In an attempt to honor Engineering graduates University Rector inaugurates the 3rd Engineer's Day Source :  King khalid University, Media Center   His Excellency, King Khalid University Rector, Prof. Faleh bin Rajaa Allah Al Solamy has inaugurated the activities of the 3rd Engineer's Day which is organized by Engineering College and attended by the University Vice-President for Academic and Educational Affairs, Dr. Muhammed Al Hassoun and the University Vice-President for Projects, Dr. Muhammed Abu Adham, in addition to the Dean of Engineering College, Dr. Ibrahim Falqi. Upon the Rector's arrival, he opened the exhibit which contained graduation projects with models (31 projects from five disciplines namely: Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Civil Engineering, and Chemical Engineering. Rector Al Solamy was also briefed on the corner of the academic guidance which provides consultations for graduates about job opportunities and how to look for a job. In addition, the Rector visited the interview simulation corner, the corner of training on writing resumes, and Idea corner which provides some of the university students' successful projects, in cooperation with Talent and Innovation Center of King Khalid University. The activities also included holding two lectures, the first entitled, "The best format of CV" which was presented by Dr. Ibrahim El Sisi, and the second entitled, "Secrets of Interviews" which was presented by lecturer Muhammed Awad. Dr. Falqi: Engineer's Day seeks to motivate graduates and let them show their abilities, in addition to raising the quality of graduation projects For his part, the Dean of Engineering College, Dr. Ibrahim Falqi, has confirmed that the Engineer's Day is the first of many steps will be taken to honor Engineering College graduates. During this Day, many graduation projects will be presented, discussed, and finally evaluated by the commissions that were formed from different departments. Moreover, the activities of the Day will include establishing many corners and holding many lectures that in turn will help the graduate to get informed about job paths and show him/her how to create a strong CV, in addition to making the graduate ready for an interview. The Dean further clarified that holding this Day seeks to motivate graduates and let them show their abilities, in addition to raising the quality of graduation projects as well. Projects are showed in an open air which definitely considered a successful means for intellectual exchange among students and teachers. Falqi added, "I couldn't forget to thank the Rector for his active sponsorship to the event and for his ongoing support for the Engineering College. I would like to thank the Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Exhibition, Dr. Ihab Muhammed Shaqdi and his team who did big efforts in arrangements. I also appreciated efforts done by lecturer Meshal Kblan Al Qahtani who had a supervision role on preparing the location of the event".

Engineering College organized a lecture titled " How to Write Your Ideal CV" as   one of activities of The 3rd Engineer's Day . The lecture presented  by Dr. Ibrahim Elsissi .

The Department of Mechanical Engineering organizes seven training sessions during the first semester 1437 - 1438, 313 students has benefited:​ No. Title The presenter Date   completed students 1 Using Microsoft Excel for Mechanical Engineering Applications Dr. Baiumy Taha El Assal 8-10 December 2016 24 2 Technical Documentation Dr. Ahamed Saleel and Dr. Abhilash Edacherian 21 November 2016 27 3 Matlab and applications Dr.Sid Ahmed Ahmedou 4-8 December 2016 85 4 Solid works   Dr. Amir Kessntini 27-30 November 2016 90 5 ADVANCES in CAD MODELLING Dr. Gulam Mohammed Sayeed Ahmed 11-13 December 2016 28 6 Non Destructive Testing Dr. Vineet Tirth 14-15 December 2016 57 7 Experimental design using Taguchi method (using Minitab program) Dr. Nagy Taha 20-21 December 2016 2

The Engineering college organized a workshop titled " ABET and Rubric Assessment Workshop " for Electrical and Industrial Engineering departments presented by Dr. Javed Mallick, Chairman of Academic development and Quality Unit.  

