Aims and Scope

HUJE Research Aims (Adopted from HUE-Engineering Research Plan)

  • Raising the efficiency of the energy system in Egypt, searching for new sources, and rationalizing consumption.
  • Ensuring the continued availability of adequate water and environmental sustainability to meet the needs of the present and the future.
  • Protecting the environment, developing natural resources, raising the production efficiency of raw materials and mineral wealth, and supporting nature conservation programs.
  • Enabling technological applications, developing and building capacities in interstitial, interdisciplinary and future sciences, such as nanotechnology, biotechnology and bioinformatics.
  • Contributing to the development of the national industry and improve profitability by deepening local industrialization and helping the industry cross the current technological gap.
  • Crossing the digital and information gap, enabling information and communication technology to build an advanced and modern society, and expand its future horizon.
  • Contributing to the development of university education.
  • Contributing to the development of transport of various kinds.

HUJE Research Scope

Supporting enrichment of research in the main following tracks:

  1. Energy Track
  2. Water resources Track
  3. Environment protection and preservation of natural resources Track
  4. Technological Applications and Future Sciences Track
  5. Strategic Industries Track
  6. Information and Communication Technologies Track
  7. University Education Development Track
  8. Transportation Track

List of Journal topics:

The HUJE research fields cover (but are not limited to) the below eight tracks and subfields of research which are adopted from Hthe UE-Engineering research plan:

1. Energy

Mechanical Engineering-Mechanical Power Engineering

  • Renewable energy
  • Thermoelectric cooling
  • Heat transfer applications
  • Thermal engineering
  • Energy Storage
  • Energy Resources Engineering
  • Uses of renewable energy resources in industrial projects
  • Wind energy conversion-system applications in industrial projects
  • PV systems applications in industrial projects
  • Applications of using green hydrogen and ammonia for industrial uses as well as power plants
  • Modeling, control, and protection of modular multilevel converter-based multi-terminal HVDC
  • Fault detection and diagnosis of smart grids based on machine learning approaches
  • Techno-economic-environmental feasibility analysis of a hybrid smart grid.

Basic Sciences:

  • Continuum Mechanics
  • Nonlinear dynamical systems

Architectural Engineering:

  • Exploring Low Carbon in Architecture, Urban Design, & Urban Planning
  • Energy & Urban Environment

2. Water

Civil Engineering-Irrigation and Hydraulics Engineering

  • Hydraulics structures.
  • Ground water hydrology.
  • Surface hydrology.
  • Surface water Contamination.
  • Groundwater Contamination.
  • Harbor and Coastal Engineering.
  • Dams Engineering.

Mechanical Engineering:

  • Fluid mechanics
  • Water distillation

Architectural Engineering:

  • Quality of Water
  • Sensitive Urban Design
  • Role of Water for Sustainable Urban Planning
  • Water Governance & Urban Planning
  • Water Resources & Urban Planning

3.E nvironment protection and preservation of natural resources

Basic Sciences:

  • Analysis of reaction-diffusion problems.

Architectural Engineering:

  • Sustainable Architecture
  • Environmental Design & Planning
  • Sustainable Housing projects
  • Sustainable Urban Development
  • Sustainable Future for Heritage Conservation
  • Sustainable Urban Regeneration & Retrofitting

4. Technological Applications and Future Sciences

Mechanical Engineering-Materials Sciences

  • Properties of material
  • Ant colony optimization
  • Swimming robot
  • Friction stir processing
  • Manufacturing and development of nanomaterials
  • Friction stir welding
  • Friction stir spot welding
  • Equal-channel angular pressing
  • Mechanical Design and Production
  • Contact mechanics
  • Material modeling
  • Nano-mechanics with piezoelectric application

Basic Sciences:

  • Quantum mechanics
  • Analysis of Discrete mathematics
  • Heat And Mass Transfer
  • Ceramic Industry
  • Cavitation Phenomena

Architectural Engineering:

  • Computational Simulation in Architecture & Urban Planning
  • Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality in Architecture
  • Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality in Heritage Conservation
  • Construction & Building Technology
  • Value Engineering
  • Project Management
  • Applications of Building Information Modeling (BIM) in Architecture
  • Applications of BIM in Urban Design & Housing Project
  • Applications of City Information Modeling (CIM) in Urban Planning & Smart Cities
  • Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Architecture & Planning
  • Applications of Nano Technology in Architecture

