International Maritime College Oman, Institutional Standards Assessment, Jan 2018
 
Prof. Abdullah Al-Badi
 
Abdullah Al-Badi obtained the B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from SQU, Oman, in 1991. He received the degree of M.Sc. and Ph.D from UMIST, UK, in 1993 and 1998, respectively. He has published more than 100 papers in many well-known international journals and proceedings of refereed international conferences. He carried out several projects on the effects of AC interference on pipelines, renewable energy and electrical machines. He is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical Engineering and Electronics, IEEE, USA and a consultant in Oman Society of Engineers. He is member of editorial board of two international journals and reviewer of several international journals. He is IEEE program evaluator for Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). In 2009 he was appointed as a Dean for the Deanship of Admissions and Registration in Sultan Qaboos University. He is currently the Dean of the College of Engineering in SQU and Professor in Electrical & Computer Engineering Department.
 
Prof. Herman Vermaak
 

Herman Vermaak is a Professor in the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering at the Central University of Technology, Free State. He obtained his PhD in Electrical Engineering at the University of Twente in the Netherlands in 2005. He has more than ten years’ experience in the manufacturing and assembly industry. He holds a professorship in Electrical Engineering and has more than twenty year’s academic experience which included a period of being Dean of the Faculty for Engineering and Information Technology. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a registered Engineer with the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA). He is currently the Research Leader of the Research Unit in Evolvable and Manumation Systems (RGEMS) and has supervised more than twenty-five completed post-graduate studies and is currently supervising twelve post-graduate students. He also supervised fourteen international students with their bachelors’ projects and two for masters’ projects. Prof Vermaak has published twenty-eight papers in journals and thirty-five papers in conference proceedings. He contributed four chapters to books as well as presenting forty-seven papers at conferences of which twenty-eight were at international conferences. He has receive external funding for research projects of more than three million rand. His research interests are in Automation, Robotics, Machine Vision and Renewable Energy. Prof Vermaak has done five international reviews of engineering programs as well as more than twenty national reviews of engineering programs. He is very much involved with the design and development of engineering programmes. He is currently the deputy-chair of the Technology Program Accreditation Committee of ECSA.

 
Prof. Jan Thomas
 
Professor Jan Thomas has been Vice-Chancellor of Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa Massey University in Aotearoa New Zealand since 2017. Prior to this Professor Thomas served as Vice-Chancellor and President at the University of Southern Queensland in Australia. She has held various senior executive positions at Murdoch University and the University of Notre Dame Australia. She has a PhD in Veterinary Science from Murdoch University and has taught, researched and published in Veterinary Pathology. 

Globally, Professor Thomas holds various senior positions, including: External Reviewer and Quality Auditor for the Oman Authority for Academic Accreditation and Quality Assurance for Education; Chair of the Quality Assurance Council Hong Kong; Member of the University Grants Committee Hong Kong; and Convenor of the Bachelor Veterinary Medicine Task Force for University Grants Committee Hong Kong.

She recently completed a term as Chair of Universities New Zealand, and in late 2022 became the Association for Tertiary Education Management Aotearoa New Zealand Patron. 

Professor Thomas believes strongly in building a university that is Te Tiriti-led. As part of her personal commitment to achieving that ambition, she has been learning te reo Māori since arriving in Aotearoa New Zealand, completing te reo Māori to level 5 at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa. She’s currently studying towards a Bachelor of Arts in Māori Knowledge.

 
Prof John Anthony Cooke
 
Professor Cooke obtained his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and a graduate qualification in Education from the University of Birmingham. He has held academic posts at universities in England, South Africa and Botswana and has an extensive track record of academic leadership, strategic and operational management, and quality management in Higher Education In 1992 he became Professor of Environmental Biology and Head of Department of Biological Sciences at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. In 2003 he was elected Dean of the Faculty of Science and a Senior Professor.  In 2005 he became the Dean of Science and Agriculture: a large faculty which had over 300 academic staff and 5000 students. From 2009 until 2017 he was the founding Dean of Sciences at the Botswana International University for Science and Technology where he also held the positions of Acting Deputy Vice Chancellor and Acting Vice Chancellor. Professor Cooke has published original research in applied environmental biology with over 2000 citations, and consulted for industry. He has been an expert referee for the biological and environmental sciences for many international journals and research grant awarding bodies. He has played a significant role in learning programme development and accreditation, education policy formulation and university audits. He has served on many national bodies including for: the South African Council for Higher Education; the South African Qualifications Authority; the Botswana Qualifications Authority; and the Botswana Human Resource Development Council. He currently is a Professor Emeritus at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. 
 
Dr. Said Kashoob
 
Dr. Said Masoud Kashoob holds the position of Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs at AL Musanna College of Technology. Prior to joining AL Musanna, Dr. Said was the head of quality assurance at Salalah College of Technology where he had previously served as the head of the educational technology centre. Dr. said`s research work has been published in the proceedings of several prestigious conferences and journals. He is a recipient of the Fulbright foreign scholarship program and of the Ministry of Higher Education scholarship program. Dr. Said holds a PhD in computer engineering from Texas A&M University, a Masters in computer science from the Royal Institute of Technology, and a Bachelor in computer engineering, from Iowa State University.