Engineering Consulting and Professional Development Office

Engineering Consulting and Professional Development Office

The mission of the Engineering Consulting and Professional Development Office (ECPDO) is to build the most effective partnership between the industry and the Faculty of Engineering at King Abdulaziz University. It is meant to develop research and innovation that benefits society as a whole and foster regional and national industrial and economic development. ECPDO will help to develop innovative programs that provide students with hands-on, real world experience in industry, provide industry with excellent opportunities to advance research, enhance the university’s state-of-the-art technology and recruit the engineering talent of the future. ECPDO’s primary objectives are intended to be as follows:

•  Prepare the engineering students to become young professionals.

• Prepare a comprehensive training program to improve the communication skills of the engineering students.

• Prepare engineers sensitive to the environment and needs of the society.

•  Focus on engineering ethics using available economic resources and applying available regulations.

• Expose students to real-life situations and orient their approach towards the needs of an industrial society.

• Initiate applied research programs suitable for the undergraduate level to develop the creativity and competition between the students.

• Initiate an award program to encourage outstanding students to share and implement their ideas.

•  Initiate the link between KAU and the industry.

•  Emphasize the need for applied research programs to solve industrial problems.

• Focus on community services and solve community problems at the local and at the national levels.

• Enhance the chances of KAU graduates finding suitable jobs at respectable national and international organizations.

• Establish consulting services for private and government sectors where faculty members and graduate and undergraduate students work together in professional teams.

• Establish a bank of ideas.

• Establish a reward system for participants.

On achieving the above objectives, it is believed that the Faculty of Engineering will be able to transfer the results of University research to the public by bringing scientists and the business community together in a relationship of mutual advantage.