business Administra-tion, served as a session Chair and reviewer for Learning Innovation in Higher Education (LIHE 2016), the Institute of Higher Educa-tion, Copenhagen, Denmark, 9-11 may, 2016.

News from the Centre for Theoretical Physics (CTP):

• CTP organised the Dark Matter Cairo inter-national Workshop at the Mena House Hotel, 14–17 December 2015. The workshop was sponsored by BUE and Science and Technol-ogy Development Fund.

• CTP welcomed Prof. Albert de Roeck (CERN/Antwerp) in November and December 2015

and March 2016. Prof. de Roeck gave a series of research seminars on the latest results from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN (Geneva), and discussed ongoing and prospective col-laborations, projects and proposals with CTP researchers.

• Dr. Amr El-Zant, CTP Director, received


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• Prof. Yehia Bahei-El-Din, Vice President (Research and Postgraduate Studies), was ap-pointed a member of the Electricity and En-ergy Research Council of the Academy of Sci-entific Research & Technology for 2015/2016 session.

• Prof. Yehia Bahei-El-Din chaired BUE dele-

gation in the joint Steering Committee meet-ing of BUE and Union for the Mediterranean (UfM), Barcelona, Spain, 29 June 2016. Am-bassador Dr. Mahmoud Karem, Advisor to BUE President and member of the Steering Committee joined the meeting.

• Dr. Hany Bastawrous, Electrical Engineering,

News from the Faculty of Engineering:

News from the Faculty of Dentistry:

• Dr. Gamal Moutamed, Acting Vice Dean, has been appointed as member of the Editorial Board of the Dental Research International Journal (DRIJ), published by AIRCC Publish-ing Corporation, starting April 2016.

• Dr. Gamal Moutamed has been as member of the Editorial Board of Gavin Journal of Case Reports, published by Gavin Publishers, start-ing April 2016.

• Dr. Gamal Moutamed has been appointed as member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, published by Clinics in Surgery, starting April 2016.

• Dr. Gamal Moutamed was invited as Keynote Speaker at the 1st African Congress of Den-tistry and Implantology, organised by the Af-rican Society of Dentistry and Implantology, Morocco, 26 January 2016.

• Dr. Gamal Moutamed has been in collabora-tion with Drs. Norman Smith and Ali Aboel Dahab of the Pharmaceutical Sciences Re-search Division, School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, and Dr. Ramadan Abukne-sha of the Diabetes and Nutritional Sciences Division, School of Medicine, King’s College London, UK.

News from the English Department:

• Prof. Shadia Fahim, Dean of Arts & Human-ities and Head of the English Department, is representing BUE in the Institutional Mem-bership and International Collaboration,

NICE Network, starting March, 2016. NICE Network is a consortium of 45 Higher Educa-tion Institutions from 29 countries across Eu-rope, Australia, Asia and the Middle East.

Medal of Recognition from Mansoura Univer-sity in April 2016.

• Dr. Amr El-Zant was a Keynote Speaker at Challenges in Physics and Energy Conference, Mansoura University, 13 April 2016.

• Dr. Amr El-Zant is collaborating with Obser-vatoire de Paris, College de France since 2014 under a Joint Imhotep project on Small Scale Problems in Contemporary Cosmology. This collaboration includes Andrea Maccio of Max Planck Institute for Astronomy and New York

University, Abu Dhabi.• Dr. Amr El-Zant visited the Observatoire de

Paris and the Institut D’astrophysique de Paris in September and December 2015 in the con-text of his ongoing collaboration with Prof. Francoise Combes. Graduate student Karim Selim accompanied him in the second visit. He gave a presentation to the galaxy evolution group and discussed prospective work with Professors Joe Silk and Jerome Martin, and was an invited member of the Jury for the PhD thesis defence of Jonathan Freundlich.


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has been collaborating in research with Uni-versity of Wollongong, Australia since Sep-tember 2014.

• Dr. Hany Bastawrous has been collaborat-ing in research with Nagoya University, Japan since January 2016.

• Dr. Hany Bastawrous has received, in recog-nition of his research and service to the pro-fession, a Senior Membership of IEEE since November 2015.

• Dr. Marwa Dabaieh, Architectural Engineer-ing, was appointed as reviewer for the Energy and Buildings, Applied Energy, Building and environment, and Solar Energy Published by Elsevier, starting September 2015.

• Dr. Marwa Dabaieh is a summer Visiting Re-search Academic and Lecturer at Lund Uni-versity, Sweden, July 2015- Present.

