Dr. Mohamed Ayman Ashour, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, approved that Dr. Jan-Henri will conduct the work of the President of Beni Suef Technological University.
Dr. Jan-Henri received a doctorate in automatic control engineering from Paris University, France in 2004, a master’s degree in process control from Eindhoven Technological University in the Netherlands in 1997, in addition to an educational diploma in the field of education from Eindhoven Technological university in the Netherlands, and a bachelor’s degree in electrical power engineering from the Faculty of Engineering, Minya University in 1991.
The President of the University held a number of positions, the most recent of which was as Vice President of Beni Suef Technological University for Education and Student Affairs. He also held the position of Head of the Electricity Department and then Vice Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at Beni Suef University, Project manager for the establishment of the Integrated Technological Education Complex in Abu Ghaleb affiliated with the Education Development Fund, Advisor to the Planning committee at Beni Suef University, director of the Talented, Creative and Innovative Development Center at Beni Suef University, and a strategic planning expert in the Strategic Planning Unit of the Ministry of Higher Education.
Dr. Jan contributed in graduating the first class from Beni Suef Technological University and establishing a graduate follow-up unit at the university, as well as holding several cooperation protocols with major industrial companies to train students and provide an opportunity to employ graduates. He participated also in establishing an integrated technological educational complex in the city of Abu Ghaleb in Giza, which includes a technical secondary school and a technological faculty granting a bachelor degree in Technology. This project is funded by the Egyptian government and the Italian government and the curricula were developed and taught according to the latest systems, taking advantage of Italian experience. The project aimed to contribute to the development of technical and technological education in Egypt with the aim of meeting the needs of the labor market and improving the level of Egyptian technicians and technologists.
The university president also served as the national coordinator of the project to review the technical higher education system in Egypt in cooperation with the international Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which aimed to develop the technical higher education system to better respond to the needs of the labor market. He participated also in preparing a national repor, formulating recommendations and conducting international comparison, as the project was implemented in 22 countries.
Dr. Jan participated in a number of meetings of the Committee of National Experts in the Field of Technical Education of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris. He also participated in developing a strategic plan for higher education in Egypt in 2014 and preparing an analytical study of the engineering education sector in Egypt, in addition to his Participation in many international workshops, seminars, meetings and official meetings in the field of technological and technical education that discussed the quality of education, linking education to the labor market, improving students’ skills and competency-based curricula.
The university president also participated in the program of technical institutes and community colleges for administrative positions in America, through which he visited a number of community colleges in America in 2022 to learn about the community education system in America and how to manage it, in addition to participating in a training program in South Korea, namely“Policy Makers Training Program.” In 2015, which aimed to learn about the technical and technological education system in South Korea and its evolution.
Dr. Jan has some scientific and research contributions, including a project to design a predictive control program to control a PMSG generator operating on a wind turbine – a project through the STDF programs at the Academy of Scientific Research in Egypt, designing a main control program for the “Edpkken” power station in the city of Nyköping, Vattenfall Company, Sweden, the principal researcher in The Egyptian team of researchers, in an Egyptian-French cooperation project through the Amenhotep Program at the Academy of Scientific Research, which aims to design a control system that can control hybrid systems that may fall under the influence of some interference or change in their parameters, in addition to contributing to the design of algorithms to anticipate different situations. Detecting faults and controlling the water level in a steam power generation system, affiliated with the Electricity France Company.
