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Overview
About
Material Advantage Student Chapter at Suez University (MA SC SU) was founded in
2015 to be the first chapter representing MA program in Egypt. At our university,
students enter engineering departments based on their grades in the first academic
year so the majority of students enter Materials Science & Engineering Department
without a real desire or a complete knowledge about this department resulting in many
problems in their career life to the extent that some of them make career shift. For this
reason, the foundation of MA SC SU was necessary to start A Year of Empowerment
during which the chapter truly managed to transit students from this weak point to the
top of their career.
Goals
MA SC SU has a long term vision based on building a real
brand among all students in Egypt.
1. Preparing students for entering the workforce by supporting
them in the following areas:
* Technical Skills * Career Development * Soft Skills
2.Connect students with the international benefits introduced by our partner
societies.
3. Achieving widespread outreach to reach other universities in Egypt and High
School Students.
4. Making the chapter involved in the community through social events or
community service.
As the founding EditorinChief of
JUMR, I can appreciate the effort
that goes into the creation of a new
publication, and Spectrum exudes
professionalism from Issue 1.I hope to
see this publication made
available to all Material Advantage
chapters. For Issue 2, I can
envision content provided by
members of other student chapters
as its sphere of influence continues
to grow. It is great to see an
international chapter making the
most of Material Advantage, and I
hope to see some of you at
MS&T’16.
Material Advantage Committee
Chair
Ben Poquette, PhD
2015 Highlights
SPECTRUM
New Trends and challenges in Steel Industry in Egypt Conference
eMentoring Program
The chapter showed professionalism by publishing the first issue of its magazine SPECTRUM in April to be the first
international student magazine in Materials Science & Engineering field containing many technical sections like academic
researches, interviews with wellknown industry leaders, industry news and chapter news.
The program aims at breaking distances between graduates and undergraduates through making it possible for students to
know everything about the career life and the needed skills for their career by an effective online relationship between
students and professionals. The program exceeded expectations by having more than 40 mentor and more than 60 mentees
during the first stage of the program.
One of our proudest successes was our first conference under the name of New Trends and challenges in Steel Industry in
Egypt Conference. The conference included many leading companies in steel industry and other professionals in Egypt to
discuss the current situation of industry in Egypt and finding new creative solutions.
20152016 Statistics
Membership grew to 105 reactive members and 55 active members over the academic year.
Publishing First International Student Magazine SPECTRUM
Average attendees with 35 for small events and 95 for mega events
+ 1500 likes on Facebook
Reaching out 15 companies Reaching deals with 5 companies Securing SPECTRUM main sponsor
5 Field visits/ 2 Summer Internships 12 workshop 3 Educational Meetings
* Faculty award for best student activity for year 20152016
* INJAZ Egypt award for best university partner for year 20152016
* Department recognition for chapters' efforts
* Ministry of Environment award for chapter social impact.
ProgrammingBrand building goes hand by hand with innovation.MA SC SU realized this fact from the start and conducted a good number of
programming activities that gave us the opportunity to get the trust of all students rapidly although it was our first year.
SPECTRUM Chapter Official Magazine
AboutSPECTRUM is the masterwork of our activities this year. It is the first international student magazine in Materials Science &
Engineering field published by MA SC SU annually in April, it is available hard and soft.
ContentSPECTRUM is a technical magazine containing the following sections:
* Chapter President and SPECTRUM CEO Forewords.
* An interview with wellknown industry leader For issue 1 It was Mr.Ronald E. Ashburn executive director of AIST.
* Articles by academics and young professionals including case studies, new technologies and researches.
* Industry News & Chapter News.
* Ads for our partner societies and magazine main sponsor.
SponsorSPECTRUM main sponsor is Danieli Group company.
Goals SPECTRUM has many benefits for the chapter as:
* SPECTRUM is a great source of technical information with this number of technical articles and news.
* Students can greatly benefit from the fabulous interviews with industry leaders.
* SPECTRUM is platform for young professionals to show their thoughts.
* SPECTRUM is the first marketing voice for us with all companies.
* SPECTRUM is a great way of recruiting new members.
Review SPECTRUM from this link: https://issuu.com/masusc/docs/spectrum_2016_for_web
New Trends and challenges in Steel Industry in Egypt Conference
Steel Industry in Egypt faces a lot of challenges today especially with the rapid increase in the Iron and Steel
Technology. MA SC SU showed its maximum support to this issue through organizing the first conference to discuss the
current situation of steel industry in Egypt under the name of New Trends and Challenges in Steel Industry in Egypt.
