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Institutional Review Panel

Caledonian College of Engineering, Quality Audit, March 2010

Dr. Ahmed Al Ghassani

Dr Ahmed Al Ghassani obtained a BEng Degree in Civil Engineering from Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) in 1993. He worked with Dhofar Municipality as Civil Engineer then Quantity Surveyor for a few years during which he was involved in several prestigious projects. In 1997 he took up the post as an Assistant Lecturer in Salalah College of Technology. This was followed by a postgraduate program leading to an MSc in Structural Engineering at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) in UK (1998-1999). He joined Loughborough University (UK) to do his PhD on Improving the Structural Design Process using Knowledge Management in June 2000, after receiving a scholarship funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC, UK)). He was awarded a PhD degree in May 2003 and later in 2004, he worked as Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs in Al Musana College of Technology. In 2005, he was appointed as the Dean of Nizwa College of Technology. Dr Al Ghassani has published more than twenty papers in internationally refereed journals and conference proceedings. He is also member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and Oman Society of Engineers (OSE).

Prof. Hassan B. Diab

Hassan B. Diab received his BSc in Communications Engineering in 1981, his MSc in Systems Engineering in 1982, and his PhD in Computer Engineering in 1985. He is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, American University of Beirut (AUB), Lebanon and has over 23 years of experience. He has 117 publications in internationally refereed journals and conferences. His research interests include cryptography on high performance computer systems, modeling and simulation of parallel processing systems, embedded systems, reconfigurable computing, simulation of parallel applications, and the application of simulation for engineering education. He has served as member on 40 organizing committees of international conferences and refereed over 300 papers for over 50 different international journals and conferences as well as acting as an external referee for many promotion applications and research proposals. He served as the Associate Editor of the SIMULATION Journal, Transactions of The Society for Modeling and Simulation International, USA. From 2005 – 2006, he was a member of the Scientific Research Council of the Sultanate of Oman. Professor Diab received 13 international and regional awards including the Fulbright Research Award (1988), and the 1992 Young Arab Scientists Shuman prize in Engineering. He was seconded by AUB to serve as Dean of the College of Engineering and Acting President of Dhofar University, Oman (2004 –2005), and later as Founding President and Acting Dean of the College of Engineering (2005 – 2006). Effective October 2006, he was appointed as Vice President for Regional External Programs at AUB. He is a Founding Member of the first Arab Computer Society established in 2001 as well as the Founding Member of the IEEE Student Branch at AUB in 1997. Professor Diab is a Fellow in the IEE and the IEAust, as well as a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Prof. Mehmet Hastaoglu

Professor Hastaoglu received a BSc from Bogazici University and MSc and PhD from SUNY/Buffalo in Chemical Engineering in 1972, 1974 and 1977 respectively. He has industrial experience working in specialty paints, plastics, construction and chemical companies in Turkey and Canada either as an engineer, partner or technical manager. He has worked at the Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Center and the TURKSAT company. However his main area of work has been in education, in departments of Chemical / Petroleum Engineering and Energy Systems at Gebze Institute of Technology, Sultan Qaboos University, UAE University, KFUPM in Saudi Arabia, and the University of Calgary. His research activities are mainly in high temperature kinetics, moving boundary problems, reactor design and recently methane conversion. He has been active in accreditation and thus far the departments he has worked in which have applied to ABET have been accredited. He has been active in developing curricula, departments and educational assessment tools which have included an integrated metric measurement of success in meeting the objectives or outcomes of a course or a whole department. He was a certified APEGGA engineer in Alberta, Canada. Currently he works as a Professor and Vice Dean in the Department of Chemical Engineering of Gebze Institute of Technology, Kocaeli, Turkey.

Prof. Barbara Stauble

Prof. Barbara Stauble is Deputy-Rector for Academic Affairs at the German University of Technology in Oman, a private university affiliated with RWTH Aachen University in Germany. Prior to taking up this position, she worked as Inaugural Director of Research & Development and as acting Dean at Curtin University of Technology, Sarawak Campus (Malaysia). An experienced academic, Prof. Stauble has also held positions as Associate Professor in Physics at the National University in Colombia and post-doctoral researcher at the Free University in Amsterdam and the Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands. Barbara Stauble holds an MSc and a PhD in Physics (both with distinctions) from the University of Zurich, Switzerland. She has published over 30 scholarly articles, including four with Nobel Laureate K.A. Müller, and is co-editor of Transforming Knowledge into Wisdom: Holistic Approaches to Teaching and Learning, published by the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA). She has reviewed research proposals for the Colombian Research Foundation COLCIENCIAS and chaired or co-chaired the organising committees for various conferences, including the 2004 Annual International HERDSA conference. During her career, Prof. Stauble has been conferred a number of awards such as the Vice-Chancellor Award for Excellence and Innovation in Teaching (2004), and the Vice-Chancellor Award for Excellence (2004). As an academic consultant, Prof. Barbara Stauble has provided training and advisory services to a variety of clients including Shell Malaysia, Shell International Exploration and Production (The Netherlands), the Ministry of Higher Education of the Sultanate of Oman, and RWTH Aachen University (Germany).

Prof. Jan Thomas

Jan Thomas is currently Deputy Vice Chancellor Research and Quality and Deputy Vice Chancellor Fremantle at the University of Notre Dame Australia. She has organizational responsibility for research, quality assurance and academic development across its campuses in Sydney, Fremantle and Broome in the remote Kimberley region of WA. She leads the original and largest campus of UNDA in the historic port of Fremantle in Western Australia. Prior to UNDA, she was Deputy Vice Chancellor Academic at Murdoch University for seven years. Her portfolio included Indigenous education, academic policy, academic planning, student supports, student services, student liaison and administration, library services, social justice; quality assurance, flexible delivery, staff development. From 2009 Jan’s portfolio also included both domestic and international recruitment and organisational capability. Jan’s background is in Veterinary Science where she taught and researched in the area of Veterinary Pathology. Having been nominated for, and winning numerous university and national awards for her teaching and for equity provision, Jan has also received international recognition for innovative curriculum design in Veterinary Science. In 1999 she was awarded the cross-sectorial Catherine McAuley Award for Leadership and in 2008 was a finalist in the Western Australian Women of Influence Award. A Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a Member of the Australian College of Veterinary Scientists, Jan has also been a Member of the governing Board of MercyCare Ltd since 1999. She participates nationally on a range of national working groups and committees. Jan has been an honorary auditor for the Australian Universities Quality Agency since 2004 and has chaired several audits for AUQA during that time. Jan is an external international reviewer for the Oman Accreditation Council, and an auditor for the Quality Assurance Council, Hong Kong, and has chaired audits for both agencies.