JEDDAH: Over 50 percent of engineering students of Saudi universities were trained on Haram expansion projects in the last five years, an official of the Umm Al-Qura University panel has said.
“The university’s technical committee on Mataf expansion started the training programs in 2010 and 30 students in Umm Al-Qura University,” Wael Halabi, a member of the committee was quoted as saying by local media.
“The year 2011 saw the number of students increasing to 72 at Umm Al-Qura and King Abdulaziz universities. By 2015, the number of trainees on Haram projects from 15 Saudi universities increased to 561 and the figure will increase from 16 universities in 2016,” he said.
The aim of the training is to implement the philosophy of Umm Al-Qura University and give the students practical experience in Haram and Mataf expansion works.
These two projects are strategic in the Kingdom and help students to meet well-known engineers from different countries. The students are also supervised by the technical committee engineers.
Amr Nasrallah, director of the office of the committee’s project management, told local media that he saw a great potential in Saudi engineers and their concern to apply safety, which will certainly give them the opportunity to work for big projects in other parts of the Kingdom.
50% of engineering students trained on Haram projects
50% of engineering students trained on Haram projects