5 Leading Steel Companies
20 Department Professors
65 Young Professionals
35 Students
Highlights
* Suez University President word
* 5 sessions by companies' representatives
* 2 sessions by department professors
* 3 Young Professionals represented their technical papers
eMentoring Program
eMentoring is a way of providing
students a deep insight into their
academic and career life by building
a strong relationship between
students and professionals using
social networks. The professionals
share their practical experience and
career advice to help students
making decisions towards their future
life.
We have a certain philosophy for
eMentoring program to provide
students with mentoring relationships
to make a staple, nurturing
relationships and show them varied
career opportunities that exist and
encourage them to improve their
academic performance and introduce
the integrated advice to be the ideal
engineer through a determined online
communication system.
Review the program from this link: http://masuez.com/ementoringprogram/
The program exceeded expectations by having more than 40 mentors and
more than 60 mentees during the first stage of the program.
MA SC SU has the honor of organizing a visit to Zewai
City of Science and Technology on December.14,2015
Zewail City of Science and Technology is an independent
institution of learning, research and innovation in Egypt
under the supervision of the Egyptian scientist Dr.Ahmed
Zewail.
The visit started with a free tour to explore the city
especially the NanoTechnology Research Center, then a
presentation by one of Zewail’s estimated professors. After
that we had a walking tour to explore the city different
facilities.
Zewail City Visit INNOVATION Camp
Number of Attendees: 98 Students
Duration: 7 Hours
Companies always search for employees who have the ability to
innovate and make things work better as innovation is always the only
path for the progress of any entity.
From the fruitful partnership with one of the most wellknown
educational organizations, INJAZ Egypt, MA SC SU succeeded in
organizing a fabulous program: INNOVATION camp (ICamp)
The program which was certified help to inspire, empower and prepare
Egyptian students to join the job market as qualified employees.
MA School
Ceramic Industry Workshop
Corrosion Control Workshop
Attendees:65 students
Number of Workshops: 6 workshops (One workshop each 2 weeks for 2 hours)
In our department, students always find Materials Science a difficult subject to
understand but at the same time it represents the main base of our career so MA
SC SU started a series of workshops under the name of MA School. The school was
conducted to help students with all difficulties faced them during their study of
Materials Science.
Subjects for workshops were chosen through uploading a simple survey made by MA
SC SU each week to know what students want the workshop to be about.
Speakers for workshops were department professors, teaching assistants or students
in their last academic year.
Workshops had a great impact at students which will make us put the school as a
priority in our activities next year after this great success.
As a primary goal of MA SC SU is to get students closer to the available career
opportunities in the job market, the chapter invited 45 students to experience a
unique workshop in one of the leading companies in Ceramic Industry in Egypt .
The day started by a warm welcome of the company board to all students then
heading to the company main hall to start the workshop which lasted for 2 hours
during which students knew everything about the production line of ceramic
products.
Attendees: 55 Students
Duration: 3 Hours
In cooperation with MECORR company, a leading Cathodic Protection Services
Company driven by NACE Certified Cathodic Protection Specialists, MA SC SU
invited students to take a new insight into their field with a certified workshop to
enrich their knowledge about Corrosion Control & Inspection.
Corrosion Control Workshop
Career Development
MA Plant Visits
Steer Your Career
Steer Your Career
After graduation most of students can’t withstand the real competition in job market and need some time to adapt this
situation so one of the primary goals of MA SC SU this year was breaking the gap between the technical life and practical
life to make students on the top of their career.
Number of field visits: 5
Number of students: 35 students
Giving students the opportunity to apply theoretical knowledge in actual
work and experience practical work by themselves is always our main
concern for career development. In order to achieve that, MA SC SU had
organized a number of plant visits to the most leading plants in Egypt like :
Ceramica Cleopatra in Ceramic Industry, Ezz Steel and Egyptian Steel
Companies in Steel Industry and Cairo Oil Refining Company and Qarun
Companies for Quality Control & Inspection in Oil & Gas Industry. These
visits helped students to see the clear picture of the theoretical things they
have learnt so far and managed them to understand the challenges they
might face during their career.
Number of Students: 65 Students
Duration: 3 Days Certified Course
The value of soft skills can’t be understated. Today, soft skills are regarded
as important as technical skills in workplace from ability to learn to
communications skills are all necessary skills for any successful engineer.
From this point, MA SC SU succeeded in organizing a fabulous certified
course by a talented instructor from INJAZ Egypt. The course covered all
soft skills needed in workplace like leadership, time management, critical
thinking, team dynamic and job search skills.
