Who cares about course evaluations?
A blog post on students course evaluations posted on the AUIS Website and can be found here, including the following set of data visualizations.
Category Archives: Initiatives and Activities
Information and details of initiatives, projects, curricular and/or extracurricular activities that are not teaching, research, or administration.
TV Interview on Creative Coding and Computing
Thanks to the students’ amazing works, words on the Creative Coding and Computing course that I developed and are offering at AUIS went out and got some media attention. Galli Kurdistan (GK) Satellite channel prepared a report on the subject and how the course ignites student’s creativity in addition to learning computer programming. Below is
Creative Coding and Computing Final Projects
With exactly the same set of tools, it is incredible to see how some people can be more creative than others! Using the same programming tools in Processing, the following works are students’ final projects in the Creative Coding and Computing (CSC201) course, presented in a Generative Arts exhibition on the AUIS campus. Sharp colors, lines, and blends
Samples of Students’ Works
After only a few lectures of Creative Coding and Computing (CSC201) at AUIS, many of the students impressed me with how creative, artistic, and intelligent they are with their creations for the first coursework assignment. Below are only a few of their works. Many more are worth sharing and praising, and I will do in
Thursday THANK YOUs
I have initiated Thursday THANK YOUs, which is a campaign to promote appreciation and gratitude among coworkers. Interestingly, as it is always the case with social entrepreneurship, it has moved beyond THANK YOUs only to coworkers, and definitely beyond Thursdays. The campaign has a Facebook Group and can be followed here.
YourMiddleEast
Following the Startup Weekend Sulaimani events, I had the honor of being invited to serve on the investor’s panel of YourMiddleEast Entrepreneurship in Erbil. YourMiddleEast was a different approach to entrepreneurship events than that of Startup Weekend Sulaimani, for example. This is a few hours event with less formal, but more interactive nature and content. More on
Mobile Robots and Mobile Devices
Encouraged by some capabilities of new mobile devices, specifically the accelerometer of the iPhone/iPod Touch, I have been working recently on developing some intuitive Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) interfaces. Using the accelerometer of an iPod Touch, and as part of my job as a research associate at the centre for innovation and technology exploitation (CITE), I
Research Center (CIDA)
The Center for Informatics and Data Analytics (CIDA) The Center for Informatics and Data Analytics at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani is a research, consultancy and training center that aims to support the government, private sector and the civic society, with the use of data science, to make more informative, data-driven decisions on multiple
Creativity@AUIS
A very competitive advantage in today’s fast changing world, yet very significantly lacking among a vast majority of our professional force is Creativity and the ability to think, act, and produce creatively. This is more crucial for markets that customers can easily switch to competitors when they are not satisfied and engaged enough with the
PhD Interviews and Participations
Doing a PhD is very demanding and sometimes boring. So, in order to add some flavors to it I have managed to work on some other things along the line of my research. These include participating in competitions and developing demonstrations using the same hardware platform. Following are some examples of my research related activities: