MSA Tigers win 51-0! Heartily congratulations from all of us to the Tigers who played against the AUC today 18th March 2016 and won a sweeping 51 to zero. Go Tigers!.

The Faculty of engineering held a very supportive session to the students who are up to graduate and will be engaged the work field , The session was introduced by Dr. Waleed El Nahal and the guest Eng. Sameh Samer with 13 years past experience working for Huawei Technologies Company as Project Manager and now he's running his private business , along with dr samy el hennawi and the faculty staff.

The faculty of dentistry has held the first event concerning the medical nutrition therapy and diabetes awareness , Tuesday early morning ,As diabetes is now considered one of the fetal life threatening diseases , Prof. dr. hakim hussien the professor of Oral medicine gave a lecture to more than 120 of students , staff members and faculties worker about the diabetes.

On the 7th of February 2016, The Faculty of Biotechnology held presentations for the 2015 graduating students’ projects. The event began with a Presentation from the Dean of the Faculty Prof. Ayman Diab, and a hosting from the course coordinator Dr. Gehan Safwat entailing the current achievements. Accomplishments this semester by the students included acquiring new venues such as the animal health research center, Suez canal University, El Demerdash hospital, the biotechnology lab, NRC, Kuwait medical genetics research center (KMGRC), and the Ansary lab.

A team from the Department of Architectural Engineering at MSA University: Dr. Nermine Abdel Gelil and Arch. Mohamed Rafik along with 12 selected students, attended two intensive training workshops: CSEB (compressed stabilized earth blocks) and AVD (arches, vaults and domes) in Auroville Earth Institute, UNESCO Chair Earthen Architecture, from 8 Feb. 2016 to 20 Feb. 2016.

More than 85 MSAians, students and staff, enjoyed the trip organized by the Sports & Social Department to Luxor and Aswan during the mid-year vacation. The trip included many fun and cultural experiences with magnificent tours around Egypt's most treasured monuments and temples, as well as landscape.

The Faculty of Biotechnology has successfully signed a contract with the Agency for Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT) highlighting a research grant that would put an Egyptian team of multidisciplinary scientists in work for 24 months to fight liver cancer with nanobiotechnology techniques.

Now you can get access to the researcher portal from MSA campus and you will find that dreams become reality.

The prestigious British Assessment Board of external auditors has met at MSA before the Spring 2016 semester begins.

On the 5th of February, 2016, thirty five delegates from the Egyptian Pharmaceutical Student Federation at MSA University (EPSF-MSA​) shared with other EPSF students from 32 governmental and private faculties of pharmacies from all over Egypt in the National Breast Cancer Campaign arranged by the National EPSF under the motto “Best protection, Early detection” in Cairo Festival City, this campaign coincides the international month for "Breast Cancer Awareness". The campaign was supported by BCFE, Al Awram Hospital, Can Survive and Pink Foundations, and was sponsored by Astra Zeneca, Andalusia Hospitals and El-Ezaby pharmacies.

A group of architects, among them MSA Engineering graduates, has won the 1st place in the competition organized by the Egyptian Ministry of Culture to select Egypt's commissioner to be announced as the curators of Egypt's Pavillion in the Biennale Architecture 2016 organized in Venice, Italy.

Youssef El-Malty, an MSA graduate (now Head of Cyber Security at IBM) has been selected as student of the year by Middlesex University. His page has been listed in the "Featured Alumni" list on Middlesex website.

The Faculty of Engineering and the General Systems Engineering Department are proud to announce the completion of The International Conference for Mathematics and Applications (ICMA15) organized by the Egyptian National Committee for Mathematics of IMU, Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT), and locally organized by October University for Modern Sciences and Arts (MSA).

MSA University has proudly co-sponsored “Unity as a Basis of Nation’s Development” at a Cairo Hotel as part of its vision of providing modern, international education to a strong, united community that is able to develop and inspire leaders.

The Faculty of Engineering and the Electrical Systems Engineering Department are proud to announce that a paper, titled “FPGA-Based Hand Gesture Recognition & Marker Tracking for Augmented Reality", prepared by two ECE graduate students, Abdul Rahman Awf and Farida Hamid, and their grad project supervisor, Dr. Noha Younis, was successfully accepted in the IEEE 22nd International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS 2015).

Two of MSA Marketing students have won the third place in the Global Entrepreneurship Week competition (GEW) that was held in Gouna in the 19th of November 2015.

Dr. Nawal El-Degwi, MSA Head of Board of Trustees, has given a special interview to Al-Nahar channel’s Khaled Salah on education, Egypt’s future, and a wide range of topics that relate to how Egypt will cope with the world’s latest trends and technologies, making its way to where it should be.

“Happy Foundation Day” is an event organized by the English90 to celebrate the skills that they have acquired in the course as well as their talents in front of all MSAians.

