PUA’s Faculty of Arts and Design tirelessly seeks to exchange scientific expertise between different fields and disciplines. Therefore, the Graphics Department aims to achieve integration between the graphic design program and other programs, which simulates the Egyptian labor market. Accordingly, the Graphics Department organized the first symposium that brought together fourth year students of the Graphics Department and those of the Computer Engineering Department of PUA’s Faculty of Engineering.

Graphics students presented two projects; The first was the graphic designs of a website promoting Egyptian handicrafts by displaying and selling Assiuti carpets. While the second was the graphic designs for a mobile application for registration in a volunteer team called “Very Nile”, which aims to clean the Nile and recycle waste resulting from cleaning operations. On the other hand, the Computer Engineering students contributed to programming the two projects and converting them from static graphic designs to interactive graphic designs.

Further, the two teams exchanged experiences and cooperated to solve the problems they faced in order to reach the final interactive output, which is an experience that simulates what is actually happening in the labor market, and helps the graphic designer in reducing graphic infeasible designs. In addition, it benefits the computer engineer by putting him/her through a real experience in which he/she seeks to implement and fulfill the design requirements presented by the graphic designer.

Moreover, the students demonstrated the complete mobile applications to the audience, and listed the challenges faced during the generation of the final output, and how to benefit from this experience. At the end of the symposium, the students were honored and given certificates of appreciation.