Department of Chemistry Committees 2024-2025
Approval of the formation of department committees:
The formation of the committees of the Department of Chemistry for the academic year 1446 H was approved by the department Council in its session held on //1446 H (Resolution No. /).
Purpose of Committees formation:
- Strengthen the affiliation of the department among its faculty members through the participation of everyone in decision-making.
- Facilitating the department Council in making the appropriate decision on the topics raised in the council, where the competent committee studies the topic in all its merits before presenting it to the council and making appropriate recommendations.
- Spreading the spirit of initiative and competition among the members through their contribution to the development of performance within the department and proposing ideas that contribute to this.
General tasks of the chairmen's Committees:
- Determine the appropriate and special content for the committee to publish it via the Department's website.
- Provide the department with the work plan of the committee and the work that it will carry out during each semester.
- Taking all the recommendations of the committee in coordination and participation among the members.
- After each meeting of the committee, the head of the department is presented with a minutes of the meeting (signed) from the members of the committee within a week from its date.
- Submit a report on the progress of the committee's work and its achievements at the end of the semester to the head Department.
- The latest tasks assigned by the head Department.
1. Committee of Faculty Members, Their Equivalents, and Scholarship Students
A committee responsible for determining the numbers of faculty members, those of their equivalent, and scholarship students, studying their applications, and studying the applications of those who want to work as a member of the college or institute.
Subcommittees:
a. Scientific Committee
| - Examining documents of applications for promotion of faculty members and the like.
- Examining documents for requests to attend conferences, assignment, and academic sabbaticals.
- Verifying the completeness of the book translation request documents.
- Studying nomination requests for awards for excellence in teaching, international publishing, or excellence in scientific research.
- Proposing scientific research priorities in cooperation with the department’s research groups.
- Any new tasks assigned by the department head.
| - Dr. Laila Saad Al-Qarni (Coordinator)
- Prof. Murtaja Muhammad Abu Kreisha
- Prof. Muhammad Rahmatullah Abu Zaid
- Dr. Mostafa Elsayed Ahmed Salem
- Dr. Eida Salman Saad Al-Farraj
- Dr. Amal Ali AL-Mutairi
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b. Teaching Assistants and Lecturers Committee
| - Preparing and following up scholarship students.
- Study referrals received from the department head to study the topics of teaching assistants and lecturers and provide recommendations.
- Studying applications to join the department for the position of teaching assistant.
- Determine the department’s need for faculty members and their equivalents and their precise specializations.
- Determine the scholarship countries that suit the department’s goals and aspirations with regard to teaching assistants, male and female lecturers, and their precise specializations.
- Seeking to conclude strategic partnerships with the public and private sectors to support the department’s programs.
- Developing suggestions and recommendations for the department to take into consideration to provide an attractive educational environment for the student, faculty member, and the like.
- Any new tasks assigned by the department head.
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c. Contracting and Recruitment Committee
| - Studying the scientific files of contract applications and conducting interviews with them.
- Working to attract distinguished non-Saudi faculty members and the like.
- Any new tasks assigned by the department head.
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d. Social Activities Committee
| - Preparing and organizing social activities among department members.
- Any new tasks assigned to his Excellency the head of the department.
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2. Postgraduate Studies Committee
- Preparing and supervising admission tests for graduate programs, identifying appropriate references and submitting them to the department head.
- Correcting admission tests for postgraduate programs and determining those accepted into them.
- Preparing faculty schedules for graduate program courses in coordination with the department head and developing a mechanism to determine elective courses and graduation projects.
- Distributing graduation projects to students according to the student’s passing the elective courses.
- Monitoring graduate students’ grades.
- Proposing committees to discuss graduation projects and submitting them to the department head.
- Pursuing the master’s and doctoral levels at all stages, starting from the supplementary year until graduation.
- Any new tasks assigned by the department head.
| - Prof. Abdul Rahman Al-Hamzani (Coordinator)
- Prof. Mohamed Khairy Omran
- Dr. Nadeem Raza Ghulam Mostafa
- Dr. Fatehy Mohamed Abdel-Haleem Mohamed
- Dr. Hanan Mubarak Alhussain
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3. Scientific Research Committee
- Establishing research teams and following up on their research activity.
