King Khalid University wins five excellence awards in E-learning

At the launching ceremony of the Saudi Resources Network for Open Educational Resources (Shams), which was sponsored by His Excellency the Minister of Education, Dr. Ahmed bin Mohammed Al-Issa, and organized by the National Center for e-Learning (NCeL) at the Ministry of Education, King Khalid University received five awards in numerous categories at the level of national universities. His Excellency Rector Al-Solamy expressed his profound contentment with the university's achievement of a number of excellence awards in the field of e-learning. The Vice Dean for Academic and Educational Affairs, Dr. Saad Al-Dajjam, commented that these awards are the result of the continuous work and cooperation between the Deanship of e-Learning and the rest of the university faculties in enriching electronic content.

On the individual level, Dr. Amir Mohammed Kessentini, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Engineering, received the Excellence Award in e-Learning for national universities in the production category. Dr. Halima Al-Saidi from the Faculty of Science also won the Excellence Award in e-Learning in the same category.

On this occasion, the Dean of e-Learning, Dr. Fahad bin Abdullah Al-Ahmari, congratulated the Rector and all of the university's employees on this achievement. He emphasized that these achievements are deeply rooted in teamwork and advanced technical capabilities with a drive to succeed.

The e-Learning Excellence Award in its current edition is dedicated to the National Open Learning Content Program, which is supervised by the NCeL. The participation of educational institutions from universities and education departments has resulted in providing more than 80,000 educational resources currently available on Shams. This award aims to spread the culture of excellence in e-learning and to improve it; most prominently, in relation to open educational resources.

The award included three branches: the first was the Excellence Award in e-Learning for Educational Institutions; the second was the Excellence Award in e-Learning for Shams Representatives; and the third was the Excellence Award in e-Learning for Governmental, Private, and Volunteer Institutions.

  Based on the keenness of the College of Engineering at King Khalid University - represented by the Training Unit - to perfect and develop its outputs and link them to the labor market and for its male and female students to receive the best quality and distinguished learning methods, a number of college students, under the supervision of the head of the Training Unit, Dr. Dhafer Ali Alqahtani, coordinated a field visit. The students visited Al Watania for industries and Tasnee factory  in Riyadh on Wednesday and Thursday, November, 22-23, 2023. The visit aims to acquaint the students with the technologies that fall within their specialization and are used in the Al watania for Industry (its plastic and container manufacturers) and Tasnee (the battery factory), which allowed the college students to learn about the nature of factory work by meeting with the engineers working in the factories. The visit began with a visual presentation of the factories’ parts and components, the developments that took place in them from their inception until today, and what are the security and safety precautions. This visit included a field tour of the factory facilities and their effective contribution to the latest technologies and quality of production in the field of plastics, containers and batteries. An open meeting was also held to discuss and answer students’ inquiries related to factory operations and technologies. At the end of the visit, the college employees expressed their thanks to the representatives of the factories for the warm reception, and the efforts they made to make this visit a success, which comes within the cooperation and constructive interaction between the universities with the governmental and private sectors in the field of industry to link the theoretical reality with the practical and applied, because of its great positive impact and great benefit to its graduates and graduates of the College of Engineering.  
The College of Engineering and all its employees are pleased to extend their congratulations  to His Excellency Professor Dr. Saeed bin Dhafer Al-Qadi on the occasion of his appointment as Dean of the College of Engineering, wishing him further success.
The College of Engineering has achieved advanced results in the Times Rank of Academic Specialties (THE World University Rankings by Subject) as one of the most famous international classification bodies for global universities, competing with its counterparts at the regional and international levels. The College of Engineering achieved third place nationally out of 18 Saudi universities that appeared in the rankings, and ranked 201st globally this year out of 1,374 international universities, advancing about 200 places compared to last year.The Times Higher Education classification for academic specializations relies in its criteria on measuring the level of development and innovation in universities around the world, as well as their research efforts to influence the local and international environment, in addition to the opinion of specialists and business owners regarding the academic efforts made to educate students and prepare them with the best A level commensurate with global needs in the areas of development, research and innovation. This distinction is based on a set of achievements that come within an integrated series of planned goals according to strategies with broad horizons aimed at raising the university’s global ranking, aspiring through it to achieve one of the goals of Saudi Vision 2030 in placing King Khalid University on the list of the top 200 University globally by 2030.
The Volunteering and Community Service Unit at the College of Engineering, along with the College of Engineering Club, female section, and the Parents Charitable and Social Endowment, visited the Social Welfare House in Abha on Tuesday, October 24, 2023, to visit our fathers and mothers (distinguished senior citizens, male and female) to honor the elderly, learn about the services provided, and gain experiences and learning opportunities for male and female students. And the tremendous efforts undertaken by the branch of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development in the Asir region, with the generous support of the government of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, may God protect and preserve him. The head of the Volunteering and Community Service Unit at the College of Engineering, His Excellency Dr. Abdulaziz Saleh Khalifa Al-Saidi, praised the cooperation of the house’s administration in holding the event. The unit and the house’s director also welcomed hosting the poet Musaad Al-Bakri, who recited a poem that won everyone’s approval.
ABET International granted full international program accreditation to the Bachelor’s programs in Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Industrial Engineering at the College of Engineering at King Khalid University, after fulfilling the requirements for accreditation. This accreditation comes for the second time (renewal of accreditation).