"Made In Egypt" or MIE is a University-Industry linkage program
founded and organized by IEEE Egypt GOLD affinity
group, that aims at bridging the gap between the academic community - including
both research and educational sectors - and the industrial community. Our contribution
lies mainly in creating suitable models of cooperation between both communities
that enrich the national industry and production and lift up the academic standards
to create a better impact on the industrial and economical development in Egypt.
MIE has been organizing Made In Egypt (MIE) Undergraduates Competition since
2005 where students from all over the Egyptian Engineering universities compete
with their peers with their graduation projects. The target is to bring the best
out of them and to make use of these projects by helping the students to link their
projects to the real needs of the industrial world. MIE is holding this competition
for the 7th year in a row. Having positively influenced the ideology that the industry
can get its solution from the university, MIE in its 7th round for the academic year
2011-2012 is now focusing on bringing out the best quality possible for prototypes
that students implement as their graduation products.
Our Vision
“To participate in Enriching the national industry and production by shedding light
on Research and Development capabilities in Egyptian universities to tackle real
industrial needs and problems, foster business-oriented results, and develop prototypes
for new products with the signature Made In Egypt.”
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The competition module was initially benchmarked against a similar program at the
University of Florida and has been held for 6 years in form of Competition with
a goal to create a link between the industry and university through graduation projects
of the senior year students in Engineering & Computer Science universities. A project
to be admitted to the MIE Competition, it has to be sponsored by a non-Academic
organization and the team of students have to solve an industrial problem or introduce
a new product to the market
- [Statistics]:
- In 2005 – 2006, we succeeded in attracting 9 universities, they participated
with 34 projects.
- In 2006 – 2007, the number of participating projects increased substantially
reaching 100 projects, from 16 universities.
- In 2007 – 2008, the number of universities is 17, participated with
118 projects.
- In 2008 – 2009, the number of universities is 26, participated with
301 projects.
- In 2009 – 2010, the number of universities is 28, participated with
310 projects.
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Over our 6 years of running the program, the MIE model has been changing from year
to year according to the dynamic market perspective, and constant change of the
industrial and academic communities to cope with the new needs and requirement from
both sides.
Think…Plan…Act!
With a culture that aims towards fast action and fast implementation, we at MIE
have adopted a common belief that to add value and positively change something,
implementation should come second to planning. Good planning
leads to the optimum utilization of time, efforts, and resources. To achieve good
planning techniques, you need to have a solid idea or target to achieve, hence comes
the thinking part.
Build your team, and come join us where we will guide you through while you Think
... Plan ... and Act successfully on your project!
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