16th IEOM Global Engineering Education
IEOM Society International addresses the issues of Global Engineering Education. There are various levels of readiness of engineering graduates from various parts of the world. One of the main themes is how to reduce the readiness gap of engineering graduates around the world. The special focus is given to Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Engineering Management and Operations/Business Management Education. Are the engineering and management graduates ready to take on the challenges of the current global economy? With the great success of Global Engineering Education Series of last IEOM conferences, IEOM 2019 Riyadh Conference will have the 16th Global Engineering Education where distinguished speakers will discuss the readiness of engineering graduates for workforce around the world. Thirty six featured speakers will be from various part of the world to address engineering education challenges and opportunities.
Talks can be delivered related on:
- Problem based learning
- Project based learning
- Active collaborative learning
- Student learning assessment
- Teaching and learning
- Pedagogy
- Curriculum improvement
- Innovation and entrepreneurship
- Global engineering education challenges
- Industrial Engineering Education
- Business Management Education
Each speaker needs to submit a title of the talk, photo and a short bio as well as power point presentation. All will be included in the IEOM 2019 Riyadh Conference proceedings. If you are interested to be a distinguished global engineering education feature speaker, please send you bio and a title of your presentation at info@ieomsociety.org.
Tuesday, November 26, 2019
9:00 Welcome Address: Dr. Ahmed S. Yamani, Rector of Prince Sultan University
9:30 Opening Keynote I: H.E. Eng. Osama Al Zamil, Deputy Minister at Ministry of Industry and Mineral Resources
10.15 Opening Keynote II: Dr. Andreas Schwer, CEO, Saudi Arabian Military Industries-SAMI
11:00 Networking/Coffee Break
11:15 Keynote: Dr Sami Alnuaim, The President of the Society of Petroleum Engineers International
12:15 Networking Buffet Lunch/ Dhuhr Prayer
Global Engineering Education – 1
1:30 – 3:00 pm, Tuesday, November 26, 2019
Session Chair:
1:30 – 1:50 (Tuesday)
Dr. Anwar Ali Yayah Esmail
Associate Professor of Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science department
Najran University
Saudi Arabi
Title of the talk: Knowledge Discovery in Engineering Education: Mining Association Rules from Engineering Programs’ Data
Bio: Dr. Anwar Ali Yahya is an Associate Professor at Computer Science Department, College of Computer Science and Information Systems, Najran University in in Saudi Arabia. Holds a Ph. D. in Artificial Intelligence from University Putra Malaysia, M. Sc. in Artificial Intelligence from University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq, and B. Sc. In Computer Science from Basrah University, Iraq. He has many years of teaching, research and quality assurance experiences in higher education. He has published more than 30 publications in reputed ISI-JCR and Scopus indexed Journals of Taylor & Francis, Wiley, Elsevier, IEEE, and Springer. He is also a member of review board for several international journals. His research areas are educational data mining, machine learning, natural language processing, and evolutionary algorithms.
1:50 – 2:10 (Tuesday)
Dr.
2:10 – 2:30 (Tuesday)
Dr. R.D. Senthilkumar
Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics and Applied Sciences
Middle East College
Al Rusayl, Sultanate of Oman
Title: Designing Dynamic Education for the 21st Century Students
Biography:
Dr. R. D. Senthil Kumar is currently the Associate Professor of the Department of Mathematics and Applied Sciences in the Middle East College (MEC), Sultanate of Oman. Prof. Senthil has many years of teaching, research and administrative experiences in higher education, and organized numerous workshops particularly on the effective integration of ICT in education. Also he has supervised research projects of junior scientists who were pursuing Master of Science and Master of Philosophy (Physics) degrees. He has authored few book chapters and more than 20 research articles and published in peer-reviewed journals and indexed conference proceedings. He has reviewed different research papers, book chapters and adjudicated Ph.D. theses. Prof. Senthil has his Doctor of Philosophy in Physics and M.Sc. (Physics); both of these degrees were conferred by the Annamalai University, India. He takes much pride in being Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy, Fellow of International Congress on Chemistry and Environment. He is also the Member of IEEE Education Society, Member of Omani Society for Educational Technology, and Life member of Indian Spectrophysics Association. Prof. Senthil has effectively integrated various innovative strategies in his teaching and learning and received the Best Teaching Award at MEC, Oman. He has a strong potential of building learning activities in SCORM packages for Flip Learning.
2:30 – 2:50 (Tuesday)
Dr. Sidi M Ahmed Ghaly
Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering Department
College of Engineering
Al Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Title of presentation: Writing and Assessing Measurable Learning Outcomes of Engineering Program
Bio: Dr. Sidi M Ahmed Ghaly is an Assistant Professor at Electrical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, Al Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University. Holds a Ph.D. in Instrumentation & Micro-Electronics, Nancy University, France, a Master of Instrumentation & Micro-Electronics, Nancy University, France. He is the head of the quality committee for the EE department. He works on Instrumentation, RF Coils, ECT Sensors, Fractional PID Controllers and Engineering Education. His focus is on ECT Sensors, RF coils, and Assessment. He is the co-author of many publications. He received one grant in 2019 from King Abdulaziz City of Scientific Research KACST. He received three grants in 2014, 2016 and in 2018 from Deanship of Academic Research in Al Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic.
3:00 – 3:30 Networking/Coffee Break/Asr Prayer
Global Engineering Education – II
3:30 – 5:00 pm, Tuesday, November 26, 2019
Session Chair:
3:30 – 3:50 (Tuesday)
Dr. Ahmad H. Baik
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Environmental Designs
King Abdul-Aziz University
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
The role of BIM in Education to understand architectural heritage
Bio:Arch/Dr. Ahmad Baik is Assistant Professor at King Abdul-Aziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Holds a Ph.D. in BIM from University College London, a Masters of Geospatial Information from RMIT University, Australia, and Bachelor of Architecture from King Abdul-Aziz University. BIM specialist with progressive experience in Architecture Design, 3D laser scanning, Modelling and Simulation, Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), Architecture documentation, Interior Design, and Graphics Design.
