Official government website of the Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 
Qassim University, represented by the College of Engineering, signed a cooperation agreement with Saudi Telecommunications Company (STC) in Qassim at the college headquarters yesterday.
The agreement, signed by the Dean of the College, Dr. Fahad bin Abdul Rahman Al Mufadhi, and the Director of STC in Qassim, Dr. Mohammed bin Sulaiman Al Nasser, aims to cooperate between the two sides in many areas, foremost among which is the focus on graduation projects that address issues of common interest in the field of electronics and communications engineering, and cooperation in the fields of scientific research specialized in electronics and communications engineering, in addition to the use of faculty members specialized in technical consultations and the promotion of the cooperative training program for students of the Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering at the university.
During the meeting, the two sides discussed the importance of community partnership between the public and private sectors and what can be achieved at the level of society and university students in particular.
For his part, the Vice Dean of the College of Engineering, Dr. Salim Saleh Al-Salim, stressed that the MoU is an initiative from the College of Engineering at the university and STC in the region, through which we seek to connect, train and qualify the student for the labor market and prepare him to engage in it by informing and training him on the latest technologies used in the labor market and to improve the educational environment for college students and develop it to be a stimulating environment for innovation and creativity, and these main objectives are among the most prominent strategies of the Kingdom Vision 2030 and what came out of it, the National Transformation Program 2020. In addition to these goals, there are other equally important goals, such as supporting faculty members and encouraging them to conduct scientific research that focuses on the latest technologies used by telecommunications companies in their field.
He pointed out that the cooperation between the two sides has been ongoing for the past period, as the company annually conducts cooperative training for a number of engineering students and periodically receives college students during field visits.