Contents

1. The Genesis of the International Year of Chemistry 2. YIC grabs the opportunity 3. IUPAC Approval for YIC Celebrations 4. Organizing committee 5. Chemiluminescence 2011 6. Website Launch 7. Training on web resources 8. Introductory seminar 9. Observation of Chemical safety week 10.Preparations for a series of activities ( T-shirt, Skit, Quiz contest) 11.Chemiluminescence day- the formal launch of celebration activities 12.Seminar by Prof.De 13.Visit of School students 14.YIC students visit to Saudi Aramco 15.Environmental Campaign and community outreach programs 16.Seminar on Environmental sustainability 17.Open House and Exhibition 18.Concluding ceremony 19.The Outcomes and Recommendations

The Genesis of the International Year of Chemistry

Having recognized that Chemical sciences have contributed much to the humanity in all walks of life, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) in 2006 started initiatives to secure a designation of an International Year of Chemistry by United Nations Educational Scientific Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The project carried out by IUPAC with this aim was completed in 2008 and subsequently the executive board of UNESCO endorsed the proposal for declaration by United Nations (UN) of 2011 as International Year of Chemistry. UN recognized that Chemistry and allied fields had contributed much to the betterment of human life on this planet and they are vital to achieve the millennium goals of UN. Obviously, this understanding led to the organizing of celebrations of IYC 2011 by IUPAC, UNESCO and UN as global partners along with Chemical Societies, Industries, and Educational and Research Institutes across the globe Year 2011 coincides with the 100th anniversary of the Nobel Prize awarded to Madam Marie Curie. The year also is the 100th anniversary of the founding of the International Association of Chemical Societies, providing a chance to highlight the benefits of international scientific collaboration. All over the world, the year 2011 is being celebrated as the International Year of Chemistry with the theme Chemistry-Our life, Our future. IYC 2011 celebrations envisaged the following objectives: Increase the public appreciation of chemistry in meeting world needs. Increase interest of young people in chemistry. Generate enthusiasm of the creative future of chemistry Celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Nobel Prize awarded to Madam Marie Curie Celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of International Association of Chemical Societies.

Yanbu Industrial College (YIC) grabs the opportunity

YIC, one of the premier institutes of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia realized the multifaceted opportunities available through the active participation of the global event of the celebration of the International Year of Chemistry2011. The institute took the bold step to make this an occasion to showcase its potentials to the international organizations like IUPAC, UNESCO, UN and similar other reputed agencies while focusing on the following important objectives. Make YIC to emerge as a hub for educational, research and industrial consultancies at local and national levels. Establish strong links with local industries, reputed universities and international organizations of science and technology for collaborative and mutually enriching programs and projects Establish the high profile of the institute at international levels and become one of the leaders of education in science and technology, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and guide the nation towards sustainable development. Enlighten the public the need of safe use and disposal of chemicals and on green manufacturing processes. YIC community decided to take this opportunity to bring the neighboring academic institutes, universities, industrial establishments and the local public under one umbrella to achieve the targeted objectives. YIC strongly believed that the participation would bring some benefits in the immediate future and in the long run. Some of the immediate benefits the institute counted on are: An awakening among the YIC students and the Young generation at large in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia towards learning chemical sciences. Exposing the young generation to the enormous opportunities in chemical industry. Attract more students to YIC with great enthusiasm. A profile of the institute that prominently appears at the international scenario.