• Dr. Marwa Dabaieh served as Editor of a book with Architect Valeria Prieto, entitled “Ver-nacular Architecture Reflections- Challenges and Future,” 2016, ICOMOS-Paris, ISBN: 978-91-628-9221-0.

• Dr. Marwa Dabaieh was a guest lecturer for “Architecture Special Experiments” and “Sus-tainable Cities” at Lund University, Sweden, January and April 2016.

• Prof. Khaled Dewidar, Vice Dean for Teach-ing & Learning, has been Editor and reviewer for the Journal of Information Technology and Software Engineering, since January 2011.

• Dr. Hany A. Elazab, Chemical Engineering, was a Guest Speaker and Moderator at the International Conference on Pollution Con-trol & Sustainable Environment, organized by OMICS, Dubai, UAE, 25-26 April, 2016.

• Dr. Amal Kasry, Basic Science, was an Organ-iser and Chair at the 32nd Egyptian Materials Research Society International Conference, organized by The Egyptian Materials Research Society, Aswan, Egypt, 6-9 Jan 2016.

• Dr. Amal Kasry received US Patent entitled “Carbon nanotube-graphene hybrid trans-parent conductor and field effect transistor”.

Patent Number: 9,177,688, Granting date: 03.11.2015.

• Dr. Laila Khodeir, Architectural Engineering, organized a workshop on April 5, 2016 enti-tled Design Reuse and Produce Experimental under funding from BUE Young Investigator Research Grant (YIRG) on which she is serv-ing as Principal Investigator.

• Dr. Gehan Nagy is collaborating with Effat University, Saudi Arabia since November 2015 in a research project entitled “Jeddah Heritage Building Information Modelling, JHBIM – A Pilot Project for El Balad Area.

• Dr. Adham Naji, Electrical Engineering, has been collaborating with University of Bristol, UK since 2010. Dr. Paul Warr of Bristol visited BUE for a week during March 2016. He gave a research seminar on latest research trends in MRI imaging technology.

• Dr. Adham Naji received in March 2016, jointly with Dr Paul Warr, the Internation-al Strategic Fund for Collaborations (UOB/ISF/1516/24) from the University of Bristol, UK, in recognition of their collaboration.

• Dr. Adham Naji established in September 2015 a new Applied Electromagnetic Theory (AET) Research Group as a cluster BUE re-searchers interested in electromagnetism and its applications including analytical and nu-merical methods, mathematical physics and engineering applications. The group is under the umbrella of the Centre for Theoretical Physics (CTP) with strong link to the Faculty of Engineering, http://aetg.ctp.bue.edu.eg/.

• Dr. Mostafa Shazly, Mechanical Engineering, Director of the Centre for Advanced Materi-als chaired a Session at the 3rd International Conference in Africa and Asia on Welding and Failure Analysis of Engineering Materials, Egypt, 2-5 November 2015.

• Prof. Moustafa Soliman, Chemical Engi-neering, has been serving as consultant at the Chemical Engineering Department, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia since June 2014.


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News from the Faculty of Pharmacy:

• Dr. Hebatallah Ahmed, Pharmaceutical An-alytical Chemistry, received a postdoctoral scholarship from DAAD under GERSS to spend three months in Germany starting April 2016.

• Dr. Mona Arafa, Pharmaceutics, received The Best 5th award of oral presentation by Dubai International Pharmaceuticals and Technolo-gies - DUPHAT, 15-17 March, 2016.

• Prof. Dalia Attia, Pharmaceutics and Indus-trial Pharmacy, organised one day workshop at BUE entitled “Factorial Design Programme, Introduction and Application” in February 2016.

• Dr. Bassam Ayoub, Pharmaceutical Chemis-try, has been selected as Reviewer for the Roy-al Society of Chemistry Advances, Cambridge University press, UK, on October 2015.

• Dr. Bassam Ayoub has been appointed as member of the Associate Editorial Board for the International Journal of Applied Pharma-ceutical and Biological Research starting April 2016.

• Dr. Reham El-Kased, Microbiology & Immu-nology, is served as referee for The 5th Interna-tional Conference on Biomedical Engineering

and Biotechnology (ICBEB2016) which will be held in Hangzhou, China, 1-4 August 2016.

• Prof. Mohey Elmazar, Dean of Pharmacy, Chaired a session on Clinical Pharmacology Course – Biosimilars in the Breast Gynecolog-ical International Cancer Conference, organ-ised by the Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, 14–15 January 2016.

