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IndexI. Mission

II. Vision

III. Curriculum Vitae

IV. Team Structure

i. Hierarchies

ii. Job Description

v. Working Strategyi. Team Development

ii. Member Type Identification

iii. Team Workiv. Decision Making

v. Problem Solvingvi. Meetings

vi. Partnerships and Co-operations

vii. Winningi. Special Competition

ii. National Competition

viii. Sustainability

ix. Time Frame

x. Forms

xi. FAQ

xii. Faculty Advisor CV

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“Setting an environment that encourages learning where every member has an equal opportunity to develop communication and

leadership skills”

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“Empowering team members to achieve their full potentials where they can improve their communication and leadership

skills, and find the courage to change destiny of people in need throughout our community.”

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Curriculum Vitae

Name : Ziad Adel DarwishDate of Birth: 14/5/1990

Year : Third Year Mechanical EngineeringJoined : Joined SIFE since 2009

History of Positions as a Team Member:

• 2009-2010: Head for entrepreneurship project .! ! Member in 4 other projects .

• 2010-2011: Head of sustainable projects [2 Projects].

• 2011-2012: Head of all SIFE projects.

Other working experiences

• Member of ASME

• Member of the organizing team [ Egyptian Marathon]

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Team StructureHierarchy

Job DescriptionFaculty Advisor

• Summary of Position The Role of the Faculty Advisor is to assist in the activities of the team through encouragement, advice, and guidance. The advisor is discouraged from micro-managing the team, though he/she is indeed the official head coach. The Faculty Advisor should, however, facilitate interactions between the team and the institution’s administration and may also assist with managing some activities of the team’s Business Advisory Board (BAB).

Key Responsibilities• Provide mentorship to SIFE members• Regularly attend SIFE meetings, fundraising activities and outreach programs.• Provide guidance to the SIFE team and evaluate competition presentations.• Prepare SIFE students for competitions.• Serve as an advocate for the SIFE organization on and off campus.• Ascertain that the SIFE team has met all requirements.• Serve as the primary representative of the team with SIFE Headquarters• Assist the Team Board in program implementation.• Serve as a link between the organization and university• Serve as a campus contact person for issues pertaining to University Administration.• Assist the organization in coordinating events to engage other members of the

university/college• Positively promote SIFE to colleagues on campus.• Guide students in accessing the many academic resources available.

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PRESIDENT

VICEEXECUTIVE

VICEFACILITATING

PROJECTS

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MEDIA

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PRESENTATION COORDINATOR

FACULTY ADVISOR

HIGH BOARD

BUSINESS ADVISORY BNOARD

Consulting

Business Advisory Board• Summary of Position

Business advisory board shall serve as an asset for SIFE BUE team. This group will provide mentorship and guidance for the team, advice on projects, an introduction of the team to other leaders in the community, access to needed resources, and critiques for your presentation before the actual competition.

High Board• Summary of Position

! SIFE BUE high board shall take a decision in ever risky, important decision by voting and ! discussing the decisions and shall work on changing the team weakness to strength

Key Responsibilities• Responsible for the team steps towards the team goal.• Responsible in maintaining the team strategy and vision.• Responsible in taking team decisions.• Responsible in making sure the team heads and members are going on the right

track• Shall discuss the team progress and the head progress• Have the authority to change committee head or the vice or a high board member if

he/she didn't meet the team expectations.

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PresidentSummary of Position

SIFE BUE president job is to control,facilitate and monitoring and making sure that the entire managerial job is on track.

Key Responsibilities• Responsible for the overall operation• Shall act as the Chairperson of the Board of Directors; shall preside at all meetings;

shall see that the organization adheres to the rules and regulations and policies as set by SIFE World Wide

• To steer strategic planning of the organization (i.e.: long-term goals, projects, etc.)• Shall assure that each head is aware of the duties and responsibilities• Shall bring all disputes and protests to the Board for consideration; shall appoint, audit

and be a standing member of all committees but shall not be a chairman of any committee;

• Further, the President shall be the contact with all organizations outside University on matters that do not fall within the specific responsibilities of other Board members (Committee).

• To be well-informed of all club activities;• To represent the organization at local, regional and national level.• To be aware of the main local Association regulations.• To be in regular contact with team managers.• To recognize the input of all committee members.

• • • • • •Vice Facilitating / Executive

• Summary of Position The Vice President shall work together with the President to sustain the day-to-day operations.SIFE BUE Vice-President Serves as President in absence of incumbent President to facilitate and monitor SIFE BUE committee heads work and that the entire managerial job is on track.

Key Responsibilities• Vice President shall see that the organization adheres to the rules and regulations and

policies set By SIFE WORLD WIDE.• The Vice President will also assist the President on any special projects.• Serves as President in absence of incumbent President.• Reporting any information to the President in advance if unable to attend a meeting.• Provide support to any number of projects or committees.• Assist in the establishment, and ensure compliance, of executive committees’ short-term

and long-term goals with overall corporate objectives.• Re-Auditing and monitor the committees progress reports and team accomplishments. • Provide advice, guidance, and direction to subordinate executives and managers while

implementing their projects.