Organizing committee Under the patronages of Dr. Ahmed Dabroom, the General Director of Institutes and colleges of the Royal commission for Yanbu, and Dr. Gasim Alandjani, Deputy Managing Director of YIC, an organizing committee was formed with Dr.Ahmed Al-Ghamdi , Head, Department of Chemical Engineering Technology (CHET) as Chairman and Dr.E.P.Jagadeesh, Asst.Prof (CHET) as convener along with nine executive members and five support team members. Chief Patron Patron

Dr. Ahmed Dabroom Dr. Gasim Alandjani

Chairman

Dr. Ahmed Alghamdi

Convener

Dr.E.P.Jagadeesh Executive Members

Dr. Arsala Khan Dr. Waid Omar Dept. of CHET Dept. of CHET

Dr.Yehia Magdy Dept. of CHET

Dr. Abdul Karim Er.Abdulla Al-Helali Dept. of CHET Dept. of CHET

Dr. Muhammed Azem Dept. of CHET

Er.Krishna Prasad Mr.Syed Bokhari Dept. of CHET Dept. of CHET

Er.Rafeeq Abru Dept. of CHET

Support Team

Dr.Rajesh Modi Mr. Haider Ali Dept. of IMT YIC Library

Mr. Ashar Khan YIC Media Centre

Mr.Qalander Khan Mr. Muhammad Toor Centre for Information Systems, YIC Creative Department, YIC

IUPAC Approval for YIC Celebrations As a first step the organizing committee prepared a tentative program for the whole year of 2011 throughout which IYC celebrations would continue. The programs included seminars, webinars, public lectures, campaigns for safe use and disposal of chemicals and protection of environment, community outreach programs, factory visits, open house and exhibition, Lab visits for school children, educational movie shows, skits on history of chemistry and contests for students. The plan of activities was communicated to the IYC Panel for approval. Soon YIC got its plan of activities approved and this gave YIC many privileges. Some of them include rights for posting our activities at the IYC site, the authorized use of the logos of IUPAC, UNESCO, IYC etc., and

the educational movies produced by participating industries and chemical societies.

The IYC panel frequently expressed its satisfaction and appreciation of the YIC activities. The activities are posted at the IYC site with the following address http://www.chemistry2011.org/participate/activities/show?id=661 . The above link gives short reports of all activities, selected photos of events, short films created on events by YIC Media centre, Podcast of the webinar by Prof. Paul Anastas and complete event album. YIC emerged proudly as one and the only institute in the Kingdom that conducted a variety of activities bringing together the college students, school students, eminent scientists, professors, technocrats, manufacturers and the common public in comparison with the 50 and odd number of participants registered at the IYC site from within the Kingdom including some prominent universities.

Chemiluminescence 2011 Department of Chemical Engineering and Technology decided to launch its IYC 2011celebrations under a brand name, Chemiluminescence 2011 with the following vision and mission.

Vision: Providing inspiration to the young generation towards chemical education and to highlight the immense opportunities of job , research, development and services to nation, available in chemical sciences and related fields in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia specifically and the globe at large. Mission: To make the YIC community and the public at large aware of the benefits, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Technology had provided to the humanity and also the challenges the subjects of chemical sciences address in the modern world. Logo and Slogan: The logo shown below was designed to depict the following themes: Chemiluminescence is the light produced during a chemical reaction and the rays of light emerging represent the light of knowledge disseminated through the activities. The round bottom flask and YIC in it depicts the participation of YIC in the global event. The flare forming the middle letter of YIC illustrates the industrial collaboration and participation. The green colored luminescence reiterates the need and spreads the message of sustainable development and green manufacturing process. Chemistry & life, made for each other was accepted as the slogan of the event highlighting the importance of chemical sciences for all life processes and in par with the theme of IYC 2011 slogan-Chemistry our life, our future.

Website Launch for Chemiluminescence 2011

Dr. Ahmed Dabroom, Managing director, YIC and General director of Colleges and institutes of Royal Commission launched the website of the Chemiluminescence 2011 http://Chemiluminescence.yic.edu.sa on 7th May 2011. The site was designed to provide resource materials on chemistry and chemical engineering with useful links to prominent chemical industries, contest announcements and information on objectives, vision, mission of Chemiluminescence and activities under the aegis of Chemiluminescence. The site also carries the messages from eminent scientists like Prof. Paul Anastas, the Father of Greenchemistry. The site would remain as the activity page of the Chemical Engineering Technology Department for upcoming conferences, open houses, exhibitions, seminars and podcasts of archived webinars and recorded lectures. Presently the site is clubbed with the main web page of the institute and can be accessed from: http://cms.yic.edu.sa/index.php? option=com_content&view=article&id=210

Training on web resources

Soon after the launch of the website, student volunteers were trained to make use of the self learning materials posted or linked to the site. The volunteers were later directed to train groups of students on the web resources available on the website of Chemiluminescence 2011.

