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  Seventh Scientific Seminar for Engineering College organized by the Electrical Engineering Department, 1441 H A Seminar was hosted by the Electrical Engineering Department titled “Speech as a Biomedical signal using Artificial Intelligence” was Presented by Dr. Mohammed Usman Farooq for the Faculty of Engineering on Wednesday 20/11/2019. The seminar was attended by all Chairman’s, faculty members and students from the college of engineering. The presentation focused on the diagnosis of speech for both resting state and post-physical activity state to serve as a signal in detecting heart-rate. The detection and classification were accomplished using the Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) which were used to train and test with various algorithms using machine learning (ML) to achieve promising results. At the end of the presentation during the Q&A session most of the faculty members placed queries which added to the main goal of the seminar i.e., the Teaching-Learning Process. Finally, all the chairman’s and faculty members praised Dr. Usman for his contribution and efforts in making the seminar fruitful.

   Scientific Visit to Wastewater Purification and Treatment Station   A group of students from the Department of Chemical Engineering visited the Abha wastewater purification and treatment station on Tuesday, 05/11/2019. Within the framework of the program, field visits are conducted for each semester under the supervision of Dr. Arshad khan. The purpose of this visit is to identify the existing sewage systems as well as the stages of wastewater treatment and the components of the treatment station. The wastewater treatment and purification station in Abha, the central station, has been operating for more than 30 years, in accordance with the 40000 m3 wastewater treatment system. This station operates a tertiary treatment system that allows safe irrigation for palm trees. These waters are analyzed on a daily basis. The results of these analyses show the safety of the treated wastewater that flows to Wadi Bisha. The basic operations of the wastewater are explained until they are processed, first by using a special panel composing the station components with engineering drawings. After, we visit the site and monitors all the stages of the treatment, and these by explaining the physical therapy to biological treatment and to pumping treated water into drainage channels outside the station. Then, Engineer Abdel Mohsen Sayed present new created environmental laboratory and the water analysis can be realized. At the end of the visit, and by the accompanying doctor, Chemical Engineering Department expressed their thanks and gratitude to the engineers who are supervising the station for useful and valuable information that promotes the scientific method and the integration of the educational process.    

  The College of Engineering at King Khalid University achieved 4th and 501st place at the national and international level by the World University Ranking 2020. The College of Engineering continues to achieve much success including its new success to find a fourth place at the national level and the 501st position at the global level according to academic rankings in the Kingdom. These national and international rankings are of great importance to the faculty and for its students. Moreover, it represents an important indicator compared with the performance of other national and international universities. Several important criteria were measured including the quality of teaching and learning, scientific research, community service, undergraduate course syllabus, maintaining an international standard, etc. The Faculty of Engineering strives hard to develop the collaborative work system in accordance with international standards. Which is improving our academic research quality, knowledge base. This way the institutional and academic reputation has been increasing at international forums. The College of Engineering's achievements will make it an excellent center for research and education. We thank the Rector and all staff from senior management who supported the college tremendously.    

  College of Engineering Students participated in a skills course under the title: Management of university stress Student activity is an important forum for the discovery and the development of scientific, cultural and social abilities of students. The College of Engineering encourages students to participate in all events and courses available inside and outside the University. In this context, a number of students participated on Wednesday, 02-03-1441 in skills course titled the management of university stress presented by Mr. Fawaz al-Shehri. This course dealt with the proper steps in solving problems and facing the students' life difficulties.    

  Third Scientific Seminar for Engineering College organized by Chemical Engineering Department, 1441 H Dr. Mudassir Hasan from the chemical engineering department presented on the topic “Adsorptive  Removal of Azo Dye Using Polyaniline/Activated Carbon Composite” in the faculty seminar program of the College of Engineering, King Khalid University on 22/10/2019. He discussed in detail about the topic. He emphasized the synthesis process of polymer composites and polymer nanocomposites. Also, he presented his newly done research on Polyaninline/Activated carbon composite. The composite was used successfully to remove azo dyes from the wastewater which was published in Polymer Testing. He stressed that further research is needed to find new cheap polymeric composite to solve water pollution issues.      

