It  gives  me  pleasure to  welcome you to the Website of the Department of Electrical Engineering. The Department has 53 members of academic staff, 45 technical and supporting staff, 700 undergraduate students, and 85 graduate  students. We offer  two  undergraduate programs:  Electrical  Power  & Machines Engineering, and Electronics & Communication Engineering, which attract top students from high schools in the Kingdom. For graduate studies, the department offers three programs in five areas of specialization.

 The Department has recently put a great effort to update academic programs and teaching facilities as well. A new M.Sc. program, based on course work only, has been introduced to cater for the needs of a wide class of graduate students. Several improvements in the undergraduate programs include: professional communications course and laboratory, an improved graduation project, courses in selected topics of current interest such as mobile communications, computer networks and information security are presently offered. Smart class rooms and meeting rooms, R&D laboratories, such as the Erickson lab, major laboratory software and hardware upgrading, such as the electrical power and the high voltage labs, are steps to upgrade the department facilities.

  The main objective of such changes is to:

• Improve teaching methods, to be at the forefront of current   thoughts in    Engineering Education.
• Improve the learning skills of students to become independent learners and effective users of existing facilities such as the library, laboratory equipment and computers
• Establish a quality assurance system to insure the above objectives will be met in the near future.

 The department has maintained close working relations with public and private sectors of engineering including the Saudi Telecommunication Company, Erickson, Saudi Electrical Company, and many others. Among such efforts is offering short courses, collaborate research projects, and consultation work. Presently, the department is establishing the "Saudi Society of Electrical Engineering” and the “Saudi Society of Communication Engineering”, with the target of joining efforts of all  electrical and communication engineers in the Kingdom to upgrade the profession and promote joint research and development efforts and technology transfer in the area of Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, and Telecommunications, with relevance to the needs of the Kingdom.

  Dr. Saad M. Alghuwainem
  Chairman.