Miscellaneous W elcome to Our New CCES Dean · College of Computer Engineering and Science Issue 3...

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College of Computer Engineering and Science Issue 3 I November 2019

W elcome to Our New CCES Dean

Please join us in extending a warm welcome to

Dr. Fadi N. Sibai, the new Dean of the College of

Computer Engineering and Science.

Dr. Fadi comes to PMU with a vast industrial and academic experi-

ence in the USA and the Middle East. Prior to joining PMU Dr. Fadi

was with Saudi Aramco where he was in charge of IT-related mas-

ter plans, plant networks and security, and Robotics program de-

velopment. He also consulted for HPE, SABIC and KEO. Between

2006-2011, Dr. Sibai supervised the Computer Systems Design

program at the UAE University and directed the IBM funded Cell

Center of Competence where he oversaw the development of high-

performance computing applications for the oil and gas industry.

Between 1996-2006, Dr. Sibai managed performance benchmarks

and system validation teams at Intel Corporation, Silicon Valley.

Between 1990-1996, he was an Assistant Professor of Electrical

Engineering at the University of Akron. He authored or coauthored

more than 200 technical publications and reports, and served on

the organizing or program committees of more than 20 international

conferences. His research interests are in AI, Computer Architec-

ture, and Security. He is a past recipient of IBM SUR and Faculty

awards, and Intel awards. Dr Fadi N. Sibai received His PhD and

MSc degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Texas

A&M University, and the BS degree from the University of Texas at

Austin. He holds PMP, CISSP, CQRM ,and CCNA certifications.

Dr. Fadi ’s initial en-

counter with CCES fac-

ulty and students has

been positive. He wrote

“CCES is 12 years old,

and we are proud of our

Students, Faculty, and

Staff. Our programs

instill knowledge of the

latest Computer, Com-

munication, and Infor-

mation technologies and are crafted to provide students with de-

sign, analysis, critical thinking, team work, and communication

skills. Our laboratories are equipped with the content and tools to

enhance student learning abilities. CCES is strongly linked to three

newly established PMU Centers and Labs: the Artificial Intelligence

Center, the Cybersecurity Center, and the Robotics Lab.

Furthermore, graduate and undergraduate programs in AI and Cy-

bersecurity, and a Parallel Computing and Big Data Laboratory are

under development in our College.”

We are delighted that Dr. Fadi has joined PMU and we look for-

ward to his leadership and enhancement of our world class reputa-

tion for excellence in Information Technology, research and ser-

vices.

Topics:

CCES welcomes its new Dean

Professional Development for CCES Faculty

CCES Faculty and Student Research

Training and Workshops

CCES Bridging the Gap Between Industry and Academia

Student Activities

Miscellaneous

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CCES NEWS ISSUE 3 November 2019

C ongratulations Dr. Nazeeruddin Mohammad!

Cybersecurity Director Appointment

Dr. Nazeeruddin was recently appointed as the Director of PMU Cybersecurity Center and CCES would like to extend

their thanks to PMU Management in the trust that they put in Dr. Nazee-ruddin’s credential and ability in successful running this Center. The cen-ter will host state of the art equipment to support newly offered programs in Cybersecurity at the graduate and undergraduate level. This center will also offer training opportunities to local PMU communities as well as pro-fessional who will be interested in acquiring hands-on experience in vari-ous security area Such as Penetration Testing, Ethical Hacking, etc. Dr. Nazeeruddin is already involved in the setup of this lab as well as outlin-ing the vision for such center.

High Impact Research Performance With his paper titled “A Multi-Tiered Defense Model for the Security Analysis of Critical Facilities in Smart Cities”, which was published in IEEE Access, Dr. Nazeeruddin Mohammad earned the title of the best CCES re-searcher of the month. This paper focused on a hot topic related to Security Analysis in Smart Cities. Dr. Nazeeruddin wrote: “The design and development of future smart city services will usher with unprecedented creativity, a plethora of functionalities and con-veniences to the urban communities. The success of smart city services depends on the assurance that security is maintained and protected to meet community expectations. However, due to the variety of components involved in the design of smart city services and their complex interactions, it becomes challenging to properly assess the overall se-curity of the system throughout the service life cycle. This paper presents a holistic approach to model the security of smart city service infrastructure at a higher level of abstraction. To match realistic security deployments, the proposed model is based on multiple tiers of defense that includes defense at component level, system level, and security opera-tion center. For a given system con-figuration and component vulnerability vector, the model assesses key security parameters for a variety of attacks. The proposed model is generic and can be used for studying the security of various smart city infrastructures, deployment con-figurations, and attack vectors.” Dr. Nazeeruddin is the CCES expert in the field of Cybersecurity and is currently leading CCES activities and research in the area of Cybersecurity. Dr. Nazeeruddin was interviewed lately by Times Higher Education where he expressed his vision and have discussed about PMU Cybersecurity research initiatives and their influence/impact on the local and global industries. The full interview is already published in this link.

