Haseeb Al-Sabbagh IT Center for Excellence in cooperation with Faculty of Engineering and IT, organized an Awareness workshop about “cybersecurity and its risks" presented by Eng. Montaser Bedair, General Manager of IT Security C&T.
During the workshop, Mr. Bedair presented the main challenges of cybersecurity, and how the institutions can handle these risks and cyber threats, especially electronic hacking (Hacking) and ways to address them. As he mentioned the job opportunities and career path of cybersecurity in Palestine for students and graduates.
On the other hand, Arab American University team won first place in the "8th Student Creativity Conference" organized by Palestine Polytechnic University, with their project called GREEN.
During the ceremony that was held at Al-Quds University the partner universities Arab American University, Al-Quds University, and Polytechnic University announce the start of the joint Ph.D. program in IT Engineering the first of its kind in Palestine.
The ceremony was attended by the President of Al-Quds University Dr. Imad Abu Kishk, President of Polytechnic University Prof. Imad Al-Khatib, and from AAUP the VP of Planning and Quality Affairs Dr. Ahmed Sadaqa, representing AAUP President Prof. Ali Zaidan Abu Zuhri, and AAUP delegation. In addition to representatives of governmental, NGO and private institutions, and the accepted students of this program.
AAUP President Prof. Ali Abu Zuhri and VP of Training Affairs Dr. Nizam Diab, met with a group of students from faculty of allied medical sciences and faculty of IT and Engineering whom have received training opportunities in Arab Universities, along with the Dean of the Faculty of IT and Engineering Dr. Mujahid Alayat, Dean Assistant of Faculty of Allied Medical Sciences Dr. Mohammed Al-Jamal, and the Training Coordinator of Faculty of IT and Engineering Dr. Osama Al-Omari.
Where Prof. Abu Zuhri explored the training materials of the students, their training was held in Jordanian and Egyptian Universities, as he was introduction to the benefit of these trainings and assured to the importance of providing such trainings to enhance the student’s skills and personalities, furthermore to deepen the relations of exchange students and exchange experiences. Noting that the student that is sent for such training is an ambassador of his university with pride, where the university always seeks to provide the necessary support for its students.