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Workshop on CES Innovation Grants Scheme for Academic Year 2005/2006

Join the workshop to learn about the results of the Innovation Grants Scheme, exchange ideas, and discuss ways to enhance the current scheme. Your input is valuable!

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Workshop on CES Innovation Grants Scheme for Academic Year 2005/2006

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  1. Workshop onCES Innovation Grants Scheme for Academic Year 2005/2006 Samir Al-Baiyat Dean, College of Engineering Sciences, KFUPM

  2. Rationale for the IGS • With its quest for excellence, KFUPM administration looks always for ways to promote initiatives that would benefit students, the scientific community, and the public at large. • Towards this aim, there were a number of initiatives, supported by HE the rector, that started in the past three years. One of these projects is the IGS scheme.

  3. Objectives of the Innovation Grants Scheme • The aim of this program was to encourage and support the development and implementation of innovative ideas promoting quality teaching and research, and valuable community services. • Submissions for either small self-contained projects, or seeding for projects with the potential to be developed into larger projects, were invited from the faculty of the CES. • The focus of the scheme was on innovation and tangible outcomes and deliverables.

  4. Types of Supported Projects under the IGS • Teaching (Courses related) • Teaching (Project related) • Applied Research • Fundamental Research • Service to KFUPM • Service to the Community

  5. Planning Stages • Call for proposals: May 7, 2005 • Receiving the proposals: May 25, 2005 • Notifying the faculty with approved projects: August 28, 2005 • Date for receiving the final reports: February 28, 2006 • The workshop: August 29, 2006

  6. Statistics No. of • Submitted Projects : 33 • Supported Projects : 15 • Completed Projects: 14

  7. Aim of the Workshop and Final Note • Present the results from the different projects • Exchange ideas to strengthen collaboration among faculty • Discuss ways to enhance or modify the current scheme. • As such, your presence is very important during the last session of this workshop: the open discussion. • Your input through the survey is also extremely valuable.

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