The Faculty of Engineering and Technology Quality Assurance Office (FET-QAO) plays a key role in ensuring and maintaining quality learning, teaching, curricula, research and administration through developing, implementing and reporting of their continuous improvement. Achieving this role supports the faculty’s vision “Towards a competitive faculty committed to excellence in teaching, innovative research, entrepreneurship and community service” to become a distinguished faculty in learning and research, and in promoting ethics which ultimately impacts positively on the development of the community.
FET-QAO Foundations
The FET-QAO has several bases, characteristics and purposes as follows:
1. Is ongoing process and part of the university’s strategies for continuous improvement and excellence ensuring highest quality learning, teaching, curricula, research and academic operations and standards considered a shared responsibility, collaborative and empowering involving the above mentioned operations;
2. Focuses on input, processes, outcomes and impacts of all academic and administrative operations at the faculty level;
3. Is designed to meet accreditation requirements;
4. Is designed to promote institutional and academic standards of the university;
5. Is transparent, systematic, rigorous and fairness; and
6. To guarantee documenting, monitoring, reviewing and periodic evaluating of academic and administrative procedures at the faculty level.
Tasks
Distribute all forms of the faculty quality assurance procedures to the stakeholders making sure to fill those forms for documentation;
Follow up and conduct periodic auditing at all level of the hierarchy of the faculty with the stakeholder conforming to use correct forms
Carry out internal auditing to detect non-compliance cases and fix them
Participate in the follow-up of implementing the resolutions of the faculty quality assurance committee and to provide periodic reports and archive them;
Disseminate quality assurance culture at the stakeholders via meeting, seminars and periodic studies;
Oversee on all generated publication, including brochures, pamphlets, etc. to deliver all lessons pertaining quality assurance to the stakeholders effectively
Conduct various surveys on stakeholders, and community groups regarding; alumni, employers, facilities assessment, exit, stakeholders opinions, academic and extracurricular activities, to name a few.