With the objective of building tomorrow’s
business and technology leaders, the Faculty of Engineering will join
IBM Academic Initiative to be the first university in the Middle East
that benefits from IBM’s initiatives in the Education Sector.
Dr. Aly Abdel Rahman, President, Supreme Council of Universities, Dr
Samir Shaheen, Dean of Faculty of Engineering and Eng. Amr Ghoneim, GM
IBM Egypt have met to announce this new partnership.
The partnership comes under IBM’s Academic Initiative®, a worldwide
program through which IBM supports Higher Education Institutions with
instructional, learning and noncommercial research opportunities to
better educate millions of students worldwide for a more competitive
information technology (IT) workforce.
By joining, faculty members and students will gain access to IBM
software, hardware, training and course materials for their use and
implementation into curriculum and research.
IBM will provide an assortment of zSeries (Mainframe) courses to the
faculty members to increase their eServer zSeries skilled resource base
with the objective of better preparing students for the local and
international job market and to start a career in the On Demand
Business™ era.
The IBM Academic Initiative provides a free access to IBM zSeries
eServer, that has long been recognized for the rich set of features
they offer, including sophisticated workload management technology,
dynamic logical partitioning and an array of self-managing,
self-optimizing and self-healing tools giving the students the
opportunity to build their knowledge through IBM scholar’s training
courses.
As for IBM Software family of products; all members of the IBM
Academic Initiative will have Enterprise-level access to software
through developerWorks, a technical website for developers that
provides a wide range of tools, code, and education on DB2®, Lotus®,
Rational®, Tivoli®, and WebSphere® as well as on open standards
technology such as Web services, Wireless, Linux®, XML, Java™
technologies, and more.
By providing focused and relevant technical information for
developers, IBM is offering choices that the faculty can apply for
building and deploying applications across heterogeneous systems. Using
developerWorks, the students and researchers can take full advantage of
open standards and the IBM Software Development Platform in an on
demand world.
“We are very pleased to partner with Faculty of Engineering , Cairo
University in this program that will keep the faculty and the students
on the cutting edge of Technology. The demand on trained and skilled
resources in SW development, and in zSeries is increasing on local and
international levels” “ said Amr Ghoneim , General Manager IBM Egypt.
“We are confident that this partnership will be a fruitful investment,
both for IBM and for the IT sector in Egypt as a whole.”
Besides its many offerings, the IBM Academic Initiative also has a variety of other benefits:
- Faculty training on most modern eServer zSeries facilities
- Complimentary copies of textbooks and industry publications
- Discounts to conferences and other events
- Subscription to the monthly IBM Academic Initiative Newsletter
- Access to newsgroups and user groups designed for IBM Academic Initiative members
- Strengthened collaboration with academia
- Development of targeted work-study programs
- Experience and career opportunities for students
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