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/hub/prince-mohammad-bin-fahd-university/p/assessing-risk-and-preventing-cyberattacks



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C ongratulations Dr. Ghazanfar Latif!

CCES is very proud to announce that “Mr. Ghazanfar Latif” has successfully defended his PhD

dissertation titled “Brain MRI Tumor Analysis and Classification using Deep Learning” on Sep-

tember 27, 2019 at the

University of Malaysia

Sarawak, Malaysia.

Dr. Ghazanfar’s research focuses

on the use of Machine Learning

Techniques in solving current prob-

lems in Brain MRI Classification,

Brain Tumor Segmentation, Glioma

Tumor Grade Classification and Tu-

mor Reconstruction.

Over the past 3 years, Dr. Gha-

zanfar’ s research productivity has

been outstanding. He has published

more than 30 research papers (6 ISI indexed Journals, 9 Scopus indexed Journals, 12 Scopus indexed con-

ferences and 4 book chapters), where 7 publications were directly related to his PhD research work.

His research interests include Machine Learning, Image Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning,

and Medical Image Processing. Previously, Dr. Ghazanfar earned his MSc degree in Computer Science

from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia in 2014 and BSc degree in Computer

Science from FAST National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Pakistan in 2010.

Along with his research productivity, Dr. Ghazanfar has been be very supportive to CCES and have contrib-

uted to the college in many ways. He served as an active member working on establishing a new Robotics

research lab. He is currently involved in setting up the Artificial Intelligence Center along with several CCES

faculty members.

Dr. Ghazanfar had a great impact on improving the quality of the CCES courses lab manuals by making

sure that they contents are currently updated.

Dr. Ghazanfar has also been an active member of CCES community outreach program .He offered very

successful workshop sessions in Python Programming, Machine Learning, etc. Dr. Ghazanfar has contribut-

ed to the update of current CCES programs as well as the development of new programs such as Software

Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. CCES students feedback was overwhelming due to the tremendous

support that Dr. Ghazanfar provides in the supervision of senior design projects. Many of these projects

have culminated with research papers being published in reputable IEEE conferences.

In short, CCES and PMU is really lucky to have such an energetic and skillful young man!


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C CES Faculty and Palo Alto Network Met to Discuss Cybersecurity Academic Train-

ing Opportunities.

Palo Alto, a well renowned American multinational Cybersecurity company famous for offering numer-ous security solutions worldwide, is strongly supporting the newly proposed specializations in CCES at PMU. These new CS and IT tracks include Artificial Intelligence, Game Development, Data Sci-

ence, and Cloud Computing. Palo Alto was greatly impressed by these fresh, relevant and timely tracks.

Interestingly, Palo Alto Networks at Riyadh is willing and ready to accept some of the stu-dents in CCES for their internship program for a period of 2 months, under their IT/Security Division.

Moreover, with the aim of helping students in their career path and improve their skills, Palo Alto will be offering 2-day extensive workshop sessions for the CCES students, both female and male, under the title ‘Cybersecurity Fun-damentals’, by mid-November, 2019.

In the same regard, Palo Alto offered a spe-cial invitation for two CCES faculty members to attend the Ignite’19 Cybersecurity Confer-ence taking place in Barcelona this Novem-ber. Furthermore, another special invitation was offered by the former to two CCES facul-ty members to attend the EBC exhibition to be held in California, USA, in January-February 2020.

During their delegation visit, Palo Alto were impressed by the level of enthusiasm and commitment shown by CCES faculty towards their students. As such, the former kindly ex-pressed their full support to PMU in the uni-versity ranking process.

