Finalist

Male Entrepreneurial Leader of the Year Award

Ahmed Onsy

Finalist of the Male Entrepreneurial Leader of the Year Award

"MELHE (Multifaceted Entrepreneurial Leadership in Higher Education)"


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Summary

The MELHE is a holistic approach that includes multisided developments in higher education which has grown at UCLan under my leadership since 2014 to support people's future; staff, students, research, industry, and the community at several levels including the institutional level, the national and international levels. The MELHE combines the visionary and coaching approaches to impact and support young leaders and people. I’m using the visionary approach with long-term vision goals so the school team members engage with it at different levels with different roles, while the coaching approach is used to create a positive environment in the school with devoted time to support staff in achieving the school KPIs using three key entrepreneurial competencies that characterise me, business vision, creativity, and communication. The MELHE resulted in outstanding impacts. I have worked with the school stakeholders to put forward a business vision including a 5-year growth plan for MIM Engineering at UCLan including goals and KPIs that contribute to the school's strategic thinking and formed a key component of the school growth plan and supported the business case that ultimately resulted in securing the EIC investment. I’m using creativity to work with the school team to develop new degree courses, labs & equipment provision, research goals, engineering clubs, engineering academy and CPD programmes, the ‘EAZE’ Zone, and build collaborations with industry and HE sector nationally and internationally. I’m using my communication skills to work with colleagues across the school and UCLan to achieve these goals.

https://imme.uclan.ac.uk/

Key People


Dr Ahmed Mahmoud Helmy Onsy
Deputy Head School of Engineering for Business Development and Partnerships
School of Engineering,  University of Central Lancashire (UCLan)


Acknowledgements

I'm honoured to be selected as one of the finalists for the “Male Entrepreneurial Leader of the Year” Award of the 2022 European Triple E Awards on Entrepreneurship and Engagement in Higher Education. This is a true reflection of the entrepreneurial collaborative work at the School of Engineering and the University of Central Lancashire, it truly represents UCLan values; teams are ‘achieving together’, we are ‘creating opportunity’ for our students, and we are ‘being proud’ of ‘supporting all’ of our students.”. Thank you, UCLan School of Engineering team.

Many thanks for the support received from UCLan VC Group and Senior management, Prof Graham Baldwin, UCLan Vice-Chancellor and Prof Ian Allison, Executive Dean of Faculty of Science & Technology, Paul Rowe, Director of International Partnerships, Richard Antony Brame and Emma Louise Marie Speed, Creative Innovation Zone and Enterprise Managers, Joseph Buglass, Propeller Team- Student/Graduate Enterprise & Incubation Manager.

UCLan ..... Where opportunity creates success.

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Images

1_Multi-faceted Entrepreneurial Leadership in Higher Education

2_Engineering Academy Winter and Summer School and CPD Programmes

3_Engineering Academy Winter and Summer School and CPD Programmes

4_ Student enterprise including Entrepreneurship and Start-up for Engineers _EASE

5_ Engineering Clubs

6_Development of sustained external funding for student _EU Erasmus Scholarships

7_School of Engineering partnerships strategy for the UK and International, Multi-faceted Model

8_UCLan Engineering Industrial Advisory Boards

9_ Support of Young leaders_ Engineering Clubs EASE_ EASE International_

AASTMT Industrial Advisory Board

UCLan Engineering Academy Summer School & Erasmus Scholarships.

AASTMT Industrial Advisory Board.

UCLan Mechatronics Club

IMPACT STORY

Impacting lifes

Supporting students (future leaders) is at the heart of my leadership goals using the MELHE approach. One of my main goals is to develop students’ employability by 15% in the next three years and support diversity and inclusion especially those from BAME backgrounds and female engineers. Since May 2021, I have been leading UCLan SoE team, working with UCLan CIZ and Propeller teams and stakeholders to develop a new programme for Engineering students ‘EASE’ ‘Engineering Entrepreneurship and Start-up for Engineers’ at the Engineering Innovation Centre (EIC). The programme supports future engineering students to practice entrepreneurship and start-up skills and work with employers in engineering challenges. The project started in Sep 2021 in collaboration with CIZ and Propeller teams supported by the school of Engineering to work with industries such as Bentley, and Royal Mail. During 2021-2022, the project supported 100+ engineering students to improve their employability skills and be able to be self-employed and start businesses, or develop entrepreneurial skills. The ‘EASE’ programme truly represents UCLan values; teams are ‘achieving together’, we are ‘creating opportunity’ for our students, and we are ‘being proud’ of ‘supporting all’ of our students.”. The ‘EASE Zone’ has successfully received external funds, which will support running the EASE programme for the next two years, and develop the ‘EASE International’ online portal to deliver enterprise and provide free training programmes to 1000 UCLan students in the UK campuses, Cyprus, Italy, and partners in Egypt in the next two years. Thank you,’ EASE’ project team.