ABSTRACT: Studying architecture heritage requires some advanced tools in order to understand and analyse the structure, components, and design. Depending only on traditional methods is not adequate especially for architecture students who need digital representations of architectural heritage in order to draw a complete image of any aspect of the project. Moreover, architectural heritage consists of different types of materials, construction techniques, and other details such as decoration, pattern, and ornaments. All these matters require advanced and easy access tools that can extract basic information professionally and explain the essence of heritage. Building information modelling (BIM) has emerged as an efficient solution which could possibly help in analysing architectural heritage through effective learning processes. Heritage BIM is characterized by its ability to create and operate on a digital database of any heritage by 3D scanning the building and transform it into point-cloud as digital data so that students can work on heritage buildings by using BIM software. Heritage BIM implementations can assist students effectively to develop their performance in term of understanding, analysing and redesigning heritage. This talk will present insights into the role of BIM in education for architecture students, discussing how using heritage learning outcomes.
3:50 – 4:10 (Tuesday) D
Salah Elaskari, Ph.D., IWE, P.Eng.
IE Accreditation Coordinator
Assistant Professor
Industrial Engineering Department
Faculty of Engineering
University of Tabuk
Saudi Arabia
Presentation Title
Reverse Engineering and 3D Printing Technology: A Case Study
Biography:
Salah Elaskari is the supervisor of the industry and production unit at University of Tabuk Fablab-Saudi Arabia. He completed his doctorate degree in Industrial Engineering at Dalhousie University-Canada. Salah is a registered International Welding Engineer (IWE) from International Institute of Welding (IIW) and certified in University teaching and learning from Dalhousie University. He is a registered professional Engineer (P.Eng.) in Canada with industrial experience in subtractive and additive manufacturing, welding fabrication, wind tower manufacturing, and facility layout design. Salah has several years of International real-world experience, he worked closely with world most innovative companies. His work experience included research and consultation projects, process and product inspection, and procurement and negotiations.
Before joining University of Tabuk in 2015, Salah spent several years teaching in industrial engineering at Dalhousie University. Salah has led creative events such as engineering design day competition for engineering students. In this exceptional event, students demonstrate their skills in design processes, and they go along their prototype designs which make their learning experience more hands on and exciting. Students were very devoted to come up with the best ideas and compete with their fellow classmates. His research is in the area of facility design, additive manufacturing, lean manufacturing, barcode technology, and welding fabrication. In addition to the industrial engineering courses that he uses to teach such as supply chain management, maintenance engineering, design and analysis of production systems, Work systems, safety engineering, he enjoys teaching engineering design, and reverse engineering courses and providing an engaging learning experience that enabled students to put theory into action. He would like to contribute into making a positive and desirable environment for the community through training, projects, research work, and technical support and service.
4:10 – 4:30 (Tuesday)
Dr. Abdullatif AlMunifi
Associate Professor
Civil Engineering Department
Qassim University
KSA
Abdullatif AlMunifi has been working as an associate professor of Civil Engineering at Qassim University/KSA since he left Sana’a University/Yemen on sabbatical leave in 2014. He graduated as a civil engineer from the Aristotle University/Greece in 1987, and pursued his MSc and PhD of Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology at the Imperial College / London University in 1995.
In his academic career, AlMunifi has been contributing effectively to the development of academic programs, and providing instructional and institutional support derived from his considerable past academic and industrial experiences. He has a very concrete experience relevant to higher education management, quality assurance & academic accreditation. He is an expert and trainer as well as a certified external reviewer for academic programs.
Besides academic duties, AlMunifi had been in executive management positions in the development field for ten years managing on a daily basis a portfolio of internationally and government funded education and construction projects and programs that amount to US$500 million. This position entails expert knowledge and command of planning, scheduling, budgeting, procurement, financial management, contracts administration, and other relevant administrative policies. Most important, it also demands an overall responsibility of management and coordination of a wide range of stakeholders, and participation in high-level local and international meetings and conferences. AlMunifi also has extensive experience in coordinating and delivering management and consulting services in the areas of engineering, social development, staff development, capacity building, quality assurance in higher education, and in supplying training solutions & systems.
AlMunifi’s current field of research is relevant to his speciality as a civil engineer as to his accumulative experiences in academic programs development, higher education management, quality assurance, engineering education, and Construction Engineering and Management. He has attended, participated and organized national and international technical sessions, conferences, and high level meetings. He is a member of the Imperial College, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Construction Engineering Institute, Charter member of the American Structural Engineering Institute, and member of a number of projects steering committees and local professional societies.
4:30 – 5:00 (Tuesday)
Dr. Umar Mustafa Al-Turki
Professor, Systems Engineering Department
Former Dean, College of Computer Sciences and Engineering
King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
IEOM curriculum improvement in view of Saudi 2030 vision
Umar Al-Turki is a Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research in the Department of Systems at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. He obtained his Ph.D. in Decision Sciences and Engineering Systems from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1994. He obtained M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and Management from Oklahoma State University in 1989. He served as the Dean of College of Computer Sciences and Engineering, the director of the center of excellence in maintenance research and the head of the Systems Engineering Department. Dr. Al-Turki’s research in production planning and scheduling is presented in many international conferences and published in highly prestigious international scientific journals. He is a senior member of the International Industrial Engineering Society, and a fellow and a member of the global advisory board of the Industrial Engineering and Operations Management Society International. He was involved in strategic planning for several national and international organizations in higher education and in water resource planning.
