Rank

Innovation

Year

People's choice

&

runner-up prize 

(Judges' choice - postgraduate category)

 Future Generation Competition and Middle East Electricity Awards

Project: Modified Photovoltaic Wind Hybrid System

Sponsor: Middle East Electricity Awards, Dubai.

Impact of this competition:

1. Middle East Electricity is the largest exhibition and conference on a global scale for the power industry. It covers the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity, including the renewable energy sector and the lighting industry.

https://www.dwtc.com/en/events/middle-east-electricity-2018

2. Middle East Electricity offers its exhibitors access to thousands of potential customers from across the Middle East, Africa and the rest of the world.

3. As the region’s leading gathering of power industry professionals, companies can expect to find new customers, strengthen relationships with existing clients and develop or expand their business within the Middle East and North Africa.

4. The exhibition also features an award ceremony - the Middle East Electricity Awards, and a diverse range of educational opportunities including professional workshops, product focused technical seminars and a high level conference.

5. The event features Energy Storage and Management Solutions, and draws buyers from across the region looking to source products and services for renewable energy generation projects.

6. The event discovers the best products, prices and sources

7. Future Generation Competition and Middle East Awards highlight the potential of engineering bodies currently studying in the region.

8. The competition provides an opportunity to display and present innovative projects to the visitors of Middle East Electricity which takes place among 3 full days at the Dubai World Trade Centre. The competition gives an opportunity to undergraduate and postgraduate students to showcase their talent.

9. The Middle East Electricity Awards celebrated the best in the regional power, lighting, renewable, and nuclear sectors at a glittering ceremony and cocktail reception in Dubai last night.

10.  Judge’s Choice Award is decided by a panel of expert judges of internationally recognized and respected from a variety of industry sectors and disciplines, the People’s Choice Award is Voted for by Middle East Electricity Visitors at the exhibition announced on the last day of the exhibition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZKNpqjAopk

11. The Middle East has a commitment to being an environmentally friendly region, especially in the GCC regions including Dubai. Protecting life, the environment and transformer assets in the region is becoming an essential need, especially in areas of high density population

(2017)

First place - postgraduate category)

&

runner-up prize

(Judges' choice - postgraduate category)

 Future Generation Competition and Middle East Electricity Awards,

• Project: Design and Analysis of Solar Updraft Tower

Sponsor: Middle East Electricity Awards, Dubai

(2018)

First place - (postgraduate category) & runner-up prize

(Judges' choice)

Future Generation Competition and Middle East Electricity Awards,

• Project: Photovoltaic Energy for Seawater Desalination in UAE

Sponsor: Middle East Electricity Awards, Dubai

Impact of this competition:

Mentioned previously in this table

(2019)

• First place - postgraduate category 

 Future Generation Competition and Middle East Electricity Awards,

• Project: Viability Study of Photovoltaic Systems Floating on Water Surfaces in UAE
• Sponsor: Middle East Electricity Awards, Dubai.

Impact of this competition:

Mentioned previously in this table

(2019)

• First Place:
•  $10,000

VPS Innovation in Sustainability Award.

Project: IntelliSeaCleaner: An Autonomous and Sustainable Sea Cleaning Robot

Impact of this competition:

https://www.vpsveritas.com/sustainability-awards.html

1. We won the first place among 160 projects participating from across the USA, Europe, Singapore, and MENA region, and our work has come out on top.

2. VPS has evolved into the largest bunker fuel testing company for ship operators in the world. Along our journey we have acquired the expertise to test oils of all types, for both marine and non-marine customers.

3.  VPS leads through innovation and in partnership with the customers, it continues to evolve its testing methods, technologies and advisory services.
4. VPS is evolving its business to help the customers optimize their use of fuel and oil, generating value by minimizing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.

5. VPS’s innovative thinking will keep the customers’’ business on the right side of change.

(2021)

Rank

Competitions

Year

• First place: 50,000 AED.

The Innovation week in UAE

• Project: Modified Photovoltaic Wind Hybrid System
• Sponsor: the UAE Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (TRA), University of Sharjah

Impact of this competition:

1. The competition was held in University of Sharjah for two days (Nov. 23-24, 2016).

2. Number of submitted innovative projects was 37 projects from MiddleSex, American University of Ras Al Khaimah URAK, RIT, Higher Colleges of Technology HCT, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi University ADU, American University of Sharjah AUS, AUST, University of Sharjah UoS, Manipal, and Zayed University ZU.

3. The 2^nd Annual UOS Innovation Competition is designed to challenge the participants to think about problems and opportunities facing society.

4.  Top entries will be judged, live, by a panel of professionals with a crowd of students at the final competition held November 24, 2016, in the Expo Centre Sharjah. The top 3 winners for the innovative ideas and the top 3 winners for the projects, determined by the results of panel evaluation, will receive discretionary awards and prizes sponsored by the Government of Sharjah-Economic Development Center.

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(2016)

• Third Place
•  
•  Prize: 5,000 AED.

