The civil engineering department held  a scientific symposium entitled "Structural Health Monitoring: History, Applications, and Future" on 18-40-2015 at 12:00 The instructor was professor/ Muhammad Abd El-Baaset

ALECSO Award for mobile applications (Alecso Apps Award) is an annual award assigned to the best Arab completed applications in the fields of education, culture, science and educational toys. For more information, please visit this site: http://www.alecsoapps.com/award/ The deadline to apply for  this competition : 15-5-2015

Please, consider the attached invitation and circulate it among your colleagues and students. IBM MEA University Portal: (http://www.ibm.biz/meauniversity) PowerPoint slides that explain the different tracks:  (http://goo.gl/ilUuZ2)

The faculty asks its staff members who have changed their office phone numbers to send them to the secretary to publish  a new phone book.

Dear Vice Chancellor, African systems of higher education are historically diverse with limited mutual recognition among individual countries. Global challenges, however, increasingly require a joint continental response and increased international mobility. Confronting this dilemma and responding to the express desire of Member States to work towards facilitating mutual recognition of academic qualifications and enhancing intra-African academic mobility, the African Union Commission developed the African Union Harmonisation Strategy for Higher Education. The implementation of this Harmonisation Strategy is supported by the Revised Arusha Convention and covers, among other things, the design of common curriculum development frameworks to enable comparability and equivalence of learning outcomes in African universities. The African Union's Agenda 2063 goes beyond this objective and aims to build and expand an African knowledge society through transformation and investment in universities, science, technology, research and innovation; and through the harmonisation of education standards and mutual recognition of academic and professional qualifications. It is in this context that the African Union Commission (AUC), the European Union (EU) and the Association of African Universities (AAU) work closely together on the Harmonisation and Tuning initiative as an integral part of the Joint Africa EU Strategy'. Tuning is an internationally recognised method to (re-) design, develop, implement and evaluate study programmes, develop cycle (level) descriptors for a growing number of subject areas and develop new teaching and learning methods. The process has a direct impact on recognition, quality assurance and capacity building.' In the last four years, the Tuning methodology has been applied to curricula in five subject areas among a group of 60 African universities from 29 countries. The subject areas were: Agricultural sciences, Civil engineering, Mechanical engineering, Medicine and Teacher education. Meeting across the continent over a period of four years, partners in the first phase of the project identified currently required competences for graduates from each of these subject   areas, drew up degree profiles for them and discussed how study credits could be allocated in a way that was acceptable to all partners in each of the groups.i" Phase II The EU, the AUC, the AAU and the University of Deusto are now preparing to take the initiative into a second phase, where the designed changes of Phase I are to be implemented, the number of benefiting universities is to be doubled, and the number of participating African countries is to be expanded as much as possible. Three more subject areas will also be added, namely: Applied Geology, Economics and Higher Education Management. Through this letter, we would like to encourage your university to apply for participation in tills second phase of the project. We will be selecting approximately 60 African universities to add to the current 60 involved, so a total of 120 African universities with an even spread across the subject areas and as broad a geographical coverage as possible will be involved. Participation in the project meetings in terms of costs related to travel and subsistence are fully financed by the European Commission. We need one assigned and appropriate contact person for the project from each selected university who will participate in five meetings over the course of three years. The selected universities will be asked to carry out some project tasks between meetings and we expect a commitment to implement the results towards the end of the project. Participating in this initiative will be an opportunity for the university to develop competence¬based curricula, build capacity in teaching and learning and quality enhancement, define common and agreed study credits and assessment tools, develop joint agreements between universities and participate in both a continental and international network. The deadline for applying is 23 May 2015. Selection of the participating universities will take place in June 2015, with the aim of having the first general meeting in October 2015. Full application details and selection criteria are available at: www.tuningafrica.org Yours sincerely, : http://www.tuningafrica. org/images/public files/tuning20africa202014 20engl. pdf http://www.bc.edu/research/cihe/inheafeditorial/archives/Jan20i2.html

The Faculty and Leadership Development Center-Assiut University announces its schedule for its training cources in May 2015. For more information, please read the following annoucement and the new terms of conditions 

The objective of the Research Grants program is to support outstanding young postdoctoral Egyptian researchers who perform cutting edge research and undertake collaborative investigation approaches across the science and technology spectrum, by offering them postdoctoral research grants as well as help them establish connections with Egyptian and international scientists as well as researchers.Researches should be conducting a research in one of the following areas of study:Agricultural SciencesBiology and BiotechnologyChemistry and BiochemistryEarth SciencesEngineering Sciences and TechnologiesInformation Technology and BioinformaticsMathematicsMedical SciencesPhysics and BiophysicsPre-University EducationThe whole application procedure for the Research Grants takes place online.Eligibility RequirementsSeveral standards apply to candidates willing to apply to the grants. The eligibility requirements are:Egyptian Scholars must have completed their PhD within the past five years or will be achieved by end of the application year in one of the available fields of studyThe candidate must be currently working at a public/private academic or research institution in Egypt and the research must be conducted in Egypt.The candidate must be currently engaged or can arrange to work on a joint research project with foreign counterpart(s) at a university or a research center abroad.The candidate must not exceed 35 years by the application year.The candidate must have a valid local TOEFL with a minimum score of 500.

The university committee modified some decisions for faculty members in its 69th session on 30-12-2014 about attending conferences, syposiums, and scientific meetings. For more information, please read the following announcement

The Faculty and Leadership Development Center is offering training programs about quality assurance and accreditation project for fcaulty members. The registeration fees will be between (400-600 L.E pounds) in the center and a certificate will be obtained at the end of the program

All faculty members are asked to complete their homepage on the website of assiut university before 1-7-2015.For more information, please visit this link: http://www.aun.edu.eg/arabic/m_report.php