Introductory seminar On May 22nd 2011, Dr. E.P.Jagadeesh, convener of Chemiluminescence 2011 conducted a seminar on Frontiers of Chemical Education. The lecture covered the topics on ancient practice of alchemy to the evolution of the modern chemistry. He briefed the achievements and contributions of chemistry in the area of medicines, clothing, food and many comforts of the modern life. He explained the context of the celebrations of International year of Chemistry and YIC programs with its objectives. He also elaborated on the challenges the chemical sciences face today and the need for the practice of greenchemistry. Students and faculty members of the college attended the seminar.

Observation of Chemical safety week The Department of Chemical Engineering Technology observed Chemical Safety Week from 14-5-2011 to 18-5-2011 during which the YIC community was alerted on various measures to be adopted for safety while handling chemicals. Information on Material Safety Data Sheets, cautioning against careless use of chemicals, information on safe use of compressed gases were done through slide shows and movies played through the DSS.

Preparations for a series of activities During the vacation preparations for the series of activities were made. Collection of educational movies, sending invitation to eminent personalities for their lectures and confirming the dates with them, preparations for the open house and exhibition, preparation of the brochures, banners, event TShirts and mementos were carried out during this period. Students took rehearsals of the skit they would stage on the formal launch of the programs. The event-T shirts with the logos of Chemiluminescence 2011, IYC 2011, UNESCO were released and distributed to students by Dr. Ahmed Alghamdi, Chairman of Chemiluminescence 2011 and the Head, Department of Chemical Engineering Technology.

Chemiluminescence day- the formal launch of celebration activities

On November 19th , H.E Dr.Alaa Nassif , the CEO of the Royal Commission formally launched the programs planned under the aegis of Chemiluminescence 2011, the YICs celebrations of the International Year of Chemistry 2011 in a colorful and fabulous function. YIC Students carrying Helium filled balloons recreated the periodic table in the courtyards of the college, which were later released off, symbolic of spreading the message that the chemical elements and their chemistry brought all the comforts of

our modern life. The balloon release was followed by colorful entertainment and educational programs.

His Excellency Dr. Alaa Nassif, CEO Royal Commission for Yanbu graced the occasion and expressed his appreciation of the efforts the YIC is making to participate in great global event. Dr. Ahmed Alghamdi, chairman of the celebrations welcomed the gathering. Dr. E.P. Jagadeesh, convener of

Chemiluminescence 2011 presented a report on the preparations and activities conducted in connection with IYC 2011 celebrations and the details on the upcoming events. Movies commemorating the Nobel prize awarded to Madam Curie and short films - Chemistry- Its all about you and living without chemistry were screened in front of a large gathering. A short play depicting the practice of chemistry in ancient Islamic world and its growth to the present was staged by YIC students.

Prof. Sadhan Kumar De, chair professor, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals

delivered a public lecture on Polymers in the service of human. The audience comprised of students from the college, invited guests from other institutes and technocrats from chemical industry.

Dr.Salah Naeem, Asst. Prof, Dept. of Chemical Engineering Technology delivered a talk on development of chemistry in the Islamic world.

Polymer Technology and Recycle of Polymers-Seminar by Prof. Sadhan Kumar De

Prof. Sadhan Kumar De delivered an invited lecture on Polymer Technology and recycle of polymers on November 20th to the students and faculty members of the Chemical Engineering Department and invited guests from Chemical Industry.

