今日吃瓜

今日吃瓜 students won the Excellence Award for Student Innovation in Agriculture/Aquaculture at the 2016 AGRAme conference held in Dubai from March 13-15 2016. The conference is the Middle East鈥檚 largest event dedicated to agribusiness aquaculture and veterinary medicine and university students from around the region were invited to submit a product or research project that has demonstrated innovative sustainable thinking and impact the Agra/Aqua industry.

Students Eiman Alrubaei Alreem Almannaei Amani Bin Amro and Halima Alhumoudi who are majored in civil engineering and mechanical engineering respectively submitted their senior design project which proposes a method to gather water vapor directly from the atmosphere and change it into liquid water.

Their idea stems from the fact that humidity levels in UAE can reach up to 95% during the summer period and the development of a multipurpose aesthetic economical and sustainable system that converts humid air into water would be invaluable. Their dew collector can be used for irrigation purposes as well as shade. It will be self-sustainable and capable of generating its own power via solar panels.

鈥淜halifa University encourages its students to pursue research in the areas of sustainable energy especially innovation that focuses on using the UAE鈥檚 natural resources 鈥� said Dr. Mohammed Al Mualla Senior Vice President Research and Graduate Studies. 鈥淚t鈥檚 quite encouraging to see our students harness a phenomena that many would see as a negative like the high humidity that we get here and turn it into a positive innovation that can contribute to the overall health and wellbeing of the entire country. It鈥檚 truly inspiring and demonstrates our students optimism and dedication to UAE.鈥