C CES Support to PMU-PSUT Conference

During the 2nd week of October, the International Con-ference on new Trends in Computing Sciences (ICTCS 2019) was held in Princess Sumaya University for Tech-nology (PSUT) in Jordan. This conference is organized

by PSUT in partnership with PMU. CCES supported the conference by submitting their novel research, reviewing the papers submitted to the conference, and by having a number of its faculty serve as chairs, and co-chairs for the conference sessions. The topics of this conference include: Data Science and Big Data, Intelligent Systems, Computer And Network Security, Internet of Things, and Electronic and Virtual Learning.

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C CES Students’ Involvement in Research

Dr. Nazeeruddin Mohammad, Dr. Loay Alzubaidi, Dr. Abul Bashar, and Dr. Jaafar Al Ghazo from CCES in-

volved CCES students in their research work. This involvement resulted in papers being published and present-

ed by students in the International Conference on New Trends in Computing Sciences (ICTCS’19) being held in

Jordan, as well as research proposal being submitted to PMU seeking funds. The participating students are:

Eman Shaikh, Iman Mohiuddin, Ayisha Manzoor, Hawra AlSaid, Lina AlKhatib, Aqeela AlOraidh, Shoaa AlHaidar, Salahude-

an M. Basem Tohmeh, Ahmed Alzayer, and Muhannad Alanazi. The research topics include the following: “The design of an

Autonomous LiDAR-based Tour Guide Robot”, “The application of Convolutional Neural Networks in Automating the Grading

process for Handwritten Answer Sheets”, and “The application of Deep Learning techniques in designing an Assisted Smart

Glasses for Visually Challenged Students”.

F aculty Research

CCES faculty are actively con-

ducting various cutting edge

research in support of the king-

dom vision to elevate the coun-

try’s competitiveness and increase PMU

ranking. Faculties are increasingly publish-

ing their research in various high impact

factor journals, conferences, and book

chapters. For the year of 2019, CCES fac-

ulties has a total of 28 research papers in

topics including, but not limited to, Deep

Learning, Active Learning, IoT, Cloud Com-

puting, Security, Optimization, Robotics,

Data Mining, and Big Data. Some of these

research is the result of faculties collabo-

rating with senior students as part of en-

couraging students for an early exposure to

research which will be utterly valuable to the students in their future careers or graduate studies.

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P MU Faculty and Students Delegation Attending Amazon Web Services Workshop in

Khobar Area

Amazon Web Services (AWS) conducted a technical day in Al Khobar area on the 5th of November 2019.

CCES students (male and female) attended the event along with their Cloud Computing course instructor Dr. Nazeeruddin Mohammad. Students got a chance to learn about a variety of AWS services and cloud

security solutions. The event also helped in forming new connections with the AWS team, who showed interest in of-fering workshops at PMU as well. AWS is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offer-ing over 165 fully-featured services from data centers globally. It has millions of customers including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies. PMU has an academic alliance with AWS and offers Cloud Computing labs on this platform.

E C Council Training Partnership

PMU established a partnership with EC-Council to open an

ATC (Authorized Training Centre) in the eastern province. EC-

Council is an international leader organization in information

security and Cyber Security certification programs. EC-Council will provide

courses like Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), Certified Computer Hacking

Forensics Investigator (CHFI), Certified Security Analyst (ECSA) and Cer-

tified Network Defender (CND). PMU will be providing any training related

to the EC-Council. All request from the EC-Council in the Eastern province

will be directed to PMU since it is the only partner in the Eastern Province for EC-Council. The current

target is to offer CEH v10 training.

The list of certificates are: Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), Certified Computer Forensic Investigator

(CHFI), Certified Security Analyst (ECSA), and Certified Network Defender (CND).

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ISSUE 3 November 2019 CCES NEWS

C CES Offers Multiple Technical Workshop Sessions to PMU Stu-

dents and Faculty

In line with PMU strategic goals in provid-

ing professional development opportunities for faculty

members and students alike, CCES planned multiple

technical workshop sessions for PMU students and

interested instructors/faculty. The topics of these ses-

sions are aligned with the skills needed by the wide

industry to better help our PMU students to compete

in a tough job market. These topics include the follow-

ing area: “Preparation to Cisco Network Certification”

– delivered by CCES Cisco Certified Mr. Zafar Kazimi,

“Introduction to Machine Learning” – delivered by Dr.

Ghazanfar Latif, and “Introduction to Electronic Sys-

tems Design” – delivered by Mr. Awadalla Salah. In

the past, these technical sessions drew lot of attention

and attracted large student audience from various dis-

ciplines.