The Faculty of Languages at October University for Modern Sciences and Arts (MSA) has organized a talk by the prominent ex-footballer and Zamalek superstar Hazem Emam about self-fulfillment and study-life balance.

MSA University students are getting ready to participate in “Ibdaa’” (Arabic for Creativity) competition national finals, organized by the Ministry of Youth and Sports in coordination with Al-Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates.

MSA has proudly organized "Arab Innovation Media Festival" with valuable participation from seven Arab countries and 9 universities: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (King Saud University), United Arab Emirates (AUS), Lebanon (Beirut Arab University), Tunisia (Tunis University), Jordan (Yarmuk University), Bahrain (Bahrain University) and Egypt who was represented by MSA, Cairo University, and the American University in Cairo, along with many officials, celebrities, and media professionals from all over the Arab world.

“More than a Dentist” is the event organized by MSA Dentistry’s Science Club that provided a spectrum of successful career experiences by young experts of max 33 years of age at MSA University. What does my future career hides? Am I taking the right choices? These are a common question that has lots of potential answers. How about that we offer them all?

This Research Center is a state of the art research facility equipped with the latest in technology, and cost over 12 million Egyptian Pounds to establish. The dental clinics have been equipped with extremely high-tech specifications that meet the U.K. standards. The dental clinics include a total of 160 high-tech chairs, imported from Germany, and two students are assigned to each dental chair, in order to increase their participation, and focus.

MSA hosted a renowned delegation from University of Catalonia in Spain which consisted of Catalonian Minister of Education and Head of Lildia University in Spain. The delegation aimed at signing a co-operation protocol between MSA and the Spanish ministers to enhance the efforts of researchers from both parties in order to induce the European Union support. MSA was invited to be an honorable member in the Mediterranean Universities League. They also offered adopting and financing the small and medium businesses in the university and academic exchange programs.

MSA's own Dr. Faten Kamel, Head of Operative Department Faculty of Dentistry, and Dr. Rasha Ramadan, Assistant Lecturer, have both traveled to the University of Glasgow in the UK on Sunday 17th of October '10.The reason for their travel is to exchange both universities' impressive knowledge and to observe new teaching techniques and facilities. They also made it a point to check graduate and postgraduate programmes.

MSA University"s Dental Health Awareness group of students and staff went on a mission to Nile Egyptian International School in 6th October City and diagnosed 200 children. This is because MSAians care for the welfare of our society and they believe it is important for young children to learn how to keep their teeth clean and cavity-free. For KG1, KG2 and Grade 1, the team told a story to the children about the importance of brushing their teeth and taught them more about healthy and unhealthy food. The children also learnt how to brush their teeth in a healthy manner.

Once again, a group of MSA's Dentistry students and staff took off to two hospitals in Fayoum to play an important role in developing their society. The team diagnosed patients and provided free dental treatments; moreover, a number of oral surgeries were performed to patients with severe cases. It's noteworthy that all patients were donated free antibiotics and analgesics when needed. This convoy was prosperous in many ways as it has provided students with the experience of dealing with several medical conditions and allowed them to work in a different environment than the one they are used to.

On the 10th of January 2011, MSA University's Faculty of Dentistry hosted a workshop by 3M - a diversified technology company known to provide innovative dental solutions- about Infection Control at the sterilization room. The Faculty already applies the system of Infection Control; however, 3M came to teach students and staff new tools to use as this is very important to avoid cross infection. 3M showed students how to disinfect themselves and their tools and how to use sharp instruments when dealing with patients. It is worthy to mention that the seminar was supervised by Dr. Faten Kamel of Conservative Dentistry.

Dr Ayman Kandil, Dean of Pharmacy Faculty at MSA organized and headed earlier that month a medical convoy to El Mansouria village to extend its kind services to the needy people there. He was accompanied with five assistant lecturers, five inters, 41 students and two nurses.The convoy applied full mouth diagnosis to 210 patients, extracted 110 teeth through oral surgery, and done 62 scaling by oral medicine. As for operative medicine, they have done four cavity preparations with temporary fillings. Patients were donated free antibiotics and analgesics when needed. Patients are requested to visit MSA clinic every Wednesday.

On Sunday the May the 8th 2011, two of MSA University's most qualified professors from the faculty of Dentistry, Dr. Faten Kamel and Dr. Ahmed Zidan landed in Scotland to be part of the MFDS (Membership of Faculty of Dental Surgery) at Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh.It was a fruitful week where our representatives discussed the possibility for MSA University to host the MFDS Examination in future.

MSA University heartily congratulates our Restorative Dentistry staff for achieving PhD"s from Cairo University.
- Dr. Alyaa El Wakeel
- Dr. Nermine Hamza
- Dr. Mohamed Shabayek
- Dr. Manal Abdelhafez

The faculty of Dentistry is not only keen about students" academic performance, but the way they present their projects is equally important! For that reason, Dr. Professor Faten Kamel put together a competition for senior Dent students of semester 9 and 10, where they will compete for the best poster!