- Follow up on the number of scientific researches of the department and classify them annually.
- Encouraging translation and authorship through awareness campaigns, statistics, and follow-up.
- Working to showcase the department’s scientific production and activities, especially through the website.
- Organizing lectures and scientific research seminars presented by faculty members in the department and hosting lecturers from outside the college.
- Identifying and expanding the scientific research infrastructure in the department.
| - Dr. Sami Abdulaziz Al-Hussein (Coordinator)
- Prof. Walid Mohammed Daoush
- Dr. Lutfi Al-Hadi Al-Khozami
- Dr. Ehab Abdelhamed Abdelrahman Ahmed
- Dr. Wissam Abdel Fattah Abdel Azim
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4. Plans and Curriculum Committee
- Study the department’s academic program plans.
- Study all new proposals to develop and amend plans and courses.
- Any new tasks assigned by the department head.
| - Dr. Faisal Khoishan Al-Qathami (Coordinator)
- Prof. Mansour Hussein Almatarneh
- Prof. Magdy El-Sayed Zaki
- Prof. Mohamed Khairy Omran
- Dr. Mashael Abdullah Al-Ghamdi
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5. Academic Advising Committee
- Supervising various academic affairs for undergraduate students in the department.
- Any new tasks assigned by the department head.
| - Dr. Nofal Ali Benhamadi (Coordinator)
- Dr. Abdullah Abdulaziz Aldakhil
- Dr. Mohamed Ahmed El Sayed Habib
- Dr. Noha Youssef Al-Amin
- Norah Sultan Abdulaziz Almotlaq
- Ebtisam Suliman Mohammed Alolayqi
- Amal Mohammad Abdullah Alshehri
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Department of Chemistry Units 2024-2025
1. Development and Quality Unit
- Planning academic and administrative quality work in the department.
- Cooperating with the department head in building and following up on the department’s operational plan.
- Monitoring the quality of the educational process in the department.
- Cooperating with academic program coordinators in meeting program quality requirements.
- Collect the necessary evidence to verify that quality practices in the department’s programs conform to program accreditation standards.
- Follow up on academic program performance indicators and work to achieve semester targets.
- Follow up on the quality of the administrative process in the department.
- Fulfilling the department’s administrative quality requirements.
- Collect the necessary evidence to verify that the department’s quality practices conform to the quality requirements of administrative work.
- Follow up on the performance indicators of operational plans, and work to achieve periodic targets.
- Conducting various opinion polls, analyzing them, and writing related reports.
- Cooperating with academic program coordinators to provide the necessary data and statistics for annual academic program reports.
- Cooperating with the College’s Development and Quality Unit in spreading the culture of quality among department members.
- Cooperating with the College’s Development and Quality Unit in identifying the training needs in the department.
- Cooperating with the College’s Development and Quality Unit in implementing training programs related to academic and administrative quality in the scientific department.
- Making any amendment approved by the Department Council to the department’s program plans.
- Preparing annual reports for the department’s programs.
- Receiving department course reports from faculty members.
- Reviewing the course descriptions for the bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral plans.
- Any new tasks assigned by the department head.
| - Prof. Mouslim Messali (Coordinator)
- Prof. Mansour Hussein Almatarneh
- Dr. Sondos Abdullah Jaber Al-Mahmoud
- Dr. Suad Saad Al-Zahrani
- Dr. Ahlam Moldi El-Tayeb Al Qasimi
- Dr. Yasmeen Gaber Abou El-Reash
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2. Evaluation and Exams Unit
- Cooperating with academic program coordinators in implementing the decisions of the academic department councils related to controlling and ensuring the quality of exams.
- Verifying that the exams are constructed according to the requirements of the achievement exams schedule and the academic course outline (Blue Print).
- Ensure that exam questions are linked to the course learning outcomes that are linked to the program learning outcomes.