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C CES Faculty Offering Workshop Sessions to

Broad Community

As part of PMU continuous support for the community, CCES part-nered with The Ministry of Communication and Information Technol-ogy (MCIT) in organizing training workshops in various program-

ming topics. The mission of the workshops was to empower students through educational workshops that elevate the unique human capital we have in Saudi Arabia. The workshops were held on both the male and female sides at PMU in Prince Turki Bin Fahd Center for Creativity. The workshops included 5-days in-

tensive training from July 14, 2019 to July 18, 2019. They were offered by CCES faculties on topics which included JAVA Object Oriented Programming by Dr. Yasmeen Alufaisan, Unix/Linux Environment by Dr. Ghazanfar Latif, and C# Programming by Mr. Moham-med Zikria. The workshops were attended by college students from all over the eastern province and by PMU students as well and was organized with the support of PMU Computing Collaro Club (CCC).

C CES continues its efforts to strengthen relationships between PMU/CCES and the Industry by conducting multi-ple employers visit during each semester. During the Fall 202010 semester, CCES has conducted four visits to several leading companies in the area. All these vis-

its targeted 4 major areas, including finding more major focused internship opportunities to our CCES students, seek collaboration between companies and CCES faculty while involving students, capitalize on the strength of CCES in terms existing and planned programs and research centers, seek feedback from the industry about the technical skills that they would like our CCES students to acquire, and finally seek their support in promoting PMU.

T he first industrial visit was conducted to Al-Falak Electronics Equip-ment & Supplies Co. on October 23, 2019. Dr. Ghassen Ben Brahim, Dr Majid Khan, Dr. Abul Bashar, and Dr. Ilyes Jenhani represented CCES in this visit. PMU delegation met with Company HR Manager

and Legal Advisor Mr. Ahmed Mana Alsagri and had productive discussions on how to provide opportunities to CCES students through internships and full time jobs. They further discussed the importance of bridging the gap be-tween universities and industry which will ensure that PMU graduates are ready to join the professional world and be productive from the first day of work. The faculties proudly depicted an overview of the strengths of PMU and specifically CCES in terms of programs being offered as well as programs to be offered, hands on experience that students have, and the many soft skills that PMU students brings. The Alfalak company reported that they are al-ready employing more than 20 PMU graduates in various areas (IT, HR, Business) and would always welcome PMU students do their internship in their facilities.

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R awabi Holdings was the next destination to CCES delegation. The visits took place on October 30, 2019 in their office located in Al Khobar area. This visit was led by the CCES Dean Dr. Fadi Sibai and included Dr. Ilyes

Jenhani, Dr. Abul Bashar, and Dr. Majid Khan. Rawabi Holding Co. team led by the R&D Manager Mr. Ihab Khayat and CCES repre-sentatives had a very fruitful and constructive meeting where they touched on several areas which were all centered about CCES students and how to promote CCES. During the meeting Mr. Ihab expressed his utmost support to PMU and our students and ex-pressed they willingness to offer more internship opportunities. Furthermore, Rawabi expressed their willingness in offering semi-nars at PMU for CCES/PMU students and faculties. Rawabi also expressed their interest in having research collaboration with CCES faculties in areas such as Data Analytics, Image processing and Internet of Things (IoT).

N ada Company was the third company that CCES delegation had visited on November 06. 2010. CCES faculty Dr. Ghassen Ben Brahim and Dr. Abul bashar along with PMU

Professional Development Manager Mr. Faisal Khan met with the company commercial director and Train-ing and NADA Development Manager. As CCES dis-cussed opportunities for the students, Nada represent-atives offered to place CCES IT students in internship positions in the project of transforming their in-house IT infrastructure to the cloud. They were also interest-ed in having collaboration in the area of ERP, Cloud and Security. The company also expressed their will-ingness to give seminars to PMU students that are related to current industry trends in IT resource man-agement and software product development. This meeting was very successful and NADA representa-tive requested for a follow up meeting with the IT team to explore area where CCES IT team can support col-laborate together in joint project.