He covered topics from the basic conditions for polymerization reactions to intricacies of structure related properties of polymers. He expressed his concern over the issue of some polymers becoming a threat to our environment. In this context he illustrated some of his works carried out in the area of recycle of some polymers. He emphasized the need of doing more research in the area of recycle of polymeric materials and replacing some by bio degradable products. The seminar gave many researchers and students to clear many of their doubts and discuss their research problems with Prof. De.

Visit of School students to the YIC Chemical Engineering Labs

Groups of students from the neighboring higher secondary, secondary

and elementary schools accompanied by their teachers visited the chemical laboratories of the college on 21st, 22nd and 23rd of November 2011.

Some amazing experiments were shown to them by students and faculty members of the Chemical Engineering Department.

Lectures on achievements of chemistry were delivered to them at the college auditorium by Dr. Salah Naeem and Er. Khalid Jalil.

YIC students interacted with their young brothers and explained on some of the instruments they operate in the chemical Engineering technology labs. Er. Emad Muktar and Er. Abdulla Hilali guided the

students through the labs. Souvenirs with event logos inscribed on them were distributed to the chemicurious school children.

YIC students visit to Saudi Aramco Refinery

YIC students were taken for an educational tour to different plants and to chemical analysis labs of the Saudi Aramco refinery on 27th of November 2011. Er. Abdulla Al-Helali led the team for the study tour

The Visit to Yanbu Refinery (ARAMCO) was a memorable one in all respects.

The academic benefits and close relationship that could be established with industrial fraternity at the company would pave the way for mutual benefits.

The visiting team was taken around the laboratories and process control rooms.

Saudi Aramco is one of the stakeholders of Yanbu Industrial College and a partner in all respects and for the celebration of International Year of Chemistry 2011. There are more such collaborative programs the College is planning with ARAMCO.
Environmental Campaign and community outreach programs

On December 5th Students of the chemical engineering department led by faculty members went around the college campus to pick the carelessly thrown solid wastes and deposit them in the waste bins.

Dr. Ahmed

Alghmadi, head of chemical Engineering and technology department spoke to the students about the need of creating awareness among the community on solid waste management and protection of our environment. He reminded the students the need of paying serious attention to the problems associated with the solid wastes and the

various harmful chemicals it may release to our environment, if not properly disposed off. Dr.Ghasim Alandjani , DMD (IAD) addressed a team of students and faculty members of CHET department, set off for the cleansing operations in the neighboring beaches under the leadership of Dr. Alghamdi on 6th December 2011. The team spent around 2 hrs with great enthusiasm in the beaches picking up the plastic bags, lids, soft drink cans and bottles and depositing them in proper bins.

While appreciating the achievements of chemistry in various walks of life, these activities were organized to create awareness among the public on various routes of release of toxics to our environment and their management for sustainable development and environmental protection

Seminar on Environmental sustainability

Mr. Khalid Al-Haajri of the Environmental Control Department delivered a talk on "Environmental Sustainability of Yanbu Industrial City" on 12th December 2011 at 9.00 am in the Recreation Centre of the YIC.

He explained the details of the environmental aspects of the existing plan of the Yanbu industrial city and development plan for the coming years. He elaborated on the measures taken for the control of pollution in the industrial city, the constant monitoring programs of the ambient air, sea water, stack emissions etc and the green belts installed around the industries. He emphasized the need of harvesting renewable energy, use of mass transportation, waste minimization etc for the sustainable development.

Open House and Exhibition

The open house and exhibition organized by the Department of Chemical Engineering Technology as part of the activities of the celebration of International Year of Chemistry was inaugurated by Dr.Ahmed Dabroom, General Director of Colleges and institutes of Royal Commission for Yanbu on Saturday,17th December 2011 at 9.00am in the Multipurpose Hall of YIC.

Prominent industry collaborators and equipment manufacturers and dealers of chemical engineering equipment opened their stalls to exhibit their products.