5. Strategic Industries

Basic Sciences:

  • Engineering chemistry
  • Laser physic
  • Plasma modeling and gas properties modeling
  • Thermal barrier coasting
  • Atmospheric Plasma physic and thermal barrier coating
  • Analysis of reaction-diffusion problems
  • Rigid body mechanics

Mechanical Engineering-Industrial and Systems Engineering

  • Applied statistics and optimization
  • Lean six sigma
  • Supply chain management and logistics
  • Stochastic analysis and simulation
  • Manufacturing and process control

Civil Engineering:

Structural Engineering

  • Metallic Structures and Bridges.
  • Reinforced Concrete.
  • Structural Analysis and Mechanics.
  • Geotechnical Engineering.
  • Strength of Materials and Concrete Technology.
  • Project Construction Management

Electronic and Communications Engineering:

  • Antennas and Wave Propagation
  • Computational electromagnetic and microwaves.
  • Transparent antennas.
  • Antenna arrays.
  • Radio frequency identification
  • Smart antennas.
  • Microwave Engineering
  • Microwave amplifiers and mixers.
  • Microwave oscillators.
  • Microwave filters.
  • Duplexers and diplexers.
  • Radio frequency circuits design.
  • Microwave power dividers/combiners.
  • Microwave imaging and diagnosis.
  • Microwave energy harvesting.
  • Radar systems
  • Electronics and Nanotechnology
  • Semiconductors and transistors.
  • Analog electronics.
  • Digital electronics.
  • Chip design.
  • Nanotechnology applications.
  • Integrated circuits.
  • Solar cell systems.
  • Optoelectronics
  • Nano-optics and nanoelectronics.
  • Optical amplifiers and couplers.
  • LASER applications in industry and medicine.
  • Light sources and detectors.
  • Optical fibers.
  • Optical computers and optical measurements
  • Communications
  • Analog communication systems.
  • Digital communication systems.
  • Multi Input Multi Output systems.
  • Modulation techniques.
  • Coding techniques.
  • Wireless Communications
  • Mobile communications.
  • Satellite communications.
  • Green communications.
  • Optical Communications
  • Free space communications
  • Optical modulation/demodulation techniques.
  • Communication Networks
  • Mobile communication networks.
  • Wi-Fi and WiMAX networks.
  • WDM optical networks.
  • Cognitive radio networks.
  • Remote sensing networks.
  • Digital Signal Processing
  • Spectrum sensing.
  • Positioning and navigation.
  • Image processing.
  • Medical image processing.
  • Adaptive filters.
  • Multi rate signal processing.
  • Speech signal processing.
  • Deep learning for signal processing.

 

6.Information and Communication Technologies

Basic Sciences:

  • Analytical and numerical solutions for nonlinear ordinary differential equations, partial differential equations

Mechanical Engineering/Electronic and Communications Engineering:

Computer Systems Engineering

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Digital image processing
  • Artificial intelligence applications in Smart systems
  • Machine learning, deep learning, artificial intelligence, swarm intelligence, big data, and bioinformatics

Information Technology

  • Information security using reconfigurable embedded systems design
  • Secure communication channels.
  • Cryptography and cryptoanalysis.
  • Secure electronic fund transfer.
  • Security in mobile communication

7. University Education Development

  • Identify innovative ways to confront the accumulated problems in university education.
  • Developing curricula and study programs for university education according to an integrated system and employing digital technology in the management of education to produce distinguished human capital that can contribute effectively to sustainable development and building a knowledge society.
  • Spread the culture of research and investigation, and provide students with scientific research and innovation skills.

Mechanical Engineering:

  • Education development using experiential learning

Architectural Engineering:

  • Architectural Education

8. Transportation

Civil Engineering:

Public Works Engineering

  • Engineering Surveying.
  • Highway Engineering.
  • Transportation and Traffic Engineering.
  • Environmental Engineering.
  • Sanitary Engineering.
  • Geographical Information Systems.

Architectural Engineering:

  • Land Use & Accessibility
  • Smart Mobility & Infrastructure
  • Urban Transport Planning & Policy
  • Sustainable Transportation & Urban Planning