H alliburton was the fourth company on the list that CCES had visited. The visit took place on November 18. CCES delegation was led by Dr. Ghassen Ben Brahim along with Dr. Abul Bashar, Dr. Nazeeruddin

and PMU professional manager Mr. Faisal Khan. CCES delega-tion had the chance to meet with Halliburton IT manager, HR Manager, Project Manager, and two ex-CCES graduates who have recently joined Halliburton as full time employees. Hallibur-ton opened the meeting with the appreciation about the quality of PMU graduate students who have already joined Halliburton or who were currently doing internship. The IT manager expressed their need for students with data Anal-ysis expertise and offered to accommodate many of our IT stu-dents. CCES delegation highlights the strength of PMU in terms of current programs, newly offered programs, the research lab cen-ters which are in the process of being established. These included robotics lab, cybersecurity lab, and Artificial Intelligence lab. Halli-burton offered to send some of their engineers to offer seminars as well as accommodate more CCES students for internship posi-tions with possible supervision of their academic advisors.

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C CES Students Attending Aramco Cyber Security Event

CCES students attended Saudi Aramco Cyber Security conference, Cybersecurity Technical Exchange

2019, which took place in Aramco North Park Auditorium on October 22, 2019. The conference focused

on providing an excellent platform for Cyber-Security enthusiasts and specialists, by organizing various

guest speaker events regarding Cyber-Security topics such as Data Security, Machine Learning in Detecting Threats,

Fog Computing and IT/OT Cyber Security. The conference also organized various workshops throughout its period

which tackled interesting Cyber-Security topics such as Smart Forensics in the New Era of Smart Devices , Home Cy-

bersecurity Monitoring , OT Cybersecurity Monitoring, IT/OT Integration: Cybersecurity Beyond Technology, Zero Trust

Architecture, IT/OT Convergence in Cybersecurity, Malware Detection Framework Based on Machine Learning Classi-

fication and Multifeatures of Images, Automated Analysis of Android Applications’ Behaviors on a Large Scale, Regu-

latory Responses to Online Privacy, etc. The conference was also attended by cyber security companies such as

McAfee, BAE and RSA, which were offering detailed information regarding the latest Cyber-Security trends, challeng-

es and gadgets. They also were very helpful and informative and suggested methods that students can utilize to be-

come initiated in the Cybersecurity career line and on which resources and platforms can best help them get started.

CCES students reported that attending the conference was very beneficial since they were given the chance enhance

their technical skills in the area of security through these technical sessions given by subject matter experts (SMEs’).

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I EEE JAVA Programming Competition: CCES Female Team ranked 10

th in the Kingdom

IEEEXtreme is a global challenge in which

teams of student members, advised and

proctored by an IEEE Member, compete

against each other to solve a set of pro-

gramming problems in a 24-hour time span,

starting on October 19, 2019 at 00:00 UTC and

ending at 23:59:59 UTC. Three female students

from Prince Mohammed bin Fahd University

formed one team and participated in this com-

petition where they competed against 5015 reg-

istered teams across the globe: Basha Abdullah

Alfoghom, Shyma Yaser Alhuwaider and Nada

Alsaffar. The competition started online at 3:00

a.m. in KSA. As per participants, the ques-

tions are ranged from average to difficult with

time and memory constrains, and the technicali-

ty of the questions really amazed them. Solving

the question problems logically was not enough,

they added new ways for students to think of

while figuring out the solutions. According to

them, it was such an amazing experience and

they fully encourage all to try it.

C CES IEEE- W Chapter is Now Active! Come and Join!

IEEE-W PMU student branch is a student community

based that provides opportunities to meet and learn from

fellow IEEE-W PMU undergraduate and graduate student

members and engage with professional IEEE-W members locally. IEEE

currently has student branches at thousands of universities and colleges

in hundreds of countries throughout the world, which connect all togeth-

er.

IEEE-W PMU student branch gives PMU students a community of peers,

and an amazing connection to faculty and industry professionals who

drive innovation in countless technical fields. The chapter is led by two

Computer Engineering students: Basha Abdullah Alfoghom (as Presi-

dent) and Shyma Yaser Alhuwaider (as Vice President), along with two

CCES mentors: Ms. Roxane Mallouhy and Ms. Zeenat Al Kassim as

chair members. Student involvement in branch activities, whether special

projects, social and technical meetings, outreach programs, conferences, local Section or Regional opportunities,

etc. can help develop a record of accomplishment and capabilities beyond the norm.