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Public Relations● Summary of Position

The public relations head is responsible for representing the team in front of the university, other SIFE teams and the whole community through events and working on making a better picture of the team which is based on our vision and needs. It also connects the project team with any needed governmental or non governmental entities.

Key Responsibilities• A report need to be submitted every week; discussing every aspect in the project

sustainability.• Public Relation Committee head is responsible for the team picture in the university and the

society according to the team mission and vision.• Responsible for the media coverage of the team projects.• Responsible relationships or partnerships of the team and Building, developing, and

growing any business relationships or partnerships vital to the success of the project.• Responsible of making events that would increase the team supporters. • The public relations Committee head need to monitor and get involved with the project

manager in order to finish their tasks accurately before the dead lines that they reported it to the president and the vice president.

• A report need to be held every week; discussing every aspect in the tasks accomplishments.

• Coach, mentor, motivate and supervise project team members and project leaders, and influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work.

• Plan, organize, schedule project timelines, direct, control and evaluate the projects.• Meet with team members on regular bases to discuss the requirements, costs and timelines.• Assist any team members or team leader.• Identify and resolve issues and conflicts within the project team.

• • • • • •Fund-Raising

• Summary of Position !SIFE Egypt does not provide teams with funds to implement their projects. This means each SIFE teams in Egypt is responsible for securing their own funds in order to execute their projects. Although this puts an added responsibility on the shoulders of the team, it will ultimately teach teams an invaluable lesson in life; “there is no such thing as a free lunch”. The process of fundraising will instill into the students qualities needed to be successful entrepreneurs and leaders. There will be failures and successes in this regard, but the team that learns from these experiences will walk away winning so much more than it bargained for.

Key Responsibilities• A report need to be held every week; discussing every aspect in the project sustainability.• Fund-Raising Committee head is responsible for bringing up new projects with respect to

our budget and mission and vision.• The Fund-Raising Committee project head need to monitor and get involved with the

project manager in order to finish their projects accurately before the dead lines that they reported it to the president and the vice president.

• Coach, mentor, motivate and supervise project team members and project leaders, and influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work.

• Plan, organize, schedule project timelines, direct, control and evaluate the projects.• Build, develop, and grow any business relationships or partnerships vital to the success of

the project.• To approach potential sponsors and market the club through sponsorship proposals.• Is responsible for achieving the quota that will be set that will be used to achieve the

projects. He/she needs to give semi-annual plan for his fundraising projects.10

Media• Summary of Position

The Media head is responsible for representing the team in front of all other committees and university through all the multimedia projects that are accomplished during the year. Specially the preparation of annual report and Final presentation for the national competition.

Key Responsibilities• A report need to be held every week; discussing every aspect or needs of the media team.• Media head is responsible for bringing up new motivational videos.• The Media head need to get involved with the project managers in order to receive the

tasks concerning the media and accomplish them before the dead lines.• Coach, mentor, motivate and supervise project team members and project leaders, and

influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work.• Plan, organize, schedule project timelines, direct, control and evaluate the projects.• Meet with team members on regular bases to discuss the requirements, costs and

timelines.• Assist any team members or team leader.• Identify and resolve issues and conflicts within the project team.• Build, develop, and grow any business relationships or partnerships vital to the success of

the project.

• • • • •Operation n’ Logistics

• Summary of Position Plan, direct, and coordinate human resource management activities of an organization to maximize the strategic use of human resources and maintain functions such as employee compensation, recruitment, personnel policies, and regulatory compliance.

Key Responsibilities• Prepare and facilitate academic support workshops focusing on time management,

public speaking, studying and exam preparation strategies.• Support new students with schedule planning and preparation for faculty advisor

meetings during new student orientation and provide basic support for other orientation activities, including assisting with arrival day move in and as assigned.

• Recruiting new members.• Members orientation, development, and providing training.• Monitoring each team accomplishments, activities and working hours in order to be

archived.• The head need to monitor and get follow up for projects accurately before the dead lines

that they reported it to the President and the Vice president.• A report need to be held every week; discussing every aspect in the project

accomplishments. • Calculating the total number of hours consumed in each project and responsible for the

appraisal.• Meet with team members on regular bases to discuss the updates related to

committees.• Identify and resolve issues and conflicts within the project team.• Build, develop, and grow any business relationships or partnerships vital to the success

of the project.

