YU’s Role & Team: Overview

Yarmouk University Hijjawi Faculty For Engineering

Technology

YU’s Role & Team: Overview

Mof Otoom, PhDYarmouk University

Thursday, March 27, 2014

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Presentation Outline• Yarmouk University• Hijjawi Faculty for Engineering

Technology • Team Members• YU’s Role in OSSCOM• Members and Assigned Activities

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Yarmouk University

• Located in the Northern part of Jordan (City of Irbid)

• Was founded in 1976 with a mission to provide quality education

• ~1000 academic staff and ~2000 administrative staff

• 13 faculties that offer 56 bachelor, 63 master, and 19 PhD degree programs – 11 centers for research and career development

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Hijjawi Faculty for Engineering Technology

• Offers engineering programs of study leading to the B.S. and M.S. degrees in eight Engineering disciplines: – Electric Power, Electronics,

Telecommunications, Computer, Biomedical and Medical Informatics, Architectural, Civil, and Industrial


Computer Engineering Department

• 19 faculty members and 11 engineers and technicians serve about 600 undergraduates and about 70 graduates

• Offers two special MS programs in embedded systems and industrial automation


Team Members


Adnan Al-Smadi

Mof Otoom

Hisham Almasaeid

Amin Alqudah

AbdelKarim AlTamimi

Baha’ Alsaify

Mohammad Alzubaidi

Mohannad Ersan

YU’s Role in OSSCOM• YU role will focus all individual

efforts in the department to the direction of building an in-campus community in OSS that can also ultimately incur a change in the region. Its leading role will be in 2.3: OSS Survey report (past due), 4.2: Inventory of learning OSS material, and 6.4: business incubator


Team MembersAdnan Al-Smadi

• Dean of Hijjawi Faculty

• Professor at Electronics Engineering Dept.

• Head of the Quality Control Unit in Hijjawi

• Recognition and Certificates Equivalency Committee Member at MOHE, Jordan

• Vast experience in academiaOSSCOM Yarmouk University 8

Biography Activities

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• Participate in focus groups on the quality of training experience, learning outcomes, re-constructed learning and institutional impact

2

• Participate in developing feedback questionnaires and conducting peer reviews of updated curricula in OSS and for the professional diploma

Team MembersMof Otoom

• Assistant Dean at Hijjawi

• Contact Person of OSSCOM



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• Coordinator all technical and administrative activities

2

• Maintain all accounting and project updates

3• Attend project

expert meetings

4• Coordinate with the

national coordinator

Team MembersHisham Almasaeid

• Assistant Dean at Hijjawi

• Worked as a Software Engineer at Amazon.com

• Experienced with development under Linux• Highly interested in

cross-platform open-source initiatives

• Chair of the National Steering Committee of the 7th NTP



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• Cooperate with other OSSCOM partners to develop OSS course material

2

• Establish a liaison office at YU that will target enterprises as well as faculty and students

Team MembersAbdelKarim AL Tamimi

• Assistant Professor of CpE

• Co-founder of the Innovation Lab and RnI incubator at Hijjawi

• Supervised several award winning senior projects

• Judge and mentor for different technology competitions



1

• Develop an inventory of OSS learning resources

2

• Coordinate with all partners at partner countries incubating and nurturing innovative ideas

3

• Send out a call for business plan, form an evaluation committee, and select one from each country

Team MembersBaha’ Alsaify

• Assistant professor of CpE

• Was exposed to many OSS under different platforms

• Supervised several award winning senior projects



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• Design the survey in coordination with all partners

2

• Motivate all stakeholders to fill in the survey and collecting all data in Jordan and Lebanon

3

• Develop a framework for capstone projects with focus on OSS

4• Participate in OSSCOM

conferences

Team MembersAmin AlQudah

• CpE Dept. Head• His research

interests include data mining and machine learning



1• Analyze collected

data from surveys and write report

2• Participate in

OSSCOM conferences

Team MembersMohammad Alzubaidi

• Assistant Professor of CpE

• His research interests include medical imaging perception and understanding, computer vision and pattern recognition, and machine learning



1• Analyze collected

data from surveys and write report

2• Participate in

OSSCOM conferences

Team MembersMohannad Ersan

• Senior IT Technician

• Head of the Technical Support Unit at Hijjawi



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• Participate in the training workshops for building capacity to support and operate OSS installed Technology Centers

2• Give any needed

IT support to YU team

Questions

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