Benefits of forming an IEEE Student Branch are: opportunities to network on a local level, free website hosting, obtain-

ing funding for events, projects, and activities, developing projects and obtaining sponsorship based on current IEEE

affiliation, receiving support for hosting professional awareness programs, and connecting with other like- minded stu-

dent groups to advance the IEEE mission. In addition to these benefits, IEEE offers programs and projects that keep

students interested in the branch and its activities in their chosen profession.

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C CES Students Kicked Off their Senior Design Project for the FALL 202010 Senior year is the stu-

dents’ last year at the

university. While it is fun and exciting,

it is also the time where students

need to put all technical and soft skills

they have learned over a 3 to 4 year’s

time frame in practice through the in-

vestigate of a project which will culmi-

nate with a final product, technical

report, and a presentation. CCES val-

ues the students’ accomplishments

and inventions and advise all senior

students to present their project to

their PMU fellow students during a

senior design exhibition day. Such

event is usually guest honored by the

VRAA. Every semester, CCES senior

students enroll in Assessment III to

start working on their final graduation

project, in which they put all their

knowledge gained throughout the

years at PMU. Students select their

advisor and topic based on their ma-

jor, keeping in mind the latest technol-

ogies available outside in the market.

The CCES, in turn, purchases a cou-

ple of kits and keeps them in stock for

students with hardware requirement

projects. Kits purchased include microcontroller boards, sensors, robotic kits and more. As for soft-

ware requirements, the CCES helps students install software on their PCs. The CCES also provides

3D printing for students to support and improve their senior project ideas. Students pick topics related

to varied fields like robotics, machine learning, web programming, and detection systems. At the same

time, students prepare for working on their senior year projects by enrolling in related courses like Em-

bedded Systems, Network Security and Computer Vision, where they learn concepts that are relevant

to their senior projects. Students also attend workshops if offered in order to learn more concepts and

ideas. Students move through phases of preparation to implementation and achievement, and the

CCES faculty and staff support them throughout.

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C CES Enrollment is on The Rise!

CCES is witnessing a rise in the number of enrolled students. In comparison with last

year, the College has a growth in enrollment of 25%. The College offered in the Fall of

2019 a new engineering discipline, a bachelor degree in Software Engi- neering which

brings the number of different degrees offered by CCES to four. The College wel-

comed this semester 47 male and female students majoring in Software Engineer- ing and 558

total students for all the departments.

25% growth

C CES Activation of Student Support

Center

This semester, CCES has revived an old practice, which consists of embracing and supporting stu-dents who need help outside of classrooms in sev-

eral major related topics . CCES has activated student support centers for both male and female students. The goal of the cen-ter is to offer a good opportunity for the students to keep improv-ing the skills they need to thrive in their classes. CCES lab In-structors were instructed to allocate and reserve three hours per week to support students in various topics. These include JAVA, web programming, Shell Scripting, Python, Matlab, Math related subjects, electronics, Robotics, Network administration etc. CCES announced the topics and the schedule to students through the Computing Collaro Club (CCC) – Active CCES club, postings on CCES bulletin boards, and by emails to all CCES students encouraging them to take advantage of this opportunity.

In the past the student support center has been very popular and beneficial to students who needed help in catching up with some of the topics and we are hoping for noticeable improvement in their academic performance

Thank you Ms. Roxane Mellouhi, Ms. Budoor Al Harbi, Ms. Zeenat Al Kassim, Ms. Hanaa Al Ghamdi, Mr. Zafar Kazimi, Mr. Zikria Mohammad, Mr. Awadalla Salah and last but not least our veteran Dr. Khaled Fawagreh.

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N ew Software Engineering Program: Strong Start!

In its first semester, the newly offered Software Engineering program was able to draw

about 50 male and female students. Such strong enrollment performance has motivated

CCES faculty to meet our students’ expectations, deliver high quality teaching students

and eventually have them ready to compete with their fellow students landing great jobs in a tough job

market thanks to the wide range of technical skills that they will acquire during their journey at PMU.

The Software Engineering program is viewed as relatively new engineering discipline concerned with

all aspects related to the life cycle of software development and production. It has grown so fast that it

has become firmly linked to all other computer related areas such as Artificial Intelligence, Parallel

Processing, Computer Graphics, Human-Computer Interaction, Database Management Systems, and

many others. Software Engineering embraces all technical skills engineers need to acquire in devel-

oping high-quality, efficient, usable, accessible, maintain-

able, secure professional software improving existing

software. These skills include concepts, models, theo-

ries, practices, techniques and tools.

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