The Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) of the Chemical Engineering Department at King Abdulaziz University is a group of dedicated industry representatives and corporate partners, who actively support the strategic objectives and goals of the department. In turn, they provide the department with valuable input concerning current and future trends in industry, resources for research and development, industry interfaces and exchanges, recruitment opportunities and program promotion to improve the teaching, performance and graduate quality.

Chemical Engineering Industrial Advisory Board Mission

The Chemical Engineering Department's Industrial Advisory Board comprised of interested alumni and corporate partners, will actively support the strategic objectives, the goals and the mission of the Department of Chemical Engineering at King Abdulaziz University. This will be accomplished primarily as follows:

• By providing, or assisting in obtaining, necessary resources for the Department and/ or Chair- both financial and intellectual.
• By providing current industry interfaces that encourage two-way exchanges of ideas, concepts and best practices.
• By being role models for all stakeholders in the Chemical Engineering Department, to The Faculty of Engineering, King Abdulaziz University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the world at large.

The board is composed of highly successful chemical engineering graduates, each having more than 10 years of industrial experience in the chemical engineering sectors within Saudi Arabia. These members not only understand the needs of potential employers of our students, but are also interested in career and educational issues associated with chemical engineering education in general. The board meets at least once a year. The input from ChE-IAB has been primarily in the form of critiques and advices on issues related to the learning atmosphere, cooperation with the industry, as well as the research activities of the department. The Table 5 displays the actual composition of the board.

1. To promote teaching excellence at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
2. To promote excellence in graduate student and faculty research.
3. To assist in the recruitment of outstanding undergraduate and graduate students.
4. To advise the faculty and the undergraduate and graduate students of the professional skills expected of BSc, MSc. And Ph.D. graduates hired in industry, business, and government.
5. To assist the department in interactions with the Dean, interactions with the University administration, appropriate fund-raising, and promotional activities.
6. To assist the department in providing public service to local and national community.

The IAB meets at least once a year. Providing and informing scientific programs in postgraduate and under graduate studies about the needs and requirements of the labor market, and thus benefiting the programs in improving and developing programs in order to suit the labor market. The chemical engineering program advisory committee met and discussed some of the academic accreditation requirements of the NCAAA requirements.