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Board of Consulting

● Summary'of'Posi-on'The$consul+ng$board$shall$give$advises$for$the$team$heads$and$members $in$ the$planning$phase$and$finding$ solu+ons$for$problems$that$need$experience.$This $consul+ng$ board$is $chosen$by$the$high$board$from$the$old$SIFE$BUE$members$who$are$no$longer$ac+ve.$

'Key'Responsibili-es• Board$of$Consul+ng$shall$aDend$the$planning$mee+ngs.• Board$of$consul+ng$is$to$give$advices$to$team$that$shall$put$the$team$on$the$right$track• Board$$$of$consul+ng$is$to$help$in$giving$solu+ons$in$problems$that$need$experience$• Provide$ advice,$ guidance,$ and$ direc+on$ to$ subordinate$ execu+ves$ and$ managers $ while$implemen+ng$their$projects.

• Provide$ advice,$ guidance,$ and$ direc+on$ to$ subordinate$ execu+ves$ and$ managers $ while$implemen+ng$their$projects.

• • • • •Research and development

● Summary$of$Posi+onResearch$and$development$is$to$search,$lab$research$for$projects$and$to$make$a$financial$visibility$of$each$and$every$project$and$make$a$full$report$of$every$project$and$search$for$compe++ons$that$the$team$could$aDend$which$are$mee+ng$our$projects$criteria's$$

'Key'Responsibili-es• A$report$need$to$be$held$every$week;$discussing$every$aspect$of$the$projects.• Responsible$for$searching$for$projects $that$would$insure$the$team$sustainability$and$maintain$the$team$forward$vision.• Responsible$ for$ lab$ research$ of$ the$ project$ that$ needs$ the$ lab$ research$ to$ insure$ the$ project$credibility.• Responsible$to$make$financial$visibility$ for$each$and$every$project$ to$make$sure$of$ the$success$of$the$project.• Responsible$to$make$a$full$porMolio$reports $of$all$of$the$project$searched$and$research$for$to$create$a$forward$vision$of$the$them.• will$take$a$part$in$the$project$implementa+on.$• Coach,$mentor,$mo+vate$and$supervise$project$team$members $and$project$leaders,$and$influence$them$to$take$posi+ve$ac+on$and$accountability$for$their$assigned$work.• Assist$any$team$members$or$team$leader.$

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Presentation Co-ordinator● Summary of Position

Shall work from the being of the year on carefully choosing the presentation team and training them aside to there original job in the team and shall work with media team from the being of the year in creating the presentation of the national competition .

Key Responsibilities• Responsible in choosing the presentation team members.• Responsible in training the presentation team on the presentation skills • Responsible for working with the head of media on creating the national presentation them

• • • • • •Projects

• Summary of Position The projects head is responsible for implementing the introduced projects to SIFE. Committee Head perform a range of tasks depending on the type of projects. Generally, the Committee Head manages the day-to-day planning, operation and problem-solving so that a team meets it required level of progress.

Key Responsibilities• Project head is responsible for bringing up projects with respect to our budget and mission

and vision.• The project head need to monitor and get involved with the project manager in order to

finish their projects accurately before the dead lines that they reported it to the president and the vice president.

• A report need to be held every week; discussing every aspect in the project accomplishments.

• Coach, mentor, motivate and supervise project team members and project leaders, and influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work.

• Plan, organize, schedule project timelines, direct, control and evaluate the projects.• Meet with team members on regular bases to discuss the requirements, costs and

timelines.• Assist any team members or team leader.• Identify and resolve issues and conflicts within the project team.• Build, develop, and grow any business relationships or partnerships vital to the success of

the project.

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Plan in ActionAdministration

SIFE BUE will be working on strengthen our relation with the university administration. The university administration support is required to help us in achieving our final goal. We will work on creating short term goals so these achievements to be previewed to the university administration so they can be updated with our progress. Also creating a news letter on regular basis to inform them with our progress. Such updates and achievements will make put their trust in our work and work with us on bigger and greater achievements.

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Projects ImplementationWhen talking about a new vision for the team, the new vision of the projects implementing must be defined, because projects are SIFE main purpose. Changing the vision of projects is a must first by focusing on certain locations where we can touch a reach remarkable changes, and assure that the team improving the quality of life and standards of living of the targeted group and to assure that the team resources are effectively employed. By following the following guile line we can assure that our team will double the performance and double the out come.

• Outcomes desired and how to measure the project’s success in improving the quality of life and standard of living for others. The team must clearly identify the measurement tools that will be used. Additionally, a wish list of outcomes-desired can be created. In regards to improvement in Quality of Life, which social, cultural, and emotional circumstances.

• Specific tasks and corresponding deadlines required for project completion. Once the planning phase is complete and timelines are set, teams can move forward with the implementation phase.

• Choosing locations! Some teams never do progress, some teams never reach a tangible achievement. SIFE ! BUE will be working hard on choosing the locations were people are in need and were we ! can ! actually reach easily to help in providing our full attention and effort.

• Finding Solutions! Since were are working in improving people way of life. We will be focusing on solving their ! problems which is an obstacles facing them in their daily life. We will be making sure that ! we implement the right project to the right audience.

