Nile University

Nile University
جامعة النيل
Jāmiʿat al-Nil
Motto Creating a Learning Culture
Established 2006
Type Private
President Tarek Khalil
Location 6th of October City, Egypt
30°04′04″N 31°01′13″E / 30.0677°N 31.0202°ECoordinates: 30°04′04″N 31°01′13″E / 30.0677°N 31.0202°E
Campus Smart Village Campus
Website www.nileu.edu.eg

Nile University (NU) is a not-for-profit institution of higher education. The University was established in Egypt in July 2006 by the Egyptian Foundation for Technological Education Development (EFTED).

The Egyptian Foundation for Technological Education (EFTED) is a not-for-profit organization, dedicated to improving technology-related education.

NU is a research university, offering graduate and undergraduate studies in Engineering, Technology, Management and Management of Technology (MOT). NU's emphasis in research and development (R&D) activities is in the area of Communications and Information Technology.

Corruption Allegations

As part of former Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif's strategic plan to introduce research-based universities to Egypt, NU went through a controversial ordeal when a complaint was filed on February 9, 2011 to the attorney general against Nazif, accusing him of abusing his position to gift public land and buildings to NU for its new campus. One week later, the new cabinet decided to transfer control of the new campus from the university to the cabinet’s Education Development Fund (EDF). The charges include Nazif abusing his powers by illegally allocating land worth LE 2 billion to build a new campus for the university. A corruption investigation was launched to examine the relationship between NU and the former government official.

Some claim the corruption charges leveled against the university were politically motivated. Former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafik, who was appointed during the revolution after the removal of Nazif, made what university officials characterize as a political move against Nazif by seizing NU’s assets. However, university officials pointed out in the media that it’s impossible to return land to the government when it’s already owned by it. The plan was for NU, categorized as a non-profit university, to rent it from the ministry. Shafik’s decision to confiscate the new campus merely moved ownership from a government organization (the communications ministry) to a governmental fund.

However, the land was ordered to be returned to NU by Egypt's Supreme Administrative Court in April 2013. "It also ruled that NU should be registered as a 'civil' university," states Yasmine Wali of Ahram Online.[1] "The court went on to stress the importance of maintaining NU – which enjoys the status of a legal state entity – and avoid changing students' legal situations.

Research Centers

Nile University's researchers are operating in 6 research centers focusing on areas of critical importance :

NU is also a strategic partner of the recently established Egypt-IBM Nanotechnology Research Center.

Each research center has been equipped with the most modern infrastructure benchmarked against international research institutions worldwide. These state-of-the-art research facilities are open to national universities free of charge as was the case with the Bioinformatics portal.

Research grants are obtained from local and international granting institutions such as:

Google, Microsoft, GM, Intel, Alcatel-Lucent, STDF, ITIDA, NTRA, EU, RDI, Qatar Foundation, Mentor Graphics, Synopsys, Cadence.

All research projects are conducted with the perspective of connecting the University with:

Nile University's research topics are directly related to issues of development and national priorities in the sectors of food, health, traffic and environment. Such as:

Academic programs

School of Communication and Information Technology

Graduate School of Management of Technology

School of Business Administration

School of Engineering & Applied Sciences

Nile University's Collaboration

Nile University has collaborations in the region with:

Nile University is offering the first Management of Technology program in the region in cooperation with the University of Minnesota, USA, and according to the guidelines of the International Association of Management of Technology (IAMOT) at the University of Miami, USA.

NU also offers an Executive MBA program in cooperation with IESE Business School - Navarra University, Spain (see section below).

The Communication & Information Technology Program with specialization in Software Engineering is the first of its kind in Egypt and is delivered by professors from USA and Canada. This program offers a unique model of cooperation in the development of software project sponsored by industry partners and in cooperation with the Software Engineering Competence Center (SECC), a partner of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) - Carnegie Mellon University. The Wireless Technologies program is offered in collaboration with Ohio State University.

One of the first international universities to collaborate with NU is Navarre University of Barcelona-Spain through its IESE Business School. IESE was

founded in 1958 in as the graduate business school of the University of Navarra. Its focus has been on executive education aimed at experienced business leaders.

The school launched its MBA program in 1964, under the guidance of an advisory committee set up by Harvard Business School and IESE. Partner schools have included Harvard Business School, Stanford, MIT Sloan School of Management and the University of Michigan Business School. It has become a player in offering customized programs for executives.

A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed between MCIT and IESE for academic collaboration with NU. In light of this MOU, IESE helps in the design of the academic curricula, provide Ph.D. fellowships for faculty development, advice on the institutional development of the business school, in addition to offering executive programs.

NU has been interacting with universities to discuss possible collaboration in academic as well as in research programs. NU currently has signed collaboration agreements and memoranda of understanding with the following institutions:

NU Board of Trustees

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References

  1. ↑ Yasmine Wali, "Egypt's highest court orders return of land to Nile University", "Ahram Online", Wednesday 24 Apr 2013
  2. ↑ Wireless Intelligent Networks Center (WINC)
  3. ↑ Center for Informatics Science (CIS)
  4. ↑ Nanoelectronics Integrated Systems Center (NISC)
  5. ↑ Center for Nanotechnology (CNT)
  6. ↑ http://www.masrawy.com%2FNews%2FTechnology%2FGeneral%2F2010%2Fnovember%2F6%2Ftelecom_nile.aspx&h=185c0
  7. ↑ http://www.youm7.com%2FNews.asp%3FNewsID%3D282372%26SecID%3D97%26IssueID%3D0&h=185c0
  8. ↑ http://nileu.edu.eg/NUBOT.html

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