The college deanship for quality and development organized a workshop entitled "How successful are the graduation projects in the College of Engineering?” on Saturday, 1 Rajab 1434 AH, corresponding to May 11, 2013, from 1:00 to 3:00 pm. The purpose of the workshop was to display the results of the assessment of some student graduation projects that was carried out during the past year, and also the results of the competition for graduation projects in the engineering Colleges across the GCC Universities, in which the College has participated with six projects representing all the College departments.
In both events the assessment of the graduation projects was carried out by reviewers from Arab and non-Arab Universities. The workshop included a presentation by Prof. Dr. Emad Ali, Chairman of the Department of Chemical Engineering, entitled: "Standardization of Graduation Projects Against ABET criteria”, followed by a presentation by Dr. Ahmed El-Sherbeeny from the Industrial Engineering Department, entitled: "Lessons from the third competition for graduation projects of engineering colleges in GCC universities". The audience then discussed the results of the assessment and agreed that recommendations should be reported to the Deanship, and circulated among the College Departments in order to benefit from the remarks of the reviewers on the weaknesses and strengths of the projects and their compliance with ABET requirements.