Industry Advisory Board

The Industrial Advisory Board of Mining Engineering Department

The Industrial Advisory Board of the Mining Engineering Department at King Abdulaziz University (IAB) is a group of dedicated industry representatives and corporate partners, who actively support the strategic objectives and goals of the department. In turn, they provide the department with valuable input concerning current and future trends in industry, resources for research and development, industry interfaces and exchanges, recruitment opportunities and departmental promotion.

Overview

• The Industrial Advisory Committee provides a means for the faculty to learn more about the technical, business and professional needs of industry and government.
• The Industrial Advisory Committee (IAB) provides a direct path of communication between the suppliers of trained engineering professionals and the customers for these professionals.

Why the IAB?

• The Faculty of Engineering seeks to continually improve the quality of teaching, research, and management of their operations.
• One important method to aid in this improvement is to seek the advice and consultation of professionals in industry, government, and academia.
• The formal venue for this endeavor at the department level is the formation of a departmental Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) for each academic department in the Faculty of Engineering.
• The IAB acts as a formal conduit between graduate and undergraduate students filtering comments related to curriculum and university operating procedures.
• Similarly, the IAB can provide to students their perspectives on the needs, trends, and opportunities in industry, business and government.

IAB Vision Statement

The IAB actively assists the Mining Engineering department in the education of superior students prepared to meet the needs of industry whether they are under or postgrads. As stakeholders of the process, the EAC will provide written feedback on the curriculum and the progress of the Strategic Plan implementation. The IAB members will be recognized as Ambassadors of the MINE Department in the community of engineers.

IAB Primary Objectives

• To promote teaching excellence at both the undergraduate and graduate level.
• To promote excellence in graduate student and faculty research.
• To assist in the recruitment of outstanding undergraduate and graduate students.
• To advise the faculty and the undergraduate and graduate students of the professional skills expected of B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. graduates hired in industry, business, and government.
• To assist the department in interactions with the Dean, interactions with the University administration, appropriate fund-raising, and promotional activities.
• To assist the department in providing public service.

Mining Engineering Industrial Advisory Board Mission

The Mining Engineering Department's Industrial Advisory Board comprised of interested and corporate partners, will actively support the strategic objectives, the goals and the mission of the Department of Mining Engineering at King Abdulaziz University. This will be accomplished primarily as follows:

• By providing, causing to be provided, or assisting in obtaining, necessary resources for the Department and/ or Chair— both financial and intellectual.
• By providing current industry interfaces that encourage two-way exchanges of ideas, concepts and best practices.
• By being role models for all stakeholders in the Mining Engineering Department, to The Faculty of Engineering, King Abdulaziz University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the world at large.

The most recent Members of the Mining Engineering Industrial Advisory Board