Short Courses

The Department of Mechanical Engineering is playing a leading role in continuing education by offering a set of short courses that have been very popular and highly appreciated by practicing engineers throughout the industry both in the Kingdom and other Gulf countries.
ME department has offered 7 short courses for the academic year 2007-2008, two of them were closed courses to ARAMCO. These short courses covered various fields of mechanical engineering. The following chart represents the number of short courses offered this year. Participants of the short courses represented a large variety of the local industry including ARAMCO, SABIC, SWCC, etc

The following lists of short courses were offered during this academic year.

1. Introduction to boilers (Nov. 17-21, 2007)
2. Introduction to Boilers (MEX 104) (April 5-9, 2008)
3. Process Control for Instrumentation Engineers (PCI-104) (March 1-5, 2008)
4. Relief Valves Sizing and Systems Analysis (PCI-110) (March 22-26, 2008)
5. Introduction to Systems Reliability (April 5-9, 2008)
6. Process Control for Instrumentation Engineers (June 7-11, 2008)
7. Engineering Aspects of Welding (June 21-25, 2008)