The "3rd AUE Student Research Competition” which will take place on 25-26th of March 2019 is a new initiative that is being conducted for three consecutive years. The first two competitions were held on the AUE level. While this year it was decided to make it on the national level, where the floor is open to many universities from UAE to participate in the event. This contest is an excellent opportunity for students at both graduate and undergraduate studies to present and share their research outcomes with other students from many universities in UAE.
Up to two research teams in each of graduate and undergraduate categories from each university were invited to participate in the competition. The type of the research work can be: research paper, capstone project, master thesis, or any creative work.
The 3rd AUE Student Research Competition is an initiative of ORA. It was initiated, and it is being managed and organized by Mrs. (Hadeel Qasim -Research Assistant) under the supervision of the VPRA Prof. Miroslav Mateev and with the help of a Standing Committee whose names are listed below:
- Asli Milla – COBA
- Ghada Mohamad – CDES
- Reem Al Atassi – CCIT
- Salma Abbas – CLAW
- Hebatalla Elbahwashy- CEDU
The competition agenda was composed of 8 parallel panels for oral presentations and 4 consecutive panels for poster presentations. Which all were conducted for two days. Two panels per day were allocated for poster presentations and the rest are for oral presentations. The sessions had been separated for both graduate and undergraduate categories.
All the sessions had been organized by the theme/ field of the presentations.
The competition was held under the patronage of Eng. Anwaar Al Shimmari, the Director of the Design Department and Chief Innovation officer at the Ministry of Infrastructure Development.
The research works of the participating student teams had been evaluated by committees of faculty members from several universities based on specific criteria. The latest include many categories of (the quality of research, originality of research, quality of presentation, and technical presentation). The criteria were shared with all the participating universities one week before the competition date.
The students had presented their work either as a poster (during the poster sessions) or as oral presentation for 10 minutes. The committees (working in parallel) had discussed and evaluated the presentation and the research work for additional 5 minutes.
Faculty members from many universities at UAE were invited through their Vice Presidents for Research/Deans to be part of the evaluation committees.
The table below shows a summary of the submissions that were received:
Table 2: 3rd AUE Student Research Competition Analytics
| No. of Universities | No. of Submissions | Graduate Submissions | Undergraduate Submissions | Oral Presentations | Poster Presentations |
| 26 | 95 | 18 | 77 | 58 | 36 |
The table below shows the list of universities who participated in the competition:
| No. | University Name |
| 1 | RIT |
| 2 | Ajman University |
| 3 | Zayed University – Dubai |
| 4 | NYU Abu Dhabi |
| 5 | Emirates college of Technology |
| 6 | American University of Sharjah (AUS) |
| 7 | Zayed University- Abu Dhabi |
| 8 | Middlesex University |
| 9 | Gulf Medical University, Ajman |
| 10 | Skyline University |
| 11 | Abu Dhabi Polytechnic- Abu Dhabi Campus |
| 12 | Abu Dhabi Polytechnic - Alain Campus |
| 13 | American University of Ras Al Khaimah |
| 14 | Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences |
| 15 | Murdoch University |
| 16 | New York Institute of Technology |
| 17 | Mohamed V University Abu Dhabi |
| 18 | American University in Dubai |
| 19 | Emirates Institute for banking and financial studies |
| 20 | University of Dubai |
| 21 | Heriot Watt University |
| 22 | Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani Dubai Campus |
| 23 | SP Jain Dubai |
| 24 | Emirates Aviation University |
| 25 | University of Sharjah |
| 26 | American University in the Emirates |
Graduate Students:
| Field | Topic | University | Team | Prize amount |
| Law and Islamic Studies | الإعلان القضائي وضماناتك في ضوء االتعديلات الحديثة لقانون الإجراءات المدنية الإماراتي | University of Sharjah | Athari Abdulla AlQaidi | 7,000 AED |
| Natural and Health Sciences | Reliability of three-dimensional imaging for assessment of airway in obstructive sleep apnoea patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis | "Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences (MBRU) " | Mai Mahmoud Abdelsalam | 3,500 AED |
| Engineering | FlowCon: Frustum CAM-based Fluid Flow Control Mechanism | Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani (Bits Pilani) Dubai Campus | Prem Dakshin | 3,500 AED |
| Business | Digital Marketing of Pharmaceutical Products in UAE | AUE | Sahar Shamout, Shaikha lHammadi, Abeer Abu Ammouna | 3,500 AED |
Undergraduate Students:
| Field | Topic | University | Team | Prize amount |
| Natural and Health Sciences | Constellation studies in Medical education: Exploring student’s perspective on the involvement of Social Media application, Learning Approaches and Open Book Assessment in Under Graduate Medical Education | Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences (MBRU) | 1. Saad Syed 2. Mandana Gholami 3. Aya Akhras |
6,500 AED |
| Engineering | Automated Aquaponics Based Indoor Irrigation System | Heriot Watt University | 1. Bilal Ajadi 2. Mofaddal Moiz 3. Shashank Ashok 4. Orville Thomas" |
3,000 AED |
| Natural and Health Sciences | Adverse effect of consuming RO water and its laboratory solution for household reverse osmosis system | Ajman University | 1. Badea Sultan |2. Mustafa Al-Fadhel 3. Fatima El Zehra El Maahdi |
3,000 AED |
| Engineering | Lower extremity Biomedical exoskeleton with Brain-Computer interface | American University of Sharjah (AUS) | Mohamed Omari | 3,000 AED |