It was holding a training session for the students of Department of Mechanical Engineering under the title: Using Microsoft Excel for Mechanical Engineering Applications. In the period from Thursday, 08/12/2016 to Saturday, 10/11/2016. The session was provided by Dr / Baiumy Taha El-Assal. The course covered the following topics: GETTING STARTED ENTERING & FORMATTING DATA, NUMBERS TABLES FORMATTING CONDITIONAL FORMATTING FORMULAS CHARTING

presented By Eng. ABUBAKR MUSTAFA Water desalination and purification training course, given by Eng. ABUBAKR MUSTAFA, is designed to give the students basic knowledge about desalination processes. It covered  the different characteristics of drinking water , the national and international standards of the characteristics , sources of water pollution , water pre-treatment process ,water desalination methods . The training course focused on Reverse Osmosis (RO) as a common used technique .30  students have joined and participated this course.

A short term training of 8 hours has been done on topic "Computer Application for chemical Engineering Calculations", during 27/11/2016 to 29/11/2016. The main focus was on MS Excel use of chemical engineering calculations, Excel could be used to solve: Root finding for non-linear systems (Useful in solving thermodynamic systems)  Linear and Non-Linear Regression (Used to fit the data) Solve the simple ode systems using Runge-cut methods (Solving CSTR equations with redactions) Develop spreadsheet software to automate daily tasks, this requires knowledge about the visual basic script. (To interpolate data, plot data) In this Training a variety of  problems of chemical engineering has been solved, which covered most of MS excel features. The main output of the training was that, after completion of the training, students should able to to build their own excel sheets for their problems. In the training following areas were covered well: Basic of Excel Data manipulation and fitting Algebraic Equation Solution Reaction Engineering Mass balance Energy Balance Thermodynamics Mass Transfer In the continuation of this training now these students can offer training on MATLAB, HYSYS or ASPEN in future.

In 23 and 24 October 2016 , The Engineering collage organized a workshop titled "Quality Assessment and ABET Visit Preparation Workshop"  for Mechanical , Civil and Chemical Engineering departments presented by Dr. Javed Mallick.​

In the practical application framework of the theoretical study, the students of Mechanical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, King Khalid University attended a scientific visit to the Shokaik Desalination Plant under the supervision of Dr./ Baiumy El-Assal. The visit was very useful for the students, where they had seen most of the parts that they learn in the course of Power Plants and Desalination as well as graduation projects in desalination topics. Students were accompanied by engineer/ Abdelraheem who is a specialist in desalination process in the station. He introduced a detailed explanation of all the station components from the beginning of the water intake from the sea and the various stages of water purification processes. A brief Explanation for the water pumps and their types and desalination units. He made a detailed explanation of the Multi Stage Flashing (MSF) desalination process and its theory of work which is identical to the theoretical study in the power Plants and desalination course that has had an effective impact on the gained information for students. Students also watched all the power Plant components of boilers, burners and turbines Accompanied with engineer/ Essam Ali who is a specialist in thermal processes in the station. He explained a detailed explanation of the theory of work of each component.

The training program for college students (Download from here)

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The faculty member at King Khalid University (KKU), the Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Faculty of Engineering, Dr. Amir Kesssentini has participated, as a certified content expert, in reviewing the content "Engineering Management Project" course in Ohio University, USA and "Fluid Mechanics Theory" course at the University of New Mexico, USA The participation of Dr. Amir came after rehabilitating him in the field of electronic courses quality by the Deanship of e-learning at King Khalid University - the quality of e-courses Department, and after attending sessions and getting accreditation from the quality of the e-courses global Organization "QM" and after his active participation in the completion of the internal and formal review phase of some of the courses. For his part, Dean of e-learning, Dr. Fahd bin Abdullah Al Ahmari congratulated Faculty of Engineering, and Dr. Amir Kesssentini on this unprecedented achievement for King Khalid University in the field of electronic courses and its quality. Dr. Al Ahmari explained that the university had a head start in making a strategic partnership with the QM organization, which is one of the international organizations that concerned with the quality of e-courses. Hence, KKU is the first partner of the organization in the Middle East, among more than 950 leading educational institution in the world. On the other hand, KKU has sought to build its partnership with this organization because of its expertise and leadership in the field of electronic courses quality in the world. He said, "Due to this partnership, KKU has adopted standards that have been accredited by this organization, to be a basis for regulating the quality of e-courses at the university level" He added that the deanship through the adoption of this global standard is designed to enable the teaching staff to apply quality standards in the design of their electronic courses, to create and implement the process of adoption of the quality of e-courses, to measure the efficiency, effectiveness and customer satisfaction with regard to e-learning, to identify gaps and opportunities for development in the e-learning program,  and to present the right projects to fill the gaps, and take advantage of opportunities for improvement.  Dr. Al Ahmari pointed out that the unprecedented achievements of the deanship at the level of the Middle East universities are represented in 20 courses at the KKU getting merit seal from the QM organization.