Poster Competitions and Session
Wednesday, November 27, 2019
Global Engineering Education – III
8:30 – 10:00 pm, Wednesday, November 27, 2019
Session Chair:
8:30 – 8:50 (Wednesday)
Dr. Wahyudi Sutopo
Associate Professor
Department of Industrial Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
University of Sebelas Maret
Surakarta, Indonesia
Learning a Supply Chain Management Course by Problem Based Learning: Case Studies in the Newspaper Industry
Dr. Wahyudi is a Professional Engineer registered with Institute of Engineers Indonesia (PII). He obtained his Doctorate in the field of Industrial Engineering and Management from Institut Teknologi Bandung (Indonesia), Master of Science in Management from Universitas Indonesia and Bachelor of Engineering in Industrial Engineering from Institut Teknologi Bandung. He currently is the Head of Department of Industrial Engineering, Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS). In UNS, he is Asset Auditor for Internal Audit Unit and Coordinator of Industrial Engineering and Techno-Economy (RITE) Research Group. He also as General Chairman of BKSTI (Agency for Cooperation of Higher Education of Industrial Engineering in Indonesia) FY 2017-2020. His research interests are Logistics & Supply Chain Management, Engineering Economy & Cost Analysis, and Technology Commercialization. He obtained 25 research grants and published 86 articles (Scopus indexed). He also has published 3 monographs and 7 book chapters. He co-supervised and graduated 1 doctorate student, supervised 7 Masters students (4 has graduated), and supervised 74 undergraduate students (67 graduated).
8:50 – 9:10 (Wednesday)
Eng. TaeYeual Yi
Lecturer, PMP®, PE, LEED®APs
USGBC Faculty
Department of Engineering Management
Prince Sultan University
Riyadh, KSA
Eng. TaeYeual Yi, a full-time
lecturer in College of Engineering at PSU has been working as an instructor, a
professional engineer, project manager and architect for about 21 years in the
field of AEC industry. His main research fields, these days are BIM (Building
Information Modeling) in construction management by using BIM tools such as
Revit, Navisworks, ArchiCAD, Tekla Structure etc. and LEED (Leadership in
Energy and Environmental Design) as Green Building strategies. Additionally, he
has been studying and teaching digital algorithm design process by using
Grasshopper & Dynamo in the field of architecture & interior design.
Especially, he has five accredited professional LEED credentials (all LEED rating
system) issued by Green Business Certification Inc., which are Building Design
and Construction(BD+C), Interior Design and Construction(ID+C), Homes Design
and Construction(HOMES), Neighborhood Developments(ND) and Building Operations
and Maintenance(O+M). He is the 1st professional in KSA, 2nd professional in
Middle East & North Africa, 34th professional in the world, who has five –
all Accredited Professional Credentials in LEED Rating System. He is also a
PMP®(Project Management Professional®) and PE(Professional Engineer) on the
basis of his hands-on field experience in the construction management. He has
been teaching various 3D Modeling tools, Siemens NX, Fusion360, AutoCAD for
Production & Manufacture Area as well as Revit, Navisworks, Tekla Structure,
Rhnio, Sketchup for Construction & Architecture Field.
Dr. SukHee Yun
Associate Professor
Department of Architectural Engineering
Prince Sultan University
Riyadh, KSA
Dr. SukHee Yun is an Associate Professor at Prince Sultan University since 2011. She also led architectural design studios in Abu Dhabi and Dubai from 2013 to 2016. She studied at Pratt Institute for her Bachelor of Architecture, Master at GSAPP in Columbia University, NYC and received the Ph.D. degree at GSAK in Kyonggi University, Korea with an architectural design thesis on John Hejduk’s Chronotope in 2007. Her researches focus on discovering the architectural design
parameters of Riyadh. Her ongoing design research projects; ‘2030 Housing
Prototype of Riyadh (2017)’ ‘University Town in Riyadh: Emancipating Urban
elements from Doxiadis’ Grid (2018)’ ‘The Loop, a Bottom-Up Urban Design in
Riyadh, (2016)’ ‘From the Rational to the Radical; a Future Architectural
Scenario for Public Transportation oriented Residential Blocks in Riyadh
(2017)’ and ‘Shadows as Fence Walls (2019)’ have been presented and published
in numerous international conferences and journals since 2016. Currently, she
is conducting design researches on hybridity in architecture.
ID 357 Interdisciplinary Approach in Engineering Education: Case studies of the elective course “Additive Manufacturing” and the special training course “Algorithm Architecture Design Workshop” in Prince Sultan University.
