Prof. Irene Samy
Professor and program director of Industrial Engineering program , Nile University and the Director for Smart Engineering systems research center, Nile University. I earned in 2018 a Diploma of development practice, Regis University, Denver, USA. I finished my PhD in Mechanical Engineering, The American University in Cairo (AUC). Egypt in 2015. Before that, I earned my Masters and BSC in Mechanical Engineering, AUC. I won the state encouragement award for women 2020, and Hazem Ezzat Research excellence award, 2021 and Loreal UNESCO for Women in Science 2021 Egypt young talents program. I received a grant for Egypt Higher Education Climate change partnerships Grants in collaboration with Nottingham University and the British council. I also also received a grant for capacity building for “Women in Science and Engineering" from IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. I was selected in 2019 to be among the members of the first scientific council of the Egyptian Young Academy of Sciences (EYAS) as a part of the Academy of Scientific Research & Technology (ASRT) to empower and encourage young Egyptian scientists in science and technology. I participated in Fulbright Junior Faculty program for renewable energy in 2016. I was also a part of an Entrepreneurship and leadership Program, 1000Women, Goldman Sachs,2016 which was executed at AUC for 6 Months. I won Newton Mosharfa institutional link award for two years in collaboration with Nottingham University, UK. for manufacturing plastic bags from natural materials where I got acknowledged by Mr. President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi for my work at the 3rd National Youth Conference in Ismailia, April 2017. I am a senior IEEE member, a member of the EDS Subcommittee of Regions and Chapters (SRC)member in the Power Africa steering committee, volunteer in IEEE Smart Village committee and treasurer of IEEE CIS Chapter, Egypt. Moreover, I was one of the members in the Events Committee of the IEEE Humanitarian Activities, 2018. I was also the technical chair for the first IEEE SIGHT Egypt ideation camp 2018. I am currently a member of the impartial committee of the body for granting certificates of conformity for products, the General Organization for the Control of Exports, and Imports. I am also one of topical advisory panel, in Polymers Journal, MDPI, I am also a member of the Coronavirus Global R&I Collaboration Portal and a member in the Leaders in Innovation alumni society, Royal academy of Engineering. I am also a member in the Egyptian National Network Nanotechnology.