Another Dental Convoy took its way to "A Z Nursery" in October City.The aim of this visit was to diagnose and supply proper treatment to 60 children' teeth. The volunteered team also taught the kids how to brush their teeth and narrated some stories about healthy food like vegetables and fruits to fight cavities formation. The visit took place on October 4, 2012, and was headed by Dr Samah Kamel and her

On Wednesday, October 17, 2012 and for the third time in ten days, and under the supervision of Dr Ayman Kandil, Dr Samah Mohamed Kamel of MSA Faculty of Dentistry led a convoy to visit Kerdasa Village in Giza. The convoy managed to diagnose 150 patients and done extraction to fifty of them. The team filled cavities to 6 patients then done endodontics to three other patients.

Once more Faculty of Dentistry at MSA headed to October City to El Hosary School, on November 5, 2012. The Dental Convoy aim of this visit was to diagnose and supply proper treatment to 100 children' teeth and 50 staff members. The volunteered team also taught the kids how to brush their teeth and narrated some stories about fighting cavity formation. Dr Mona Abdel Moteleb delivered a lecture about healthy food like vegetables and fruits to fight cavities formation. The active team distributed boxes of fruits and vegetables to each and every child. The kids were also given plaster models of teeth with cavities where they filled it with clay. At the end MSA convoy gave the children colouring papers and stickers as a gift

In a constant effort to serve the community, MSA Faculty of Dentistry organized another Dental Convoy led by Dr Samah Kamel and Dr Mona Abdel Moteleb. And went to (NES) for the second time this year to continue the treatment for all grades on November 26, 2012. The aim of this visit was to diagnose the teeth of the children (550 children) and to teach them how to brush their teeth. 

In an unprecedented measure and in collaboration with the Royal Academy of Dentistry in Edinburgh, the Cultural British Council stated that Modern Sciences and Arts University (MSA), has all the up to- date means and methods academically, clinically and practically to train dentists and qualifies them to acquire the fellowship from the Royal Academy in Edinburgh.

Once More, Over and Over Again MSA Dentistry stretched its hands to serve the community out of its social responsibility. So, in cooperation with the International Unilever Company that produces Signal tooth-paste among a lot of other detergents and products, decided to spread their activities to where crowds of people exist; like Malls, Shopping Centers, public places and schools.

Did you guys read the new MSA Endodontic Journal? As far as scientific journals go, this one was rather exhilarating to read. The journal is created and managed by a team of the Endodontic teaching staff from the faculty of Dentistry, and anyone who reads it would be impressed by the level of inspiration, enthusiasm and dedication presented by the MSA staff.

MSA is delighted to congratulate our very own powerhouse Ingy Shehata. from the Faculty of Dentistry, on attaining her PhD in oral and maxillofacial surgery, faculty of dentistry, Cairo University. You have worked extremely hard over the years and have finally achieved one of your many goals. Ingy Shehata has always been a dynamic catalyst to many humanitarian efforts and is responsible for the success of many of the numerous dental convoys MSA has conducted over the years. 

Faculty of Dentistry Seminar Single File Reciprocating NiTi File System Wave One Dr Elham El Shaboury, head of Endodontic Department, Faculty of Dentistry, organized a very interesting seminar on Tuesday, September 3, 2013. The successful seminar dealt with "Single File Reciprocating" which is a NiTi File System, Wave One. The seminar focused on some of the most objective aspects of this file such as; maximum Coronal access of different teeth, cleaning and shaping with special reference to NiTi instruments in addition to single file reciprocating NiTi File System, Wave One (Design Features)

Endodontic Department, Faculty of Dentistry at MSAU, held a workshop, about the “Newly Rotary System, for Root Canal Treatment” (Wave One) Where Dr. Elham Elshaboury, Head of Endodontic Dept., MSA University, first gave a lecture to the attendees, followed by a Demo of the tools by the sponsor “DENTSPLY”. “The goal of this workshop was to introduce the root canal treatment system, and to increase the clinical skills of internship. The demo showed increased cutting efficiency of rotary files, and decrease the number of files used during the root canal treatment, as well as save time of the root canal treatment.” Dr. Elham Elshaboury.

The International Association for Dental Students (IADS) has held its first General Assembly meeting for this year at October University for Modern Sciences and Arts (MSA) with representatives of 7 public and private universities attending. MSA is the newest member in the IADS Egypt Charter, so the General Assembly started by welcoming MSA to the Association, then reviewing the achievements of the past academic year and the plan for the current year 2015/2016.

