The Jordanian engineer, Afnan, who graduated from engineering faculty at the Hashemite University, ranked first in the world in business technology and entrepreneurship.

Afnan placed her name in the first place among the 10 nominees for the United Nations Business Technology Prize in the world, which aims increasing support to reach the training of one million children in 2023 in a troubled region surrounding her homeland, Jordan.

On the tenth of this December 2020, Afnan was receiving the news of her winning first place in the world in business technology, but this award did not come out easily, as she started early on striving to develop her electrical engineering skills from the Hashemite University, and reached her dream of establishing her academic project Eureka, which means "I found it." So far, it has trained more than 5,000 young Arabs, over 10 years, to become innovators and engineers. A special focus is on artificial intelligence, the internet of things (IoT), and robotics.

The IEEE HU student branch in the Faculty of Engineering at the Hashemite University won two international awards within a week, and won the award for the ideal branch at the level of the region for the sixth time, and the fifth in a row. IEEE HU Regional Exemplary Student Branch Award 2020,

It also won first place in the humanitarian category in the IEEE Day 60-second Innovation Video Contest 2020 award.

It is worth noting that the branch has accomplished more than (40) technical and non-technical sessions and workshops, and (5) scientific trips and scientific dialogue sessions managed and organized by the students themselves, which contributed to raising the scientific and technological awareness of the students of the Hashemite University.

This award is added to a number of global and local achievements of the student branch over the past few years, which included winning the award for the best student branch in Jordan twice, the award for the best new student division 2012 (medical engineering division), and the best regional student division 2019 (medical engineering division), The best website for an international branch 2017, the best academic supervisor for the branch 2017, in addition to the best student photo contest for the 2017 events.

It is worth noting that IEEE is an organization of electrical and electronics engineers, and the Hashemite University branch includes five IEEE technology divisions and a youth group supporting women in engineering, working together to support the organization's vision of developing technology to serve humanity.

On 12-12-2020, the closing ceremony for this year of the global competition Hult Prize was at the Hashemite University with a wonderful effort from those leaders currently in charge of the global initiative under the patronage of Her Highness Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan, and with the support of the Hashemite university presidency and the deanship of the College of Engineering. The idea of launching the award goes back to 2017 with the efforts of a group of students of the College of Engineering, headed by the student Muhammad Hatoum and the Dean of the College of Engineering Prof. Awni Itradat to launch the Hult HU branch.