Prof. Hamza And Al-Qaed Praise the Employment of Artificial Intelligence in Graduation Projects

The President of the University of Bahrain (UOB), Prof. Riyad Yousif Hamzah, and the CEO of the Information and eGovernment Authority, Mohammed Ali Al-Qaed, praised the level of development and creativity achieved in the projects of students from the College of Information Technology. Prof. Hamzah affirmed that the University supports the employment of future sciences and artificial intelligence and encourages students to be creative and innovative through employing modern technologies, which contribute to the quality of services in all sectors in the Kingdom of Bahrain.

This came during the opening of an exhibition for students of the departments of Computer Engineering, Computer Science, and Information Systems at the College of Information Technology, at the University’s headquarters in Sakhir, which was attended by the President of UOB and the CEO of the Information and eGovernment Authority, where they toured the exhibition that included about 37 students’ projects and listened to a detailed explanation of each project.

The University President and the CEO of the Information and eGovernment Authority viewed the latest student projects, especially artificial intelligence projects, and they listened to an explanation about a project that could help doctors monitor ICU patients remotely to solve problems that may occur due to negligence of the medical staff in careful monitoring of patients.

Also, Prof. Hamzah and Al-Qaed listened to students’ explanations on a project that helps visually impaired persons move, which works in two navigation modes, automatically and through voice control.

During their tour, Prof. Hamzah and Al-Qaed viewed the design of a chat program that works on understanding the language and performing the learning process. This program provides IT help desk support services to customers and the user in the Bahrain Petroleum Company (Bapco), and it has the advantage of dealing with most of the failures that the user can encounter while using the computer system.

Prof. Hamzah stated that “The advanced student projects we have witnessed are evidence of the students’ creative progress, their high professionalism, and their acquisition of the global skills required in different labor markets.” And he added that ” the reliance of government and private agencies on the research of students at UOB which are supported by professors is a source of pride, and the success of the University’s mission lies in this connection by communicating with its community and contributing to its progress.”

The exhibition included projects developed for robots that provide services in various fields, service, health and sports applications that work on smart phones, in addition to studies prepared by students under the supervision of the College’s professors.

On her part, the Dean of the College of Information Technology, Dr. Lamya Mohammed Al-Jasmi, stated that “The graduation projects focused on the applications of future sciences, most notably artificial intelligence, the Internet of things (IoT), robotics, and cloud computing. Emphasizing that the College of Information Technology always strives to obtain the best outputs, and for graduates to gain pioneering experience in the field of information technology, which requires us to prepare students and qualify them for success in their career in information technology, whether in entrepreneurship, in the private sector, or in the government sector. This is along the lines of Bahrain’s strategy to build a knowledge-based economy to stimulate the economy, in line with Bahrain’s Economic Vision 2030.”

Dr. Al Jasmi explained that students have worked on implementing various projects and used technological innovations in their projects, noting that the diversity of projects responds to the various demands of the labor market and meets contemporary needs.

Moreover, the jury announced the winning projects which were: the mobile application for pet care project in the Computer Science Department, which was done by the students Wahida Abdulrahim, Zainab Abdulrasool Alawi and Ahmed Luay Salman. The application project aims to provide care for pets, by providing everything that the owners of these pets need in it. The application allows pet owners to create profiles for their pets, record pet medication doses and timing, browse clinics, shops, and pharmacies, as well as send questions to veterinarians. The project was supervised by research assistant Abdullah Ahmed Al-Asadi.

In the Information Systems Department, the winning project was a study project titled “Investigate the factors that affect the adoption of block chain technology on legal system practices in Bahrain”, which was prepared by the students Hawra Mohammed, Maryam Al-Qadi, and Khawla Ahmedi. The project aims to investigate the factors affecting the adoption of “blockchain” in Bahrain’s insurance sector, and it offers a model based on the TOE framework theory, which is based on technology, the institution, and the environment. The findings of the study showed a positive motivation for the use of blockchain. The students used the qualitative analysis method to extract the findings of the research by interviewing eight local insurance companies. Also, senior management support, institutional innovation, expected benefits, privacy, security, transparency, cost-effectiveness, mutual trust, competition pressure, and cooperation were studied. The study project was supervised by Dr. Israa Ahmed Wali, the Director of the Business Incubation Center.

While in the Computer Engineering Department, the winning project was an electronic system project entitled “Internet-Based ECG Remote Monitoring System” done by the students Eman Hamid, Farida Ibrahim and Taqi Al-Tamimi. This system is designed for doctors and it allows them to follow up on their patients’ cases by reviewing all private health reports of their patients without any complications, the system saves a lot of time for doctors, enabling them to view all the readings of their patients at the same time remotely, without the need for their patients to come to the hospital, and the project was supervised by Associate Professor Dr. Riyad Kamal Al-Hakeem.

Also, the exhibition was visited by a number of supporters of student projects, business owners and experts in the field of information technology, including the Director of Computer Information Systems from the Survey and Land Registration Bureau Hamed Abu Al-Fateh, Director of the Information Technology Department at the Ministry of Works, Municipal Affairs and Urban Planning Mohammed Adel Abu Hassan, Director of the Bahrain Export Center Mohammed Ahmadi, and Director of Technology at Arcapita Mishaal Al-Hilo.

It is worth noting that the College of Information Technology programs had obtained the accreditation of the American ABET Organization, which organizes the accreditation of engineering and technical programs, as graduation projects are considered one of the important joints for evaluating the outputs of academic programs.