9:10 – 9:30 (Wednesday)
Nadeem Hassan, Ph.D. CS
Associate Professor of Computer Science
College of Computer Science & Information Technology
Albaha University (Main Campus)
Al-Baha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
9:30 – 9:50 (Wednesday)
Dr. Suhail Mohammad Ghouse
Assistant Professor of Marketing and Entrepreneurship
College of Commerce and Business Administration
Dhofar University
Oman
Entrepreneurial Students of the Oman University Students
Dr. Suhail Mohammad Ghouse (FCIM) is an Assistant Professor of Marketing and Entrepreneurship at the College of Commerce and Business Administration, Dhofar University, Oman. His area of expertise includes marketing, entrepreneurship and international business. Suhail’s current research mainly focuses on internationalization strategy of the SMEs, entrepreneurial behavior of the GCC students, and consumer buying behavior of the Arab millennials. His research has been published in several high quality impact factor and ABDC listed research journals. He is in active research collaboration with the American, British and New Zealand researchers. He is a member of Academy of International Business (AIB), Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), American Council for Consumer Interests (ACCI) and Marketing Science Institute (MSI), and serves on the editorial/review boards of Inderscience and Emerald research journals. He has worked on teaching assignments in India, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and presently in Oman
10:00 Networking/Coffee Break
10:15 Keynote: Dr. Mohammed Al-Majed, senior adviser to the energy minister on research, development and industry
11:00 Keynote: Eng. Suliman Almazroua, CEO at National Industrial Development & Logistics Program
11:45 Networking Buffet Lunch/ Dhuhr Prayer
Global Engineering Education IV – Business Education: Teaching and Learning
1:00 – 2:30 pm, Wednesday, November 27, 2019
Session Chair:
1:00 – 1:20 (Wednesday)
Najmul Hoda, PhD
Faculty – Department of Business Administration
College of Business
Umm Al-Qura University
Makkah Al-Mukarramah, Saudi Arabia
Business Students’ Satisfaction with the Studio Classes in Saudi Universities
Dr. Najmul Hoda is currently working as an Assistant Professor at College of Business, Umm Al-Qura University in Saudi Arabia. He is also an adjunct faculty at Institute of Islamic Banking and Finance, India. He earned his doctorate in microfinance, and is passionate about research in social banking. Dr. Hoda has been associated with business education for more than a decade. He has been actively coordinating quality assurance services at his present institution, serving as a member of the various committees for quality and accreditation. He holds the honor of being the founder head of the quality and accreditation unit at the college and is the main coordinator for the institutional and program accreditation with AACSB and EFMD. He has been effectively using technology tools for quality teaching and has been conducting research on the effectiveness of technology in learning. He also possesses rich experience at managerial level in the banking and finance industry. He has worked as an Assistant Manager with The Federal Bank at its various branches in India, where he had the opportunity to be posted at the corporate and international banking branch. Later, he also worked as a Director in a start-up microfinance institution named Sahulat Microfinance in India. He was able to set-up a research unit, publish a quarterly journal, conduct two recruitment campaigns and organized several training sessions on interest free microfinance and general microfinance operations across the country. He has published several articles in international peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He is also a member of review board for several international journals. His case study on Islamic Microfinance was published in “Islamic Microfinance: Shari’ah Compliant and Sustainable?” a book edited by Prof Malcolm Harper. His doctoral dissertation was published as a book titled, “Faith-based Microfinance: An Alternative Tool of Poverty Alleviation”. He is also a mentor for the Nottingham Advantage Award module on Global Mentorship Program (NAA-GMP) of Nottingham University UK and Idea Gist, a US based virtual incubator.
1:20 – 1:40 (Wednesday)
Dr. Abdul Talib Bon
Professor of Technology Management
Department of Production and Operations Management
Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia
Dr. Abdul Talib Bon is Professor of Technology Management in Department of Production and Operations Management, Faculty of Technology Management and Business at the Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia. He has a PhD in Computer Science, which he obtained from the Universite de La Rochelle, France in the year 2008. His doctoral thesis was on topic Process Quality Improvement on Beltline Moulding Manufacturing. He studied Business Administration major in Quality Management at the master’s level in the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia for which he was awarded the MBA in the year 1998. He’s bachelor degree and diploma in Mechanical Engineering which his obtained from the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. He received his postgraduate certificate in Mechatronics and Robotics from Carlisle, United Kingdom in 1997. He is Director of Teaching Factory and Manager of Centre for Technology (Furniture Innovation Technology) from 1 September 2016 and Head of Program Bachelor of Technology Management (Furniture Design and Manufacturing) with Honours from 2014 until 2017. Before this he was the Deputy Dean (Research and Development) at the Faculty of Technology Management and Business in the Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia from 2008 until December 2011. Dr. Abdul Talib Bon has had over 30 year experience of teaching in higher learning education. A major part of his teaching experience involves teaching mechanical engineering students in polytechnics. However, from the year 1999, he was given the opportunity to be jointed in the Institut Teknologi Tun Hussein Onn (ITTHO), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia as a lecturer in Mechanical Engineering Department. In this institute, he teaches engineering management and quality control at the under-graduate level. Dr. Abdul Talib Bon has multidisciplinary research interests that encompass industrial engineering, quality management and production and operation management. His completed 17 research grant projects as project leader include applications of forecasting in industries. His current research project is looking into developing process quality improvement (PQI) in manufacturing industries. He has supervised more than 90 undergraduate and postgraduate research projects. He has served as a reviewer for a number of engineering management and computer science conferences and journals as part of his expertise sharing initiatives. He had published more than 200 International Proceedings and International Journals and 8 books. He is also Fellow and President of Industrial Engineering and Operation Management Society (IEOMS, Malaysia), Professional Technologist of Malaysia Board of Technologists (MBOT), Council member of Management Science and Operation Research Society of Malaysia (MSORSM), member of International Association of Engineers (IAENG), member of Institute of Industrial Engineer (IIE), USA, member of International Institute of Forecasters (IIF), member of Technological Association of Malaysia (TAM) and associate member of Malaysian Institute of Management (AMIM).
1:40 – 2:00 (Wednesday)
Dr. Samar S. Khan
Dean
Effat College of Business
Effat University
Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Dr Samar S. Khan is an aspiring Saudi woman who lives by the creed that one should strive to serve a higher purpose by going above and beyond the call of duty. Born in 1983, Dr. Samar received all of her schooling in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and earned her Bachelor’s degree in English Literature from King Abdul-Aziz University. After graduating, she decided to pursue her Master’s degree in Economics and Administration from Nottingham Business School at Nottingham Trent University. As she continued living in the UK, she discovered her passion for economics and administration, so she decided to pursue her PhD degree in Energy Security and Renewable Energy from business perspective at the same university. Currently, Dr Samar is an assistant professor in entrepreneurship department and Dean of College of Business at Effat University. She is a member in AACSB Middle East advisory committee.