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200%ImprovementPerformance OutCome

Board of Consulting SIFE was active on our campus since 2009, he founders of this team passed through different stages

than the one we passed through. Also these founders and the members were at their time some of them were graduated and were exposed to real life problems. It’s time to initiate an alumni for SIFE BUE. A board of consulting asking for the guidance and help of the old SIFE BUE student who have done a great job previous years and are no longer active. The high board will choose the members of the board of consulting according to there skills and experience that are fit to SIFE BUE mission, vision and goal where they will give a tremendous asset to the team.

• • • • • •Business Advisory Board If we want perfection for SIFE BUE it must be supported by people who rule the world outside the

campus. A Business Advisory Board who believe in our project, purpose and goal and wishes. They will provide mentorship and guidance for our team, advice on projects. Moreover introducing the team to other leaders in the community who will provide us with the needed resources, and give feed back about our progress. For such important role we contacted a three of those leaders to be members of our business advisory board [Mahrous Mohamed ,Mohammed Moneer & Ibrahim Meligy].

Public Relations Public relations is the first committee that needs redefining of it’s vision and mission, The blast that the public relations team would give the SIFE BUE by the new vision and mission is the first step towards success. The public relations team will work on increasing the publicity of the team on campus by delivering a full picture of the team achievements. Such good publicity will reach the administration and by time we will be give their full sport.Their missions will assist the fund-rising team and operation and logistics in executing their plans. Also the public relations team will work on the media coverage of the team projects of the past year by increase the team exposure to community and increasing the awareness of the community of SIFE BUE's projects existence.

Presentation Coordinator A new position first time to be introduced. The main goal of creating this position is to be well prepared for the presentations which we go through the year. This team is responsible for starting and completion of the presentation. After going through the preparation stage and rehearsals. This team will be active since the early beginning of the year, just after their minimum requirements to start are fulfilled.The head is going to select the team members who have the skills required. This team leader will have a high presentation skills and self confidence to coach them all over the year and the ability to choose the best who of who will represent SIFE BUE.

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Fund Raising Fund raising committee been through hard time the previous years as the team financial stability is graded 0 out of 5 in the SIFE worldwide handbook team index score. Each year our fund raising team could not cover at least 20% of the funding needed to complete the projects.

Solutions were suggested first we will be asking the administration to allow us to on get our booth back to work after being shutdown for a year. We will be taking the risk by managing the booth by ourselves. We will be choosing the projects which will provide us with a constant fund instead of renting the booth. An alternative plan if the university administration rejected our proposal of getting back the booth we will be renting the SU booth.

The Fundraising team will be working on getting sponsors for our projects who will be providing us with the needed fund or resources.

Also the fundraising team will be introducing different events on and outside of campus.

Last but not least a number of fundraising projects are prepared and ready to be discusses with the fundraising head to open new channels and start thinking out of the box [SIFE Products,....etc].

Operation and Logistics ! Operation and logistics committee is such

a powerful team for organization it's responsible for the team development and monitoring. While being in charge when organizing meeting events and recrui t ing the new members. Also responsible for insuring that the team is following the team vision and not of track.

Operation team is responsible for developing the team members skills and discovering their abilities.

Then comes other responsibilities, by providing certain courses which are chosen and set deals for these courses. The suggested courses to be given are designing, video directing and video editing course for the media committee. Project planning course for project committee while financial visibility for research. And development committee, communication and marketing courses for fundraising.

Examples of courses which we've reached a deal and set till now which are financial visibility and project planning.

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Research and DevelopmentResearch and development is the newly introduced committee which will assure a forward thinking for further projects which will be implemented. These projects will have a high credibility by proven research labs or financial visibility for SIFE BUE. This committee is starting strong where a deal sealed with university of Nevada to use the lab research and staff for researching for projects. The deal is researching for a mechanical project this year and working on a deal at the moment to research for civil, electrical and chemical projects for next year with Nevada University and other universities.

Next year also setting the deal for the financial visibility with one of our advisory board members to give a financial visibility course by providing us with a program that would make it easy to get a full financial visibility of any project and reviewing all our financial visibility before starting to work.

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Faculty Advisor This year SIFE BUE vision will require having two faculty advisor rather than one. After reviewing SIFE handbook " there is no limit on the number of advisors". Sticking to the guidance of Prof. John Adams as our main Faculty Advisor who guided us with the economical and calculation of the impact. Dr. Tarek Hatem chairman for American society for mechanical engineer chairman in Egypt and the coordinator of engineering for change in Egypt. Will hgive us a great support specifically with the technical issues and finding solutions for it.

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Media Committee The media committee since SIFE BUE started it always depended just one person

who is likely to be the head of this committee. Our a university doesn't have

faculties of as mass communication or fine arts.