Prominent among them were YANSAB, Gulf Scientific Company, Future Scientific, Naizak and IGB. Dr. Gasim Alandjani, Dr.Nasser Bajaaba and many other dignitaries visited the stalls.

The stalls of Chemical Engineering Technology Department drew large crowds from the college and various schools in the neighborhood.

The students of the Chemical Engineering Technology Department demonstrated various categories of amazing experiments to the visitors.

They also visited the labs of the Chemical Engineering Technology Department which houses many sophisticated equipment. Short films under the Spellbound series produced by the American Chemical Society titled as How kids became Scientists, Discovery channel series titled as 100 great discoveries and the humorous song on periodic table of elements we have just crammed it sung by the world famous pop singer, Billy Joel, were also screened and added great charm to the event. The exhibition came to an end by 5.00 pm.

Concluding ceremony

Concluding function of Chemiluminescence 2011 was held on Monday 19th December in the YIC auditorium at 9 am while Dr. Ahmed Dabroom, the General Director of Institutes and Colleges of Royal Commission presided.

A webinar on A Green chemistry Moonshot was delivered by Prof. Paul.T.Anastas, of United States Environmental Protection Agency. A memento presented to Prof.Anastas was received by Dr.Ahmed AlGhamdi, on behalf of him from Dr.Dabroom.

A short film produced by the YIC Media Centre was then screened, giving glimpses of all events conducted under aegis of Chemiluminescence 2011 since the launch of the celebrations. Dr. Dabroom during his concluding remarks congratulated Dr. Ahmed Al-

Ghamdi and his team for the hard work carried out by them for making the celebrations of the International Year of Chemistry, a big success. He emphasized the need of bringing together the industry, institutes and the community around for sustainable development and technological growth, through similar programs. Dr. Dabroom then distributed the prizes and certificates for the winners of the various contests conducted for the students. He also distributed mementos to the participated schools and industries and individuals who worked as a team for the success of the programs.

The Outcomes and Recommendations Outcomes: 1. YIC emerged as the number one participant from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the global event of IYC 2011 based on the number and variety of activities that fulfils the objectives of the celebrations of IYC 2011 and Chemiluminescence 2011. 2. The activities organized became an eye-opener to the achievements of chemical sciences in the human service and could inspire the YIC students and the young school students in the Kingdom towards learning chemical sciences. 3. More channels of collaboration and interaction were opened up with YIC and the industrial fraternity around. 4. Opened up new avenues for fruitful discussion and interaction with many equipment manufacturers in the field of chemical engineering and technology, an essential requirement for procurement of suitable and cutting edge equipment for teaching and research.

5. YIC campaign for the environmental protection and its community outreach programs with the student participation in large numbers are some milestones in the history of the Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia. Recommendations: During the course of the celebrations, the organizers came across many issues of concern and academic interest and had an opportunity to brainstorm on them. The results of these sessions in a nut- shell are: 1. Segregation of waste with color coded bins is essential for safe disposal of even domestic waste. 2. Harvesting of solar energy in the direct mode for lighting is the best and the most environment-friendly mode of its utilization. Photovoltaic cells are not the right solution for solar energy utilization with its lower efficiency, shorter life, higher costs and energy intensive extraction and fabrication procedures. 3. Reuse of water needs special attention and the possibilities of secondary uses of the used water after simple manipulations should be explored. 4. The Chemiluminisence may be organized as the branded annual International conference series of the Chemical Engineering Technology Department from next year onwards (2012). 5. The Chemiluminisence website may be retained as the activity page of Chemical Engineering Department for publishing its day to day activities, conference notifications, articles of general interest, podcasts etc with editing rights vested with the department. 6. The IT department needs more experts and expertise in the area of web based programs and operations. 7. The communication channels with the local industry and the academic departments should be operational without much difficulty. Same is the case with institutes and universities. 8. The RC cable-TV services must be able to support and project the educational programs and discussions or campaigns on issues of public interest originating from RCs premier educational establishments. 9. During the week of observance of chemical safety at YIC, a self auditing on chemical safety was done at YIC. It revealed many failures in sticking to safety regulations especially in the area of compressed gases, for which technical solutions though exist but difficult to implement due to cumbersome bureaucratic procedures or insufficient attention.

