IEEE GOLD – About MIE

“Made In Egypt” or MIE is a University-Industry linkage program
founded and organized by IEEE Egypt GOLD affinity
group, that aims at bridging the gap between the academic community – including
both research and educational sectors – and the industrial community. Our contribution
lies mainly in creating suitable models of cooperation between both communities
that enrich the national industry and production and lift up the academic standards
to create a better impact on the industrial and economical development in Egypt.

MIE has been organizing Made In Egypt (MIE) Undergraduates Competition since
2005 where students from all over the Egyptian Engineering universities compete
with their peers with their graduation projects. The target is to bring the best
out of them and to make use of these projects by helping the students to link their
projects to the real needs of the industrial world. MIE is holding this competition
for the 8th year in a row. Having positively influenced the ideology that the industry
can get its solution from the university, MIE in its 8th round for the academic year
2012-2013 is now focusing on bringing out the best quality possible for prototypes
that students implement as their graduation products.

“To participate in Enriching the national industry and production by shedding light
on Research and Development capabilities in Egyptian universities to tackle real
industrial needs and problems, foster business-oriented results, and develop prototypes
for new products with the signature Made In Egypt.”

• The competition module was initially benchmarked against a similar program at the
  University of Florida and has been held for 6 years in form of Competition with
  a goal to create a link between the industry and university through graduation projects
  of the senior year students in Engineering & Computer Science universities. A project
  to be admitted to the MIE Competition, it has to be sponsored by a non-Academic
  organization and the team of students have to solve an industrial problem or introduce
  a new product to the market

• [Statistics]:
  • In 2005 – 2006, we succeeded in attracting 9 universities, they participated
    with 34 projects.
  • In 2006 – 2007, the number of participating projects increased substantially
    reaching 100 projects, from 16 universities.
  • In 2007 – 2008, the number of universities is 17, participated with
    118 projects.
  • In 2008 – 2009, the number of universities is 26, participated with
    301 projects.
  • In 2009 – 2010, the number of universities is 28, participated with
    310 projects.
  • In 2010 – 2011,
    • 130 teams registered, 66 sponsored teams were admitted to the competition this year from 20 different universities
    • One of MIE Finalists – “Smart Breadboard” team –got the 1st place in the finals of Idea 2 Product “I2P” Global Competition. Finals were between 4 Teams from USA, Germany, Denmark and Egypt. Some of the participants were PhDs level VS our fresh graduated Egyptian engineers.
  • In 2011 – 2012,
    • The number of universities is 30, participated with 240 projects.
    • 240 teams entered the filtration process, 40 teams were admitted to the competition this year from 13 different universities.

• Over our 7 years of running the program, the MIE model has been changing from year
  to year according to the dynamic market perspective, and constant change of the
  industrial and academic communities to cope with the new needs and requirement from
  both sides.

With a culture that aims towards fast action and fast implementation, we at MIE
have adopted a common belief that to add value and positively change something,
implementation should come second to planning. Good planning
leads to the optimum utilization of time, efforts, and resources. To achieve good
planning techniques, you need to have a solid idea or target to achieve, hence comes
the thinking part.

Build your team, and come join us where we will guide you through while you Think
… Plan … and Act successfully on your project!

• MIE is acting as a networking hub between industrial entities, and academic institutions.
  All activities running in MIE are towards those two sides by:
  • Searching for industrial entities with needs and willingness to sponsor undergraduate
    teams, and make sure that there will be real added value to the both parties.
  • Linking those companies to teams with a specific level of capabilities and skills.
  • Giving the needed coordination, support and mentorship for the teams to carry out
    their graduation project.
  • Organizing special/ customized trainings for students to some of non-technical skills
    that they might lack.
  • Connecting the project’s sponsor company and linking them to the academic partner
    presented in the supervising professor.
  • Partnering with entities that have similar vision/programs to support IUL, and innovation
    in Egypt.

• One major event of the MIE program to achieve this is through organizing “MIE
  Competition for Undergraduates” which runs every year since 2005.