1. 1 والصلاة والسلام على أشرف الأنبياء والمرسالين سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعين http://bkaragoz.kau.edu.sa

2.  Description of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department  Definition of Electrical Engineering  Definition of Electronics Engineering  Branches of Electronics Engineering  Career Opportunities  Description of EE 306  Current Status and Future Trends in Electronics Engineering Fields 2http://bkaragoz.kau.edu.sa

3. 3 Four academic programs supported by four scientific groups  Electrical Power & Machines Engineering  Electronics and Communications Engineering  Computer Engineering  Biomedical Engineering ECE http://bkaragoz.kau.edu.sa

4.  Three programs started with the onset of Faculty of Engineering in 1975  The BME program started in 1983  Faculty of Engineering looked for international recognition through academic accreditation  Received substantial equivalency for 12 programs including 4 in the ECE from ABET  Received full accreditation from ABET in September 2009 4http://bkaragoz.kau.edu.sa

5.  Is a process of  Gaining knowledge, reasoning power and skills, and  Reflecting them to the attitudes and behaviors  Is a process that  accepts students from a low level of standing,  pushes them through several stages of development and  produces individuals qualified with certain abilities, skills and attributes who are fit for a job or a higher level in education.  Steps in the process are specified as the curriculum. 5http://bkaragoz.kau.edu.sa

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7.  The scientific knowledge is gained by a mature wisdom, true revelations and correct observations.  Teaching changes how we think.  Training changes how we perform.  Naturally, teaching and training are not mutually exclusive.  In fact, training and teaching occur simultaneously in many instances, although some fields require more training than others. 7http://bkaragoz.kau.edu.sa

8.  Educational accreditation is a type of quality assurance process under which services and operations of an educational institution or program are evaluated by an external body to determine if applicable standards are met. 8http://bkaragoz.kau.edu.sa

9. ABET EC 2000 requires engineering programs to:  Program objectives are determined and periodically evaluated. Define their own objectives and outcomes in consultation with their constituencies  Program outcomes are continuously monitored.  The results are applied to continuously develop and improve the programs 9http://bkaragoz.kau.edu.sa

10. Set of criteria by which the programs are evaluated:  ABET old EC: content based  Focused on what the students were taught  ABET EC 2000: outcomes based  Focuses on what the students have learned and what actually they can do. A real paradigm shift in education.  A real paradigm shift in education.  Outcome based education: They (students) didn’t learn it = we (instructors) didn’t teach it. 10http://bkaragoz.kau.edu.sa

11.  Traditional:  the number of courses students have completed and  grade point averages (GPA) they accumulated in them  Contemporary:  Expectations of stake holders defined as program educational objectives (PEO).  Abilities, skills and attributes that must be gained by students at the graduation to fulfill the PEOs are stated as program outcomes (POs).  POs are the responses of the educational system. 11http://bkaragoz.kau.edu.sa