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The exploration of various domains such as artificial intelligence, power electronics, communication, health technologies, and biotechnologies contributes to fostering innovation and advancing infrastructure development. These topics align with SDG 9. The research topics related to health technologies, design of medical equipment and devices, and biomedical signal and image processing align with SDG3. By developing innovative technologies and solutions in these areas, contribute to improving healthcare delivery, and ultimately promoting good health and well-being. The research conducted under this subtheme, particularly the areas of artificial intelligence, communication networks, software development, and networking and cybersecurity, contributes to quality education. All these areas of research facilitate educational advancements and developments of curricula.

Science and Technology

Description of Subtheme:

The Faculty of Engineering conducts a variety of research that has relevance to advanced technologies and innovation, regarding the wide range of technologies and applications domains such as, application of artificial intelligence, power electronics, communication, health technologies and biotechnologies with a mission to investigate these domains’ innovation processes within the framework of socio – technical systems. For example, some research is concerned to power electronics, filters, and its applications, advances in machine drives, communication networks, RF systems, artificial intelligence and software development, networking and cybersecurity, design of medical equipment and devices, and biomedical signal and image processing.  Several research topics currently being tackled by researchers in the faculty of engineering fall under this theme. Examples of these topics are listed here below:

  • Using of power Electronics, Filters, and its Application in Renewable Energy
  • Exploring of advances in Machine Drives, Control, and Diagnostics
  • Designing of Medical Equipment and Devices
  • Using of biomedical signal and image processing
  • Exploring neuroengineering and neuroimaging
  • Using of rehabilitation
  • Exploring eHealth telemedicine
  • Applying biomechanics and modeling
  • Designing Microwave Engineering and RF Systems
  • Designing and Exploring Optical Transmission Systems
  • Designing of Communication Networks
  • Designing of electronics Systems
  • Applying IOT
  • Using of signal processing
  • Using of digital image processing
  • Designing of computer architecture and digital theory
  • Applying artificial Intelligence and software development
  • Designing and Implementing of Networking and Cybersecurity

Researchers at the Faculty of Engineering show their interest in these topics by conducting research and reporting the outcomes in prestigious international and national journals, magazines, symposia, conferences, and meetings.

Prominent Research:

  • Alhakim, G., Núñez-Temes, C., Ortiz-Sanz, J., Arza-García, M., Jaber, L., & Gil-Docampo, M. D. L. L. (2023). Experimental application and accuracy assessment of 2D-DIC in meso-direct-shear test of sandy soil. Measurement, 211, 112645
  • Ziad Doughan, Rola Kassem, Ahmad M. El-Hajj, and Ali M. Haidar
    “ANN Vision: between Myth and Reality”, IEEE Potentials, DOI: 10.1109/MPOT.2022.3179123, May 2023.
  • Youssef, Bilal, "Innovative Model-Free Onboard Diagnostics for Diesel Particulate Filter." SAE International Journal of Engines 17, no. 03-17-03-0023 (2023).
  • A.El-Gohary Mohammad F. Yakhni , Houssem Hosni , Sebastien Cauet, and Anas Sakout.  “Variables peed induction motors’ fault detection based on transient motor current signatures analysis: A review “Journal of Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, Volume 184(2023)109737. ISSN 08883270, 10961216.
  • Chahine, M. Tarnini, N. Moubayed, and A. El Ghaly, “
    Power Quality Enhancement of Grid-Connected Renewable Systems Using a Matrix-Pencil-Based Active Power Filter,” Sustainability, vol. 15, no. 1, p. 887, Jan. 2023, doi: 10.3390/su15010887.
  • Tarnini, M. Alsayed, A. El Ghaly, and K. Chahine,
    ‘Towards Energy Sustainability in University Campuses: A Case Study of Beirut Arab University’, Sustainability, vol. 15, no. 9, p. 7695, May 2023, doi: 10.3390/su15097695.
  • Assoum, H. H., El Kheir, M., Eldin Afyouni, N., El Zohbi, B., Abed Meraim, K., Sakout, A., & El Hassan, M. (2023). Control of a rectangular impinging jet: Experimental investigation of the flow dynamics and the acoustic field. Alexandria Engineering Journal, 79, 354–365. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aej.2023.07.078