MIRRA trains 15 female engineers on innovation, food production
By JT - Feb 23,2021 - Last updated at Feb 23,2021
AMMAN Methods for Irrigation and Agriculture (MIRRA) conducted a capacity building programme for 15 female engineers seeking employment in the fields of agricultural and environmental engineering.
The programme started in October 2020 and ended in December 2020 (30 days, 130 hours), and led to the employment of 40 per cent of the trainees, according to a MIRRA statement.
The beneficiaries were female engineers ranging from 22 to 32 years of age. The trainees had different backgrounds in the fields of agricultural engineering, water engineering and environmental engineering from various academic institutes, including Hashemite University, Jordan University, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Al Balqa Applied University and German Jordanian University.
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Dr. Ahmed Jamil Kattan has been a deputy minister for contractor classification at the Ministry of Municipal, Rural Affairs and Housing since 2019.
Kattan received a bachelor’s degree in computer sciences from the Jordan University of Science and Technology in 2005.
Two years later, he successfully completed an M.S. program in software engineering from the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering at the University of Essex, UK, where he also obtained a Ph.D. degree in artificial intelligence in 2010.
In 2010, he worked as a research associate of game theory and evolutionary computation in the computer science department at Loughborough University in the UK. He also taught computer courses in the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering at the University of Essex in 2007.
Study draws attention to increasing prevalence of diabetes in Jordan
By Sarah Abu Zaid - Feb 11,2021 - Last updated at Feb 11,2021
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AMMAN As a study warns that one out of five Jordanians will be diabetic by the year 2050, nutritionists agree that a healthy lifestyle can prevent and even reverse the progress of the disease.
According to findings published in Scientific Reports by the Nature journal, Jordan is expected to see increasing rates of diabetes over the next 30 years, stalling the already overburdened healthcare system.
The study, titled “Characterising the type 2 diabetes mellitus epidemic in Jordan up to 2050”, is the result of a collaboration between the National Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Genetics in Jordan, the Jordan University of Science and Technology, and Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q) in Qatar.
Researchers in the Middle East have proposed a new passive technology to cool off solar modules, based on highly conductive porous materials.A research group from the Jordan University of Science and Technology