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Department’s Achivements
Winning best project in 2019 IEEE GCC SYP
The second 2019 IEEE GCC SYP congress and
exhibition. was held at Kuwait Regency Hotel on the
19th and 20th of April 2019 under the theme of
“Technology Innovation Driven by GCC Young
Professional” “TID by GCC YP”. SYP’s main goal is
to motivate the new youth generation to drive the
economic growth of GCC by their innovative
solutions. Many competitions were held under the
umbrella of the congress. One of them called
“Project competition”. The Undergraduate Project
Competition is for course projects conducted by
undergraduate students during their undergraduate
courses at any of their year of study.
The submission could be a course projects in the
shape of a poster, co-op/internship findings,
research projects, software/hardware, or a robot
done at the academic institution. CSE
undergraduate students Mariam Al-Muhandi and
Wedyan Al-Enazi participated in this competition,
and won the first place for their project titled
“Portable Braille Display” under the supervision of
Dr. Mohsen Mokhtar and Dr. Tarek El-Fouly.