Students of Level 9 of Mechanical Engineering Department, visited AL-HASANIAH TILES FACTORY, in Asir Industrial Area on Thursday, 20.10.16. Al-Hasaniah tiles factory is the largest manufacturer of ceramic tiles in Asir region. The total capacity of production is about 10000 sq. mts. per day and has a workforce of about 300 employees. The product range includes mosaic ceramic tiles of different sizes and colors and pavement tiles of different designs and colors. The pavement tiles on the footpaths of Abha and Khamis Mushayt as well as in parking and public parks are all supplied by the company in Asir region. Students have been demonstrated following processes of the plant; the processing and mixing of raw material, casting, pressing, curing using minimum water consumption by water spray, finishing, transporting and packaging of all types of products. Students have also been demonstrated the operations of maintenance and repair shop and water recycling plant.

Students of Level 9 of Mechanical Engineering Department, King Khalid University visited ALRUWAD GLASS FACTORY, in Asir Industrial Area on Thursday, 20.10.16. Al Ruwad glass factory is a leading glass processing factory in Asir region. They purchase flat glass as raw material from Turkey and China and following processing is done on it; Cutting, Beveling (or edging), Making holes and slots, Cleaning and Polishing and Tempering. The turnover of the factory is 4-5 billion SAR per annum. It is completely automated with state of art machines and a total of 35-40 employees work in the factory. Students of MED-KKU have been given on-job demonstration of these processes in the plant. They have also learned about the practical aspects of factory layout, operation and maintenance issues of CNC machines and work time scheduling, apart from the safety and design considerations in glass processing.

College of Engineering hosted the Chairman and board of directors of the Saudi Council of Engineers in Asir,  to discuss a possible cooperation agreement between the two sides. The meeting considered a number of topics like the possibility for the college to provide training courses and lectures for engineers. The council also offers facilitating summer training for college students and contributing to the employment of college graduates and inflicts college students by the membership of the Council. The alignment of curricula with the requirements of the industry, as well as the interaction of the Council by putting up existing problems to be processed through student graduation projects and faculty members research have been pointed out by the two parties. The meeting was attended by the dean of the College of Engineering, Dr. Ibrahim Falqi, chairman of the Saudi Council of Engineers  at Asir  Eng. Saleh Qadah , vice dean for  academic affairs Dr. Mohamed al Misfer, vice dean for development and quality Dr. Ali Al Khuzaim and board of directors of the Saudi Council of Engineers at Asir.

The Engineering Club held on Tuesday (Muharram 3, 1438 ) the ceremony of "kicking off" the students' activities at the Faculty of Engineering for the first term of the academic year 1437- 1438 AH. The ceremony was attended by both Dr Mohammed Khaloufa Al Mesfer, the vice-dean for academic affairs at the Faculty of Engineering and Dr Ali Ak Khuzaim and the heads of departments at the Faculty. The vice-dean made an opening speech in which he highlighted the importance of the students' activities, and their roles in developing students greatly. The ceremony was closed by signing off the foundation stone, and filling in the forms of the new members who were over 70 students.