Chemiluminescence 2011 Summary of Activities (30 activities) Seminars/Talks 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Dr.Jagadeesh (22-5-2011) Prof.De (19-11-2011) Prof.De (20-11-2011) Dr.Salah Naeem (19-11-2011) Er.Khalid Jalil (21-11-2011) Dr.Salah Naeem (22-11-2011) Dr.Ahmed Al-Ghamdi (23-11-2011) Khalid Hajiri (12-12-2011)

Webinar

1. Prof. Paul Anastas Exhibition and Open House 1. Stalls of YIC (2) and other 6 ( companies) (17-12-2011) School student visits 1. Visit on 21-11-2011 2. Visit on 22-11-2011 3. Visit on 23-11-2011 YIC campaigns 1. Chemical safety (one week campaign)(14-5-2011 to 18-5-2011) 2. Environmental protection (one week campaign)(5-12-2011 to 12-122011) Student activity 1. Web resources training -1 2. Training for demonstration experiments -1 3. Skit -1 4. Recreation of Periodic Table with balloon-1 5. Campus cleaning -1 6. Yanbu beach cleaning -1 7. Quiz contest-1 8. Educational tour to refinery -1 9. Stall management -1 Educational Movie shows. 1. Chemistry -its all about you -1 2. Madam Curie -1 3. International Year of Chemistry 4. Living without chemistry 5. 100 great discoveries 6. Spellbound How kids became scientists Chemiluminescence Activity Summary at a Glance

Activity Seminars/ talks

Details Dr.E.P.Jagadees h (22-5-2011) Prof.S.K. De (19-11-2011) Prof.S.K. De

Participants 50

remarks YIC students and faculty

200

Invited guests and YIC faculty and students YIC faculty and

100

(20-11-2011) Dr.Salah Naeem (19-11-2011) Er.Khalid Jalil (21-11-2011) Dr.Salah Naeem (22-11-2011) Dr.Ahmed AlGhamdi (23-112011) Mr. Khalid AlHajiri (12-12-2011) Webinar Prof. Paul T Anastas YIC stalls (2) and stalls of companies (6) 200 50 50 50 200

students Invited guests and YIC faculty and students

School students

School students

School students

100

YIC faculty and students

Invited guests and YIC faculty and students School students, YIC students, common public, Company personnel Elementary school students

Exhibition and Open House

500

School student visits

Visit on 21-112011

35

Visit on 22-112011

40

Secondary school students

Visit on 23-11-

50

Higher

2011

secondary school students Among the YIC community

YIC campaigns

Chemical safety (one week campaign)(145-2011 to 18-52011) Environmental protection (one week campaign)(512-2011 to 1212-2011)

Among the YIC community and RC community

Chemiluminescence Activity Summary at a Glance (table-Contd.)

Activity Student activity

Details Web resources training Training for demonstration experiments Skit on chemistry in Islamic world

Participants 15 10

Remarks Student volunteers Student Volunteers Attended YIC students, invited guests and faculty members Attended YIC students, invited guests and faculty members YIC student Volunteers

200

Recreation of Periodic Table with balloon

200

Campus cleaning

30

Yanbu beach cleaning Quiz contest Educational tour to refinery

30 20 25

YIC student Volunteers YIC students YIC students

Stall management Educational Movie shows. Madam Curie Chemistry -its all about you

15 500 500

YIC students School students, YIC students, common public, Company personnel

International Year of Chemistry

500

Living without chemistry

500

100 great discoveries

500

Spellbound How kids became scientists

500