DOHA: Qatar University (QU) Young Scientists Centre bagged two gold medals in the iCan 2020 preliminaries organised by Toronto International Society of Innovation & Advanced Skills (TISIAS), Canada.
The centre qualified with two innovative projects in the final competition of the Fifth International Invention Innovation Competition in Canada, to be held on 29 August, through online communication platforms. The annual iCan competition is the global gateway in Toronto to inventors and innovators around the world. One of the most important goals of the competition is to envision the minds of people that ‘Anyone Can Invent’.
The first project in the category of `Building and Constructions’ is concerned with research carried out with students from ‘I am a researcher’ track under the supervision of the centre. Titled ‘Ductile Fibre Reinforced Ultra-high Performance Concretes’, the project aims to strengthen the properties of concrete, make it more effective and sustainable and reduce the rate of corrosion by adding fibres to it, which contributes positively to improving the infrastructure and reducing the economic cost of raw materials and maintenance.