SIFE BUE finds it hard to find students with the required skills but we depend on finding

students who have talents. Knowing the weakness point we could find a

solution by providing courses for designee, video editing as much early as possible at

the beginning of the academic year. The team will be required to create an existence

of our team online through video channel [vblog] where we will be introducing ideas

and solutions to the community. While at the same time our team is practicing and getting

ready for the final presentation.

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Working StrategyThe main purpose of this section is to show you they strategy which i will be using during the coming year in order to make the most of our opportunities. We will work on enabling and encouraging team members to work together effectively to deliver great impact which will affect people lives.

• • • • • •Team DevelopmentA team is a living and dynamic entity. It could progress from an early to a mature phase, independent of the nature of the team. Our next phase is the performing stage.

In this phase our team has achieved harmony, defined its tasks, worked out its relationships, and we should be producing results. Leadership will be provided by the team members best suited for the task at hand. Members have learned how to work together, manage conflict and contribute their resources to meet the team's purposes.

We don’t aim to fix or build a particular team at a particular moment in time. We are working to create a deep connection of the dynamics of people working together to achieve success. A true team development focuses on individual action, feeling and accountability rather than on vague actions of team.

Team Development benefits• Team members will maintain their improved

effectiveness in the face of difficulties and continue to develop 

• Sustainable improvements in performance. We align the changes to both the short term and long term performance of the team,and directioning the capabilities of its members to which it belongs. 

• Success that can be measured I believe it is vital to agree clear success criteria so that subsequent evaluations are clear and focussed. We ensure that each committee determines appropriate, challenging targets that will enable it to measure success.

We will sustain our team effectiveness through

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• Clearly stated and commonly held vision and goals. Our team goals are developed through a group process of team interaction and agreement in which each team member is willing to work towards achieving these goals.

•  Role clarity, particularly at the beginning.

•   Leadership is distributed and shared among team members and individuals willingly to contribute their resources as needed.

•  Workload sharing during the team’s lifespan to facilitate the accomplishment of tasks.

•  Team decision making involves a process that encourages active participation by all members during the team’s lifespan. It helps to build commitment.

•  Problem solving, discussing team issues, and assessing team effectiveness are encouraged by all team members.

•   Performance monitoring: the team members need to monitor each other's task execution and give feedback during task execution. Feedback is freely given as a way of evaluating the team's performance .

•   Team self-correction is the process in which members engage in eva lua t ing the i r performance and in determining their strategies after task execution..

•  The social environment is open and supportive with a focus on learning. Conflict is not suppressed. Team members are allowed to express negative feelings within the team which is managed and dealt with by team members. Dealing with and managing conflict is seen as a way to improve team performance.

Member IdentificationAlmost as certain as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, all teams go through stages as they develop. What does vary is how long each stage takes.

How can you select the right team for a project?

Having the right core team can make a great progress. Therefore, great care should be taken when selecting team members. Using the following e lements we w i l l be ab le to touch the improvements during the shortest time period.

• Team size

• Overall team composition

• Team member selection and exclusion criteria

• Member recruitment processTeam size

We were never aiming for large number of members who don’t actually have effective existence within the team. Recommended size is a team of 3-12 members in order to work faster and tend to produce results quickly. While creating sub teams to operate effectively.

Overall team composition

We will focus on a team well-rounded who includes a mix of members having a wide range of experience and skills.

Our team member selection and exclusion criteria mainly depend on those people who are able to work well together for the project to succeed. When selecting team members, give preference to individuals who are:

• Concerned about and committed to the common

• Enthusiastic & Optimistic

• Creative, flexible and open minded

• Proactive

• Good team players

• Respect the values, beliefs and opinions of others

• Relate to and interact effectively with individuals and groups

• Are willing to cooperate to reach common goals.

Team WorkA teamwork is an individual member’s understanding about what is needed for a team to be successful. Each team member comes to a team with a pre-determined picture of how teams work that is influenced by prior experiences.

Four Guidelines for Effective Communication

• Focus on the behavior or problem, not on the person. People become defensive when criticized personally.

• Keep your verbal and nonverbal language on the same page. This limits confusion.

• Compliment team members on good ideas and suggestions.

• Everyone has a chance to speak. Encourage team members to express opinions and share ideas.Don’t let specific team members dominate the conversation. Ideas are lost this way.

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Decision MakingDecisions made by multiple individuals who openly share data, opinions, and experiences are almost always better, more teams to solve innovative, longer lasting decisions that those made by a single individual.It’s because of the diversity of experiences and opinions!

The process in some cases is harder because team members see things differently. But if everyone thought the same way, then the decision would not be very innovative at all. By talking about it, the team will be exposed to new possibilities.

This process either Compromise or Consensus, our team always used to compromise to find a solution which satisfies most of the members but, I chose to use the consensus technique.

What is a Compromise?

