AUD awarded emirates foundation AED 500,000 grant
School of Engineering Wins Nation-Wide Competition for Funding Installation or Upgrade of Laboratory Classrooms
The School of Engineering of the American University in Dubai (AUD) participated recently in a nation-wide competition held by the Emirates Foundation, and was selected as one of two winners of a AED 500,000 grant. When the Emirates Foundation invited colleges and universities in the UAE to participate in its competition for funding the installation or upgrade of laboratory classrooms for different engineering disciplines, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at AUD Dr. Hosni Ghedira presented the following proposal: “Upgrade AUD’s environmental engineering lab to a Water Environmental Technology Laboratory (WET-Lab) for advanced environmental research and water resources monitoring”, that was later selected for funding by the Foundation.
On being awarded the grant, Dr. Ghedira comments:
“Winning this competition places AUD as one of leading institution in applied research in the UAE and reinforces the fact that AUD faculty is able to produce leading-edge research in advanced technology and environmental sciences.”
The new WET-Lab will provide students and researchers with hands-on experience in environmental monitoring, allowing them to learn about and take advantage of the state-of-the-art measurement instruments for sea, drinking and waste water testing and analysis. The new lab will also support AUD’s ongoing research activities with the Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology, Dubai Government (EIAST) focusing on developing new satellite-based tools to forecast detect and monitor different environmental hazards in the UAE and the Gulf region.
Dr. Ghedira adds:
“The new WET-Lab will help our undergraduate students as future engineers by exposing them to real life problems in which they can combine theory and practice. This will give them a solid background with the necessary skills to make them job-ready for a challenging and rewarding career in sustainable water and wastewater technology. In average, 50 undergraduate students will benefit from the lab facilities each year.”
