Al Ain University Students Visit the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology
- Posted on:Oct 22, 2015
The Student Affairs Deanship at Al-Ain University of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi organized a student visit to Masdar Institute of Science and Technology where they were greeted by Ms Shaima Al-Habsi from the Supplement Energy and Climate Change Sect. She explained about the insitution, which was created in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She also mentioned that the institutes offers postgraduate and research programmes in the field of advanced energy and sustainable technologies, where it aims to support research and development activities in the field of alternative energy and clean technologies in the city.
She extended her explanation about the solar energy used byPV panels, and also about the transportation systems operated by clean energy public transport system and personal transport system which is used on the institue’s campus as a pilot project. She also talked about how waste management through the use of biological waste to obtain rich fertilizers and soils by converting some of these wastes for additional source of energy. The visit was attended by a number of students of the College of Business Administration and the College of Law.