Over 200 students from all disciplines of Engineering presented their course projects during the annual projects day. The setting took place at the Engineering workshop which is constructed over an area of 4,000m2.Groups of students ranging from 2 to 5 presented their course projects to their professors, parents, and friends.

October University for Modern Sciences & Arts in association with Greenwich University initiated a very successful student exchange programme last November (2007) where 21 students and 7 instructors from MSA visited Greenwich University. In continuation of the spirit of cooperation between these two great universities a second student exchange is taking place this May (2008) where MSA Students and Professors will be visiting Greenwich University. Two faculty members from the architecture department were invited by Greenwich University as external critics for their final crits. Drs. Omar Fawzy and Omar Nagati, renowned professors in the Faculty of Architecture Engineering at MSA University, will attend two crits on May 7 and May 9, 2008 as part of the continuing collaboration between MSA University and Greenwich University.

MSA Engineering students participated in Cairo conference of Engineering and information Technology ICT. The conference was inaugurated by Dr Tarek Kamel the Minister of communication and Information Technology which was held in Cairo International Conference Center at Nasr City. MSA students" participation was highly commended and appreciated as they have attained a cutting edge in electronics which enticed the renowned companies to offer support, sponsorship, finance and executions. Intel, ESC, White house Securities and Delta Insurance were among these companies who assured the validity and the outstanding potential of projects.

MSA Architecture students participated in its first students' cultural day (When Architecture meets Nature). MSA Architecture department organized its first students' cultural day in El Orman park on 17th of April 2010 as one of the department's goals is mixing fun with education with an attempt to enhance the cultural activities, and increase the interaction between the architectural education, nature and the environment outside the closed lecture halls.

In a perfect example of how theory can be put into practice, students of the faculty of engineering held an exceptional workshop exhibit for their graduation projects. MSA University has always been keen to mix theory with practice to enhance the students' learning process.The University has invited several distinguished professors from the same field to evaluate the students' projects which represent the outcome of years of theoretical and practical studies.

On Tuesday, 6th July, 2010, MSA's Faculty of Engineering held its annual Exhibition for Graduating Seniors of Industrial Engineering in Engineering Workshop, after which the students discussed their projects with the judging panel.The judging panel comprised of: Dr.Said Ashour, Dean of Faculty of Engineering, Dr. Mohamed Said Hassan, Head of Department of Industrial Engineering, and Dr. Samuel Mengistu, from University of Greenwich.

Two Engineering students represent MSA in Belgium in "The Annual Students Branch and Gold Conference"
The IEEE, which introduced the RISEC competition for Engineering and Computer Science students earlier this year, is now holding its annual SBC (Student Branch and Gold) conference in Belgium from the 4thto the 8th of August 2010. Many countries from Africa, Europe and Asia will demonstrate their IEEE student activities. MSA University will be participating and students Mohamed Khairy and Noha Mostafa will be representing it.

MSA University is proud to announce its annual Engineering conference for Communications and Electronics on Monday 1st and Tuesday 2nd of November 2010, starting at 9:00 am - 16:30 pm. Forty five different studies from universities across Egypt and the Middle East, and even Canada, will be presented at the conference. Also, MSA University's Faculty Members will be presenting their researches as well. This event is the first of its kind to be organized entirely by a private university. Once again, MSA leads.

Under the supervision of Dipl. Arch. Adel Fahmy and with the collaboration of staff members Dr. Nermine Abdel Gelil, Dr. Mohamed Refaat and Dr. Sameh Mostafa, the Department of Architecture has invited the artist Eng. Nathan Doss in a workshop titled “Clay, a model making and building material” from 12.

As people walked around the hangar, you sense the excitement of the students and the monitoring of the doctors. Among the attendees was Dr. Ihab Hamdy Naeem , professor of Physics, stated that, “It is exciting to see what ideas students are coming up with this year, especially since they help their experimental hand work that is applied in real life.” One of the intriguing inventions on display was the Electric Magnetism Levitation. It is a magnet with positive charges that use exact equal pull on either magnet (poles) to levitate the added weight. The idea came to the students because of a lecture they had earlier, about magnets and how they work. “Playing with gravity and magnets gave us the idea to come up with levitating weight through magnets to see if they work,” explained one of the students. “It took us some time to get the exact weight but finally it worked.”

MSA University's Faculty of Engineering, Department of Architecture and Construction, were hosted by Greenwich University's School of Architecture this summer to work on their joint elective course “Sustainable Cities.” It was a two-week course focusing on the city spirit and included visiting London, Manchester and Cambridge. Their studies and discussions were concentrated on the routes, places, the natural of the enclosing mass and about the infrastructure (food / water / waste / Energy / Transport of people and goods / places to live and work). Finally, the course concluded with an exhibition of the students' work, where they displayed sketches and photomontages of places they visited as well as visions of spaces with future sustainable cities.

