The College of Engineering at the University of Mosul discussed a master’s thesis on “Designing an Energy Harvesting System for Wireless Sensor Network Applications” on Thursday, February 27, 2025.

Part of it was attended by the Assistant President of the University for Scientific Affairs, Prof. Dr. Munir Salem Taha, and a number of college academics.

The thesis submitted by the student “Wissam Anis Younis Muhammad” aimed to “design an energy harvesting system for radio frequencies at 5.8 kHz for wireless sensor network applications and provide a sustainable and reliable power source for low-power devices”.

The thesis dealt with “the design of the receiving antenna using microstrip patch antennas using antenna arrays technology as well as AMC metamaterials technology, where a set of designs were analyzed and optimized and the design that achieved the highest specifications was selected, which is a 1*4 array, as well as the design of the rectification circuit responsible for converting AC power into DC power for use in charging batteries for low-power devices using a Schottky HSMS 2860 diaphragm and the design of an impedance matching circuit to ensure the greatest power transfer from the antenna to the rectification circuit.”

The discussion committee was chaired by Assistant Professor Dr. Uday Ali Ahmed from the Technological University of Baghdad, and the members of Assistant Professor Dr. Mohammed Tariq Yassin, Assistant Professor Dr. Saad Wasmi Osman, under the supervision and membership of Assistant Professor Dr. Shamil Hamza Hussein.