Mr. Ahmed Shawky Ghareeb, a research assistant at Nanostructured Materials and Nanotechnology Division, came back from Japan after 6 months from October 2008 to April 2009 as a member of the Partnership and  Ownership agreement (ParOwn), at Hokkaido University, Japan. During his stay, He studied the conductance  of organic molecules with the noble metal electrodes in the form of molecular junctions, which is of great interest for the future molecular electronics instead of Si based technology. His work is presented in the  64th annual meeting of the physical society of Japan from 27-30 March, 2009 in Tokyo.  

Two members in Composite Division awarded the Master of Engineering (M.E.) degree from Faculty of Engineering at Cairo University. Eng. Essam Ahmed Mohammed successfully completed his thesis defense on 25th March, 2009.
His thesis titled "Synthesis and Characterization of Alumina or Graphite Particulates Reinforced A319 Matrix Composites" is supervised by Assoc. Prof. Atef Awad Younan (CMRDI), Prof Ahmed Mohamed El-Sheikh (CU).Moreover, his colleague Eng. Ahmed Lotfy Mohammed a Research Assistant at the same division followed the great job of Essam by another sound work with successful completing his thesis defense on 11th April, 2009. His thesis titled
"Fabrication Technology and Material Characterization of Zinc 27 Aluminum Alloy Reinforced with Different Particulates." is supervised by Prof. Malak Taher Abou El-Khair, Prof Ahmed Mohamed El-Sheikh (CU

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