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Student Ehsan Al-Hawaj Receives the Best Inventor Award and Others at the Fair A Student Project at UoB Wins the Gold Medal at SIIF
Sakhir – University of Bahrain
9 November 2023
Dr. Fuad Mohammed Al-Ansari, President of the University of Bahrain (UoB), congratulated student Ehsan Ali Al-Hawaj and student Zainab Ahmed Al-Saffar on their project “The Smart Infant Incubator”, to monitor and treat jaundice, winning the gold medal at the Seoul International Invention Fair (SIIF) 2023, which was held in the Korean capital, Seoul.
Al-Ansari noted that this honorable victory demonstrates the quality of UoB’s outputs, and its ability to compete on an international scale, and to present discreet and creative inventions and innovations in the most important global events, by embracing creative cadres, urging the students to continue working in the field of scientific research, and to develop more inventions.
The President of UoB congratulated student Ehsan Ali Al-Hawaj on receiving the Best Inventor Award at SIIF 2023, in addition to receiving a special award from the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University in the Kingdom of Morocco, and a special award from the Croatian Inventors Union, as the Patent Office chose At the Secretariat General of the Gulf Cooperation Council selected Al-Hawaj, along with five other Gulf inventors, to participate in SIIF, with the aim of encouraging and supporting inventors who are citizens of the Gulf Cooperation Council states, and to market their inventions to investors and visitors to the Fair.
In turn, student Ehsan Ali Al-Hawaj said: “I was overwhelmed with happiness by winning the Best Inventor Award at the Seoul International Fair, representing my country, the Kingdom of Bahrain, and raising its name and flag in this famous scientific forum.”, expressing his thanks to the President of UoB for his continuous encouragement of students, and appreciating the support the project received from the University’s professors, the Gulf Patent Office, the Bahrain Intellectual Property Society, and the Ministry of Health in the Kingdom of Bahrain.
For her part, student Zainab Al-Saffar indicated that work is underway to register the patent, through the Intellectual Property Office in the Ministry of Industry and Trade, noting that the incubator can partially and fully work in hospitals, expressing her and her colleague’s pride in receiving this award, which reflects the interest of the Kingdom. Bahrain and its support for inventors and creators.
It is worth noting that the two students, Ehsan Al-Hawaj and Zainab Al-Saffar, have developed an incubator for infants, which helps monitor and treat jaundice, which affects newborns. The multi-system incubator project won first place in the graduation projects exhibit for students of the College of Engineering at UoB in the electronic engineering category at the end of last semester.
The project participating in the Fair was selected from among citizens of the Gulf Cooperation Council states by a specialized team of arbitrators, which nominates the best inventions submitted to participate in the event which attracted more than 400 inventions from 26 countries in the world.
