Dr. Essam El Kurdy the university vice president for Community Service and Environment Development and Dr. Abdel Aziz

Konswa, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering visited Christopher Newport University to discuss joint cooperation and establishment of Study Programs to qualify students for creativity and innovation. They were met by Prof. Dr. Tarek Abdul Fattah, the Professor at Christopher Newport University who was awarded by NASA and has 10 patents in Nano-technology and its applications in water and energy.

Also a meeting was held attended by Deans of faculties of Commerce and Science to review the idea of Christopher Newport University based on studying some courses in different disciplines for three semesters then the student should decide his future field. The university adopts the idea of direct relation between the student and professor and depends on education of 25 students in average.

Another meeting also held with the Rector to discuss the scientific cooperation between the Christopher Newport University with China, Germany and Ireland for students exchange and the possibility to apply the same experiment with Alexandria University in addition to establishment of joint programs in the area of applied environmental sciences and engineering management. The delegation took a tour in university buildings and laboratories on 26 acres at a cost of about 1.3 billion $.

A meeting was had with a group of researchers in the field of water technology and wetland technic used in environment protection against pollutants.