Dr. Abdulaziz T. Almaktoom, CSCA
Assistant Professor
Department of Operations and Information Management
Effat University
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Abdulaziz T. Almaktoom is an assistant professor in the Department of Operations and Information Management at Effat University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He earned his PhD in Industrial Engineering from Wichita State University. Dr Almaktoom is a certified supply chain analysist. He has published journal and conference papers and his research interests include supply chain management and logistics, optimization under uncertainty, reliability based robust design optimization, resilience based design optimization, and lean supply chain management. He is a member of IIE, IEOM, INFORMS, CSCMP, ASQ, ISCEA and SME
Title of
the Talk: Saudi Universities Education System: A Combination of Practical and
Theoretical Knowledge
2:00 – 2:20 (Wednesday)
Dr. Prakash Kumar Udupi, FIE
Faculty, Program Manager
Centre For Post Graduation Studies
Middle East College
Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
Title of the Talk : Developing Lean Academic Initiatives for Flipped Teaching
Biography:
Dr. Prakash Kumar Udupi is currently a Faculty, Program Manager and facilitate the delivery, conduct overall management of the academic programmes at Centre for Post Graduation Studies, Middle East College, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman. Prof. Prakash is the Fellow of Institutions of Engineers(India) and has many years of teaching, research, training, industrial and administrative experiences in higher education. He is a designated Chartered Engineer from IEI for professional engineering practices and also a life member of QCFI(Quality Circle Forum of India). In order to enhance teaching and learning experiences in higher education institutes and as a world class trainer on ICT, project management tools Dr. Prakash organized many tailor made research, ICT and project management specific workshops for under graduate and post graduation students. He also conducted many workshops under Faculty Development Programmes and Management Development Programmes. He presented and published many papers in international conferences and journals. He is also a visiting faculty, external examiner and jury member of various institutes and universities. Prof. Prakash also involved in various research activities related to interactive learning, flipped learning and project based learning.
Abstract
Flipped classroom enables enhancement of student’s understanding, teaching and learning experiences using student centric approaches rather than traditional teacher centric lecture deliveries. Flipped teaching further helps active involvement and engagement of students through collaborative frameworks. On the other hand lean academic initiatives ensures value additions to the student efforts using optimize utilization of available educational resources. Invited speaker will elaborate how to identify and evaluates key aspects of flipped teaching and lean philosophy. The invited talk pinpoints and highlights how lean academic initiatives can be integrated with other forms of teaching and learning approaches such as project based learning, active collaborative learning with reference to flipped classroom framework. Further, invited speech will also give an insight into the future scope of research for integrating lean philosophy in education.
2:30 Networking/Coffee Break/Asr Prayer
Global Engineering Education – V: Industrial Engineering Education
3:00 – 4:30 pm, Wednesday, November 27, 2019
Session Chair:
3:00 – 3:20 (Wednesday)
Dr. Hesham K. Alfares
Chairman and Professor
Systems Engineering Department
King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Recent Trends in Industrial Engineering Education
Hesham K. Alfares is Chairman and Professor in the Systems Engineering Department at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. He has a PhD in Industrial Engineering from Arizona State University. He has more than 110 publications, including 56 journal papers and a U.S. patent. Dr. Alfares has been as a visiting scholar at MIT and the University of North Carolina in the USA, in addition to four universities in the UK. He won one research grant from the US Fulbright Foundation, and four grants from the British Council. He won the Almarai Prize for Scientific Innovation in Industrial Engineering. He has been a member in the editorial boards of three international journals and in the program committees of 30 international conferences.
3:20 – 3:40 (Wednesday)
Dr. Abdelhakim Abdelhadi
Associate Professor
Department of Engineering Management
College of Engineering
Prince Sultan University
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Clustering Engineering Students into Groups According to their Learning Style
Dr. Abdelhakim Abdelhadi is an Associate Professor at the College of Engineering at Prince Sultan University-Saudi Arabia. Dr. Abdelhadi received his Ph.D. in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering from University of Wisconsin –USA in 2010, M.S., in Industrial Engineering from University of Jordan, and his B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from Yarmouk University- Jordan. He has 12 years of industry experience and more than 18 years of academic experience. His research and teaching interest include group technology, maintenance scheduling and lean manufacturing He is a fellow of the higher education academy, FHEA. Recently Dr. Abdelhadi published several researches in engineering education and authored an introduction in engineering economy book in Arabic Language.
3:40 – 4:00 (Wednesday)
Dr. Ajrina Hysaj
Lead English Language Instructor and Curriculum Designer
Academic Study Skills Lead Instructor
UOWD College
University of Wollongong in Dubai
Dubai, UAE
Analysing the Correlation Between Tutors’ Support and Undergraduate Engineering Students’ Academic Satisfaction
Biography
Lead English Language Instructor, Academic Study Skills Coordinator and Curriculum Designer, UOWD College, University of Wollongong in Dubai
Ajrina is an advocate of continuous research in the field of education, culture and student mentoring. Her qualifications include BA in Language and Literature (Distinction) from Tirana University, Albania, CELTA (Certificate of English Language Teaching in Adults) from Cambridge University, UK, Master in Education from Murdoch University, Perth, Australia and Graduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning ( Higher Education, Swinburne University, Australia . She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Education with University of Malaysia, Perlis, Malaysia.
Mrs. Hysaj currently teaches Academic Study Skills to undergraduate students, design academic study skills curriculum and coordinates all the academic study skills levels. She has been teaching English Language for more than a decade and is well equipped with the skills and knowledge to teach Academic, General and Business English at all levels.
Her approach to teaching is holistic and focuses on creating an inclusive, motivating, intriguing and nurturing classroom environment that maximises personal and academic growth. She is also keen on developing the interest of students to pursue further research in the areas of education, culture and multilingualism.
Prior to relocating to the UAE in 2000, she has worked as a Curriculum Developer of ESL books in her native country. Mrs Hysaj’s research interests include Efficiency of Feedback Methods in Academic Writing in Tertiary Education, Students and Instructors Mentoring Needs and Methods of Effective Communication in Multilingual and Multicultural classrooms.
