Responsibilities of the Scientific
Research Committee:
a) Head of the
Committee:
- Arrange meetings with the
respective members and write minutes of meetings/reports i.e. actions taken,
actions planned, status of assigned tasks, etc.
- Prepare and maintain a
proper record (hard and/or soft copies) of all the relevant documents.
- Coordinate and provide required
documents to other committees, focus groups, program coordinator or chairman,
when necessary.
b) General Responsibilities:
- Develop ways and techniques
to improve research motivation and activities in the department.
- Organize conferences/training
sessions and invite guest speakers.
- Research collaboration with
other universities/industry.
- Initiate student chapters (e.g.
SCE, ASCE, ACE, etc.).
- Circulate information (e.g.
list, forms, requirements, etc.) about organizations which provide research
funds/support.
- Circulate information of
various scientific knowledge resources (online access to textbooks, research
articles, etc.).
- Deliver lectures to the
faculty members regarding matters related to research.
- Review Graduation
Project Topics and Syllabus to meet the program accreditation requirements.
- Provide consultation to
students to present their graduation projects / research papers at
national/international forums.
- Review civil engineering faculty
members’ applications for promotion.
