The Dean of the Faculty of Engineering opens the activities of "Seventh Engineering Day" at King Khalid University in Abha

 

"The importance of upgrading the profession of the engineer and raise the level and encourage creativity and innovation to achieve an internationally recognized position of the Saudi engineer, and then his role in development, the Kingdom is witnessing a comprehensive renaissance and accelerated development and economic reforms stimulate the aspiration for a promising future and renewed prosperity", Dr. Ibrahim bin Idris Falqi The Dean of the College of Engineering addressed these words during the opening of the seventh engineering day activities in the presence of the College's Vice Deans and a large number of faculty members and students at the headquarters of the Faculty of Engineering at the University.
 Discussions focused on the services, conferences, seminars and courses that the college evaluates and offers, how to benefit from them by the students and how to involve them, in addition to talking about the link between engineering graduates in their entirety after graduation and the services and facilities available to them. Then the Dean, with the participation of the agents and heads of the departments of the college, held an open meeting with the students to answer the questions and of the students.
 Among the activities of this day were the graduation projects and a set of posters for the students of the Faculty in different engineering disciplines, were discussed and evaluated these projects by the scientific committees in the various engineering departments.
 Under the title of "my professional experience", the Dean of the College conducted a panel discussion in which he hosted Dr. Mohammed Bin Abdullah Al Dahm, the Vice Dean of King Khalid University for Projects. The guest spoke about his personal professional experience in studying engineering and his work in design and implementation of university facilities and facilities, technical support for the development and improvement of facilities and infrastructure to ensure a high quality academic environment. The guest also urged graduate students to explore the various doors available to them to obtain an initial job opportunity that will be an incentive and motivation to improve and develop them in the future.
 The Dean of the College, along with the Vice Dean for Academic Affairs and the Vice Dean for Development and Quality, responded to the students' questions. The speakers gathered on the competency of the Saudi graduate and his ability to compete for a job, in addition to the development of skills and create an attractive and stable work environment for new graduates and that the newly graduated to prepare for work in remote places specially in the beginning to get and gain skills and experience.

 The seventh engineering day concluded with a training course for graduate students under the title "Five-Balance" presented by Eng. Ahmed Bakhoutheh at the invitation of the Training Unit and Alumni at the College.

 

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QS World Ranking 2024

The College of Engineering Achieves Advanced Positions In The QS Global Ranking  For The  Year 2024

The College of Engineering at King Khalid University achieved the top 200 majors in the world after achieving a rank of 151-200 in the field of chemical engineering. The university also achieved record numbers in the field of electrical and electronics engineering by ranking 401-450 in the world.

A field visit for students of the College of Engineering to the Al Watania for Indsutries and Tasnee factory in Riyadh

  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.  

Dr. Saeed Al-Qadi is the Dean for 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 Achieved A Distinguished International Level In The Times Ranking

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.