The President of Alexandria University Dr. Essam El Kurdy has recently received the teams (Vortex) and (MIA) from the Faculty of Engineering after coming from USA. The two teams won the first and third places in the Automated Submarines competition ROV that was held with a participation of 28 teams from 17 countries.

Dr. Kurdy praised this honoring achievement and emphasized the necessity of such creative and innovative ideas in artificial intelligence and robots. He also stated the university full support to its students to implement their outside the box ideas. He also stated the importance of interaction between the generations to convert such innovative ideas into projects and companies that shall contribute to a promising future in Egypt.

The Rector called the students to use the Competency Development Center that provides free training programs.

 Dr. Hisham Gabr; the Vice President of AU for Education and Students Affairs highlighted the importance of accumulative knowledge in performance development and results enhancements. He said that the new law of higher education will provide a legal frame to make use of such innovative and promising ideas to be converted into projects and companies and support the Egyptian industry.

Dr. Said Allam the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering indicated the role of the faculty supporting the participated. He said that the submitted ideas can be utilized in petroleum companies, ports and submerged monuments.