 12th MAC Mobile Application Contest,

• Project: Diabetes Watch: Monitoring of Blood Glucose Level
• Sponsor: Khalifa University.

Impact of this competition:

1. Khalifa University concluded the 12th annual Mobile Application Contest (MAC 2017) with an awards ceremony to recognize the winners of the innovative competition which saw submissions from university teams from around the UAE
2. The third place was given to Abu Dhabi University’s team for their submission named Wearable Glucometer with a Culturally-focused Diabetes Control App.
3. MAC 2017 attracted 19 submissions from six local institutions. This was the first year that apps were also designed for smart devises in addition to smart phones. App innovations ranged from systems for criminal/suspect investigation tracking to a mobile-programmable smart mirror for ambient “Internet of Things” environments.

https://www.ku.ac.ae/khalifa-university-holds-successful-mobile-application-contest-2017

(2017)

• First place

Think Science Competition

• Project: an Autonomous and Sustainable Sea Cleaning Robot
• Sponsor: Emirates Foundation.

Impact of this competition:

1. Think Science is the largest science based event for youth in the region
2. Think Science competition discovers and supports scientific talent in youth and encourages a well-rounded program of activities for young scientists to develop their critical and analytical thinking skills.
3. The program was set up in 2012, in partnership with the UAE Ministry of Education and Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge, to empower youth to take advantage of the next technological revolution by encouraging them to pursue an education and career in the fields of STI in response to the growing market demands for scientific talent in this space.

http://www.thinkscience.ae/

(2019)

• Second Place

X-Research Competition - Skyline University College 

• Project: Smart Photovoltaic Modules
• Sponsor: Zendy Online Scholarly Research and Literature Platform, Al Rewaya for Book Publishing and Distribution, Panworld Education.

Impact of this competition:

1. Research Collaboration Competition tagged "X-RESEARCH" is organized by the Library Department of Skyline University College, Sharjah, promoting scientific research among students, in partnership with faculty members, aiming at instilling life-long learning, reinforcing student’s future employability skills, and fostering entrepreneurial mindsets and attitudes pertinent to education, research, and innovation.

https://rapidl.ink/Kadiv

(2021)

• First Place - AED 4700

The 8th Undergraduate Virtual Research Competition - Abu Dhabi University

Project: Reacher: AI and Computer Vision-Based Robot Teaching Assistant

Sponsor: Office of Research and Sponsored Programs 

Impact of this competition:

1. We Won the first place among 87 universities participating with 315 projects from across the MENA region.
2. Abu Dhabi University hosts the Undergraduate Virtual Research Competition (UGRC).
3. The competition aims to develop a spirit of creativity and enquiry within undergraduate students as a foundation for developing the next generation of researchers, innovators and entrepreneurs to support the development of the UAE’s knowledge-based economy.
4. The UGRC is a comprehensive multi-disciplinary competition encompassing engineering and physical sciences, health and life sciences, and social sciences. It also helps develop an enquiry based culture within students to support the development of future work skills to enhance their employability.
5. For the first time applicants located in the UAE can also have their submission included in Abu Dhabi University’s ‘Launch-Pad’ Start Up Incubator Program. Five submissions judged to have the most commercial value will be selected to join the 2021 Launch-Pad cohort where they will receive expert entrepreneurship mentoring, access to ADU’s incubation hub, financial support for start-up licensing costs and a cash injection of AED 10,000 cash to support their business plan.
6. In 2019 there were over 250 research papers presented in 17 parallel tracks by students of 44 major universities in the GCC region. This year over AED 250,000 in monetary prizes will be awarded to winning teams. We would like to thank our sponsors ExxonMobil for their generous support.

https://www.adu.ac.ae/en/urc

(2021)

• Second Place

• 2022 Online Senior Student Poster Competition in Mechatronics and its Applications

• Project: IntelliSea Cleaning Robot
• Sponsor: organized by the American University of Sharjah
• Prize: AED 1,000 + chance to get full MSc scholarship for the participating students at AUS.

Impact of this competition:

1. ADU's College of Engineering is proud to announce the success of its students at the 2022 Online Senior Student Poster Competition in Mechatronics and its Applications, organized by the American University of Sharjah.
2. Competing against students from the American University of Sharjah, Ajman University, Khalifa University, and the UAE University, six teams from ADU participated and took the top four prizes, making it the second time College of Engineering students achieved top places in this prestigious competition.
3. SMA'15 is the tenth in a series of symposia focusing on theoretical and practical aspects of mechatronics. It will be held by the Mechatronics Center at American University of Sharjah, UAE, from December 8 to 10, 2015. The symposium covers the synergetic integration of mechanical engineering with electronics, intelligent control, and design and manufacturing of industrial products and processes. The main idea of the symposium is to bring together scientists, scholars, engineers, and students from universities and industries to exchange and promote research in the field of mechatronics, and hence to foster research relations between the universities and the industry in this field.

https://www.aus.edu/conferences/isma15

(2022)