Qualifications:
Ph.D. Candidate – University Malaysia Perlis, Perlis, Malaysia
M.ED – Murdoch University, Perth, Australia, 2014-2015
CELTA-Certificate of English Language Teaching to Adults, Cambridge, UK, 2008
BA– Language and Literature, University of Tirana, Tirana, Albania, 1996-2000
4:00 – 4:20 pm (Wednesday)
Dr. Mohammad Nurunnabi, CMA, FAIA(Acad), SFHEA, FRSA
Editor-in-Chief, PSU Research Review: An international Journal (PRR)
Aide to the Rector on Research & Internationalization
Chair, Department of Accounting
Prince Sultan University
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Dr. Mohammad Nurunnabi, PhD, CMA, SFHEA FRSA FAIA (Acad), CMBE is the Aide to the Rector on Research and Internationalization, Chair of the Department of Accounting, and an Associate Professor in Accounting at Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia. He is an Academic Visitor of St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom. He holds a PhD with outright pass (no corrections) from the University of Edinburgh, UK. He is a senior fellow of Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), UK, a Chartered Management Accountant (CMA), an academic fellow of the Association of International Accountants (FAIA-Acad), a Certified Management & Business Educator (CMBE) and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA). His most recent book is The Role of the State and Accounting Transparency (Routledge: London and New York; 2016). He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of PSU Research Review: An International Journal, Emerald, and Senior Associate Editor of Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Springer (SCOPUS Indexed). He serves on the editorial boards of twenty journals. He has published over 80 articles in international journals. His research primarily focuses upon policy and impact in Saudi Arabia. He has received numerous prestigious research and teaching awards including the IMA Faculty Leadership Award from Institute of Management Accountants (IMA), USA in 2017.
7:00 – 10:00 pm Conference Awards Dinner
Thursday, November 28, 2019
Global Engineering Education – VI
8:30 – 10:00 pm, Thursday, November 28, 2019
Session Chair:
8:30 – 8:50 (Thursday)
Mohammad Nawab
Faculty, Civil Engineering
College of Engineering
Shaqra University
Dawadmi, Ar Riyadh
Saudi Arabia
8:50 – 9:10 (Thursday)
Dr. Fady S. Alnajjar, PhD.
Head of AI and Robotics Lab
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
College of Information Technology (CIT)
United Arab Emirates University
Al Ain, UA
Title: An Autonomous Attention Assessment System for Smart Classroom
Bio: Dr. Fady received his MSc in Artificial Intelligence and his PhD in System Design Engineering at the University of Fukui, Japan in 2007 and 2010, respectively. Since 2010, Dr. Fady worked as a research scientist at Brain Science Institute (BSI), RIKEN, Japan. He conducted neuro-robotics study to understand the underlying mechanisms for embodied cognition and mind. From 2012, he started an interest in exploring the neural mechanisms of motor learning, adaptation, and recovery after brain injury from the sensory- and muscle-synergies perspectives. His research target is to propose an advance neuro-rehabilitation application for patients with brain injuries. Since 2016, he joined a three-year joint research group, including Nagoya University-Japan, and the University of Michigan-USA, to develop a bio-inspired prosthetic arm. from 2018, he became the director of AI and Robotics Lab at UAE University.
Abstract: Attention is an essential mental process that is important to achieve learning progress in a class-room. We cannot get better in our academic learning unless we concentrate our attention on the person giving the educational material, such as the teacher or trainer. Students with attention difficulties can face a direct problem in their academic skills. Robot intervention in classroom-attention-assessment is becoming a popular research topic due to its role in enhancing student’s attention and therefore interaction. Robot intervention in classroom may assist the teacher in an more interactive classroom. My talk presents a practical and low-cost automatic approach to assess students attention during robot intervention in classroom; addressing multiple interaction cues. the pilot results show that the proposed attention assessment system could accurately measure the students attention and enhance teacher progress. This automatic attention system can open a new era for utilizing technologies to monitor students’ attentions in the class to enhance educational systems.
9:10 – 9:30 (Thursday)
Dr. Hamdi Hassen
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
College of Science and Arts at Al-Ola
Taibah University
Medina, Saudi Arabia
Improving Performance of Robust and Efficient E-Learning Platform using Distributed Computing Technologies for Saudi Arabia institute
Hamdi Hassen received his Master of computer Science, and Ph.D. degrees, respectively, from the University of Safx (Tunisia), in 2009 and 2016. He is currently assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Faculty of Science and Arts at Al-Ola, Taibah University, Saudi Arabia and a member of the MIRACL” Multimedia, InfoRmation Systems and Advanced Computing Laboratory”. His research interests include Arabic OCR, distributed systems, performance analysis, and networks security.
9:30 – 9:50 (Thursday)
Dr. Mohammad Ali Kadampur
Assistant Professor
Department of Information Management
College of Computer; Information Science
Al-Imam Muhammed bin Saud Islamic University
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Facilitating the Educator through academicutilities.com: Design and Development
Dr. Mohammad Ali Kadampur is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Management, in the College of Computer and Information Sciences, Al Imam Muhammed Ibn Saud Islamic University, Riyadh, KSA. He earned his Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering, Master of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from National Institute of Technology Surathkal, India, and Ph.D in Computer Science and Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Warangal. India. He has over 20 years of academic and industrial experience and has executed several grant projects in his career serving in different positions. He has published over 35 research papers in leading International journals including Springer, Inderscience and Elsavier publishers. His current research interests are web engineering, e-leaning and deep learning applications. He is a member of ACM and serving as reviewer and editor in many International Journals.
