Zayed University Competition in IT

The College of Information Technology at Zayed University and the Software Engineering Research Laboratory (GELOG) in Montreal in Canada are motivating the undergraduate students to participate in this competition. The students can participate in either category:

ZISE Web Application: The students will create a complete web application for Zayed Institute for Software engineering. Zayed University will establish Zayed Institute for Software Engineering (ZISE) to teach the fundamental principles of software engineering, to certify these engineering skills and give the proper training to the potential employers, to enhance the research in this field, to close the gap between the academia and the industry as well as to build a bridge to other institutes worldwide. The web application will include all the information about ZISE as well as a full implementation for all its services.

UOBSERVE Software Specification: The students have to study the UOBSERVE Software Specification to find out the defects. The competition is about finding the highest number of defects in that document. Experts can find up to 200 defects. The students are encouraged to look at standards and models to help them finding these defects and give suggestions of how to improve the document.

Prizes

For each project, we will have three winners and they will be chosen by a committee of faculty. The results will be announced in a big festival and they will be awarded three prizes for this competition, namely:

  • 10,000 Dhs for the 1st place,
  • 7,000 Dhs for the 2nd place and
  • 5,000 Dhs for the 3rd place.

The other students will get certificates of participation.

Dates

December 30th, 2010: This date is the last day to send an email to Dr. Manar Abu Talib specifying the following details:

  • Supervisor name and email.
  • Students' names and emails.
  • University name.
  • City and Country.
  • Competition Category.

February 28th, 2011: Final submission of the project.

March 30th, 2011: Announcing the best 10 projects in each category.

April 28th, 2011: The festival day in Zayed University in Abu Dhabi Campus and announcing the 3 winners in each category.

To learn more about the competition visit the following link: http://www.zu.ac.ae/zise




Yours faithfully,
Dr. Manar Abu Talib
Dr. Manar Abu Talib, PhD
College of Information Technology
Zayed University
PO Box 4783
Abu Dhabi, UAE
manar.abutalib@zu.ac.ae
CIT line: 9712 5993796