Smart and Sustainable Cities King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals

Overview

Thus, Smart city planners utilize recent technology such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) to develop innovative solutions by moving systematically through a process involving defining goals, analyzing real-time data and information, formulating plans, setting priorities, and designing programs of action. The Smart and Sustainable Cities program from King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals helps each student to acquire an interdisciplinary education that leads to an understanding of the physical environment and its economic, social, and environmental factors, with their problems and potentialities to improve the quality of life in cities and achieve Vision 2030.

Learning objectives

The educational objectives of the program are for the graduates to attain the following within a few years of graduation:

• Attain employment in governmental or private sectors that are dealing with smart and sustainable cities and communities, or engage in entrepreneurship.

• Advance their careers by demonstrating leadership and interpersonal skills including teamwork and communication skills.

• Pursue their professional development in the area of smart technologies and sustainability aspects in cities through self-learning or pursue advanced degrees.

• Produce specialized urban planning expertise through which advanced smart technologies and their applications can be enhanced, transferred, and utilized in the Kingdom and possibly elsewhere.

• Produce researchers who can investigate problems in different application domains and creatively develop, and evaluate planning solutions.