  Clean Energy and  Promising Oooprtunities Forum 2019 The Electrical Engineering Department would like to congratulate Dr.Abdelaziz Salah Khelifa Saidi for his participation in Clean Energy and Promising Opportunities Forum 2019 on Thursday 24/10/2019. The Forum was organized by the Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) to produce Continuous Reliable Clean & Safe Electric Energy utilizing the best available fuels and fuel treatments to protect the environment and public health in line with the Kingdom’s Vision 2030. Dr.Abdelaziz presented his technical paper titled “Influence of PV Generation on Voltage Stability in Tunisian Distribution Network”. The Forum was attended by a number of experienced individuals from Siemens Gas & Power, GE Power Services, KFUPM, SEC, Farabi Petrochemical Company and many more. During the felicitation ceremony, Dr.Abdelaziz was praised by various dignitaries for his contribution to the field.  

  Amir Asir visits the University College of Engineering R.H. Prince Turki bin Talal bin Abdulaziz, Amir Asir Region, visited the College of Engineering at King Khalid University on Tuesday 8/10/2019. He was received by the rector, Prof. Faleh bin Raja Allah Al-Salami, the dean of the College of Engineering, Dr. Ibrahim Al-Falki, the vice dean for academic affairs. Dr. Mohammed Khaloofah Al Mesfer and the vice-rectors of the university and the staff of the College, in the presence of the Secretary of the Asir Region, Dr. Walid Al-Humaidi. At the beginning of the visit, His Highness was briefed on the college labs and the possibilities available to engineering students. He also visited one of the teaching rooms to discuss the students of the hall about their specialization and study progress. Later, R.H. Prince Turki bin Talal bin Abdulaziz met with the faculty members, students, and students at the college. During the meeting, they talked about the urban landscape of Asir, and the roles, aspirations, and efforts of the Department of Architecture at the College of Engineering. The meeting also witnessed the presence of representatives of the Saudi Council of Engineers in the Asir region, as well as members of the Asir Development Authority and representatives of a number of bodies in Asir.

The Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Dr. Ibrahim Falki, opened the activities of the 14th Scientific Research Day of the Faculty of Engineering, which included the presentation and presentation of six papers and scientific research presented by the various departments of the Faculty of Engineering, in addition to the presentation of twelve scientific posters by a number of professors and teachers. For his part, the Dean of the College stressed the importance of scientific research in the College, which raises the quality of academic performance and its development. He also urged the continuation of its presentation throughout the academic year and not limited to presentation and presentation on one day. (MA) next year, which will support and enhance the quality and quality of scientific research in the college, especially postgraduate students. At the end of his speech, the Dean of the College thanked the professors and teachers of the Faculty of Research and thanked the participants, the participants and the attendees. After the completion of the research, the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering honored the researchers and a number of participants in the day of scientific research by distributing certificates of appreciation. Then the attendees went to see a number of scientific posters participating in the activities of the 14th Scientific Research Day of the Faculty of Engineering.

The Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, in the presence of the Head of the Department of Architecture and Planning and a number of teachers and students of the department, attended two lectures at the invitation of the Department of Mathematics at King Khalid University. The first lecture entitled "Meshes in Architecture" was presented by Professor "Helmut Pottmann", the second lecture, entitled "Discrete Conformal Mapping and Riemann Surfaces Theory and Applications", was presented by Professor Alexander Bobenko. Both professors are visiting professors of KAUST. These two lectures were of particular importance to the Department of Architecture and Planning at the University because of their role in diversifying and developing the design capabilities of their ideas and creative design alternatives. On the sidelines of the lectures, the two guests exchanged views on the possibility of benefiting from their expertise in providing the Department of Architecture and Planning with information and ideas that will develop the architectural mathematics course presented in the plan to the Department of Architecture and Planning.

Under the supervision of the Excellency of the Dean and the advising unit of the College of Engineering, Professor Ahmed Al Badawi presented a lecture on 25 March 2019 regarding the definition of drugs and its types, addiction and abuse and the destruction caused due to it. A good number of faculty members and students participated in this lecture and benefited from it. In addition to dangers arising from the drinking soft beverages, he described cases of drug addicts, methods of promotion, and clarified about the dangers of digital drugs and ways of preventing them. He also praised the efforts of the state and its agencies for fighting against drug traffickers in the kingdom. He also pointed the role of media professionals in preventing the scourge of drugs. In the end, the dean expressed his happiness and thanks to the valuable information provided by the professor to protect the students from the danger of drugs and its addiction among the youth.