A compromise is one way of arriving at a decision that everyone involved can accept. The benefit to compromising is that it is expedient and allows the team to move on to the next task.

The problem with compromising is that the outcome doesn’t meet anyone’s expectations. Still, some members are satisfied with it than the others. As a result, not everyone is 100% committed to the solution, so not everyone will work towards implementing the decision. When decisions are determined by majority or authority, those who dissent lose their commitment.

What is Consensus?

In a consensus, the various points of view of each member of the team are considered, discussed, compared, and discussed again until everyone sees all views from the top. We might not all agree on the same decision, but it is important that all team member opinions are all heard.

The benefit to building consensus when making a decision is that everyone buys into the solution. This means that all team members will work towards making that solution work.

The key to consensus building is steering the discussion away from “right versus wrong” arguments.

Problem SolvingProblems come in many forms. Regardless of the form of the problem, our teams commonly did not know where to begin or how to proceed to solve it. Consequently, we choose to go through trial and error a little stumbling here and there they may try different approaches until something works or it doesn’t.

In organizations problem-solving which is a daily activity in our teamwork which we start finding solution by our selfs depending on our personal experiences. As a team of number of members each of us have a different background built upon what problems we have been exposed to before and as a result we develop our skills but in order to before efficient and time consuming.

A methodology that teams frequently use is the Seven Steps of Problem Solving. This framework helps a team to figure out not only where to start but also where to touch base whenever it encounters an obstacle.

Step1 : Identifying the Problem

! Knowing what is exactly the problem by ! eliminating any distractions .

Step 2: The Current Process

! What did we reach till this problem came up?

! What should be the next step?

! What kind of delay affected us?

Step 3 : Identify the root cause

! What are the possible causes of the problem?

! Which is most like?

Step 4: Develop solution and Action Plan

! What are the suggested solutions?

! What are the suggested alternatives?

! Which is the best solution or alternative?

! On what basis we chose a specific solution

Step 5: Implement

Step 6: Evaluate

Step 7: Reflect and act on learning

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Partnerships &Co-operationsPartnership is a collaborative agreement between two or more parties in which all participants agree to work together to achieve a common purpose or undertake a specific task and to share r isks, responsibilities, resources, competencies and benefits.

SIFE BUE will focus on strengthening our relationship with other entities. During the next year we will be working with different entities wither NGOs or Sponsors. In order to gain their trust we will be working on creating a professional

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Steps were already taken to start our powerful partnership. We were able to set a deal with University of Nevada (located in Las Vegas, USA) where Engineering SIFE students started working on a research project for finding a solution to offer the basic needs which is low cast and can be implemented at the poorest areas in our society. These students are not just provided with support from University Professors but also they have started having a workshops at the University of Nevada.

Also we were able to contact two of the biggest and oldest organizations in Egypt Masr El Kheir and Nahdet EL Mahroosa. They were willing and provided us with their full support, As for Masr El Kheri they decided to partner with us on developing a poor village located in fayoum. While Nahdet el Mahrousa will provide us with the required courses and experts to help us as much as they can.

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WinningSpecial Competition

SIFE special competition Aiming and working on achiving the first place at SIFE Egypt special competitions will make us gain publicity within the SIFE Community which will help in improving our team index score. Moreover these competitors each has a reward, which is considered as a constant starting fund for the year following.y.

Other Special competitionsSIFE BUE will be aiming to participate in o the r sepa ra te compe t i t i on (De l l

Competition, IEEE, WID,..etc) with the projects which we implement during the year. Participating in such competitions will require our team to work hard in earlier stage than what we used to work at which will act as a guide for us in order not loose track from we started and where are we and how much left to achieve our goal.In other words winning those competitions will increase the team motivation, publicity and getting support from the university administration. And even if we were not able to win those competition losing them will help in re evaluating our progress and the team members will gain even more experience.

National CompetitionSIFE BUE has reached it's performing stage, It's time for SIFE BUE to compete at the second round to win the national competition We can win, Now we have a team full of well experienced members, powered by a new vision and a new strategy a team aiming to serve their community and proudly present their country.

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Maintaining the sustainability of our team is essential. Sustainability will be provided by optimizing our resources and reducing the time waste. Also the recruitment will be looking for new members from different university academic years. Also the leadership distribution will be among the new and old members so the old members will guide them as they are passing experience.

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Sustainability

Team WorkBy knowing the responsibilities of each member will save us more time. Also sticking to the time frame and criteria for the team members distribution will push us forward. Leadership positions will be given to members who are experienced enough to achieve our common goal.

Partnerships and PublicityPartnering with different entities will provide our team with a number of connections. Partners will share their experience, more partners will provide us with more brains thinking for solutions to have a better outcome.

Financial StabilityFundRaising is our team backbone restructuring and setting a year plan to follow as early as possible. Introducing new channels for fundraising. Increasing the number of connection while have a media support will facilitate our mission.