10:00 Networking/Coffee Break
10:15 Keynote: Dr. Surendra M. Gupta, Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Director of Laboratory for Responsible Manufacturing (LRM), Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
11:00 Keynote: Eng. Saleh I Al-Shabnan: President Haffaz Industrial & Management Consultants, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
11:45 Networking Buffet Lunch/ Dhuhr Prayer
Global Engineering Education – VII
1:00 – 2:30 pm, Thursday, November 28, 2019
Session Chair:
1:00 – 1:20 (Thursday)
Dr. Tayeb Brahimi
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Effat University
Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Learning Outside the Classroom: From MOOCs to Makerspace
Dr. Tayeb Brahimi, Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), at Effat University, Jeddah, KSA, received his Ph.D. (1992) and Master Degree (1987) from Ecole Polytechnique, University of Montreal, Canada. He has worked as Research Scientist under Bombardier Chair/Canadair from 1992 to 1998. In 1998, he joined Jeppesen DataPlan in California, then Peregrine System (acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2005), in Concord (CA), as a Technical Support Analyst. Then, as Quality Assurance Engineer and Consultant for Electronic data interchange (EDI) commercial software in Dallas, Texas, providing strategic support, guidance and technical resolution of problems related to EDI, ESD, and online web application. Dr. Tayeb Brahimi is internationally recognized for his contribution to the development of teaching and research programs between university and government Institutions. He received internationally recognized awards and performed a leading role for a distinguished institution (Bombardier Chair/University of Montreal). He has been a consultant at IONPARA Inc. for wind energy and aeronautics. He published more than 80 articles in scientific journals, international conferences, and internal technical reports on novel methodologies of teaching and learning, renewable energy and sustainability, machine learning. Among other activities, Dr. Tayeb Brahimi is reviewer for many international journals, invited speaker by the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineering, Japan Turbo machinery Association (Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries, Tokyo), The Gulf Educational Conference as well as the International Conference on Engineering Education & Research (FICEER2015). He also participated in Public Debate on Energy organized by the Government of Quebec, Canada (Public Debate on Energy). Current research interest relates to renewable energy (solar, wind, wave, and waste to energy), sustainability, data mining, the use of technology to support learning, Engineering education, MOOCs, and Makerspace. Other areas of interest include social aspect of wind energy, testing and quality assurance, knowledge management, and integrating Islamic innovative heritage into the STEM.
1:20 – 1:40 (Thursday)
Dr. Mohd Soperi
Associate Professor
Computer and Information Science Department
Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP)
Perak, Malaysia
Machine Learning Education in Malaysia
Mohd Soperi is currently an Associate Professor in Computer and Information Science department at Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP). Before that he served as a faculty member at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) from 1995 until 2017. He has been a member of the Malaysian Board of Technology (MBOT) as Professional Technologist since 2018. His research interests include Internet routing protocols, Opportunistic Network forwarding schemes, Software Defined Networks Failure Recovery and ECG Analysis with machine learning methods. He has published several journals and conference papers in these areas. Mohd Soperi has a Bachelor degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from New Mexico State University, a Master degree in Computer Integrated Manufacturing from Rochester Institute of Technology and a PhD in Computer Science from University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, USA.
1:40 – 2:00 (Thursday)
Dr. Sabah Al-Fedaghi
Associate Professor
Computer Engineering Department
Kuwait University
Kuwait
Sabah Al-Fedaghi is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at Kuwait University. He holds an MS and a PhD from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, and a BS in Engineering Sciences (computer) from Arizona State University. He has published more than 320 journal articles and papers in conferences on Software Engineering, Database Systems, information Ethics, Privacy and Security. He previously worked as a programmer at the Kuwait Oil Company and headed the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (1991–1994) and the Computer Engineering Department (2000–2007).
ID 269 Thinging MATLAB for Computer Engineering
Sabah Al-Fedaghi, Computer Engineering Department, Kuwait University, Kuwait
2:00 – 2:20 (Thursday)
Dr. Sayyad Zahid Qamar
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department
College of Engineering
Sultan Qaboos University
Al-Khodh 123, Muscat, OMAN
Dr Zahid Qamar, Sayyad is currently associated with the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department, Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), Muscat, Oman. He has over 20 years of academic and research experience in different international universities. He has also worked as a professional mechanical engineer in the field for over 6 years in the heavy engineering and fabrication industry (Manager Research and Development; Deputy Manager Design; Production Engineer; Quality Control Engineer). On top of his experience as a researcher/academician, he has been actively involved in research and accreditation work related to engineering education.
His technical research areas are Applied materials and manufacturing; Applied mechanics and design; Reliability engineering; and Engineering education. As part of the Applied Mechanics and Advanced Materials Research group (AM2R) at SQU, he has been involved in different applied research funded projects in excess of 4 million dollars. He has around 200 research/technical publications to his credit (2 research monographs / books, 2 edited book volumes, 5 book chapters, 145 publications in refereed international journals and conferences, and 32 technical reports). He is currently editing one volume (Renewability of Synthetic Materials) for the Elsevier Encyclopedia of Renewable and Sustainable Materials. He has served as Associate editor, Guest editor, and Member editorial board for different research journals (including Materials and Manufacturing Processes, Journal of Elastomers and Plastics, the Journal of Engineering Research, American Journal of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering).
Dr Tasneem Pervez
Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
College of Engineering
Sultan Qaboos University (SQU)
Muscat, Oman
Dr Tasneem Pervez is currently
working as Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial
Engineering, College of Engineering, Sultan Qaboos University (SQU). Received
Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Minnesota, USA in
1991. Served as Head of the Department and Assistant Dean for Postgraduate
Studies and Research in SQU as well as other universities. Actively engaged in
research and consulting work with various national and international
organizations including Petroleum Development Oman, EGT, Swellfix, Ruma
Rubbers, Brinkers, Maersk Oil Qatar, and PROTON, TNRD, AIROD, PERODUA and TNB
of Malaysia. Current research interests are in Solid Expandable Tubulars,
Swelling Elastomers, Composite Materials, Computational Mechanics, Computer
Aided Engineering Analysis and Engineering Education. A part from teaching,
research and consultancy, I have also actively participated in developing new
engineering programs and accreditation of different engineering programs by
ABET, a US accreditation agency.
