The Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department, the IEEE RHU Student Branch, and the IEEE-EMBS RHU Student Chapter held their third community outreach workshop for high school students on Saturday, March 18, 2023.
Around 35 students from Bisan High School, Hekmat Sabbagh High School, Rafik Hariri High School, and Beit Jala High School attended this workshop between 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. in the beautiful RHU campus in Mechref.
The workshop fulfilled its objectives of serving the community, spreading technical knowledge, and introducing local high school students to the ABET-accredited electrical (ELEC), biomedical (BIOM), and computer and communication engineering (CCE) programs in the RHU College of Engineering.
The workshops started with a presentation about the ECE Department and the computer and communications engineering program by the ECE Chairperson, Dr. Rached Zantout. Dr. Mohamad Diab, Dr. Mohamad Taha, and Dr. Maher Sabbah later introduced the students to the RHU biomedical engineering program, the electrical engineering program, and the IEEE/IEEE-EMBS societies, respectively.