Brief Description
The 4th National Innovation Competition in Engineering (NICE2018) which is organized annually by Tishk International University’s Engineering Faculty was held on Sunday, 6th of May under the theme of “Targeting Smart Sustainable Innovations”.
NICE (National Innovation Competition in Engineering) is an annual competition where undergraduate students from Kurdistan and Iraq can showcase their innovative and sustainable solutions to the most pressing challenges facing the region. The competition aims to explore the ability of the students and provide a platform for the students to present their projects to the markets and exchange ideas on the developments in the field of engineering.
The competition was held in 5 different categories and for this year’s edition, Computer Science and Engineering category had the highest participation rate with more than 80 projects ranging from Hardware to software projects, with 19 projects from Computer Engineering department.
The competition started at 10:00 AM with the opening ceremony and a speech given by CEES ACM Iraq’s chapter manager, Dr. Abdulatheem Abdulkarim. Speaking about the association mission and vision and its aim to bring together computing educators, researchers, and professionals to share resources, and address the field’s challenges. At around 11:00 AM, the projects were demonstrated to NICE2018 jury to be evaluated. The winners for this year’s Software Category were a group of 4th year students consisting of 4 team members namely (Rawa Dlshad, Blnd Nariman, Bzwen Tahir and Zainab Abdullah) with their project titled “Digital Medical Transcript” which is supervised by Dr. Selcuk Cankurt. Whereas the winners for Hardware Category were a group of students from Tishk International University / Sulaimani. Below is the list of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners from both Hardware and Software category.
Hardware category:
1st place: “Autonomous Drone” – Tishk International University / Sulaimani
(Aga Ismail Abdullah, Hunar Rzgar Muhammadamin, Nasyaw Hamad Abdullah, Gaylan Ahmad Rasul)
2nd place: “Laboratory Inverted Pendulum using Real Time identification and Control” – Kirkuk University
(Falah Ahmad Mohamad, Ahmad Abdual Alsalam Abdual Alhameed, Osama Abdual Alsalam Ibraheem)
3rd place: “Design and Implementation of Car Parking System based on Cloud Server and IoT” – Cihan University
(Hameed Saeed, Nali Wali, Omid Khald, Mohamed Yosif)
Software category:
1st place: “Digital Medical Transcript” – Tishk International University
(Rawa Dlshad, Blnd Nariman, Bzwen Tahir, Zainab Abdullah)
2nd place: “Centralized Governance Control Using Entity Management System” –
Cihan University (Layth A. Slewa)
3rd place: “Duhok Bus” – Nawroz University
(Osama Ismail Mohammed, Andy William Slewa)
3rd place repeated: “Royal Advanced Android Tool” – Koya University
(Aga Ismail Abdullah , Hunar Rzgar Muhammadamin, Nasyaw Hamad Abdullah, Gaylan Ahmad Rasul)
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