Alsalam Alaikum wa Rahmat Allah

Welcome to Electrical Engineering Seminars and Short Courses webpage. This page is in  its infant stage any comment or suggestion is highly appreciated.

Purpose:
 
The purpose of the EE Graduate Seminar is to acquaint attendees (professors and graduate students) with a spectrum of research in electrical engineering. The seminar topics have been selected to give a mix of subjects, areas, and depth of coverage. Some seminars will be detailed technically and others will provide a broad perspective.

Best Regards,
Dr. Ali Muqaibel

Seminars and Short Courses Coordinator

News:  Fourth Graduate Seminar Day

For Speakers

• Unless agreed upon otherwise, the seminar should be (30 minutes presentation, 10 minutes for Q& A, and the remaining time for face to face contact and refreshments).

• The room should be equipped with computer with power point installed and a computer projector. The speaker is strongly advised to test his presentation in advance.

• Please keep the level of the presentation reasonable. It is fair to assume a background of a BS in Electrical Engineering.

• If the presentation has been presented in a technical conference or Journal, please modify to suit the audience (Professors and Graduate students from EE and possibly other departments)

• Please provide a written short biography to be introduced to the audience at the beginning of the seminar.

• Please send a pdf version of your presentation to be posted in the department website.

• The first thing to do is to send an e-mail to the coordinator (Dr. Ali Muqaibel) with all your contact information. It is your sole responsibility to check the course website before the seminar day.

• You must arrive at the seminar room before the starting time. Please do not arrive late. Please be courteous to our speakers.

• Attendance: students are expected to meet the course attendance objectives. While this is a zero credit course, grades of NP (No Grade Pass) or F (Fail) are awarded. Attendance is recorded each seminar. (NP Does not mean NOT PASS :) )

• For the part timers, you need to attend at least 60% of the seminars to get (No grade Pass). The seminars schedule  is tentative. I advise you to attend as much as you can in the beginning of the semester.  

• If you wish to contribute to the seminars you may contact Dr. Ali Muqaibel. You can contribute by presenting yourself or arranging with your company to present.

• Seminars can provide excellent opportunity to expose you to possible thesis problems.

• You are responsible for checking your official e-mail provided by the University. If you prefer to use another e-mail address please make sure that you forward your e-mails accordingly.

• Should you have any questions regarding this course, the professor in charge is Ali Muqaibel.

• Please make sure that no PhD student is enrolled in EE 599. All PhD students must take EE 699, and they should register for it in the same semester of their comprehensive exam.

Attendance Records

Coordinator

    Responsibilities:

• The coordinator is responsible for the students officially registered under EE599. He should follow their attendance and assigned them NP (No Grade Pass) or NF (No Grade Fail) letter grade at the end of the semester.

• Decide and reserve the room to be used for the seminar.  The usual time allocated by the department is 1:00-2:00PM. During this time no other classes are offered.

• Make proper arrangement with the Department secretaries to request refreshments for the seminar.

• Prepare and send the announcement for the seminar a head of time (subject, speaker, abstract, time, location). Technical seminars should be sent to colleges and departments of common interest (College of Engineering Sciences, College of Science, and College of Computer and System Engineering). General interest seminars should be sent to the university at large through the postmaster.

• Contact speakers from the academia and the industry and provide a variety of topics related to the department interest. Special occasions like conferences and short courses might attract speakers who can be invited to give seminars within the department.

• Make sure the seminar runs smoothly with good interaction.

• Provide help and support to the speaker if needed.

• Update the seminar webpage and promote the attendance and utilization.

• Coordination for local/international speakers invitations.

Inviting Speakers

The process of inviting speakers usually starts at the group level (i.e. Energy, Communications, Electronics, Control, Electromagnetics, and Signal Processing). The group coordinator is usually the one who communicates with the seminars and short courses coordinator (Dr. Ali Muqaibel).

The following section summarizes the requirements for inviting speakers:

• CV (enough details to justify the invitations)

• A memo requesting approval for supporting of the invitation (template provided, docx, doc); including a detailed schedule for the proposed activities (starting date, duration and suggested topics/titles)

• For speakers requiring VISA:

  • A copy of the speaker's passport, for VISA processing.

  • Memo requesting entry VISA processing (template provided, docx, doc), note that this is a lengthy process and requires early start.
     

The above documents  (in Hard copy) should be submitted to the Chairman's Office. Please send a notification e-mail to me to follow up (muqaibel@kfupm.edu.sa)

Things to be done by the inviting group ( i.e. Energy, Communications, Electronics, Control, Electromagnetics, and Signal Processing) or group representative and not by the seminars coordinator:

All communications with the speaker, this includes:

• obtaining agreements to conduct the seminars or workshop.

• Agreeing on the schedule, coverage, and other details.

• Informing the speaker about the expected environment and targeted audience.

• Assisting  the speaker since his arrival till his departure.

Workshops

Short Courses

Short course Award?

For the short course regulations, please click the following link (short course award regulations). For up-to-dates regulations or additional inquires, please contact the Continuous Education Program.