Her Royal Highness Princess Somaya Bint al-Hassan, the President of the Royal Scientific Society, sponsored the opening of the 5th International Conference on Medical Engineering in the Middle East and Africa (MECBME) 2020. The conference was organized remotely by the Hajjawi Faculty of Technological Engineering at Yarmouk University in collaboration with the Institute of the Electrical and Electronic Engineers in Jordan (IEEE) and the Engineering Branch of Medicine and Biology in Jordan (IEEE EMBS Jordan Chapter).
Speaking at the opening session of the conference, her Highness stressed the need to explore more effective ways for providing scientific information in accurate and attractive ways and for promoting the dialogue between scientists and society. She emphasized the need to strengthen the field of medical engineering in order to be able to have a skilled scientific workforce for the future. Her Highness praised then the great efforts of the medical engineering staff of the Royal Scientific Society who serve our beloved country and congratulated the students of Princess Sumaya University of Technology on the occasion of obtaining the first place in the world championship in the IEEE Xtreme competition.
In his turn, the President of the University, Prof. Nabil al-Hillat, thanked Princess Somaya Bint al-Hassan for her generous sponsorship of the opening of the conference , which is an opportunity for engineers, researchers, scientists, medical experts, and decision makers to exchange experiences, open channels of cooperation and investment, work to meet current and future challenges, and create better opportunities for future generations. He stated, "the time has come to emphasize the importance of the outstanding contributions that biomedical engineering makes to the development of healthcare institutions and to maintaining the highest standards in engineering systems and applications that directly affect our health".
The chairman of the preparatory committee for the conference, Dr. Awad al-Zaben, welcomed the participants in the conference and noted that this conference brings together distinguished figures and scientists from different countries around the world. He then explained that the first day of the conference will be attended by three distinguished keynote speakers, namely Dr. Nitish Thakur of Johns Hopkins University in the United States, Dr. Emad al-Abini of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, USA, and Dr. Mohammed Odeh of the University of the West of England in the United Kingdom. He added that the conference will include 33 papers divided into seven axes, namely medical imaging, medical signal processing, medical imaging processing, medical devices and techniques, bioinformatics systems and artificial intelligence, artificial limbs, and biomechanics. He also mentioned that the papers submitted through the conference for publication will be presented to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library and indexed in Scopus.
The opening events, which were held remotely under the direction of Dr. Mohammed Al-Abed of The Hashemite University, were attended by Dr. Muwaffaq al-Omoush, the Dean of al-Hajjawi Faculty of Technological Engineering, Dr. Muwaffaq al-Otoom, and a number of faculty members at the faculty and a group of its students.
