Toulouse ... Hold on ... Shadi's back

A year and a half after working in ALstom Transport for the Prima locomotive Team in Tarbes , where I carried out developpment of the embedded software on the controller of the traction . I have decided to move back to work in the Aeronautical sector , in AIRBUS France.I'll move to Toulouse , during december.

Lac Nantua...

On the Border between France and Switzerland ...and on our way back from Geneva to Lyon we have stopped with my family in Nantua and have a 4 hours break on the lake. as you can see in the photos above we have done pedalo in the lake on that sunny and beautiful day.

Master's Degree Graduation on 07/07/07

On the 7th july 2007 I have been graduated with a master's degree of control systems engineering from INSA Toulouse. The ceremony started at "Hall aux grains" in the centre of Toulouse, then followed by a dinner in "Le Bon vivre" restaurant at "Place Wilson".


Graduation photos

Shadi in Lyon

Recently in Lyon , for a week of holiday with my family between my final oral presentation of my industrial placement and my graduation ...

Dad , Mum, Bro and me in Terreaux square

My bro and me in la Part-Dieu centre

Me, Samira and Majdy on the waterside of the Saône

Ce n'est qu'un Au revoir "Bristol"

A nice painting on the wall of a house on park street in Bristol

clifton suspension Bridge

Chadi and 3ammo bou mas3oud in the centre of Bristol

The Council House

It is my last week end in bristol for now , I'll be back to Toulouse on wednesday for my graduation on 07/07/07 .

Week End In London

On the week end of 8,9 and10th of june I have spent a memorable week end in London with zeca, a classmate, and his cousin Louis.

Welcome to London:

if you see these cars on the road , so you must be in London

I've been to different tourist attractions in London such as Big Ben, Tower bridge, Buckingham Palace, London eye, Mme tussaud's museum, Millenium Bridge and

piccadilly palace.

Of course I have been also to many pubs and clubs during the night on the main roads of London.

Tower bridge
The first tourist attraction we've been in London is the Tower bridge.
Tower Bridge is a combined bascule and suspension bridge in London over the River Thames. It is close to the Tower of London, which gives it its name. It has become an iconic symbol of London and is sometimes mistakenly called London Bridge, which is the next bridge upstream.
Hereafter you can see zeca, Louis and me in front of the Tower bridge.

BIG BEN
Big Ben is the name given to the main bell hanging in the clock tower of the Palace of Westminster, the home of the Houses of Parliament in the United Kingdom. It is commonly taken to be the name of the clock tower itself, but this is incorrect

Buckingham Palace
Buckingham Palace is the official residence of the British monarch in London. Long Live the Queen.

Zeca and me in Beckingham palace in front of the the official residence of the British monarch

The guards of the Queen Elizabeth official residence

Louis and me with one guard

London Eye

The London Eye, also known as the Millennium Wheel, is an observation wheel that completed construction in 1999 and opened to the public in March, 2000. As of June 2007, it is the largest observation wheel in the world

photo of me taken with London Eye

piccadilly palace

well known palace for the new year's eve.

St Paul cathedral

Mme tussaud's museum
Madame Tussauds London's one of the most famous tourist attraction . You can see many many of the celebrities made in wax. The entrance costs 25 £(50$). But believe me ,the visit worths the 25 £ .

Julia roberts and me

David Beckham,victoria Beckham and me.

Charlie Chaplin and me

Bush, Blair and me in an UN conference

Einstein and Einstein
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former" Einstein

National Gallery
The National Gallery, London, houses one of the greatest collections of European painting in the world

Chadi n the A380 in Bristol

These photos are taken in airbus UK in Filton Bristol with the A380 .

Murphy's law

The following is the Original law by Murphy:
-Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
-Nothing is as easy as it looks.
-Everything takes longer than you think.
-If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.
-If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway.
-If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop.
-Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
-If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
-Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.
-Mother nature is a bitch.
-It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
-Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first.
-Every solution breeds new problems.

Toulouse sit in

This is my photo taken during the sit in in toulouse on Jul 25, 2006.the sit in was held during the war of july on lebanon to support the lebanese and to stop killing lebanese civilians.

We Are Done !!!!

Last friday , I've finished my courses at INSA ." Adieu INSA " .we did an apéro de classe. then we went to the BOOM . it was a real blast. we sang ON A FINI ... ON A FINI ... ON A ON A ON A FINI . it was very good. this is the end. i'll never go back except to take my diploma (lol) .
now I'm gonna prepare my self for my internship at Airbus UK in Bristol .
I went to paris 2 weeks ago to take my visa.
my flight is on thurday 1st february. i should leave my room and do the housework :(
That's all for now. next time I write I'll be in Bristol ...

Lebanese party - RPL in the QG

Apero in Mirvatte's house . from the left to the right me, Mirvatte, Emilio, Mansour and Fayssal.




