GUC Students' Secure 1st Position in Comm. Contest in America

Gehan Aboella

A team of students from the department of communication, the faculty of Engineering and Information Technology in the German University in Cairo (GUC) won the first place in a competition entitled "Inventing a Design in the field of Antennas."n

The students included Monika Wasfy, Nada Khalid and Samar Abdel Aty with assistant teacher Yassmin Abd.

Engineering and information Tecnology Team

The other competing teams in the finals came from the United States of America, Portugal and Colombia.

The competition was organized on the sidelines of the international conference for the Antennas pision taking place in Atalanta, U.S.A this month.

The conference is organized by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in cooperation with the International Union of Radio Science.

Dr. Hany Hamad, a professor in the faculty and the team's supervisor announced the victory, adding that the team won a financial award besides the rights to publish the design in the Specialized Scientific Antennas Magazine.

Dr. Hamad pointed out that inventing a system that explains the function of antennas was the center of the competition's events.

Antenna is considered as the most important part in the communication devices to transfer or to receive the electromagnetic waves. It's also used in the radio and television broadcasting, wireless communication from one point to another, local computer networks, radars, space exploration, remote sensing, under water and penetrating soil and rocks at specific frequencies for short distances.

The competing system was simply arranged by using recyclable and reusable materials.

The professor emphasize the importance of this competition seeing as it's an international scientific competition organized for the universities interested in electromagnetic, antennas and wave propagation fields.

This is the fourth time for the GUC's team reached the competition's finals under the supervision of Dr. Hamad; the GUC won the third place in 2013 in Florida, U.S.A. besides two other GUC teams reaching the finals in 2015 and 2016.