ZAINAB A.RAHMAN WELCOMES YOU
ABOUT
Zainab Abdulrahman is a final year Mechanical engineering student. She is an ambitious person that sees herself as mechanical engineer in the future. She believes that women are able to join the engineering industry and be good as men.
As a result of studying at Bahrain Polytechnic, she became a self-confident and hard-working woman. Because the learning technique applied in the university is problem-based learning which is teaching method where students gain knowledge and skills by working for an extended period of time to investigate and respond to a complex question, problem or challenge.
She have experienced the work environment of mechanical engineer and learned how to design and fabricate products like a steam engine. Furthermore, she learned the main principles of mechanical engineering such as cam and cad by using Solidworks, heat, fluids, and applied thermodynamics principles, control and automation. And according to this she manufactured a steam engine as an individual project and worked with her colleagues in projects like designing and manufacturing a load carrier vehicle for the university as well as subsonic wind tunnel for experimental purposes for year 2 students.
Zainab and her team invented PES which stands for Parking Efficiency System. By using engineering methods and Arduino. The system solves the double-parking problem in Bahrain. The experience made her explore herself and improve her project management skills. Zainab and her team were the first university team to participate in VEX World Championship which is about building and programming robot based on engineering challenges. The championship improved her technical and communication skills. She gained leadership skills and learned how to program using basic C+ language.
Currently, Zainab works as a Youth Activities Specialist (Part-time) in Ministry of Youth and Sports Affairs where she plan and create practical courses and workshops related to science and technology for youth. Recently, she sat up a fabrication lab in the center
ABOUT THE PROJECT
Interactive Sociable Robot
Robots can be defined as electromechanical incredible friends which may appeal to almost everyone. Nowadays, everyone is more likely to love robotics and the reason behind this because they can be as reliable and loyal as you decide through the design and program code you do to them. Practically, we can define robot as a designed machine with a brain that is capable to interact with the outside world and perform one or several tasks. They are around us everywhere, in all departments and sectors. Robots are taking place in crawl through sever pipes looking for leaks, build and manufacture the cars we are using. We hear about them in the news for example in the military, surveillance drones and bomb disposal robots. (Baichtal, 2014 )
With the technology and the development in the modern era, developing robots is an increasing trend where robots are replaced with humans in many of situations. This counted to be as an advantage because some situations the human operators are attached and endangered with risks of their industrial or significant personal requirements where they are supposed to perform some tasks. Hence, researching and developing different type of multi-functional robots that can perform different missions in different situations and scenarios has a high demand in all sectors such as medical, industrial, businesses and education Â
According to multidisciplinary domain and accelerated advance, we believe that the robot sector will expand in personal social robots. Very soon, they will coexist with us and play key roles in our daily lives, leading us to be healthier, smarter, happier existence and safer. Consequently, for our final year project we have decided to build, design and control a compact mobile human robot that can greet, interact with humans
ZAINAB'S ACHIEVEMENTS
Exceeding Your Expectations
INVENTION PROGRAM
Project Manager, 2018
A scientific technical program sponsored by the Ministry of Youth and Sports Affairs that aims to encourage young inventors to provide scientific initiatives and inventions that will contribute to achieve the sustainable development goals. The program creates the ideal atmosphere for them to endure creativity in the field of inventions offers specialists engineers in mechanical, electronics, and electrical to brainstorm their ideas and make them real.
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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SECTOR
Supervisor, 2018
Youth City 2030 is an annual event organized by Ministry of Youth and Sports Affairs. The event focuses on key growth areas for Bahraini youth, aiming to promote creative thinking among them and encourage talent in areas such as leadership, media, information technology, arts, languages, science and sports. My responsibilities were to plan courses and supervise three organizations: The factory, Techno lab and Blueprint engineering office.
MINI PICKUP
Project Supervisor, 2018
In summer, I have planned and supervised a mini pickup project in Youth City. The project aimed to teach the students practically the main working principles of the vehicle components and how we can fabricate one. the course was inspired by my third year project in Bahrain Polytechnic.
PAVILION PROJECT
Project Planner, 2018
A project that I planned for The blueprint engineering office in Youth city. The project aims to teach the student to work in integrated projects as it consisted of three majors: interior design, civil engineering  and architecture. 40 students were divided to the areas they like to work together and build a pavilion that can be used by the youth for events and festivals. the concept of the design was the shape of the last wave in the Bahrain Anthem Melody.
THE ROBOT PROJECT
Project Supervisor, 2018
A project I planned and supervised for Techno Lab in Youth City. where high school students had worked together to design and program a robotic wheelchair for special needs where they control it with a joystick.
HOVERCRAFT PROJECT
Project Supervisor, 2018
A fun program I designed and planned for high school students in Youth City. Where 25 participants were divided into groups and learned about physics laws practically through fabricating and testing in a play field their hovercraft's .
