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 Fostering highly competitive student academic learning experiences and performance is a primary aim at the Faculty of Engineering. Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs), Student Outcomes (SOs), and grading policies are presented to students at the beginning of the term. Instructors work tirelessly to closely monitor students’ performance during the course throughout the term. Student performance in the CLOs and SOs is assessed through a variety of assessment tools.
The following is a list of such tools and the typical distribution of grades:
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20%
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Midterm Exam
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40%
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Final Exam
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40%
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Other Course work: homework, participation, quizzes, projects, presentations, technical reports, etc.
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Instructors can alter this distribution provided that the contribution of the Final Exam grade to the total course grade does not exceed 70%. The grades corresponding to the final mark obtained by the student in the course are recorded as follows:
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Range of Marks
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Grade
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GPA Points
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From 95 to 100
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A +
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5.0
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From 90 to 94
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A
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4.75
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From 85 to 89
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B +
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4.5
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From 80 to 84
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B
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4.0
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From 75 to 79
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C +
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3.5
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From 70 to 74
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C
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3.0
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From 65 to 69
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D +
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2.5
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From 60 to 64
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D
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2.0
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Less than 60
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F
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1.0
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What are provisional grades?
‘IC’ (Incomplete):
If a student has not completed all the requirements of a course, the instructor may, with the approval of the Department Council, give the student a grade of ‘IC’ (Incomplete). The student has to complete the course requirements by the end of the following semester (summer term not counted). Failure to do so will automatically change the ‘IC’ grade to an ‘F’ (Fail) grade.
‘IP’ (In Progress):
Students taking courses that may require more than one semester to complete (such as the senior project course) may be assigned a grade of ‘IP’(In Progress) if they have not finished all the course requirements. The student may be given up to two extra semesters (excluding summer terms) to complete the course work. Failure to do so will automatically change the ‘IP’ grade to an ‘F’ (Fail).
‘DN’ (Denial):
Students who are absent 25% of the contact hours required for a certain course are given a grade of ‘DN’ (Denial), and are denied the right to take the final exam for that course. A grade of ‘DN’ is equivalent to a 1.0 GPA in the calculation of the cumulative GPA.
‘NP’ (No Grade Pass):
This grade is reserved for the students of the ‘ConventionalProgram’study option who take and pass the summer internship. The credit units are counted but have no contribution to the cumulative GPA.
‘NF’ (No Grade Fail):
This grade is reserved for the students of the ‘Conventional Program’ study option who take, but do not pass the summer internship. The credit units are not counted and have no contribution to the cumulative GPA, and in this case, the student has to repeat the summer internship.
How do I repeat a course?
Students are permitted to repeat a course in which they earned an ‘F’ grade. However, the new grade does not cancel the old (failing) grade. Both old and new grades remainon the student’s transcript and count toward his/her GPA.
The Academic Affairs Unit (AAU) provides all necessary information concerning registration, including registration windows and course add-drop proceduresfor academic departments at the beginning of each semester. A web-based student information system (ODUS Plus) is used to synchronizevarious processes concerning student registration and academic advising.
The electronic application ODUS Plus is a customized version of Banner, a Student Information System used by more than 1,800 universities and serves more than 10 million students worldwide. All information concerning every student in the Faculty of Engineering is recorded, updated, and processed on the ODUS Plus system. This includes an automated warning which is issued to students who are on probation due to low academic performance (i.e. a GPA less than 2.0 out of 5, or 15 semesters exceeded in the university without graduating. The system also regulates the limits of term loadsaccording to student GPAs.
What is summer training?
 Summer training is administered through the Academic Affairs Unit (AAU) and Training Unit (TU) in coordination with external organizations in or outside of the country. Each student is assigned a faculty member to be their‘summer training supervisor’ and a representative from the training establishment to supervise and mentor their work. Supervisors are typically assigned between 10 to 20 students from the program. The performance of the student trainee is jointly evaluated by the representative of the training organization and the summer supervisor faculty member. Student trainee performance evaluation includes mainly the following:
· evaluation by the representative training organization
· regular on-site visits by the summer supervisor
· post training report and oral presentation
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