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Mr Mohammed Saud P.P.

Senior Lecturer

Teaching and Assessment Counselling Teaching of Economics Education and Teaching Methodology Entrepreneurship Education Soft Skills Teaching International Business strategy, Management Finance Management

Research Interests

Entrepreneurship Employability Teaching/Learning/Assessment

Key Achievements in Teaching and Research

  • Organization: Caledonian College of Engineering, Oman
    Description: Was placed as the team leader of Curriculum Development WorkIing Group (CDWG)which was looking in to the complete revision of EPD curriculum.
    Outcome: EPD syllabus completely revised for next 5 yeras
    Date: 25/01/2009 - 21/03/2009
  • Organization: Caledonian College of Engineering, Oman
    Description: Member, Teams under AD-PD leadership for the preparation of the college Quality Audit Portfolio
    Outcome: Prepared the Student Support Services section using ADRI Approah
    Date: 07/02/2009 - 14/09/2014
  • Organization: Caledonian College of Engineering, Oman
    Description: CCE Graduation award ceremony duty has been provided in the area of VIP Seating since 2009, and was in the team of coordinating video & photography and post-graduation student photographs
    Outcome: The role was sincerely carried, and gave constructive feedback to Ms. Jenny Walker on the issues the team faced and the ways the function can be improved
    Date: 21/09/2009 - 04/12/2017
  • Organization: Caledonian College of Engineering, Oman
    Description: Department Plagiarism counsellor
    Outcome: Able to convince the staff and students to follow ethical standards in preparing and submitting courseworks.
    Date: 20/02/2010 - 02/02/2018
  • Organization: Caledonian College of Engineering, Oman
    Description: Proposed the title 'Crystal Anniversary' for CCE's 15th anniversary. This was with the purpose of giving CCE an edge towards Marketing value
    Outcome: The proposal was welcomed by Ms. Jenny Walker, the the Associate Dean for Professional Development. However it was not incorporated as the logo and other marketing materials have already been made/prepared.
    Date: 16/10/2011 - 20/10/2011
  • Organization: Caledonian College of Engineering, Oman
    Description: The college has asked each department, to design logos for each department as part of the college strategic plan forward and in line with the college vision and mission, and values.
    Outcome: I have designed a logo and was proposed before the EPD team and on approval forwarded to HoD for approval which was approved and is in use still.
    Date: 09/09/2012 - 02/02/2018
  • Organization: Caledonian College of Engineering, Oman
    Description: One of the members to coordinate EPDs CV surgery and mock interview sessions in the annual CCE Career Fair
    Outcome: So many CVs of CCE and other students were verified and recommended for improvement
    Date: 07/03/2015 - 02/02/2018
  • Organization: Caledonian College of Engineering, Oman
    Description: Lead, Internal Scrutiny Committee for looking into the quality procedures in the assessment process of EPD Module courseworks
    Outcome: Brought the team to do assessment procedeures as much meticulously as possibe
    Date: 12/09/2015 - 02/02/2018
  • Organization: Caledonian College of Engineering, Oman
    Description: Member, CBART committee in CCE to look into the authenticity of leave documents submitted by students who applies to wwrite mid replacement examination
    Outcome: Verified and reported many of the leave claims of students
    Date: 19/09/2015 - 03/02/2018
  • Organization: Caledonian College of Engineering, Oman
    Description: The 4th IOP programme for exiting Diploma students gave rich learning experience to diploma holders with alumni talks, corporate guest sessions, industry visits, self marketing toll sessions, reflections, discussions, presentations and feed back.
    Outcome: Successful completion of their Diploma, job/training promises by employers, networking in the job market,employer expectations terms of skills and competencies,documentation of their visit information,reflection ability,mastering self marketing tools,tackling key uncommon interview questions asked world wide, skill of preparing Task Portfolios, Interview portfoio.
    Date: 19/06/2016 - 24/01/2018
  • Organization: Caledonian College of Engineering, Oman
    Description: Delivered session on career planning and self marketing tools to the Finishing Schoolparticipants
    Outcome: Students were able to be ready to meet job market requiremnts by learning the self marketing tools like how to prepare a professional, winning CV, Cover Letter, How to respond to world's most common/uncommon interview questions, and how to deliver a thumping elevator pitch/personal commercial.