LEARNINGS

Lessons learned

The success of any organisation relay on several factors, however, people and leadership remain the main factors. In the current world environment, entrepreneurial leadership is essential for any institution not only to drive the success of the institution but also to develop sustainable people’s future. Entrepreneurial leadership in academia is vital as it could play an important role in developing the future of humanity. The achievement of the multi strands presented here is based on the Multifaceted Entrepreneurial Leadership in Higher Education (MELHE) model as a holistic approach that shows multisided developments in higher education and could grow using the entrepreneurial leadership to support people's future; staff, students, research, industry, and community at several levels including the institutional level, the national and international levels. MELHE is a sustainable entrepreneurial leadership model that could be developed at other higher education institutions allowing one development to be expanded beyond the national and international levels. It is all about people and the MELHE approach has proven that successful leadership could be achieved by working with the aim of people's future.

FUTURE PLANS

What's coming?

The plan is to continue utilising the MELHE approach to support people's future; staff, students, research, industry, and the community at several levels including the institutional level, the national, EU and international levels. The following projects are undergoing in the next five years:

  • UCLan Hub in Egypt to educate 5000 students by 2025
  • The EASE Zone to support 250 UCLan students by 2023
  • The EASE International online portal to support 1000 students/ year at UCLan UK campuses, Cyprus, Italy, and partners in Egypt
  • The Engineering Academy Summer school programmes run every year to support 500 international students/per year
  • The SIEe-TH (Skills, Innovation and Enterprise e-Training) Hub to develop 5000 people/ year in the UK, EU and international.
  • The G5IR (Green Fifth Industrial Revolution) project to enhance awareness of 5000 people/ year in two strands: the climate resilience and mitigation of universities, and universities’ contribution to the resilience of communities, businesses, and governments in the UK, EU and international.


The above projects will support gender and age equality, diversity, and inclusion by offering them to a wider diversity of beneficiaries and ensuring equal and meaningful opportunities for people of different genders and ages to be involved throughout the project. These projects are continuing to develop many strands using the MELHE model which will have many potential positive impacts on people of different genders, both throughout the project and beyond.


KEY STATISTICS

150

Staff members supported at UCLan School of Engineering

105%

Increase in PG Applications for September 2022 compared to previous year

18%

Increase in UG Applications for September 2022 compared to previous year

150

Students attending four summer school programmes in 2022

42

CPD programmes for the industry

100+

Students attending 6 Engineering Clubs every year

£1,920,000

Value of Erasmus+ Scholarships offered since 2016

7

Industrial Advisory Boards

40

International Industrial partner companies

1000

students/ year from Egypt to enrol on UCLan’s programmes

14

UCLan TNE Engineering Programmes in 2021 with AASTMT Egypt (New Alamein Campus) 9 Dual degree programmes and with EUE (in New Administrative Capital) 5 Franchise programmes, Including development of an Innovation Centre.

30

UK Industrial partner companies

500

Students attended 18 Engineering Academy Summer school programmes so far.

530

Scholarships have been available to students and staff across all Egyptian stakeholders until 07/22 (280 Undergraduate, 40 MSc, 40 PhD, 40 Staff Training and 90 Staff Exchange). The projects support gender balance, equality, diversity, and women in engine

1000

Students will be supported by the EASE International programme every year at UCLan UK campuses and partners in Cyprus, Italy, Egypt, Oman, China, Malesia, and Sri Lanka..

5000

People will benefit from the G5IR project (Green Fifth Industrial Revolution) every year to enhance the awareness of climate change (UK, EU and international).

5400

Supporting over 5000 Engineering Students enrolled on UCLan School of Engineering Programmes

120

Supporting a large portfolio of Engineering programmes in 7 Academic areas, 120 UCLan Engineering courses, at run in the UK and International.

8

Director of Studies, PI of 8 Research Projects: Research Labs: https://imme.uclan.ac.uk/research-projects/

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