The party was a real blast! this photo is taken before we went to the party at insa's main entrance .

back to school

that really sucks . back to school yesterday morning . to be passive once again after a 3 months of internship ( photos of the last day are coming soon).
well it's my last year of studies .I still have one semester ( that sounds really good)

A380 Show

today morning 4 A380 passed overhead Toulouse .photos taken on the roof of the M01 building in Airbus . it was amazing .
click here to see the Formation Fligth of the A380 airbus show .

My First "visioconference" in Airbus

Last friday , i participate to a " visio conference " with Messier-Bugatti , a supplier of Airbus . Messier-Bugatti, SAFRAN Group, is a world actor in the field of aeronautical braking and carbon brakes .it was a very interesting conference .specially , it's my fisrt one .

380 , it doesn't represent the famous Airbus plane

380 , it's not the first true double-deck passenger airliner for the long-range market , the most spacious and efficient airliner ever conceived . but it represents the first salary in my life and in this internship at Airbus Toulouse . well it's not too much . the famous french expression says it all " C'est mieux que rien " .

A tour in Airbus

today afternoon i have visisted with stephan and Brice the aircrafts for tests .
we went on board of the A320 , A340 , we went into their cockpits and test some activities, specially the braking system . we did a round near the A380 , and take a look on the real landing gear system. well they don't have the same steering systems the three families . the A380 is based on a push pull hydraulic system .On the contrary the A320 is based on a rack and pinion ( a pair of gears which convert rotational motion into linear ) . the A320 has 6 wheels . the A340 12 wheels . and the 380 22 wheels .

too good to be real

today morning , i went with Noelle , an employee in the landing gear team, to the laboratory at airbus blagnac in order to simulate 3 functions of the BSCU (braking and steering control unit) . the first 2 functions related to the alternate brake fault . and the third was to display an error message in the cockpit of hot brakes . In the labo there is a cockpit just like in the image in which we can simulate the real function of an aircraft , because it is associated to a reproduced parts of plane on the same scale .

i was too lucky today to take off the aircraft ( in simulation of course) in the labo . i have also simulated the brakes . i have visited the labo and saw the hydraulic system in the rudder , wings and landing gear . it was too good to be real . it's not an internship , it's a dream ....

Internship at airbus Toulouse

2 weeks later after the beginning of my internship , i can just say that Airbus is an ideal place for a trainee work. My subject is to develop a tool on simulink/Matlab in order to simulate the BSCU controller (Braking and steering control unit) incorporated in the A320 family Aircraft to control the landing gear and display error messages in the cockpit screen.

Actually the first three days , i have just read the system description note( SDN) to take a general view of the braking and steering of the landing gear system of the plane . then i have read the SADT( Structured Analysis and Design Technique) which gives functional schematic of the BSCU and his interaction with the system such as Monitoring and controlling brakes pressure , temprature , steering angle , ect ...

the second week i have started the real subject , and have just begun to adapt the tool from another one for the A340 .

far from technique , it's a very interesting opprtunity to take contact with people in the industrial world . i work with a team of 12 likeable person ( insaiens well represented 3/12) working on the landing gear of single aisle aircraft . generally they have a mechanical and automatic background . the average age is 35-40 years old . and i'm the only trainee worker in the team .

to be continued .....

just finished my exams

i have finished my exams thursday , and presented my java project friday morning .saying that , seems i'm enjoying now a relaxing vacation on a beach . but far different , i'll start my internship on monday morning in Airbus Toulouse .

My 4th year project :the S12X microcontroller

this was my 4th year project in INSA in the DGEI department .this project was done with the collaboration of freescale and the Lesia laboratory .it's about developping an application of the new freescale microcontroller S12X in order to put it in the microcontroller book to make easier using this new component for Freescale's client in the future . My project is to communicate two interface Kit( MC33880 and MC 33993 ) through the S12X using SPI module ( Serial peripheral interface). theMC33880 control the LED card . the MC33993 is charged to scrutinize the switch state.

once the program is charged in the S12X microcontroller . the S12x will send a data to the MC 33993 , requesting the switch state . then the MC33993 will send back the switch state data using SPI module . once the data is recieved by S12x . the microcontroller will send it to the MC33880 by another SPI module in order to control the LED board .therfore we can display the results on the LED .

the S12X is based on the HC12 core with the Xgate module . the Xgate is another microprocessor enhanced in the S12x . this parallel processing module offloads the CPU by providing high speed data processing and transfer between peripheral modules, RAM and I/O ports . the S12XD family is designed to deliver 2 to 5 times the performance of a 25 MHz HCS12 .

for more information click on this link http://www.etud.insa-toulouse.fr/~cal_cham/S12x_project

Third place in INSA's football tournament

we take the third place in insa's football tournament(interpromo ) . i have played with the AEI's team(Landes Mickael , Amaouch mouktar , Remi breban , mathieu cousini ,Thibault Roquier,Fred , arno , and me ) .we have lost the semi-final match in penalty against the first year team . we were disappointed , because we have desreved to go to the final .