    Date: 23/08/2016 - 23/08/2016
  • Organization: Caledonian College of Engineering, Oman
    Description: planned, developed, updated, taught the colleagues on financial projections/basic business accounting templates and model answers to follow
    Outcome: students and staff could realistical, critically look at the business ideas students give as major coursework. this simplifies the understanding and viability of their business ideas. this has been wholeheartedly welcomed by the EPD team.
    Date: 31/08/2016 - 30/01/2018
  • Organization: Caledonian College of Engineering, Oman
    Description: Developed Templates and Delivered workshop for EPD Staff on Financial Projections, and Sample Solution formats for all these templates in Entrepreneurship, creativity and Innovation module of EPD Department.
    Outcome: This has made the concept, calculations, and the relevance and viability of the proposed business, and the coursework of business plan relevant and viable to the students, staff and assessors. This was well apploaded by the Department.
    Date: 31/10/2016 - 05/11/2016
  • Organization: Caledonian College of Engineering, Oman
    Description: We have conducted a 2 hour workshop for students on the topic "Stress Management" before the start of Endterm and Final Examinations
    Outcome: The studets were able to identify the ways and means of approaching their examination preparation, and writing in a more organised and planned way.
    Date: 12/12/2016 - 12/12/2016
  • Organization: Caledonian College of Engineering, Oman
    Description: One of the 7 members in the team which was given the duty to review the ABET compliance Programme documents prepared for New University programmes of CCE.
    Outcome: The team under the coordinatorship of Dr. Dinesh Krishna have convened several sittings, and reviewd individually all the assigned UG and PG programme documents of the new university programmes. The teams has given its feedback to the Chair, and was projected and discussed, and finally submitted an interim report and a final report to the Dean for follow up.
    Date: 12/11/2017 - 13/12/2017
  • Organization: Caledonian College of Engineering, Oman
    Description: Now developing a concise abridged selected sessions and complete financial projections for the the new USC module on Innovation and Entrepreneurship
    Outcome: User friendly and at the same time challenging worksheets and templates for students regarding the finacial aspect of their business including start up cost
    Date: 31/12/2017 - 02/02/2018
  • Organization: National University of Science and Technology, Oman
    Description: We as a team were asked to contribute to the NU Strategic Planning part of 'Operational Plan - Integrate policies and procedures of NU Academic Advisory System through a revisit of current practices(CoE)' by the then AVC Dr Mubarak Pasha. The task was to review and modify the procedures of the current academic advisory system, by reflecting upon our practices and researching upon the best practices across the globe, as it has been mentioned that the procedures have been as old as 2012. Dr Moammer Al Tubi was the Team Lead. The task has been equally divided among team members and my role was to refer to and closely research on the CCE ISA document, and find out about the academic advisory systems by collecting/analyzing any feedback or inputs that support the status of this task.
    Outcome: My task was successfully completed and I submitted my report on 1st May 2020 to the team lead Dr Moammer Al Tubi who said it was meticulously done. Finally the team submitted its final report to the University on 5th May 2020, and we were so proud in knowing that we were the first team to submit the report, without compromising on the breadth, depth and quality of the report.
    Date: 07/04/2020 - 04/05/2020

Skills

Teaching curriculum and session development Drafting and constructing assessment tools like question papers, marking schemes, coursework rubrics, guidelines. Document evaluation and feedback counselling Editing public speaking interpersonal relations communication Teamwork Publication Research

Responsibilities

Teaching, Assessment and Feedback Session Development Module Leadership Plagiarism Counselling Industry Orientation Programme (IOP) Coordination ISC PDH Department Lead Career Fair PDH Department Lead Graduation Ceremony Duty Academic & Professional Standards Committee (APSC) Member Quality Assurance & Enhancement Committee (QAEC) Member Industry Advisory & Practices Committe (IAPC) Member