• Prof. Mohey Elmazar was Keynote Speaker in the workshop on Updates in Diabetes and Cardiovascular Diseases, organised by the Faculty of Pharmacy, King Abdulaziz Univer-sity, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 18-19 April 2016.

• Prof. Mohey Elmazar was Conference Pres-ident at the 55th Annual Conference of the Egyptian Society of Pharmacology & Experi-mental Therapeutics (ESPET), including a Eu-ropean-Egyptian workshop on Pharmacovig-ilance, organised by the Faculty of Pharmacy, BUE, 5 March 2016.

• Prof. Mohey Elmazar is member of the Drug Research Council, Academy of Scientific Re-search & Technology for 2015/2016 session.

• Prof. Mohey Elmazar is collaborating in re-search with the College of Pharmacy, Univer-sity of South Carolina, USA, since March 2016.

News from the Faculty of Nursing:

• Dr. Dalal Akel was Chair of the 7th Confer-ence of the Nursing Administration Depart-

ment, organised by the Faculty of Nursing, Ain Shams University, 10 April 2016.

• Prof. Samir Abou El-Seoud has been collab-orating in research with the University of Ap-plied Science, Villach, Austria since 2006.

• Prof. Samir Abou El-Seoud is Vice-President of Egypt National Monitoring Committee at the International Society for Engineering Ped-agogy (Internationale Gesellschaft fuer Inge-nieurpaedagogik – IGIP), Austria for 2015/16.

• Prof. Ayman Bahaa-Eldin has been servicing as Editor for Computer Engineering at Ain

Shams Engineering Journal since Oct. 2010.• Prof. Ayman Bahaa-Eldin was Keynote

Speaker at the Second Africa Smart Grid Fo-rum 2016, organised by the African Union, Egypt, 5-7 March 2016.

• Prof. Ayman Bahaa-Eldin chaired the Com-puter Networks and Security Track at INFOS 2016, organised by the Faculty of Computer Science, Cairo University, Egypt, 9-11 May 2016.

News from the Faculty of Informatics and Computer Science:


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Research Performance

• Total number of publications appeared in Scopus: 819• Overall views count: 2,398• Overall Views Count per publication: 29.3• Field-weighted views impact: 4.01• Total number of citations: 5,763• Cited publications: 57.9%• Citations per publication: 7.0 • Field-weighted citation impact: 1.16 (citations are higher than world average by 16%)• Publications in top 10% most cited worldwide: 18%• Publications in top 5% most cited worldwide: 11.3%• Publications in top 10% journals according to SNIP(1): 20.1%• Publications in top 5% journals according to SNIP(1): 8.7%• Publications co-authored with institutions in other countries: 52.8%• Publications with both academic and corporate affiliations: 0.9%

(1) SNIP: Source-Normalised Impact per Paper

Publications (overall up to June 2016):

• Dr. Sherif Elgammal, Centre for Theoretical Physics (h-index: 48)• Prof. Yehia Bahei-El-Din, Vice President for Research & Postgraduate Studies (18)• Prof. Mohey ElMazar, Dean of Pharmacy (18)• Prof. Nabil El-Tayeb, Mechanical Engineering (16)• Prof. Gamal Nashed, Centre for Theoretical Physics (13)• Prof. David Kirby, Vice President, Community Service & Enterprise (12)• Prof. Mostafa Ali Soliman, Chemical Engineering (12)• Dr. Mamdouh Gadalla, Chemical Engineering (12)• Prof. Amer El-Korashy, Basic Science, Physics (12)• Dr. Amr El-Zant, Centre for Theoretical Physics (10)

H-index (top ranked full-time academic staff):

Recent Book Contributions

Book contributions from the Faculty of Business Administration, Economics and Political Science:

• Noha Abd El-Rahman, The Effect of Process Infrastructure on the Success of ABC, Lam-bert Academic Publishing, 2016, ISBN: 978-3-659-88277-7.

• Elish E. and ElShamy H., “Absorptive Capac-ity of Human Capital and International R&D Spill-over on Labour Productivity in Egypt,”

in Managing Knowledge and Innovation for Business Sustainability in Africa, 2nd ed., Pal-grave Macmillan, December 2016. ISBN 978-3-319-41090-6

• Aliaa Khalil, Japan: A Future Nuclear Power? A Tentative Conclusion, Lambert Academic Publishing, 2015. ISBN-13: 978-3659674761


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• Robert Mason, “Saudi - South Asian Rela-tions”, in Saudi Arabian Foreign Policy: Con-flict and Cooperation in Uncertain Times,” ed-ited by Neil Partrick, I.B. Tauris, 2016. ISBN: 978-1780769141

• Robert Mason, Editor, Muslim Minority - State Relations: Violence, Integration and Pol-icy, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2016. ISBN: 978-1-137-52605-2.

