In the central library in the complex of Bab Al-Zubair colleges, the University of Basrah opened the annual exhibition of applied scientific products, in the presence of a group of foreign and local companies and investors.
On the objective of the exhibition, the Secretary-General of the Central Library, Dr. Mohsen Abdel Hai Dasher, said, “The exhibition aims to promote the products of the university’s colleges and research centers, including patents, engineering designs, laboratory manufactured materials, as well as computer software to supply them to the consumer market by persuading the present companies and investors with the ability to adopt and support those ideas, the exhibition witnessed today a prominent presence of the six major oil companies working within the licensing rounds in Basra, the private sector companies, representatives of the Ministries of Industry and Minerals, the Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources, and government officials.”
The student Hussein Zaki from the Department of Electrical Engineering at the College of Engineering presents the design of an artificial intelligence (a robot) simulating the expressions of the human face, as his model was manufactured using sensors and surveillance cameras that qualify him to perform security functions such as identifying people wanted for justice and health, as well as monitoring clinical cases of patients and educational such as giving scientific lectures, monitoring and recording students' performance for their exams and even interacting with them!
As for the students, Haitham Salim and Nazem Razak Ajeel from the Department of Architecture, they prepared an urban engineering design for the development of Al-Qurna district, north of Basra, by constructing service buildings, museums, villas and apartments with areas exceeding 200 meters, malls, shops, squares and vital roads linked to the tourism movement in the district represented by the presence of natural signs as the Adam tree, the Corniche of the Tigris and Euphrates, and the confluence of the two rivers.
The self-balancing robot (scooter) by student Mustafa Hassan Abdel Amir from the Department of Electrical Engineering is distinguished as one of the important inventions in this year's exhibition, which is programmed to transport goods at airports, carry casualties in first aid and avoid motorcycle accidents with ease.
Also this year’s exhibition was not free of health cosmetic materials manufactured in the university’s laboratories, where Dr. Sadeem Al-Baroudi from the University of Technology in Baghdad and Dr. Khadija Kazem Al-Atabi from the Marine Science Center shed light on the most important findings they have reached in the manufacture of medical sterilizers for dead bodies of (Covid 19), as well as, shampoos, creams, oils and skin treatments manufactured mainly from herbal marine algae (champlan) spread on the banks of the Shatt al-Arab, with low production costs, high quality and scientifically settled based on solid research foundations and safer for the environment and humans.