MA Internships
HSE Day
Personal Branding Workshop
MA SC SU succeeded in securing two internships this year sponsored by
Egyptian Steel Company and Danieli Group Company.
1 Egyptian Steel Company
Number of opportunities: 20 (10 during July and 10 during August)
Duration of training: 1 Month
2 Danieli Group Company
Two types of internships
* 5 opportunities outside Egypt for an internship in the company
headquarters in Buttrio, Italy during August.
* 20 opportunities inside Egypt (10 during July and 10 during August)
Attendees: 15 students
Overview: HSE (Health, Safety& Environment) workshop in Cairo Oil
Refining Company (CORC).
According to our vision to open new horizons for students, MA SC SU
organized a oneday workshop CORC for 15 students. The workshop went
through the important topics about HSE management system inside the
company like Policies & Objectives, Risk Assessment & Management,
reasons for most accidents, cases of work related ill health arise and the
improvement plans of HSE inside the company to insure permanent quality.
Attendees: 40 students
Duration: 3 Hours workshop
LinkedIn now is the platform where all HR managers and recruiters are now
hanging out so a strong profile on LinkedIn will make difference with
your career and give you the opportunity to be seen by any company.
MA SC SU organized a workshop under the name of Personal Branding to go
through two main topics:
1 How to start with LinkedIn and make a strong profile.
2 CV writing.
MA International Benefits
MA International Benefits
Educational Meetings
MA SC SU organized one of the most important events for us this year, it
was the first session about benefits introduced by our partner societies.
Goals from the session
Informing students by all benefits introduced by our partner societies
especially career based benefits.
Encouraging students to make MA International Membership.
The presentation was conducted by chapter’s president
showing the power of the membership of our partner societies. Also ,
he gave a complete explanation about “Steel to Students Training
Program” introduced by AIST. The day was ended by explaining the
needed steps to make MA membership.
Number of EM this year: 3
General meetings of all chapter members in MA SC SU are very
different as they contain valuable educational activities like:
Academic activities introduced by Academy Committee.
Sessions on MA program membership benefits by chapter’s secretary.
Career based sessions by professionals from wellknown companies.
Competitions between chapter members with valuable awards.
ServiceTo build a unique brand you have to reach all types of audience and build a good reputation. MA SC SU made it a
priority to give back to the community through a good number of community services using all possible methods like
social networks, chapter initiatives or by participation.
iMetallurgist
As we believe that MA SC SU has a message toward not only
university students but also young youth in Egypt, it was essential
to reach high school students through a unique outreach program
“iMetallurgist” which provides students with the opportunity to take a
closer look at Materials Science & Engineering field and
encouraging them to get a degree in this field through attractive
presentations and practical applications that show the power of
materials in our life.
MA SC SU has visited five schools till now with a great acceptance
from students giving us strong incentives to reach every student in
Egypt. The chapter also appropriate a part of fundraising activities
to help these schools with necessary kits for lab experiments as
possible.
Food Bank Visit
About The Egyptian Food Bank
A nonprofit organization specialized in fighting hunger through
diversity and innovation through creating effective programs
addressing hunger problems by creating partnerships
with those who care about needy hungry people in Egypt.
They have strong vision of having Egypt free of Hunger by 2020.
MA SC SU had a good initiative by organizing a volunteering
day to the Food Bank to share with this great organization their
strong task. During the day, our volunteers were very active
preparing all boxes filled with food for poor people in all over
Egypt, after that we had an open discussion with Food Bank
representatives through which we felt how hunger is an insult
for any human that must be eliminated as possible.
Save Humanity Campaign
Campus Day
Child Homelessness is a serious problem in our community today.
Children, who find themselves suddenly sleeping in streets without any
protection, cover against cold or rainfall or even a helping hand, can be
victims of exploitation for robbery, begging or Harassment.
MA SC SU started a campaign against this serious phenomenon under
the name of "Save Humanity, Save Homeless Children" to
make our voice reach all Child rights organizations.
Our campaign started online on social networks with many posts on
Facebook to show the suffering of children in streets then offline
campaigns with more than 30 volunteers of MA SC SU wearing tshirts
holding the slogan of our campaign to raise the awareness of
people by this problem.
Number of Volunteers: 32
Donated Hours: 4 Hours
In our university, there was an abandoned garden which was full of
unused wood, old chairs and many dead plants. MA SC SU launched
an invitation for all students in the chapter to organize a day to make
life return to this garden again and with more than 4 hours of hard
work, volunteers were successful to make the garden beautiful again
and now many students make small meetings in this garden taking
fabulous photos or eating meals.
