Her Royal Highness Princess Sumaya Bint El Hassan granted the annual Princess Sumaya Award for Distinguished Students at the 2005 Princess Sumaya University for Technology graduation ceremony, to the graduate Enas Jihad Abbas Abu Shashiya for her distinguished performance during her studies at the university.
PSUT introduced the Princess Sumaya Award for Distinguished Students in the academic year of 1999. It is granted annually to one of the university’s distinguished graduates in extra-curricular activities. Such activities include public services offered for the university and local community, in addition to highlighting PSUT’s academic, social and cultural aspects.
Enas played a key role on campus as she contributed in developing the DART team, a student run entrepreneurship organization at the Princess Sumaya University for Technology. Through this organization, Enas took part in the MIT 50K Global Startup Competition at Cambridge University in the UK (2004) and Abu Dhabi (2005).
Alongside her extracurricular activities and university studies, Enas also played a role in her community as she participated in a number of voluntary activities and training courses at different welfare institutions such as the Queen Zein Al Sharaf Institute. She also took part in the “Connecting Futures” program with the British Council, and later at the International Achievement Summit, which was held in Chicago last year.
Enas also participated in the King Abdullah II Fund at the Second Jordanian Youth Forum, along with memberships with the committees of Higher Education Strategy, Poverty Strategy and Unemployment Strategy. Enas is also a coordinator at the Technical Committee of the National Youth Strategy. It was Enas’s driving force that pushed Enas into winning of the Creativeness Award of the National Youth Strategy in the field of Information Technology. Enas also volunteered in the “Net Corps Jordan” project in 2001 and is now working as coordinator for one of the project’s groups.
About Princess Sumaya University for Technology
Princess Sumaya University for Technology (PSUT), established in 1991, is a specialized, nongovernmental, nonprofit, Jordanian university, owned by the leading applied research centre in Jordan, the Royal Scientific Society (RSS). PSUT’s area of specialization is IT, Communications and Electronics. As a nonprofit institution, PSUT embraces both the public and private sectors, but while akin to public universities in its mission, it is more aligned to the private sector in drive and spirit. From the day of its inauguration, PSUT has committed itself equally to both local development and modernization plans and to global development.
