Hashemite University to scale up student project’s solar cars prototype

AMMAN — The Hashemite University (HU) will produce around 20-30 environment-friendly solar car‏s, putting students’ creative graduation project into action, HU President Kamal Bani Hani told the Jordan News Agency, Petra, noting that the solar car project will serve the university’s various administrative departments such as the security department and the public service department.

“The production of solar car‏s is a very important and successful project that will serve the university in the first place, and the entire Jordanian economy later,” Bani Hani said, adding that “the university always seeks to incubate creative and pioneering projects which can be strong competitors at the local and regional levels”.

Dean of the department of Mechatronics Engineering at HU Awny Itradat, said: “We are working on directing our students’ graduation projects to meet the market needs by finding smart and sustainable engineering solutions for the pressing local and international problems.”

The five students who implemented the project were Ebtehal Abu Hassan, Bayan Farraj, Sondus Abu Alyan, Hadeel Abdulfattah and Vikki Jaaneyyeh, under the supervision of Mohammad Hayajneh and Khalid Wedyan.