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Innovation, Technology, Engineering.

Three words that I fell in love with throughout the previous couple of years. It all started back in 2012. During the last semester of my high school studies. I was determined to pursue my childhood dream of becoming a pilot, and flying through the skies. But as the time passed, I was realizing that financial difficulties will take that dream away as my high school days were coming to an end, and the pressure of choosing my higher studies path was building up.

I wanted to become a pilot for two main reasons: the mechanics and physics of flying have always fascinated me, and to experience reaching daily physical heights with each and every flight. But I had to compromise, and choose another path. With the attraction of the majority of my friends at that time towards business schools, my family pressured me to leave all my passion in physics and mathematics, and follow that route. For a while, I was forcing myself to accept that idea, but deep inside, I couldn’t. At that point, I stood against the flow, and chose Bahrain Polytechnic to become my new journey, towards the Mechanical Engineering degree.

During the foundation semester, I started to discover how much I would have missed out if I became a pilot. I remembered how much I appreciated the mechanical assemblies of everything around me since my childhood. This made me even more convinced that my path was the right one. I wanted to become successful at what I am doing. For me, it was not a matter of just getting a degree. I wanted to leave a clear fingerprint not just in the Polytechnic, but in the whole world. People are not remembered by their degrees, their education level, nor their fortune. We remember those who changed our lives with their discoveries.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. – Albert Einstein

As per the academic structure of Bahrain Polytechnic, the first two years were all about learning the fundamentals, but not in an entirely theoretical way. Each and every subject included practical assignments and projects, and somehow, this is the reason behind the existence of my portfolio.

I started to really love what I am doing in the Polytechnic. The amount of learning that I’ve got was being met with an equal amount of appreciation from my family, and from the faculty. This was always giving me that extra push when I needed it the most. Some periods were difficult, stressful, and exhausting, but their support, was covering that up quite nicely. As the semesters started to fold down as beautiful chapters in my journey, I was realizing that I am loving each and every aspect of mechanical engineering. Even though I found myself to be admired about the mechanical design and heat transfer mostly, All other subjects were interesting a lot to me. Thermodynamics was intimidating at first for couple of reasons (one of which is obviously the terrifying name!), but I soon became amazed at how physics can describe the relation between thermal and kinetic energy. Fluid mechanics was complicated to figure out initially, but soon enough, the pieces of the puzzle all started to fall into place. Material Science was a subject that made me, for the first time in my life, understand chemistry and its purpose properly. When I finally got involved in the world of CAD (Computer Aided Design), I could not believe how powerful those tools are in the mechanical design field. Making products from scratch suddenly became possible to me.

Coming closer to my final years, I met new friends who are studying electronics engineering with us in the Polytechnic. Electronics has always been a mysterious field to me. In the first couple of years, I felt that I do not have the sufficient time to actually dig deeper in it and try to understand it. However, as I started to talk more with those who are currently studying that major, I started to get more and more interested in that field.

Mechanical Engineering is powerful. It gives you the tools and capabilities to build hardware and complicated systems from scratch. However, like everything else, it has some shortcomings. You rarely can build an entire system that functions without a ‘brain’. Software has to be there to give the system the desired functionality. Sooner or later, you will need an embedded device to control valves, motors, or any other actuator to achieve mechanical movement, to control a certain parameter in your system, or to initiate any other command that activates a mechanical system. Simply put, the proximity between the mechanical and the electronics field is what attracted me to do some further digging in the world of micro-controllers, and basic electronics.

My portfolio in this website lists some of the greatest achievements that I have completed during my studies. 2012 to 2017 were key years in my life. My fingerprint is clear within Bahrain, and I am looking forward to fulfilling my dream of making it big enough to be noticed by the entire world. I hope that you find this blog interesting and beneficial.

Thanks for spending your time here!