Projects ImplementationDocumenting the projects from the early beginning which include a time plan for each project. Also it will include a ficibility study for each,. These documents will help us to keep track of our progress and it’s will provide our ! team with guide line so the team ! ! can follow in later stages.

Team Work Implementation

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Time FrameSeptember 2012

• 6th of Sept ➔ Elections Day• 12th of Sept ➔ First Board Meeting • 14th of Sept ➔ First Meeting for Operation and Logistics Team • 14th of Sept ➔ First Meeting for Project CLs to start restructuring the projects• 19th of Sept ➔ First Meeting for Project [Old Members]• 26th of Sept ➔ First Task Project [Old Members]

• • • • • •October 2012

• 7th of Oct ➔ SIFE Opening Ceremony • 14th to 21st of Nov ➔ Recruitment• 25th of Nov ➔ Presentation Coordinator First Meeting

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November 2012

• 11th of Nov ➔ Orientations for New Members • 18th of Nov ➔ First Meeting [New Members]• 18th of Nov ➔ First Meeting [New Members]• 16-23th of Nov ➔ University Trip [Fund-Raising]• 30,31th of Nov ➔ Team Building Program

• • • • • •December 2012

• 1st of Dec ➔ SIFE Team will stop till the end of Mid-Year Exams

75 Working DaysEnd of The First SemesterBy the end of the first semester out team will be thought a number of accomplishments.

• 80% Three projects will be implemented.

• New Members Recruited and Oriented.• New Members received their tasks.

• Presentation Meetings Established.

• Brain Storming sessions provided by professionals.

• Sessions provided for New Members.

• SIFE BUE Opening Ceremony.

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January 2013

• 29th of Jan ➔ First Day Teaching [ Meetings will start proceeding]

• • • • • •February 2013

• 16th of Feb ➔ Fund-Raising Event • 9th of Feb ➔ 2nd Recruitment [if Needed] • 20th to 23 Feb ➔ GOT Training

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March 2013

• 16th of March ➔ University Trip

• • • • • •April 2013

• 1st of April ➔ SIFE Team will stop till the end of End-Year ExamsBy the time we stop working 75% of our project are implemented.

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May 2013

• 23rd of May ➔ SIFE Team Trip• 25rd of May ➔ First Meeting

• • • • • •June 2013

• 1st to 30th Jun ➔ Working on Increasing project Impact

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July 2013

• 1st to 10th Jul ➔ Working on Increasing project Impact • 16th of Jul ➔ National Competition

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End of The Second SemesterBy the end of the April during the 110 working days we will be utilizing our efforts and resources to be the champion at the National Compton. By the end of the year our accomplishments.

• A Min imum of 9 Pro jects wi l l be implemented

• New Members Recruited and Oriented.

• W e l l d e v e l o p e d t e a m f o r m o r e achievements ready for next year.

• Well build Presentation and Media Team.• New communication platform.

• Well Documented projects.

• Team Portfolio Created.• Business Advisory Board Initiated

• Strong Connections.• SIFErs Identity are recreated.

• Clearer to public existence.• Team Alumni passing experience.

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Frequently Asked QuestionsQ: Why are you running for SIFE President?I am a live example of how SIFE affects our personality and how we think. I was more of an incubator, i have been storing information and trying to learn more and more. I have gained skills and experience which i want to deliver to others. i want SIFE BUE to reach it's golden age and secure the sustainability.

SIFE changed who I am and it’s time to give back.

• • • • • •Q: What skills you have makes you capable of running this team?The benefit to building consensus when making a decision is that everyone buys into the solution. This means that all team members will work not everyone is 100% committed to the solution, so not everyone will work towards implementing the decision. When decisions are determined by majority or authority, those who dissent lose their commitment. The benefit to building consensus when making a decision is that everyone buys into the solution. This means that all team members will work not everyone is 100% committed to the solution, so not everyone will work towards implementing the decision. When decisions are determined by majority or authority, those who dissent lose their commitment.

• • • • • •Q: What is your experience with your university administration?I already have been in contact with the administration since i joined SIFE in 2009 and specially during the last two years. I have studied the personalities of the people in charge at the administration and as I stated within the plan before that we will be working on good relationship with the administrat ion by showing them our achievements to have their support. Also I’m not depending on them as a main source for the fundraising as we used to do before, but we need their support since we have the same mutual interest we are representing our university.

Q: How would you respond to people who think SIFE is useless?Well SIFE provides us with experience which we will never have expect if we get in contact with the community. Also we are not a charity work as most people might think and yes we are helping people but through development which is another prospective . We apply what is taught in lectures on land and we seek to see those results. Explaining the concept of the organization to those who think it’s useless might not be enough they will also be invited to join us on a task to see what we are actually doing.

• • • • • • Q: Did you choose your team leaders?