MSA University initiated an architectural project for 10 consecutive days in Port Said city with Thessaly University of Greece and Port Said University from the 21st to the 30th of September 2011. This collaboration was in efforts to create a productive educational link between Egypt and Greece and it targeted understanding the crucial issues faced by the city of Port Said, which is basically the dilemma of the contemporary urban design practice.

October University for Modern Sciences and Arts was proud to witness its Engineering students" innovations which were presented in the Workshop Building. The exhibition included all grades of Engineering Faculty where they participated with about 250 projects that prove their cutting edge awareness of the requirements of the ever changing job markets. As a matter of fact, Faculty of Engineering students combined their theoretical knowledge with the practical application and excelled in presenting their projects. In the exhibition the students displayed their hands on experience which is in harmony with their studies.

Faculty of Engineering: Communication & Electronics department, has a field trip to CDMA and Mobile Transmission Station in Giza

MSA- Faculty of Engineering, Communication and Electronics dept Grad committee was organized the graduation projects discussion by professors from Greenwich University . 4 & 5 Feb.2013. In the photo, Grad 2 Students with Prof.David and Prof.Esmial from Greenwich, and Prof.Tarek Aly Faculty of Engineering MSA Dean, Prof.Samy El Hennawy Head of ECE dept, Dr.Deena Head of ECE Grad Committee, Dr.Sameh Noman, Dr.Galal Nadem, Asst.Lect .Ahmed Fawzy Grad Committee member and TA .Amira El-Toky Grad Committee Member.

A major part of MSA message of education is seeking perfection. If not, which is unlikely, and then it offers quality education on its highest levels. So, for that exact purpose a committee of selected Greenwich University professors supervises syllabuses, faculty performance, grads projects and inspects lecture halls and labs. That's part of the validation procedure that is carried out each and every semester in order to maintain and keep the national and regional appeal to join MSA.

Proudly, MSA likes to extend its heartily congratulations to Communication and Electronics Department of Engineering's students; L.A Mostafa Gamal and L.A. Galal Mounir who used their cutting edge studies and knowledge to get their Master Degree from University of Greenwich. Congratulations once more and keep up the good work

MSA's Architecture Engineering students stand out in the crowd as expected and represented the University in "Bridge to Future" Conference which was held in Ein Shams University. The open Architectural Competition was organized by Remal Foundation in Faculty of Engineering. Various workshops were held throughout the week. From among 150 groups that formed 1250 students' papers and projects, the outstanding performance of eight MSA's architectural students about "Sustainable Cities" made them to win the third place prize.

Electronics & Electrical Communications engineering graduate and Lecturer Assistant Galal Mounir Hassan was awarded a full masters scholarship, upon graduation, at Greenwich University for his academic excellence. When Galal was doing his Masters degree in UoG he was approached by a Professor to assist him in his research, so Galal gladly accepted, which in turn added greatly to his practical experience. He also got to present his thesis "Automatic Detection of Online Game Vulnerability" in an Engineering Conference in Greenwich with his UK colleagues.

The Summer Training Committee (STC) of MSA Communication and Electronics Department, Faculty of Engineering, organizes a field trip to one of the largest and most famous Egyptian Telecommunication Company, Mobinil in Smart Village, on Wednesday, March 7, 2013. The trip was organized and supervised by Dr. Sherif Kamel, Head of (STC), engineer Ahmed Fawzy Daw, Dr Mourad and Engineer Mereham Nabil.

In a cooperation protocol with the National Air Navigation Services Company, Summer Training Committee of MSA ECE signed an agreement by which ten students of ECE will obtain a chance to participate in summer training programmes, every year, in the main Radar Station in Egypt. This year MSA ECE students will start summer training from 12/8: 12/9/2013.

The Summer Training Committee (STC) for the Communications and Electronics dept. was able to land a contract deal with Motorola-Systel Telecommunications. The deal allows the ECE dept. to send 10 students to join Motorola-Systel for a summer training program. This will provide an opportunity for the students from ECE to join Motorola-Systel in Smart Village for a summer training in one of the leading companies in the field ofmobile communications. This opportunity, made possible by the continuous hard work of the STC-ECE, reflects the level of dedication to promoting and enhancing the level of the MSA student body. The program will offer the students an opportunity to experience work experience first-hand and is sure to boost their abilities and motivation.

MSA has a fitting success story for this remarkable feat, he is one of our very own here and we cherish his work with us. He harbours special personal interest in the rare fields of Biomathematics and Bioengineering. In February 2013, Mohamed Khalil Ibrahim obtained his PhD in Pure Mathematics from the faculty of Science-South valley University-Qena, while also working as a lecturer assistant in the Faculty of Engineering here at MSA. His field of interest is fractional order differential equations and its applications in real dynamic systems especially in Physics and Biology.

