In his visit to Assiut province, Eng. Ibrahim Mehleb, Minister of Housing and Urban Communities, together with Major General Ibrahim Hammad, Governor of Assiut held a meeting with Prof. Mohamed Abdel Samiea, Assiut University President, Prof. Ahmed Abdu Gaeis, Vice President for Graduate Studies and Research, Prof. Mohammed Abul- Qasem, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and a group of administrative leadership and executives of the province. In this meeting, Engineer Mehleb highly estimated the role of Assiut University and its prestigious scientific rank among Egyptian universities. He also called for genuine and effective cooperation between the university and the province executives to benefit from the facilities of the university and the Faculty of Engineering in the field of constructions, supervision and implementation of projects. On his part, Prof Abdel Samiea asserted the role played by the university and its responsibilities towards developing the community. Henceforth, the idea of establishing a National University as a non-profit university in New Assiut Region over an  area of ​​40 acres to achieve a number of goals including the development of the University's financial resources and providing a new field of educational and research service for faculty members and assistants.  This project also assures good educational opportunities to Upper-Egyptian youth in addition to eliminating internal travel shuttles to the capital and Northern provinces. The University President asserted that the establishment of the university project does not demand financial funding but it rather requires logistic support and administrative facilitations. This project, when successfully completed, will cause a remarkable cultural change in Assiut and the entire Upper Egyptian governorates