Partnership of KSU & KU Engineering

1. Afghanistan University Linkages with North American Institutions of Higher Education: Lessons Learned and the Way Ahead January 25 – 26, 2011 Indianapolis, IN Partnership of KSU & KU Engineering Dr. Yar M. Ebadi, Dean of College of Business Kansas State University Strengthening Higher Education Program

2. Ministry of Higher Education Strengthening Higher Education Program (SHEP) Funded By World Bank Kabul University/ Kansas State University Engineering Partnership

3. Partnership Primary Goals • Raise the quality of the faculty • Reform and implement the new curricula • Improve teaching • Increase access to information technology and library resources • Raise level of English proficiency • Improve management • Establish relationships with external constituencies

4. Raise the quality of the faculty • KU faculty member’s sent to KSU for Master’s degree • Partnership team assists Dean of Engineering to recruit faculty members • Engineering faculty member hired to teach Engineering Chemistry • Develop relationships with agencies and institutions to increase the number of graduate degree’s • Assign a KSU professor to each assistant professor to serve as a mentor

5. KABUL ENGINEERING

6. KABUL ENGINEERING

7. Reform and Implement the New Curricula • Reform curriculum in each of the four departments in the faculty of Engineering to reflect international standards • Assist faculty members in developing new courses in each of the four departments and revise existing courses • Implement a credit system for courses

8. Improve Teaching • Prepare course syllabi for the courses and identify educational outcomes • Assist faculty members in selecting appropriate teaching materials and supplies • Provide training in the contemporary pedagogy • Replace reliance on a single final exam with continuous quizzes and exercise to assess student learning • Provide contemporary textbooks to both teachers and students • Institute monitoring and assessment of courses

9. Increase Access to Information Technology and Library Resources • Develop a robust expandable IT system plan to support usage of computers • Specify the hardware and software necessary to implement the IT system • Fully train staff to maintain and operate IT system • Reference library with automated book location and management • Electronic/virtual library with on-line access to the major departments • Train library staff to establish, maintain, and operate the library • Automated text book management system

10. Raise Level of English Proficiency • Provide a program of English instruction for members of the Faculty of Engineering • Establish and operate a sub-department staffed by teachers able to teach technical English • Change medium of instruction to English

11. Improve Management • Provide on-the-job mentoring of the administration and faculty • Participate in two leadership training workshop’s at KSU

12. Workshops

13. Establish Relationships with External Constituencies • Develop relationships with institutions and agencies with common goals • Establish Engineering advisory council