Page 35 - ver3

• The program should have sufficient and independent financial funding to achieve its

mission and objectives.

• Encourage faculty members to publish more research articles to impacted journals and
international conferences.

• More support for faculty, staff, and students' engagement in the planning, quality

assurance, and decision-making processes, which is reflected in the program's learning
outcomes.

• More intellectual property rights legislation should be activated to protect the rights of

writers and owners of ideas in Mechanical engineering program.

Action recommendations:

• Updating the website to provide reliable and publicly disclosed information to the

community about the program description, performance, and achievements that meet the

stakeholders’ needs. (Action Annex S1.a).
• The recruitment faculty members (professors and associate professor) to reduce the

student-to-faculty ratio and achieve the desired benchmark of 13:1. (Action Annex S1.b).

• Re-external benchmarking of KPIs with academic programs, rather than institutional

comparison. (Action Annex S1.c).
• Activating more a long-term community partnership long term plan to show its role and

clearly evaluate the achievement of the related KPIs by providing internal and external

benchmarks comparison analysis.
• Activating plagiarism policy to cover detection methods and consequences of plagiarism

for research and student assessment.

• More support for faculty, staff, and students' engagement in the planning, quality

assurance, and decision-making processes, which is reflected in the program's learning

outcomes.

35