Graduation Projects' Fair is the best indicator of technological level depth and hands-on experience attained by MSA Engineering students, whose multi–faceted success is well commended in various aspects during the course of studies. We didn't forget yet the overwhelming success of last year's exhibition, as this current year, where MSA invited the most renowned and distinguished professors to evaluate the students' impressive Projects which represented the outcome of accumulated knowledge and ideas over the years of study.

MSA Architecture department participated in the Mittelmeerland workshop organized by the University AA Visiting School in Alexandria. There were eight MSA undergraduates and graduate students participating under the supervision of Arch.Heba Hussein who had given an open lecture about her research study in the fabulous, diverse structure of the Mediterranean region.

Dr. Sherif Kamel, Assistant Professor of Communication and Electronics Engineering Department, participated in the International Conference on Science, Engineering and Management-ICSEM 2013 at the Srinivasan Engineering College, India on 17th and 18th May 2013. Dr. Sherif was invited to participate as a chief guest for the inauguration function. He was also a keynote speaker at the seminar which was attended by more than 300 people from all fields of engineering.

Injaz is a competition that selects startup projects that have high-feasibility and high-effect to fund in a way to make them a reality. MSA’s powerhouses Adham Saeed and Ahmed Nagy were there with an ingenious project called Stebn (www.stebn.com), which is basically a bike sharing system to be implemented in Egypt.

Imagine Cup is the world's most influential student technology competition; it brings the brightest young minds together to build apps by utilizing the endless abilities of technology. Microsoft created the Imagine Cup over ten years ago with the idea that students can change the world. What begins with a burst of inspiration and a lot of hard work can become a future software breakthrough, a jump start for a career, or a flourishing new industry.

Three students from MSA's faculty of engineering presented their graduation project to the ministry of agriculture. Representatives from the ministry were impressed with the project, which is an early warning system that detects and controls plant diseases, and agreed to provide the students with the data necessary for the completion of the project. This project is the first of its kind and is expected to significantly reduce the effects of plant diseases.

Following their recent success at the Mittelmeerland Workshop, MSA Architecture students participate at a design workshop in Italy; DOCUMENTATION AND DESIGN WORKSHOP IN TUSKANY-ITALY, TANGLE POCKETS / Life in Utopia. In our quest to expose our students to multi-cultural professional environments and modern techniques and methods, MSA has endorsed the knowledge-seeking, experience-hungry group of students to go to Italy and gain some first-hand knowledge from the leading minds in the field. The group was accompanied by our very own Dr. Bedour Ahmad and Eng. Heba Hussein as representatives of the education committee. The MULTINATIONAL CROSS-DISCIPLINARY DOCUMENTATION AND DESIGN WORKSHOP, ARCHITECTURE AND THE COMMON LIFE INTO THE TUSCANY LANDSCAPE was directed by: Iordanis Stylidis, Assistant Professor at the University of Thessaly – Greece. It also featured discussions and workshops by Professor SASA LADA : Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Professor VASILIOS IERIDIS : Frederick University, Nicosia, Cyprus. There was a total of 40 students participated from Egypt- Greece- Cyprus, MSA participated with 11 students who did a great job there, massive ideas of design were incorporated with their colleagues from other universities, which always preset the high level education that MSA architecture department. Beside the workshop, the students had a chance to explore the architecture heritage of Rome, Siena, Pisa and Florence; which have had a massive effect on the modern architecture studies. All in all, a great experience and a plentiful of knowledge was passed around and gained by all. Special thanks to Dr. Bedour Ahmad and Eng. Heba Hussein for their effort in making this a reality and thanks to all who work tirelessly to expose MSA students to new, unforgettable knowledge and experience.

Due to the continuous hard work by the Summer Training Committee (STC), Communication and Electronics Department, Faculty of Engineering, four MSAians have started a summer internship with one of the world's Star Alliance members in the field of air navigation services "EGYPT AIR". Here at MSA, we value these collaborations as they work on expanding and diversifying students' professional experiences and preparing them for their professional careers. 

The endless efforts and continuous hard work to support and back-up the students, the Summer Training Committee (STC), Communication and Electronics Department, Faculty of Engineering, gave eight MSAians a chance to start summer internship with one of the world's famous mobile supporter "Motorola-Systel". MSA wishes its students the best of luck and don't forget to gain as much job experience as you can to widen your chances of recruitment. Take the lead. Make a difference.

After a constructive presentation of their paper, Eng. Hazem Mohamed Eissa together with Eng. Amr Mahmoud Ahmed, of ECE Department, have succeeded to get the sixth position out of 200 submitted papers to IEEE EMBS International Student conference, from several Egyptian universities. The students' paper titled “Implementation of Smart Ovulation Detection Device", mainly concerns with bio instrumentation.

