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March 2016 ­ Issue 6

The President of the Order of Engineers andArchitects Mr. Khaled Chehab visit to FEAThe President of the Order of Engineers and Architects, Mr. KhaledChehab was invited by Dean Makram Suidan to address students and faculty in the Engineering Lecture Hall (ELH) at the Faculty ofEngineering and Architecture. Mr. Chehab spoke in front of anoverflowing auditorium about the challenges of developing theengineering profession and fostering engineers on all levels.

Mr. Chehab praised AUB's legacy and its long history of maintaininghigh educational standards throughout the past 150 years and the great impact that FEA graduates have had around the world. Mr. Chehab added that a plan has been put forward to establish a standardized exam for graduates to become licensed engineers in Lebanon. Read more

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Inauguration of the Samir AbdulhadiConference RoomThe Samir Abdulhadi Conference Room was inaugurated in therecently renovated fourth floor of AUB's historic Bechtel Building in acelebratory event held at the Faculty of Engineering and Architectureon January 25, 2016. The recently inaugurated room occupies anarea of over 80 m2 and is equipped with a state­of­the art audiovisualsystem to serve as a meeting and presentation room for large groupsof faculty members from the Faculty of Engineering and Architectureas well as the whole University. Read more

Design 4 AUB AwardThe Design 4 AUB award ceremony was held at the Department ofArchitecture and Design in the presence of President Fadlo R. Khuriand Dean Makram Suidan who presented the students with theirawards. The fourth year students were asked to design tomorrow'sfacilities using the theme "space impact spirit".

The design aims to enhance learning, conserve resources, beenvironmentally responsive and engage the surrounding AUBcommunity. Students had to select one of three locations on lowercampus to develop their design. The competition gave an opportunityfor the AUB community and for emerging and upcoming architects todiscuss forward­looking concepts of educational facilities on campus.The award ceremony was followed by an exhibition.

Highlights Collaboration to DesignColony on Planet Mars

The leading "Harvard BusinessSchool Aerospace AlumniGroup" teams up on launchingthe first and the most innovativecredited mandatory course forplanet Mars with one of the mostprominent universities in theMiddle East, the "AmericanUniversity of Beirut".

ERASMUS Plus Programmewith IUAV Venice

In December 2015 the Faculty ofEngineering and Architecture ofthe American University of Beirutand the IUAV University ofVenice signed an Inter­institutional agreement topromote the mobility of studentsand Ph.D candidates betweenthe two institutions and countries.The agreement is within theframework of the ERASMUS PlusProgramme.

FEAA 200 Project CompetitionsFEAA 200 ­ Introduction to Engineering and Architecture course wasintroduced this year at AUB's Faculty of Engineering and Architecture(FEA), with a key objective of promoting students' multidisciplinaryinteraction and innovative thinking. The course is designed tofamiliarize first year FEA students with Architecture; Civil, Mechanical,Electrical, Chemical, and Industrial Engineering; along withtechnologies used in each field.

The first course project involved a robotics competition (SUMORobotics Challenge) using LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 kits and thesecond course project involved designing and building a model of abridge crossing over a river. The two project competitions took placein AUB's CHSC Gymnasium. The events were great opportunities forstudents to display their passion, dedication, innovation, intelligence,communication skills, teamwork, and sportsmanship.

The Other Architecture: Geometry, Earth &The Vernacular Leçon Inaugurale at theEcole de ChaillotThe book is the publication of the annual Leçon Inaugurale of theÉcole de Chaillot, held at the Cité de l'architecture & du patrimoine inParis. The École de Chaillot has invited architects to discuss the roleof history and heritage in their design process, since 2003.

Upcoming Events

March 2­4, 2016

City DebatesArchitecture and DesignDepartment.American University of Beirut. March 5, 2016

NERD16Charles Hostler Auditorium.American University of Beirut.

March 25­27, 2016

LEGO Regional CompetitionCharles Hostler Auditorium.American University of Beirut. April 27­28, 2016

15th FEA Student andAlumni ConferenceFaculty of Engineering andArchitecture.American University of Beirut. More events

Salma Samar Damluji's inaugural speech was the tenth in the series.She was preceded by nine other major personalities in architecture:Yves Dauge, Henri Gaudin, Patrick Berger, Pierre­Louis Faloci, JeanNouvel, Jean­Marie Duthilleul, Alexandre Chemetoff, BernardDesmoulin and Wang Shu. She was the first woman architect to beinvited to deliver the speech.

The Rebel CityProf. Salma Samar Damluji is co­author of the book La Ville Rebelle,Gallimard, Paris 2015. The Rebel City collects theoretical texts andarchitectural reflections that, around the world share a commonconviction: the model of functionalism, which accompanied thetwentieth century a vision of progress based on the exploitation ofresources without limit and authoritarian spatial planning, isexhausted, after severely burdening the great human and naturalbalance of the planet.

All co­authors of this book are architects winners of the Global Awardfor Sustainable Architecture.

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