AUST IEEE Women In Engineering

Published News Articles

All published articles on IEEE WIE Activities at Ajman University, can be found here:
http://www.ieee.org/web/web/search/results.html?cx=018214542335410621560%3Ahuu23okqhvs&cof=FORID%3A11&q=tazeen+sharif&qp=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&qt=tazeen+sharif&group1=google#702

Chair - Tazeen Sharif
Email: tazeen.sharif@ieee.org

Vice Chair - Rimas Adnan
Email: eng_rimas@yahoo.com

Secretary - Rabia Rafiq
Email: r_biomed@yahoo.com

Media Manager - Raihana Mumtaj
Email: venscor_rem@yahoo.com

Community Service Projects

IEEE - WIE Members have been contributing to developing projects and serving the community on a regular basis, for the past 2 years. The community service projects are broadly classified as:
1. SMART - Student Mentors for Awarness Raising Tasks
For more information on SMART Program, please click here -> http://www.smartprgm.blogspot.com/

2. CAUSE - Community Activities by Undergraduate Students of Engineering
For more information on CAUSE Program, please click here -> http://www.causeprgm.blogspot.com/

CAUSE Team Wins First Prize

Mission of the CAUSE team was to help educate children with special needs. The project developed to serve the community was carried out by four WIE member, namely, Noor Kalaji, Laila Mohamed, Nesrine Bengra and Abrar Duhair. The on-going project is a brain child of Engr. Tazeen Sharif who has been contributing to helping the challenged children for over a decade and supervised the team with full enthusiasm and much need support. The team grabbed the first place int he Community Service Competition and was awarded AED 1000 cash prize, certificate of appreciation and momento. The contribution was highly appreciated by the esteemed panel of judges from 10 different universities in UAE.

AUST WIE Team Wins 2nd Prize in Engineering Design Competition

A team of three WIE student members participated in Engineering Design Competition 2008. Theme of the competitons was to build a glider that could cover a distance of up to 100 m. The project was carried out by Sana Ashraf, Fatima Kauser and Noor Alawad, under the supervision of Engr. Tazeen Sharif. The team won 2nd place in the competition and was honored with a cash prize of AED 750.

SMART Team Wins 3rd Prize

The mission of the SMART Team is to motivate and encourage high school students to persue a career in Science and Engineering. To execute this, the team develops simple projects and presentations, delivers seminars by visiting schools and demonstrates the projects. They also conduct quiz competitions and educational games to add fun to the whole experience.

SMART team of five members, namely, Raihana Mumtaj, Rabia Rafiq, Rimas Adnan, Dawood Ahmed and Haider Ghadban, won the thrid place in the Community Service Competition and were awarded a cash prize of AED 500. The project was supervised and coordinated by Engr. Tazeen Sharif.

3rd IEEE UAE Student Day 2008

Forty IEEE-WIE Student Members participated in 5 different competitions during the 3rd IEEE UAE Student Day, hosted by UAE University, Al-Ain on 1st May 2008. Faculty members of AUST who contributed towards organizing, coordinating and judging competitions are:

Prof. Mustahsan Mir, Branch Counselor
Engr. Tazeen Sharif, WIE Chair and Student Branch Mentor
Dr. Ayman Tawfiq, IEEE Senior Member
Dr. Ali Abou Elnor

Microsoft Student Technology Day 2008

Upon invitation, WIE Members attended the Microsoft Student Technology day at Microsoft -DIC on April 16 2008. Several seminars were conducted, new products were introduced, interactive competitions and attractive prizes were all part of the event.

World Summit on Innovation & Entrepreneurship 2008

WSIE 2008 - World Summit on Innovation & Entrepreneurship 2008 was held at Jumeirah Beach Hotel between 1-3 April, 2008. Where over 300 prominent personalities from all over the world were invited to exchange ideas and share experiences in creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship, IEEE- WIE members, Engr. Maryam Al Thani and Engr. Tazeen Sharif also had the opportunity to witness the extravangant event.

Solar Racing Car Project

Four WIE members grouped up to work on buiding a solar powered racing car from scratch. It was a great learning experience to participate in the 3rd IEEE UAE Student Day with this project.

Building Vocabulary ... Empowering Communication

Under the patronage of Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Ali Al-Nuaimi, Mr. Feraj and his team is working towards building and empowering vocabulary of the nation. Realizing the necessity of strong vocabulary and communication skills, a team of eight members from Ajman University joined hands with Mr. Feraj to conduct Scrabble League on National Level in three different languages, Arabic, English and French. The AUST Team consists of:

Engr. Tazeen Sharif
Ahmed Omar
Faiz Hussein
Dawood Ahmed
Laila Mohammed
Noor Kalaji
Nesrine Bengra
Aneesa Abdul Rehman

The team is being trained for all rules and regulations to pass on to their peers in universities and schools. Participation is open to all ages with a nominal membership fee of AED 10. For further information, please contact Engr. Tazeen Sharif on tazeen.sharif@ieee.org

Mentoring High School Students

Female science stream students of Iranian High School in Sharjah were invited by WIE members to visit the Engineering Faculty and Labs. WIE Officers guided student tour, demonstrated simple projects and introduced them to the excitement of working on real-time engineering projects.

Engineering Day at Al Hikmah School

Engineering Day at Al Hikmah School, Ajman included an intriductory presentation on Engineering and its disciplines, quiz competitions and project demonstrations. Students and staff of Al-Hikmah School highly appreciated the contribution by Engr. Tazeen Sharif and her team of students from Ajman University.

Field Visit - Dubal

IEEE WIE members were taken for a visit to Dubal (Dubai Aluminium) where they attended a technical talk and also visited the industry and training center.