The fair started at 10 AM and lasted for 5 hours. Eight teams from the different courses managed to make it to the finals and got a chance to exhibit their projects. Six of these were from the Electronics Course, one from the AVR study group; the course and the study group were held by AlexSB in the summer of 2009. The last one was from the AVR course; this course represents our deal with an external entity.

All 8 projects were about new and modern trends dealing with everyone’s daily life. Two of these, were about smart irrigation systems, another two about smart houses, and the remaining 4 were about attendance systems.

The judges examined the projects carefully. The judges were Dr.Karim Gomaa, Dr.Amr Sherif(from Communications and Electronics section, Alexandria university) and Eng.Abdel Rahman Kamal (from Power section, Alexandria University) . The teams discussed their projects with their professors, shared their ideas and took benefit of their professors’ experiences. Projects were to be evaluated later on.

When the final ranking results are done, we will get to see these students again in their AWARD CEREMONY. Be sure to be there for them. By 3:00 PM, the fair had already come to its end, but nevertheless, the fair that grouped such talents and designs have certainly inspired everyone who came to visit the fair.

The event started at 2:00 PM as the attendees started to flow into the hall. As the attendees took their seats, some IEEE documentary videos were playing on the screen. 

At 2:30 PM, the first session started. This session aimed to tell the attendees about IEEE. What is IEEE? What is its vision? IEEE History, Some facts about IEEE, IEEE designated fields and what are the benefits of being an IEEE member? Prof. Dr Essam Sorour, Alexandria Student Branch Advisor was the Speaker. 

At 3:00 PM, Amr Essam; IEEE AlexSB Volunteer gave an informative session about AlexSB; what are we? What is AlexSB organization hierarchy? He, then, showed the AlexSB membership profile: what activities does the AlexSB provide to the attendees. These include courses, contests, seminars, conferences; whether S-PACs or S-PDCs, study groups, local publications (Wall magazine), the exclusive offers with New Horizons center and the free courses. This session ended with a documentary video showing all AlexSB activities during year 2008-2009. All the attendees were impressed by this video. 

After 30 minutes (prayer break), we were back to continue our day with the third session: ”Electronics and Communications Engineering” Prof. Dr Essam Sorour talked about the topics that fall under the “Electronics and Communications” theme, What do you study as an engineer in this field? And where can you work? 

At 5:15 pm, Dr Mohamed El Habrouk of Alexandria University talked about “Electrical Power and Automatic Control”. He started his talk with how people are thinking about power engineers. A power Engineer is the one who deals with cables, Trans and wires!!! Is it true? That’s what Dr Mohamed El Habrouk showed us. He also showed the attendees the importance of the electrical power Engineer and the electrical machines Engineer or automation Engineer. He, then, ended his talk with: What do you study as an engineer in this field? This session is ended with a video showing an example of an automation control system.

At 6:15, it was time for our last session of the day which was a very interesting soft-skills session,”Career Planning”. Eng.Ahmed Abd El Aziz of Vodafone Egypt was the speaker. The session allowed us to know: who am I? What do I have to offer? What do I want? Create my vision, Believe in myself, take an action and finally celebrate my successes. This session ended at 8:15 PM with a video called “Life Is like a Cup of Coffee”, 

The IEEE Introductory event was, once again, a great hit and an event worth attending. For those of you who missed it this year, I hope you’ll be able to join us next year.

Digital Clock Team Work:

Aya mostafa abd el rahman.

Aya ali hamed.

Aya salah salem.

Aliaa alaa el din.

Project Specifications:

the digital clock have three modes the clock& date , the stop watch and the alarm mode. they used an Atmel microcontroller which is connected to the LCD, led equalizer ,buttons and the buzzer. 

in the clock and date mode the user will be able to edit them with no problem,  in the stop watch mode you can  start, stop and reset it.

in the alarm mode you can set the time that you want to wake up and when it comes the buzzer will buzz the led equalizer will equalize and if you are from those lazy people they didn't forget you they've put a Snooze button for you where it will wait for 5 minutes for the second alarm.

if they can develop this digital clock  and apply it as a real product with a proper cost ,it'll be a good start for their own small business after graduating.

Ahmed Abuiliazeed
abuiliazeed@ieee.org

Smart Home Team Work:

Ashraf Emad.

Bassam Tarek.

Project Specifications:

this project contains of three main Atmel microcontroller one for the smart card and  keypad at the garden gate and it is connected also to LCD ,one for the keypad at the main door of the house and connected the various devices inside the house and to interface there is another LCD and the last one that connected to the temperature sensor through an ADC.

let's start from the beginning ,every member of the family will have his own smart   card contains an AVR90S8515  microcontroller which transmit a unique 4 bit code to the microcontroller through a special socket which they've put it at the garden gate. once the microcontroller recognized that was a right code for more security you have to write a password through the keypad at the gate.

at the door of the house we can see a keypad and a LCD there is two modes the EDIT user mode and the RUN mode each user has a password to edit the devices that he want to be open when he enters the house and the  temp of the house that you want . in the run mode you can run what you've done in the edit mode.

when the temperature is higher than what you've set in your user profile in the edit mode the sensor will sense that and it will start the fan to reduce the temperature.

they've write their code in c language click here to see the code.

they've made also  a  simple GUI so the user can control his home devices through his pc. they connected the microcontroller that control the home devices with the parallel port of the pc.

this great ideas if they can apply it to a secure reliable system I think it will make our life very easy and simple.

Ahmed Abuiliazeed
abuiliazeed@ieee.org

Home Security Team Work:

Omar Mohamed emad

Mohamed ibrahem rashad.

Sarah habashi abd al baset.

Sarah samy alfons.

Antowan youssif.

Project Specifications:

it is an access control for a house project it contains of one Atmel microcontroller that control LCD , a keypad  and a stepper motor to control the mechanical movement of the door lock.

when the user enter the password clearly with the key pad the stepper motor moves and open the door if the user enter the password wrong three times the keypad is disabled and an alarm is on for 30 sec for the security issue and if the home owners themselves forgot the password there is a reset button that clear the EPROM and they will be able to write their password allover again.  

this project although it is very simple but it can be applied into the real life.

Ahmed Abuiliazeed
abuiliazeed@ieee.org