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Department of Computing

Department of Computing

The department offers Undergraduate and Postgraduate programmes, along with research activities. The principal strengths of the department lie in its faculty and the facilities available for instructional and investigative purposes. Additionally, the department continually strives to update its present programmes of study in order to equip its graduates for positions in the IT industry located in the region and beyond. By providing strong scientific and theoretical foundations of the discipline, it aims to ensure a successful place in the professional field for its graduates.

The faculty members possess the required qualifications, teaching experience and in-depth knowledge of their specialization. Starting with just four, the department now has more than 55 highly qualified faculty members. They innovatively bring in their professional experience, expertise, and skills to the classroom and contribute to the field by presenting and publishing their research work in reputed journals/ conferences/books.

The department is expanding its forte and growing incapacity to enter a different avenue of education technology. Today, as the industry grows along with the nation, the need for emerging technologies is simply inevitable. Moreover, improvements in the current technologies are extremely essential. The modern state-of-the-art facilities provide a very conducive atmosphere for teaching, learning and all-round development of the students.

Goals/Objectives

The objective of the department is to produce qualified specialists who can find employment in the region and beyond. The department aims to produce specialists of international standards in the field of computing, with the capacity to support global initiatives to bridge the digital divide.

 

Department of Computing at MEC offers the following programmes:

 

 

 

 

The department have 12 computer laboratories equipped with all necessary software facilitates the learning process:

  • Free Open Source Lab
  • Multimedia Studio
  • Three Software Labs
  • Two Project Labs
  • Network Lab
  • Multimedia Lab
  • Database Lab
  • Hardware Lab
  • Network Security Lab

The department offers peer-tutoring services, where outstanding students are given an opportunity to help their peers in laboratory classes.

 

 

 

  1. Events
  • Five faculty members from the department won the Best Innovative Practices in Teaching/Learning Award from the institution.
  • More than 30 workshops for students per semester to develop their skills.
  • Implementing streaming media server to facilitate flip learning.
  • EC Council: 64 students got scholarships, of which 62 completed the course.
  • 50 students completed CompTIA training and Certification.
  • 50 students were involved in Microsoft training and certification.
  • 58 Students from the department participated and presented their papers at MEC Student Conference held during May 2017.
  • Organised 3 workshops for IT KIDS Training in Coordination with ITA on different themes (Welcome to the world of Programming, Programming for fun, PC Assembling) in July 2017.
  • IEEE membership for Faculty and Students.
  • More than 20 papers published in Journal and Conferences in the first half of the academic year.
  • 6 Industry visits every year.
  • 8 Programs with Advisory Board meetings with Alumni Students and guests from Industry every year.
  1. Innovative Teaching & Learning
  • PG students have published papers in many International Conferences and journals.
  • The department’s achievements in the academic year 2016-17 :
  • A computing student has won a Gold Medal in ‘The 6th International salon of art Photography CACAK’ held in Serbia.
  • A computing student has won a bronze medal in an international photography competition called ‘SQUARE’.
  • More than 100 students have successfully completed CISCO Training under CISCO network academy programs.
  • One student has successfully completed CCNP professional certification course.
  • 11 students have successfully completed Oracle OCA Certifications.
  • About 20 faculty members have completed PG Cert Higher Education Professional Practice from Coventry University, UK.
  • Many Faculty Research Papers have been selected and shortlisted for international conferences and publications.

3. Research and Consultancy

  • Mobile Application Development
  • CISCO
  • LINUX LPI
  • Intellectual Property Right (IPR)
  • Business Automation and Information Systems Development
  • PMP Professional Practices- Project Consultancy
  • Project Consultancy
  • Digital Filmmaking
  • 3D Modeling and Animation
  • Graphic design for print media
  • Technology in teaching and learning in higher education
  • Java training course
  • Project Management: Training and Consultancy - PM Tools

 

 

The department has 3 teams for research activities:

  • Network and Application
    • Security
    • Mobile Networking
    • Energy and Networking
    • Data Center Networking
    • Software defined Networking
    • Cloud computing
    • Infrastructure
    • Network dependability
    • Network advanced technology
    • Next Generation Internet
    • Wireless networking
  • Image Processing and Multimedia
    • Analysis and geometric modeling for 3D objects
    • Simulation, realistic rendering and augmented reality
    • Information extraction and object recognition
    • Classification
    • Image processing
    • Signal processing
    • Compression
    • Indexation
  • Information Theory and Application
    • Data Mining
    • Big Data
    • Knowledge discovery
    • Data and services engineering
    • KDD
    • Internet of Thing
    • Cloud computing
  1. Dr. Mounir Dhibi, HoD. Office IBK104. Email: mdhibi@mec.edu.om Contact number: 24531463
  2. Mohamed Abdul Azeem, Assistant HoD. Office: IBK Staff Room. Email: mabdulazeem@mec.edu.om Contact number: 24531460
  3.  Khadija Al Farei, Quality Co-ordinator,  Email: kalfarei@mec.edu.om Contact number: 24531460