Architecture Department of MSA Faculty of Engineering got the second place for “Best Design for Social Services Center” in “Alkarn Estate” which is a slum area where a committee of Stuttgart University of Germany made a feasibility study geographically to re- plan and develop to enhance and sustain the environment.

Faculty of Engineering, ECE-Grad Committee organized a very successful and wonderful grad presentations event which was held on 29: and 30/1/2014. ECE want to deeply congratulate our Grad students for the great efforts and excellent presentation skills both orally and written, moreover, most of external examiners also gave us very positive feedback and commended the unique skills and team work spirit that mastered the presentation.

On April 11th 2014 in Medellin, Colombia on the final day of the World Urban Forum 7 Conference, the winners of the Urban Revitalization of Mass Housing International Architectural Competition organized by the UN-Habitat organization were announced. Prizes were awarded to the winning entries on three levels: Globally, Regionally, and Nationally. It is with great pride to announce the distinctive achievement of MSA Team3 who won the 3rd place on the Regional level which included entries from universities from all Arab States, and 2nd place jointly with MSA Team1 on the National level which included entries from Egyptian universities. It is worthy to note that no other university from Egypt was among the winners, only the two teams from MSA, since the first on the National level was the team from the American University of Sharjah!

Faculty of Engineering is proud to announce that two of MSA Grad I students; Aliaa Asad and Khaled Mohamed, of ESE Department, have submitted a paper, titled “Wide Band High Selective Compact Metamaterial Antenna for 2 GHz Wireless Applications", to the 10th International Loughborough Antennas & Propagation Conference (LAPC) 2014, where it was successfully accepted.

The Electrical System Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, held its annual ceremony in which the department regularly celebrates its distinguished individuals who have made significant contributions to their professions and the Faculty of Engineering, throughout the year. In such special event, the department recognized eleven graduates, for their outstanding achievements in their graduation projects, and for publishing scientific papers in several large international conferences, as well as authoring applications for distinctive inventions.

Asst.Lect/ Ahmed Fawzy Daw representing MSA University in the largest annual UK conference dedicated to the fields of Antennas, Microwave and Propagation. Faculty Of Engineering, ECE Dept., is proud to congratulate Eng.Ahmed Fawzy Daw for his new novel research paper titled "Dual Band High Selective Compact Transmission Line Gap Resonator" which will be presented in the largest UK conference which will held from 10 to 12 November 2014 in Birmingham, UK. 

In a majestic atmosphere inspired by British essence, MSA University celebrated the success of UK Summer Student Study Abroad programme 2015. The students received their certificates and special trophies in a ceremony that was graced by her Excellency Head of Board of Trustees, Prof Nawal EL Degwi, and the esteemed Deans & Department Heads and Staff for the faculties of Engineering, Management, Pharmacy, Biotechnology, Languages and Arts and Design & Director of Quality Assurance, UK Abroad Programme.

Al Messaha Cultural Center in Dokki hosted a splendid Art Exhibition which was sponsored by MSA University, and was inaugurated by Dr. Nawal El Degwi, the head of the Board of Trustees. The exhibition included the choicest selection of artists where it displayed the work of 20 artists. Dr. Tarek Saleh, Dean of Arts & Design Faculty, attended the exhibition together with the famous artist, caricaturist and the previous head of Artsists Syndicate Mostafa Hussein. Faculty of Arts and Design is planning to hold an exhibition for students' works twice a year; one in January and the other in July to give the students a chance to interact with all artistic trends through the famous artists out there in Egypt and represent Faculty of Arts and Design majors. .

Bilal Ashraf, Career Gates' Fashion Design instructor blew MSA's Applied Arts students away with his brilliant illustrations and amazing talent at Career Gates Fashion Illustration Exhibition at MSA October campus.

The students of Interior Design (35 students) at the Faculty of Arts and Design paid a visit with their two instructors to Art Centres on Saturday 20th October 2012 at Sakkara Road: 1. Darwish Pottery.
2. Harrania Tapestries.
3. AlKhonany Glass Centre.

Three days of theoretical lectures by internal and external lecturers and professors was the main core of Environmental Control Workshop that was held on Monday, February 18, 2013, and then continued for a whole week, at E 316 at MSA Campus. The workshop was attended by 30 MSA students. Dr Sameh El Fiky on behalf of architecture department Head , Dr Omar Fawzy, welcomed the external lecturers from Alexandria University and started the opening session on first day and explained the main concept of sustainability, climate change and the role of an architect. That was followed by a series of specialized lectures by external professor explaining the tools and principles that can be used in architecture to implement sustainability concepts into the design process.