• Lara Mikhail, Women’s Bodies: Between Sec-ularism and Theocracy, Case Studies: France

and Iran, Lambert Academic Publishing, 2016, ISBN: 978-3-659-88379-8.

• Christine Samy, Stereotyping and Sexism in Advertising, Lambert Academic Publishing, 2016, ISBN: 978-3-659-82163-9.

• Gamal Selim, The International Dimensions of Democratization in Egypt: The Limits of Ex-ternally-Induced Change, New York: Springer International Publishing, 2015, E-Book ISBN: 978-3-319-16700-8.

Book contributions from the Faculty of Engineering:

• Yehia Bahei-El-Din, Mostafa Shazly, Ser-ag Salem, “Impact Resistance of Sandwich Plates,” Chapter 16 in Dynamic Deformation, Damage and Fracture in Composite Materials and Structures, p. 471-489, edited by Vadim V. Silberschmidt, Woodhead Publishing Limited,

Elsevier, 2016, ISBN: 978-0-08-100080-9. • Marwa Dabaieh, “Vernacular Architecture in

Egypt 2016” in Vernacular Change, edited by Miles Lewis, ICOMOS-Paris,2016, ISBN: 978-91-628-9221-0

• Nagwa Soliman, Mirrors of our Double Selves, Lambert Academic Publishing, Om-

niscriptum GMBH & Co. KG., 2016, ISBN: 978-3-659-85632.

Book contributions from the English Department:

• Reham El-Kased, New Mass Spectrome-try-based Epitope Mapping Procedures of

Autoantigens, Scholars’ Press, 2014, ISBN: 3639719247.

Book contributions from the Faculty of Pharmacy:


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Funding

• 26 projects since 2005• Total fund of 21.5 M EGP• 12 projects are sponsored by 5 Egyptian funding agencies at 8.3 M EGP• 12 projects are sponsored by 3 Egyptian/International bilateral funding at 10.0 M EGP• 2 projects are sponsored by 2 international funding agencies at 3.2 M EGP

Overall summary of grants awarded to BUE:

British Council & STDF31%

EU‐Egypt Innovation

Fund66%

US‐Egypt S&T Protocol

3%

Bilateral Sponsorship

Egyptian Sponors39%

International Sponsors

15%

Bilateral Sponsorship

46%

Egyptian/International/Bilateral

STDF81%

Ministry of Scientific Research

3%

ITIDA 3%

AOI 3%

ASRT10%

Egyptian Funds


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Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, Egypt:» Dr. Amr Abdel-Kader (Mechanical Engineering), EGP 700,000, “Design and Local Manufac-turing of a Solar Powered Energy Efficient High Pressure Pumping Unit with Seawater Reverse Osmosis (SWRO) Desalination Module”.

Science & Technology Development Fund (STDF)/British Council:• Newton-Mosharafa Institutional Links

» Prof. Hani Amin (Electrical Engineering), EGP 1,180,725, “Enhancement of Photovoltaic and Wind Turbines Performance for High Temperature and Low Speed Environments”, In collabora-tion with Loughborough University.

• Newton-Mosharafa Researcher Links Workshops» Dr. Gehan Nagy (Architecture Engineering), EGP 364,338, “Sustaining Built Heritage Research: Internet of Things, Remote Sensed, and Big Data-Visual Analytics of Built Cultural Heritage for Quality of Life, Social Welfare and Economic Impact”, In collaboration with London South Bank University.

• Newton-Mosharafa Researcher Connect Workshop» Dr. Sherif Abdelsalam (Civil Engineering), EGP 10,000.» Dr. Reham EL Kased (Pharmacy), EGP 8,000.

University Research Events Recently held research events:

Recently Awarded Grants:

BUE’s 2nd Research Forum

BUE’s 2nd Research Forum: Panel Discussion on Comodification of Academic Research

• Board of Trustees Forum on Advancing Egypt’s Higher Education: BUE Experience & Potential (17 October 2015)Sponsored by BUE Research Administration Of-fice. Attended by BUE Board of Trustees mem-bers, BUE top management, Deans of faculties, academic staff members representing all faculties and representatives from BUE industrial part-ners.

