A​bout the College

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     The Royal Decree was issued to establish the College of Engineering at King Faisal University in 2007 AD. The decree paved the way for the college to provide engineering education in five engineering programs, as the college took upon itself a commitment to excellence in engineering education, scientific research, and engineering partnerships at all levels locally and regionally.

The college began admission to the Bachelor's degree program in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering in the academic year 2009/2010. The decision to start these programs was based after conducting a survey and study of the market and its need for manpower, and on the fact that these three programs represent the basic general engineering programs that serve the more specialized programs.

In 2011, the college began accepting male students into the Bachelor of Chemical Engineering program, and in 2013, the college completed its acceptance of the first female section of the biomedical engineering program.

Given the importance of ABET international academic accreditation, the college has worked intensively since its founding and devoted efforts to achieve this during the 2014/2015 academic year for the four programs. This is an affirmation of the most important practices for graduates to meet the educational requirements necessary to enter the profession.

This was followed by an expansion of the college in opening new programs. In the academic year 2021/2022 AD, the electrical engineering program was created for female students, in addition to the creation of a master’s program in electrical engineering and a diploma in mechanical inspection related to mechanical engineering. During the academic year 2023/2024 AD, it was approved to create a program Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering. The college is moving forward in developing new qualitative programs derived from its analytical reading of market needs in cooperation with a prominent number of decision makers in major companies.

In order to complement and maintain ABET academic accreditation, work was completed on accrediting the bachelor’s program in biomedical engineering during the year 2021/2022, and the academic accreditation for the rest of the college’s programs was renewed until 2026 AD.

 Realizing the importance of academic advising, the college has paid great attention to it, including establishing an academic advising committee. This committee is concerned with academic advising procedures, including: preparing preparation meetings for new students at the beginning of each year in order to facilitate their integration into university life at the college.

In addition to what was mentioned, the college established a number of student clubs to incubate the talents of its students, which are affiliated with international organizations to enhance the development of students’ academic and personal skills. The college includes five student clubs: “IEEE” Club for Electrical and Electronic Engineering, “AIChE” Club of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, “ASME” Mechanical Engineering Club, “WIE” “IEEE” Women in Engineering is one of the largest international professional organizations dedicated to promoting female engineers and scientists, and inspiring Girls all over the world to pursue their academic interests in the engineering profession, in addition to the “ASCE” club dedicated to civil engineering students.

In confirmation of the college’s commitment to its vision related to engineering education, scientific research, and engineering partnerships, the college today includes a good number of experts from various countries of the world in support of solid engineering education and scientific research, and to narrow the gap between the academic and industrial sectors and until the college’s outputs are fully aligned with the requirements of the government and private sectors, a An advisory committee at the college level and similar committees at the academic department level, consisting of members from various government agencies and the private sector, to provide advice and technical opinion to decision-makers in the college, in a way that contributes to improving the quality of the outputs associated with the educational, research and service process. The college also worked to activate a number of cooperation agreements with several parties to be consistent with the third axis of its vision, which is engineering partnerships.