Haneen Mohammed Bawayan is a fresh MS graduate from University of New Haven in the United States majoring in Electrical Engineering. My concentration is power systemI have received my bachelor degree from Effat University, majoring in Electrical and Computer Engineering, concentrating in control system and robotics. I have had a decent academic record, along with two-summer internship at first Saudi Aramco, and at second Schneider Electric Company. Since I was young, I have always had the curiosity to learn about science specifically physics and math, they have been preferable subjects. My skills in these subjects have been developed during my studies at school. Actually, I enjoy the way things work and the scientific challenges when solving mathematical problems.
During my academic life in the United States, I have passed through a lot of research challenges. I have had the opportunity to discover the power system field in deep. I have read more than a thousand of journals and articles. I realized my ambitious as an electrical engineer in Power Electronics. This opened my mind widely to explore fixable alterative current transmission line (FACTS) technology world. Thus, I have written a research paper about improving power quality in grid connected to renewable energy utilizing FACTS devices. Besides, I have attended spectacular workshop by a Canadian consultant about the Transformer manufacturing and processing.
When I was a student at Effat University, I have executed many minor projects and three major ones, Egg incubator, crazy ball, and the capstone project “Automated Shipment Sorter”. As my concentration is control system and robotics, Automated Shipment Sorter is all about controlling; it is to sort the delivered packages automatically by using a robotic arm, conveyors, barcodes, sensors, and finally the software into the correct location. Crazy ball project for the spring of 2011 is the result of combining three different major courses revolving around multivariable control and integrating a microcontroller with different sensor circuits. It is a game about automated ball control. In this game the ball has a closed loop path to move through different stages. An egg incubator is project for the fall 2010; it is used to hatch bird or reptile eggs. The incubator keeps the eggs warm, allowing the fetuses inside of them to grow and hatch without the mother present. The egg incubator consists of three main parts, which they are the temperature controller humidity control and motor control.
I have been worked very hard with the continuous efforts and sleepless nights, in all mentioned projects to learn and gain a lot of knowledge merged with hard experiences, Thankfully I was able to accomplish exactly what I have planned to, although a lot of complications arose but I was able to find a solution for each single problem and the outcome of the three projects were exactly as predicted. Fortunately, the capstone project was given the opportunity to enter the “Student Competition” in “Woman in Engineering & Industry Forum” held by “The Western Saudi Arabia Women in Engineering Affinity Group of IEEE” the project has amazed and astonished many eyes, thus I have been awarded an appreciation and gratitude certificate for being the winner group from Effat University, the project has won the second place in the competition. Also it was given to us the privilege of presenting the project to many outstanding engineers whom were also stunned by it. The “Automated Shipment Sorter “presentation has captured the attention of the journalists, which lead them to publish an article in “Sayidaty” magazine on the 17th of December 2011 about the young Saudi Engineers and the important role of women in the engineering field.
The internship gave me a chance to see a real life work and application of many things related to electrical engineering. At Saudi Aramco, I have been involved under IT department and working with support division where I was dealt with uninterruptable power supply devices to supply power to the servers for the head office of the company where located in Dhahran. The project was about upgrading the data center of the main tower. The second internship was in Schneider Electric Company. I have been worked under industrial automation business unit, where I was dealt with PLC devices; The project is about controlling four traffics light for four-intersection road using Twido PLC and Twido Suite software for programming the system. It was grateful experience I have never seen before; I was satisfying what required for me in pleasing and pleasant, these experiences added a lot of information and values to my knowledge correlated with real work. Actually, my skills were developed in application of theory to practical work situation.
My desire to question myself and know more and more about Electrical Engineering motivates me to purse a post graduate level. It will be more challenging and advanced but that would just make it more interesting for me. As Saudi Female Engineer, I seek to learn the all necessary knowledge and skills to serve my country with my achievements in the field and share them to better the peoples’ lives
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