‘Engineering key to catching up with developed world’
MUSCAT: The 28th Arab Engineering Conference, entitled “The Impact of Engineering Education on Building Knowledge-Based Economy in the Arab World,” kicked off on Tuesday under the patronage of His Highness Sayyid Dr. Fahd bin Al Julanda Al Said, Assistant Secretary General for Innovation Development at The Research Council.
The three-day conference highlights the importance of university education in the graduation of engineers and providing the labour market with high skilled engineers.
The chief guest affirmed that the importance of the conference represented in advising universities and educational institutions by professionals in the labour market and the sector’s need for the trends and specialities required by the labour market. Eng. Khamis bin Salim Al Suli, Chairman of the Oman Society of Engineers (OSE), delivered a speech at the beginning of the opening ceremony during which he said that OSE looks forward to further cooperation in supporting the joint Arab action and strengthening partnership among different associations and unions of engineers in the Arab world.
Eng. Ahmed bin Salim Al Jolo, Chairman of the Federation of Arab Engineers said that engineering education is an important element of development in the Arab world to catch up with the countries of the developed world. He pointed out that the conference presents ideas and opinions that will focus on the subject of engineering education in the Arab countries.
The first workshop, which discussed the accreditation and its implications, focused briefly on the accreditation and its effects, preparing for accreditation and developing the system of continuous improvement of higher education programmes.