• BUE 2nd Research Forum (29 November 2015)Sponsored by BUE Research Administration Of-fice. Attended by BUE Chair of the Board. The forum included recognitions for research achiev-ers among staff and students, presentations on research from staff and students and concluded with a panel discussion on Commodification of Academic Research.


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Dark Matter workshop

Science Park agreement signing BUE’s President and STDF’s Director

Sustainable Mega Projects conference

• Workshop: Dark Matter - Cairo (14-17 De-cember 2015)Organized by the Centre for Theoretical Phys-ics. Sponsored by BUE and Science and Tech-nology Development Fund. Held at Mena House Hotel, Giza.

• BUE Science & Innovation Park Agreement in Principle with Tus-Holdings Co., China (19 January 2016)A signing ceremony was held in Fairmont Hotel. Attended by BUE Board of Trustees members and Chinese dignitaries. Sets out


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• BUE 4th Research Forum (October 2016)Organized by BUE Research Administration Office

• Small Wind Workshop (October 2016)Organized by the Centre for Advanced Ma-terials, Sponsored by EU-Egypt Innovation

Fund, RDI2.• 1st BUE International Conference (BUE-

ACE1): Sustainable Vital Technologies in Engineering and Informatics (8-10 Novem-ber 2016)

Upcoming research events:

principles of collaboration between BUE and Tus-Holdings for establishing a Science and Innovation Park in Shorouk City.

• Science and Technology Development Fund (STDF) Director and Chairman of New and Renewable Energy Authority (NREA) Visit BUE (23 February 2016)Included signing a Memorandum of Under-standing between BUE and NREA and visit to STDF-funded project for fabrication of the first made-in-Egypt 25 m wind turbine rotor blade, led by Prof. Yehia Bahei-El-Din.

• BUE and Oriental Weavers International MOU (1 March 2016)The signed MOU focuses on collaboration in research and development and technology transfer in areas of mutual interest including but not limited to advanced manufacturing, spare parts, and energy.

• BUE 3rd Research Forum: Town Hall Meet-ings (3 & 10 April 2016)Organized by BUE Research Administration Office to review research incentives offered by BUE and to hear from BUE community on the research environment.

• BUE-Japan Science Forum (17 April 2016)Sponsored by BUE Research Administration Office. Attended by representatives from Ja-

pan Embassy, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Alumni Association in Egypt (JSPSAAE).

• Research Awards Ceremony (25 May 2016)Organized by BUE Research Administration Office. Recipients of BUE research awards were recognised and congratulated by the Chairman of the Board and the university leadership.

• Sustainable Mega Projects Conference: Chance–Change–Challenge (3-5 May 2016)Organized by the Centre for Sustainability and Future Studies in cooperation with the Arab Green Economy Council. Sponsored by BUE. Held on BUE campus with opening session at the Sonesta hotel, Cairo.

• BUE and Egyptian Petroleum Research In-stitute MOU (21 June 2016)The signed MOU focuses on collaboration in research, training and exchange of expertise in areas of mutual interest.

• BUE and National Institute for Standards MOU (21 June 2016)The signed MOU focuses on collaboration in research, experimentation, and exchange of expertise in areas of mutual interest.


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Collaborations in EffectNational:

• National Authority for Remote Sensing & Space Science (NARS)

• National Council for Women• National Institute for Standards (NIS) • New and Renewable Energy Authority

(NREA)• Oriental Weavers International (OWI)• Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute

(EPRI)

International: • British Council, Egypt• London South Bank University, UK• Loughborough University, UK• North Carolina State University, Raleigh,

NC, USA• Queen Margret University, UK• Rovira University, Spain• University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA• University of South Carolina, Columbia,

SC, USA

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About the front cover: Portrait of Sir Isaac Newton, by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1702. Newton (1642–1727) is one of the most influential science figures of all time. His scholarly work defined much of clas-sical physics and its associated mathematics for centuries, and remain essential in these fields today. A key figure in the Scientific Revolution, his contributions spanned the fields of classical mechanics, gravitation, optics, celestial mechanics, laws of motion, power series, analysis, and many others. He is credited (with Leibniz) for the development of calculus.

The BUE Research Bulletin is issued biannually by the

University Research Admin-istration Office. It is edited and designed by Dr Adham

Naji (Editorial Office, Faculty of Engineering).

© A. Naji and BUE June 2016

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