Meeting the Dean of the College of engineering with faculty members Date 12/25/1437 AH. A meeting was held between the Dean of college of engineering and faculty members on Monday 25/12/1437 AH. The Dean at the beginning of the meeting, welcomed the faculty members  specially  those who recently joined the college. The proposals and initiatives for the development of the college academic work was discussed. The meeting also discussed the difficulties and obstacles faced by faculty at both the academic or administrative procedural level, solutions and  proposals have been developed to overcome the difficulties through rules and regulations.

Open meeting with College students Date 24/12/1437 AH Open meeting with College of Engineering students was held on Sunday, 24/12/1437AH. at Auditoriums center, the meeting was attended by the Dean of the college, Vice-Deans and heads of academic departments. The meeting was commenced by the Dean, Dr. Ibrahim Idris Falqi, guidelines word which included welcoming new students, praise the abilities of engineering students and motivate them to set goals for excellent  GPA and make the efforts to achieve them. The Dean explained that this meeting was devoted to listen to their comments and initiatives for the development of the college and answer their questions. Dean also pointed out that all students inquiries can be answered through college ID on Twitter @EnggKKU and through email engineering@kku.edu.sa. The Vice Dean for Academic Affairs Dr. Mohamed Khalofa Al Misfer also welcomed the students, presented the most important academic standards for College, and urged them to focus on raising their GPA in the presence of real competition for jobs. Then the Dean allow the students to express their opinions and put forward the problems which they face. A lot of good views from the students was raised and many issues were discussed under the interaction between the students and department heads, Vice Deans and Dean. The meeting finished by an open buffet for student.

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The Rector of King Khalid University, Prof. Dr. Abdul Rahman bin Hamad Al Dawood has pointed out to the implications that have been included in the Saudi Arabia's vision 2030. Earlier, the Council of Economic Affairs and Development has received the directive of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud - may God protect him – to draw this blessed vision. Then, it has been culminated by the approval of the Council of Ministers. Rector Al Dawood said, "This blessed vision proves that this country lives in an exceptional phase of prosperity and economic growth, due to the wise leadership of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdul Aziz, and the support of the Crown Prince, His Royal Highness, Prince Mohammed bin Nayef bin Abdul Aziz, who is also the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Interior, and the chairman of the Political and Security Affairs Council, and of the Deputy Crown Prince, His Royal Highness, Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdul Aziz, who is also the second Deputy of Prime Minister, the Minister of Defense, and the Chairman of the Board of Economic Affairs and Development. Rector Al Dawood added, "The Saudi vision also included aspirations and indicators for a coming curious phase in the history of the Kingdom's economy, and a complete overhaul of the Saudi economy. The contents of the vision are a testament to the relentless pursuit by the wise government to optimize the investment of the resources of the country, and to achieve diversity in sources of income through a comprehensive economic reform programs, and balanced development, the matter that will make our country a leading economic power in the world. Moreover, the vision has never neglected the nationals' and residents' interests, which were clearly at the top priority of this blessed vision. As a result, the procedures are expected to contribute – God willing - to build a sort of society which its members live a healthy lifestyle, an atmosphere that allows living in a positive and attractive environment - which is referred to clearly in the vision." Al Dawood: The University will work on achieving this blessed vision. In reference to the assigned Saudi universities role to achieve this vision, Rector. Al Dawood said, "The Saudi Arabian universities, including King Khalid University - will work to achieve this vision, and make it a reality that every citizen could touch. Undoubtedly, the university will be a scientific and educational tributary, and will be supportive in all fields; to get all the desired vision, and to reap its fruits in the form of blessing and prosperity of the homeland and the citizen alike." Rector Al Dawood said, "It is an honor and pleasure to offer congratulations to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, to the Crown Prince, and to the Deputy Crown Prince, on the occasion of the adoption of economic reform and balanced development which will make our country - God willing - a comprehensive, world-leading force." At the conclusion of his statement, His Excellency the Rector prayed to God - the Almighty - to help the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and His Royal Highness the Deputy Crown Prince, and to make them an asset to Islam and Muslims. He also prayed to God to perpetuate the security and safety of this generous country, to support our troops, to have mercy on our martyrs, to heal our wounded, and to defeat the enemy.