IKRAM

Intelligent Recipe Engine

From Ingredients to Plate — Before Cooking Even Begins

IKRAM does not only measure waste after production — it actively guides decision-making before cooking even begins. Using the ingredients currently logged in inventory, whether from the official AAU purchase plan or recovered surplus, the system recommends recipes that can be prepared immediately, calculates exact portion quantities, displays the complete nutritional profile, and computes the precise commercial cost per portion in Jordanian Dinar before any ingredient is processed.

Why This Matters Pedagogically

Recipe generation becomes the first stage of waste reduction. By recommending dishes based on ingredients already available in inventory and scaling them to exact portion requirements, IKRAM reduces unnecessary overproduction before preparation even begins. The system closes the sustainability loop both upstream — deciding what to cook — and downstream — determining how recoverable waste is reused.

Recipe selection, portion sizing, nutritional analysis, and cost-per-plate are presented together within a single workflow — mirroring the real decision-making process of a professional kitchen. IKRAM trains students not only in culinary technique, but in the operational thinking required for modern food production.

How IKRAM Works

The Six-Step Protocol

What IKRAM Produces

From Waste to Product — Four Recovery Channels

Every gram of waste in this kitchen has a designated next destination. The circular loop is not metaphorical — it produces real outputs, in four distinct channels.

The Five Analytical Dimensions of Every Recipe

One Recipe, Five Operational Layers

Data Integrity

Nothing Is Fabricated — Three Rules That Protect the Workflow

Inside a Single Lecture

3 Hours in a Practical Class — How IKRAM Guides Practice Continuously

Students enter the Cold Kitchen class and open the IKRAM application on the tablet at their station. The system displays the lecture task, which may focus on vegetables, fruits, chicken, meat, or seafood, along with the required mother cuts and preparation techniques.

Students weigh the ingredients they receive before starting, then separately weigh the peeling waste, trimming waste, and final usable cuts produced during the exercise. These measurements are logged into IKRAM to track each student's technical performance, yield accuracy, and waste reduction throughout the semester.

The system also weighs and classifies waste by identifying what can be recovered for reuse — such as stocks, powders, pickles, or dehydrated seasonings — and what should be sent directly to compost. IKRAM automatically generates storage labels with suitable holding dates and food-safety guidance, while sending alerts to prevent expired stock and support the FIFO (First In, First Out) storage approach.

At the end of the session, students submit their data, and the system updates their individual progression chart, allowing both students and instructors to monitor skill development and sustainability performance over time.

How IKRAM Guides Practice — Continuously, Not Just at Assessment

Visible at the start of every session. Before the student touches a knife, her dashboard shows her last three sessions, her current trend, and the specific ingredient category where she is losing the most weight.

CLO tracking, automatic. Each Course Learning Outcome for A1411213 is mapped to a measurable behaviour IKRAM captures. CLO percentages are computed continuously from session data — never reconstructed retrospectively from grade books.

PLO traceability, automatic. CLO data aggregates into Programme Learning Outcome reporting at semester end. The faculty can demonstrate, with a per-student, per-session, per-semester audit trail, that its graduates exit with the competencies the programme claims.

Intervention before it is too late. Underperforming students are flagged in Weeks 5–8, not at the final exam. There is still half a semester in which to correct course — and IKRAM gives the instructor the data to know exactly which adjustment to suggest.

The Student Journey

Sixteen Weeks Through IKRAM

SDG Coverage — Operational Contributions

Six United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

IKRAM contributes to six United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Each contribution below is named together with the specific operational mechanism inside the system that delivers it — not a general claim, but the concrete process.

Technical Architecture

Built for the Classroom, Engineered for Adoption

Versions — Five Iterations of Reflective Practice

How the System Learned From the Classroom

Roadmap — Where IKRAM Goes Next

Planned Integrations and Capabilities

IKRAM is in its second year of live operation and ships continuously. The roadmap below names the next set of integrations on the development track — each chosen to extend the system's value beyond the AAU classroom and into the broader hospitality supply chain.

Live System — Review Access

Live System · Publicly Accessible

The platform described in this section is live and reviewable. The credentials below provide read access to the running system, including the dashboard, student progression charts, and the underlying data sourced from the official AAU purchase plan.