Students Win at GCC Henkel Challenge The competition challenged students to create an innovative, sustainable product or technology for the Henkel brand in 2050. Headquartered in Düsseldorf, Henkel operates in three business areas: laundry and home care, beauty care, and adhesive technologies. Sarah Mustafa and Jaasim Polin, who are both seniors, came up with an idea for “the world’s first smart, programmable beauty product.” “This is a beauty cream that is made of living proteins, with digital data stored in them. Users can control it through software on a computer. The cream will be able to reproduce a 3D model of the user’s face and display it on an external device. The user will then be able to retouch their face, such as changing shades or colors, hiding pimples, and improving glow,” Polin said. Asli Tumer Sezgin, organization development manager at GCC Henkel, said the team represented the best of Carnegie Mellon’s “education, enthusiasm and innovative spirit.”
Jaasim Polin and Sarah Mustafa.
Two information systems students won first place in the Henkel Innovation Challenge 7 regional semi-final in Dubai this spring. The team went on to take second place in the international final, which was held in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Twenty-one teams from 30 countries competed in the international final.
ACHIEVEMENTS
Congratulations to “Delta Consulting” on winning the 2014 Internal Case Competition. Business administration students Anas Farah, Shafiya Fasalu and Amalan Roshan claimed the trophy along with Haris Aghadi, an information systems student, and Nancy Yue, a double major in business administration and statistics from the Pittsburgh campus. The team impressed the judges with a plan for how the communications company Ooredoo could use its recent survey, “Young, Arab and Connected,” to gain customers in Tunisia and Algeria.
Summer 2014 / Fall 2014
Carnegie Mellon Qatar students rounded out another successful debating season, placing second overall in the Qatar University Debate League. Nawal Mir, a freshman in business administration, was named top novice speaker and Narcis Sadat Jafarian, a senior in business administration, was named second-best speaker. In a two-day championship marking the end of the debate year, students Valeria Garcia and Zuhair Syed were finalists and Nawal Mir and Yousuf Akhlaq were semi-finalists.
Three CMU-Q teams competed at the Gulf Programming Contest organized by the American University of Dubai, UAE, this spring. Teams “Brainiacs,” “NB-Hard” and “Tasty Brownies” ranked second, fourth and 26th respectively. More than 50 teams from around the Gulf region competed. A team of CMU-Q computer science students also took first place out of 29 teams at the Qatar Collegiate Programming Contest 2014, held at Qatar University in March. Dilsher Ahmed, Naassih Gopee and John Naguib of the winning team NB-Hard received a cash prize and an invitation to a summer training program at the Digital Incubation Centre.
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