NAQAA Project
MA SC SU has started a new project under the name of "NAQAA" which means "Purity" in English aims at providing the
safest and best affordable water treatment for all Egyptians.
The project is simply a filter consists of two containers, the upper container for collecting all impurities in water and the lower
container for treated water. Containers are made of foodgrade plastic which equipped in the middle by a filter candle which is
nearly 12 cm in height and 6 cm in width, the candle is made of porous ceramic, colloidal silver to kill Bactria and fungi in
water to keep water clean and activated carbon in the core to improve taste of water by removing all strange chemicals.
Goals from the project:
1 Providing poor people with affordable and safe water
2 Achieving bacterial removal by 99.9%
3 Good Productivity with 23 liters per hour
4 Economic product (Price< 20 USD)
In Egypt, there are many organizations which support start up and entrepreneurship like INJAZ Egypt as a leading organization in
this filed. INJAZ Egypt organizes this year a competition called Company Program in which 30 teams compete for 16 weeks until
managing to make all necessary things regarding their start up, they support us with kits, mentors and all needed things to have a
great atmosphere of work. Our chapter participates in this competition under the name of MA SC SU with NAQAA Project with all
hope to win this competition to achieve this hard challenge of having better water for better life.
In Egypt, 85% of water usage depends mainly on Nile River which has different forms of pollution because of throwing industrial
wastes and the weakness of water treatment stations which cause a lot of serious diseases like malignant tumors of the kidneys,
liver and bladder so many of people depend on strong water filters now to avoid or decrease the pollution in water to some extent
These filters solve the problem to some extent but only for those who have the ability to buy these expensive filters but for very poor
people who hardly secure their daily food can't buy them.
Blood Drive
Duration: 2 Days
Donated Hours: 12 Hours
Number of Donors: 110
As a great way to give back to the community, MA SC SU had the honor
to participate with the student union in our university and other student
activities in organizing a blood drive under the supervision of
Ministry of Health.
Social Activities
Orphan Day Celeberation
International Day of Older Persons
Be Hope
Many children all over the world become orphaned losing their first
helping hand in life. MA SC SU organized a day to draw attention to
orphans’ rights in Egypt by inviting 40 of orphans to a big party in
our university in a special day to make sure that they are not
forgotten. The day started by a warm welcome to children from
university professors, students and even workers then an
atmosphere of joy, singing and excitement dominated leaving
children very happy and motivated for a better life.
MA SC SU celebrated the International Day of Older Persons through organizing a visit to a home of
older persons. The day was great full of happiness and joy with beautiful smile on their faces, our
volunteers talked with them about their conditions and their needs. The day ended by having launch
with them then our volunteers introduced to them simple but valuable gifts to always remember
this great day.
MA SC SU started a campaign under the name of “Be Hope” for
encouraging students to donate for Children’s Cancer Hospital
57357 which holds the mission of building a sustainable foundation
to prevent and combat cancer through research, smart education
and quality healthcare provided with passion and justice to alleviate
the suffering of children with cancer and their families Free of charge.10 volunteers of MA SC SU organized many activities during the
campaign like simple gifts for each person will donate and a board to
write quotes for children in the hospital. The campaign was very
successful with many number of donors.
Suez Runners
MA Fun Day
Pizza Day
As physical activities and fitness are very important for decreasing risk of
disease and avoiding injuries, MA SC SU tried to encourage young youth
to do activities they enjoy throughout their life. MA SC SU took its first
initiative by participating in the marathon organized by “Suez Runners”
team on Corniche of Suez. More than 70 members in MA SC SU
participated in the event which was full of competition and excitement
with many great gifts.
Number of Attendees: 60 members
MA SC SU had a great surprise for its members by offering free pizza
meals and snacks sponsored by our partner society AIST. The day was
full of joy and excitement leaving our members more motivated and
even more determined to achieve an extra ordinary year full of
advantages to all material students and engineers all over Egypt. The
day included many activities and presentation on benefits introduced by
AIST for students like “Steel to Students Training Program”.
MA SC SU organized a big party in fresh air to celebrate chapter’s
first year at the campus. The main goal of the party was attracting
attention of students to our chapter to answer all their inquiries about
us and recruiting new members. The atmosphere of the day was full
of fun, games, excitement and many competitions between students.
It was a great honor to have a visit by dean of our faculty and a
number of department professors to chapter’s booth to wish us a
great success during this year showing their great support to our
work.
