The university president attends the graduation projects exhibition for students of the College of Engineering.

His Excellency the President of King Khalid University, Prof. Dr. Faleh bin Raja Allah Al-Salami emphasized the importance of students ’graduation projects at the College of Engineering, like other colleges, as they represent the first of their achievements, and their application of the information and skills they acquired in their college, and which contribute to the formation of engineering projects that have practical and economic benefit to them, adding The knowledge economy and investment is the widest field for work at the present time, which is what the college’s graduates should turn to contribute to the economic growth of the Kingdom and the development of the economy in it, in order to achieve the goals of the Kingdom's Vision 2030.

 

This came during His Excellency’s sponsorship of the recent graduation project exhibition ceremony for students of the College of Engineering, as Al-Salami asserted that the College of Engineering launched efficiently towards achieving great successes and academic accreditations, and is striving to improve its outputs and improve its educational and research processes, which contributed to its leadership and excellence, and confirms this. The attention of the public and private sectors to attract their outputs, indicating that the establishment of such an exhibition and the accompanying events confirms the university’s interest in keeping abreast of knowledge developments, and highlighting the achievements of its graduates to businessmen, employers, incubators and business accelerators, praising what he saw of projects that were distinguished by creativity in their ideas and quality in implementation, and included various fields.

 

In addition, the Dean of the College of Engineering, Dr. Muhammad Al Misfer, expressed the college’s keenness to empower its students, and its relentless endeavor to raise the level of their skills, underlining the contribution of the college’s employees and students to many initiatives and actions at the university and the region’s level, locally and internationally.

 

The ceremony began with a tour of His Excellency the President of the University with the Dean and the employees of the College of Engineering, where the numbers and achievements of the college during the past years were presented, which showed a quantum leap in the accreditation of the college’s programs and the number of published research and patents, which raised the college’s classification until it reached the rank between 401 - 500 in the world, according to the Times ranking.

 

During the gathering, some graduation projects were presented to students from various departments of the college, and at the end of the ceremony, His Excellency the President of the University and the Dean of the College of Engineering honored the distinguished researchers, units, students and employees as well as the distinguished units and departing members of the college, and the Dean of the College of Engineering presented a souvenir made in the laboratories of the College of Engineering to His Excellency the President the University.

 

It is noteworthy that the College of Engineering, through its students and employees, presented distinct initiatives during the past period, including the initiative to develop and manufacture tools for the prevention of corona, which has achieved great success, while the college is preparing to launch the qualitative virtual forum "How to build your home" on April 17th.

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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.