Messaha Arts and Cultural Center at Dokki hosted the Arts and Design Faculty exhibition of students works through the last previous three semesters on Saturday, March 16, 2013. A lot of Arts and Design Faculties deans and arts experts were invited to encourage the students to communicate with practical real life and be exposed to outer world. The exhibition included various works of arts like printing, engraving, graphics, dual dimension works in addition of drawings and paintings. This exhibition had an impressive impact on students and guests which reflected a refined artistic taste and talent of their first exhibition. Dr Nawal El Degwi, Head of the Board of Trustees, inaugurated the exhibition in presence of Dr Khairy Abdel Hamid, MSA President and Faculty of Arts and Design Dean, Dr Tarek Saleh.

In an International Conference for Arts Students in Turkey "IFASC", at Maltepe University in Istanbul, titled "Young at Art", MSA Arts and Design students Gamila El Leithi, Engy El Zeiny, Marina Raef, Dina Farghal and Eman Bellah Atef participated to exhibit their works of arts and researches. They meant to discuss Arts, Architecture and Interior Design as complementing majors. They were accompanied by Prof. Dr. Aleya Abdel-Hadi and TA Karam Abdallah.

A two days 'Colour Workshop' was held at the Faculty of Arts and Design for the students of Interior Design under the instruction of the artist Mohannad Orabi, a free-lance Syrian Painter and the supervision of Prof. Dr. Aleya Abdel-Hadi with the assistance of L. A. Karam Abdallah. The students worked freely exploring the rich world of colouring with acrylic paints, discovering aesthetic effects and using them for further shapes; excitement and creativity were the bases of their positive interaction with their instructor. Their output here on display conveys that feeling of going "Out of the Box".

Within the schedule of (INTR351 – Heritage of Interior Design), students of Interior Design at the Faculty of Arts and Design have paid a working field visit to 'As-Suhaymi House' in Historic Cairo at 'El Darb El Asfar' street off 'Al Muizz' street. It is one of the prominent houses in Cairo that dates back to the 18th century (Ottoman Period) and is regarded as a perfect example for the style of decoration and designing at that time.

On Tuesday, 24 December 2013, we held a field trip for our 2^nd Year Graphics and Media Arts students to visit the 24^th Youth Salon in the Palace of Arts – Cairo Opera House – Ministry of Culture. Today’s field trip, was an enriching experience exposing our beloved students to diverse approaches in multiple fields of visual creativity accomplished by promising, young and evolving artists. Many fruitful discussions and opinion sharing have been held on the spot adding to our students’ Cultural Knowledge and Visual awareness.Another brick has been added to the solid base of our student’s future artistic career.

A seven days’ workshop has started today at the Modern Sciences and Arts University (MSA), conducted by Swedish fashion designer, Hans Jansson, and Fashion professor at Stockholm University, Louise Wallenberg.  Over fifteen fashion students will be introduced to the role of fashion in promoting cultural dialogue between nations, the Swedish experience in innovative fashion techniques, and how modern fashion could be combined with multi-cultural influences, and help empowering the local community, especially women.

October University for Modern Sciences and Arts (MSA) is proud to announce five more years of partnership with University of Greenwich as a panel of Greenwich’s staff, in additional to several UK external auditors, have granted MSA unconditional revalidation for its faculties of pharmacy and biotechnology.

Exhibitions were held on fashion, folk art, textiles, furniture, table settings, jewellery and life and work in Sweden.

The 17th of June of this year witnessed a unique occasion of its kind: the signing of the contract of the design and manufacture of the first agricultural meteorological station holding mechanism with pure Egyptian technology, and that between each of the engineering design company created by a group graduates of the Department of Electrical Systems Engineering under the supervision of Dr. Said Mabrook and the businessman Mamdouh Ghataty, the owner of the largest farms for exporting mangos and green creams.

MSA’s Faculty of Management joins CFA Institute Research Challenge ’16 A group of MSA students has attended the opening ceremony of the CFA Institute Research Challenge at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) with other national and private Egyptian universities.

MSA University has held its first alumni party with the University of Greenwich at a Cairo hotel with high-profile British and Egyptian guests enjoying a warm, well-organized gathering.

MSA took part, for the first time in the International Collegiate Programming Contest which took place last October 2009 in Cairo University where all universities of Arab Republic of Egypt have participated. MSA team also joined that contest on the Middle East and Africa level where 46 teams from 29 universities of 9 Arab countries have participated. The American University in Beirut, Kuwait, Sultanate of Oman, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Palestine has participated in the contest. In Egypt the AUC, BUE, Cairo University, Ein Shams and Helwan universities and MSA has participated for the first time.

IBM Egypt has organized for a 4-day Hackathon during November 2014. A Hackathon is an event in which computer programmers collaborate intensively on software projects. The IBM Egypt Hackathon was intended to address pressing problems on Egypt’s national agenda and strategic development plans through innovation and cutting-edge technologies. The Hackathon theme is Smarter Cities with focus on energy, water management, and health domains.