Dr. Mahmood Al-Kindi
Associate Professor and Head
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department (MIED)
Sultan Qaboos University (SQU)
Muscat, Oman
Dr Mahmood Al-Kindi is an Associate
Professor and Head of the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department
(MIED), Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), Muscat, Oman. He is also Co-Director of
the Academic Innovation Program at SQU. He has a PhD in systems and
entrepreneurial engineering from University of Illinois in the USA. His
research interests are in innovation, decision analysis, inventory management,
and optimization.
ID 309 Engineering Education: Challenges, Opportunities, and Future Trends
Sayyad Zahid Qamar, Tasneem Pervez and Mahmood Al-Kindi, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman
2:30 – 3:00 Networking/Coffee Break/Asr Prayer
Global Engineering Education – VIII
3:00 – 5:00 pm, Thursday, November 28, 2019
Session Chair:
3:00 – 3:20 (Thursday)
Prof. Sufian A. Forawi
Professor of Science Education
British University in Dubai
United Arab Emirates
ID 324 Meaningful STEM Education Frameworks
Sufian A. Forawi is currently a professor of science education at the British University in Dubai. Prof. Sufian obtained an Ed.D. in Science Education from the University of Massachusetts Lowell, Massachusetts, USA. He obtained a bachelor degree in Biology from the University of Alexandria, Egypt and a master’s degree in Education from Omdurman Islamic University, Sudan. His area of expertise spans through topics of the nature of science, STEM, school improvement, assessment & evaluation, and critical and creative thinking. He was awarded the distinguished US Fulbright scholar exchange at the UAE University. Prof. Sufian has many years of teaching and administrative higher education and high school experience. He has been supervising many master’s and doctoral students. He is a member of several science education organizations such as the National Association of Research on Science Teaching (NARST) and the European Science Education Research Association (ESERA). He was the editor of the International Journal of Excellence in eLearning (UAE) and the Missouri Academy of Science-Science Education (USA). He has published widely in peer-reviewed journals and participated in book publications. He has reviewed different research manuscripts, book chapters, grant proposals and promotion applications. He has a strong external grant record, e.g. NSF and Ohio State Department of Education and the Emirates Foundation.
3:20 – 3:40 (Thursday)
Dr. Amal Abbas Abdelsattar
Assistant Professor
Department of Architecture
College of Engineering
Prince Sultan University
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Active Learning in Engineering Education
Dr. Amal is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the College of Engineering, Prince Sultan University. Dr. Amal has received her Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering, from Ain Shams University, Egypt. She received her Master degree in construction management and her Bachelor in Civil Engineering from Cairo University, Egypt. She is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. She worked in the field of Geographic Information System and Remote Sensing applications for 12 years. Dr. Amal research interests include structural engineering, environmental engineering, and Higher education teaching and learning. Recently Dr. Amal published several researches in engineering education.
3:40 – 4:00 (Thursday)
Dr. Wafa Labib
Assistant Professor
Department of Architecture
College of Engineering
Prince Sultan University
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Architectural students learning styles and their implications for teaching
Dr. Wafa Labib has MSc in Structural Analysis form University of Jordan, Jordan. She then worked for two years at a reputable engineering company in Dubai as Structural Engineer. Then she joined Liverpool John Moores University, UK as a researcher in the area of sustainability and environmental issues.
Dr. Wafa was awarded her PhD in structural Engineering from Liverpool John Moores University, UK in 2008. The title of her thesis is “An Experimental Study and Finite Element Analysis of Punching Shear Failure in Steel Fibre-reinforced Concrete Pile-supported Floor Slabs”.
Dr. Wafa went on to become a lecturer in the Islamic Azad University and then an Assistant Professor in Bolton University. In 2012, she joined Prince Sultan University (PSU). She has 10 years of experience teaching structural analysis and structural design modules to Architectural, Civil and Interior Design students. In 2015, she became a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) UK.
Research Interest:
Fibre Reinforced Concrete; Concrete Properties; Finite Element Analysis; Plant-based Natural Fibres; Engineering Education
4:00 – 4:20 (Thursday)
Dr. Ali Rizwan
Assistant Professor
Department of Industrial Engineering
King Abdulaziz University
Jeddah, Saudi Arabi
Title of the Talk: Impact of Instructor’s Emotional Intelligence on the Academic Performance of Students
Dr. Ali Rizwan is an international trainer of human success. He is an Assistant Professor in the Industrial Engineering Department at King Abdul Aziz University Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He is a Consultant in the Centre of Excellence for the Alignment of Educational Outcomes with Labour Market Needs (CEOLM), at King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia. He is an Adjunct Faculty Member at the University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila, Pakistan. He has a PhD in Engineering Management with specialization in Knowledge Management and Educational Leadership. He is passionate about emotional intelligence, human success, personality refinement, pedagogy, and quality enhancement. He is a Certified International Trainer and a Certified Six Sigma Black Belt. He is a Career Counsellor of JIIG-CAL, Australia in Pakistan. He has published numerous research articles in ISI-JCR and Scopus indexed journals. He has authored a chapter in a book besides reviewing multidisciplinary research papers, book chapters and adjudicated researches. He has been extensively involved in supervising post graduate and undergraduate researches in the fields of Emotional Intelligence, Student Learning, Pedagogy, Human Development, Knowledge Management, Organizational Development, and Quality Enhancement.
In more than two decades of teaching, research and training experience, Dr. Ali has offered Professional Development Trainings to senior executives, middle management and working professionals around the globe. He is a pioneer of an Inside-Out Approach that prevents extremist and radical mind-set among thousands of youth in one of the most volatile regions of the world. He is providing individual counselling and mentoring for more than 20 Years. He is an author, social activist and member of different humanitarian organizations. Dr. Ali is frequently invited as a guest speaker by the prestigious public and private sector organizations. He is a member of Pakistan Engineering Council and Co- founder of Knowledge Kottage.
4:20 – 4:40 (Thursday)