- Follow up on the process of measuring learning outcomes, and issue reports on its comprehensive results.
- Holding workshops for faculty members and the like to explain scientific methods in writing theoretical and practical questions and submit recommendations regarding their training needs.
- Verifying the reality of final exam results, preparing reports and submitting them to the department head.
- Supervising the automated correction of exams.
- Supervising question banks, re-studying and updating them, and ensuring their quality.
- Continuous communication with the quality unit in the department and submitting its reports.
- Receiving the second examiner’s report for the final examination.
- Study student complaints regarding any exam.
- Studying students’ requests regarding reviewing the correction of the final exam.
- Archiving final exams.
- Reserving halls for semester exams for multi-section courses.
- Identifying invigilators for semester exams for courses that need invigilators.
- Receive a copy of the final exam for the department’s courses and deliver it to the college dean for educational affairs.
- Any new tasks assigned by the department head.
| - Prof. Murtaja Abu Kreisha (Coordinator)
- Dr. Arafat Ahmed Tughan
- Dr. TariK Ahmed Youssef
- Dr. Sahar Shamseldden Mohammed Abdalla
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3. Professional Training and Development Unit
- Participate in preparing the annual plan for the scientific department and academic programs.
- Apply data and information collection tools in coordination with the Central Unit for Training and Professional Development.
- Determine the training needs of department members according to the faculty and staff evaluation reports issued by the Development and Quality Unit, and have them approved by the Department Council and then submitted to the Central Unit for Training and Professional Development.
- Identify the logistical requirements for implementing training courses and programs for members of the scientific department, and submit them to the Central Unit for Training and Professional Development.
- Preparing operational plans for training and professional development at the level of departments and academic programs.
- Coordination with the college’s Central Unit for Training and Professional Development to provide the external courses and workshops needed by faculty members in the department.
- Implementing operational plans for training and professional development at the department and academic program levels.
- Proposing the courses, programs, and training staff required for department members in coordination with the Central Unit for Training and Professional Development in the college/institute.
- Preparing periodic reports on the extent of progress in achieving the objectives of the operational plan.
- Follow up on the implementation of training courses and programs provided to members of the scientific department and academic programs.
- Identifying the obstacles and problems of implementing the operational plan at the department level, and proposing appropriate solutions to them in coordination with the Central Unit for Training and Professional Development.
- Documenting the programs implemented for the professional development of department members, and collecting evidence.
- Support in measuring the impact of training and the benefits thereof for department members.
- Preparing reports on the activities carried out for the department’s members, having them approved by the department council and then submitting them to the Central Unit for Training and Professional Development.
- Preparing recommendations in light of the results of the evaluation processes at the department level.
- Spreading a culture of quality, professional development, and continuing education in departments.
| - Dr. Abdullah Neda Alotaibi (Coordinator)
- Dr. TariK Ahmed Youssef
- Dr. Babiker Yaqoub Abdul-Khair
- Dr. Wissam Abdel-Fattah Abdel-Azim
- Dr. Mashael Abdullah Al-Ghamdi
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Subcommittees for Undergraduate Programs:
a. Advisory committee
| - Contribute to formulating the attributes of the program graduate and discussing their compatibility with the program learning outcomes.
- Continuously developing the program to improve its outputs.
- Discussing the results of the program’s annual reports and improvement plans.
- Giving feedback on the extent to which the graduate possesses the characteristics described in the program specification, which contributes to increasing the competitiveness of program graduates.
- Discussing reports measuring learning outcomes and expressing an opinion about them.
- Transferring successful experiences in the labor market to improve the program’s outcomes.
- Contributing to establishing research partnerships and cooperation between the department and public and private sector institutions.
- Overcoming difficulties regarding field training for program students.
- Participate in the activities organized by the program for the benefit of its students and graduates, which contributes to the quality of the program and its graduates.
- Contributing to the success of the program’s academic accreditation processes.
| - For the Bachelor of Science in Chemistry:
 - For the Master of Science in Chemistry:
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