I am an old team member and I know all of the members abilities, and who is more effective in which position. But that doesn’t give me the right to force some one to a position while another member is seeking it. So some positions their leader will be assigned but if no candidates applied for it. And the final decision of who will take the place will not only be my decision but it’s my role and the high bored too.

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Faculty Advisor

Name : Tarek HatemLecturer at the British University in EgyptDepartment of Mechanical EngineeringAdjunct Assistant Professor at North Carolina State University

" BackgroundDr. Tarek Hatem is a lecturer at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at British University in Egypt since August 2011, and an adjunct assistant professor at North Carolina State University where he received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering in 2009, and an MSc in Materials Science in 2008. Prior to that, he assumed several roles in industry and academia, and received both a BSc and an MSc in Aerospace Engineering from Cairo University. Dr. Hatem is a reviewer for several scientific journals, a member of the joint ASME Constitutive Equations Committee and a member of several honor and professional societies. Amongst recent awards, he received scholarships from the NSF and DOE, a first place award for scientific projects at Egyptian universities by the highest board of Egyptian universities, and co-initiated the development effort of Extreme Loading for Structures software (ELS, http://www.extremeloading.com/). ! !

Dr. Tarek Hatem is the co-founder of several initiatives that include launching Engineering for Change in Egypt, Egyptian Association for Change in USA, and Egypt-The Hope. He is also the founder and chairman of ASME’s Egypt Senior Section.

" Professional Affiliations- Egyptian Engineering Syndicate.- ASME, American Society of Mechanical Engineers.- AIAA, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.- MRS, Material Research Society. - TMS, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society.- IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.- SIAM, Society of Industrial and Applied Math.- AMSAT, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation

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" External ActivitiesOrganizing committee membership: “High Strain-Rate Phenomena: Modeling and Experiment” Symposia in IMECE2011 (topic organizer); “High Strain-Rate Phenomena: Modeling and Experiment” Symposia in IMECE2012 (topic organizer); Egypt the Revolution Conference (October 2011); TEDx NCSU (Fall 2010); Technical committee membership: Joint ASME Applied Mechanics and Materials Divisions Constitutive Equations Committee (2009-), Advisor to students’ chapters: BUE’s ASME Student Chapter (2011-), BUE’s AIAA Student Chapter (2011-)Awards panel membership: Student research posters at the 2010 Sigma Xi Annual Meeting and International Research Conference (judge), Conrad Foundation's Spirit of Innovation Awards (Judge)Referee: Metallurgical and Materials Transactions (2007-), Mechanics of Materials (2009-), Computer, Materials and Continua (2009-), the Journal of Vibration and Control (2011-)Board membership: Engineering for Change in Egypt (2011-, founder); Egypt-The Hope (2011, co-founder and vice-chairman); Egyptian Association for Change (2010-2012, co-founder and board member); Egyptian Student Association in North America (2006, science officer)

" Broad Interests and ExpertiseDr. Hatem has been involved in the development of several computational mechanics tools that spans a multitude of length and time scales. Those vary from high-rise buildings to micro/nano materials, and from blast loads to quasi-static lab testing. Dr. Hatem’s research focuses on advancing the state of the art in materials by design, and to develop metallic alloys with superior properties for high impact applications in defense, aerospace and renewable energy. This approach been extended to study processing and defects evolution in semiconductor devices and solar cells. Prior background is concerned with design, failure mitigation and structural monitoring of large structures, satellites and mechanical systems.Current research objective is to develop, implement and validate a unified discontinuous computational representation of defects in materials and structures based on domain decomposition method for highly scalable computations, which extends over several length scales and thousand of processors. The proposed computational method represents defects in materials with minimal internal variables using new formulations for dislocation-density evolution and interaction in crystal plasticity that is coupled with predictive failure models (e.g. cracks, porosity, shear localization). Moreover, it links both atomistic models in nano-scale and finite element method in application scale (macro-scale). The computational framework is utilized to develop new steel and aluminium alloys with superior properties for high impact applications, and new developments for semiconductor devices and solar cells that decrease defects-density several orders of magnitude.

" Research Interests and ActivitiesNew computational models for failure and multiscale analysis: X-FEM; AEM; domain decomposition; particle methods; physical models for fractureDeformation mechanisms and heterogeneous failure modes in micro/nano materials: dislocation-density evolution; ductile and brittle failure systems; porosity nucleation, growth and coalescenceMaterials by design: morphology; grain/sub-grains boundaries; secondary phases; initial dislocations Object Oriented Design and Development of CAD/CAM: multiscale analysis; characterization; virtual-testing; homogenization; materials designDynamic behavior of materials: stress waves in solids; structural dynamics; adiabatic shear band formation; texture and inclusions effectsEvolution of phase transformation, and defects diffusion in solidsSmart structures: structural stability and design of smart structures and materials; active and passive control; shape memory alloys, Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) Agile technology entrepreneurship and commercialization

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