Who is WEP for?
WEP is open to all KAUST faculty, students, staff and community members. In addition, KAUST Industrial Partners, WEP Sponsors, Undergraduates from around the world (through Undergraduate Poster Competition) and In-Kingdom students from leading universities in Saudi Arabia are invited to join through a specific program.
How to Attend WEP?
- All those who are eligible must ‘Join this Community’ on Acadox.
- Upon viewing the schedule, you will see events are color coded into different categories.
- Credited events can be clearly seen, so students can prioritize these.
- Some events are for the whole community and others have limited seats and a pre-selection process.
- Browse the schedule and select the events you wish to attend and register for them. Prior registration is mandatory; you MUST register for an event on Acadox in order to be able to attend it.
Rules for KAUST Students
- All students must be on campus for the duration of the WEP.
- It is mandatory for KAUST students to register for WEP once during their studies.
- Students must earn 40 credits and attend a minimum of 6 Keynote Lectures during one WEP.
- Credited events include Academic, Skills, Entrepreneurship and Keynote Lectures and these are clearly identified on the schedule.
- Should an event be cancelled, students must make every effort to register for an alternative event.
- Should an event be cancelled at short notice (less than 7 days before event), students must still make every effort to register for an alternative event but will be awarded the credits for the cancelled event.
In Collaboration
We would like to thank KAUST Students, Faculty, Community Members, Alumni and Industrial Partners who submit proposals each year to create WEP.
We would also like to thank the WEP Review Committee, (chaired by Professor William Roberts) which considers the scientific and technological aspects of the proposals, as well as their enriching and inspiring nature and selects events for the program.
Many KAUST departments support WEP and without their work we would not be able to bring you WEP, thank you!
In addition our Sponsors generously support WEP and we owe them a huge gratitude.
Your support and contribution makes WEP what it is!
Edible Botanical Installations - Workshop
Location: Gardening & Sanitation Building, CSOB
LOCATION: Gardening & Sanitation Building, CSOB A bus will depart from outside Building 16 at 2:40 p.m. to take participants to the Gardening and Sanitation Building, CSOB. Pyrus is a botanical star ... more
Edible Botanical Installations - Workshop
Location: Gardening & Sanitation Building, CSOB
LOCATION: Gardening & Sanitation Building, CSOB A bus will depart from outside Building 16 at 2:40 p.m. to take participants to the Gardening and Sanitation Building, CSOB. Pyrus is a botanical star ... more
KAUST/UC Berkeley Entrepreneurship Certified Program
Location: Spine Auditorium Between Bldgs. 2 & 3, Bldg 3, Rooms 5205, 5208, 5209, 5211, 5216, 5218, 5220, 5222
LOCATION: Spine Auditorium Between Bldgs. 2 & 3, Bldg 3, Rooms 5205, 5208, 5209, 5211, 5216, 5218, 5220, 5222 KAUST and UC Berkeley co-branded 10-day fast track entrepreneurship program. To attend t ... more
KAUST/UC Berkeley Entrepreneurship Certified Program
Location: Spine Auditorium Between B
LOCATION: Spine Auditorium Between Bldgs. 2 & 3, Bldg 3, Rooms 5205, 5208, 5209, 5211, 5216, 5218, 5220, 5222 KAUST and UC Berkeley co-branded 10-day fast track entrepreneurship program. To attend t ... more
The workshop will be composed of several segments of presentations and interactive workshops to cover a number of sustainable and organic practices and principles for the home garden. We will begin w ... more
The hidden meanings behind the everyday of meals - Food Archaeology Workshop
Location: Bldg. 9 Lecture Hall 2325
Food Archaeology is a recent research domain that aims to reconstruct the diet of past populations. It is a multidisciplinary discipline that is supported by various scientific studies: food remains, ... more
Future Foods Round Table - Brown Bag Lecture Series
Location: Bldg. 9 Lecture Hall I# 2322
In an uncertain future regarding food security, we need to start getting creative and looking ahead to alternative food sources. This event will include a round table symposium discussing the future o ... more
What is WEPs greatest natural resource? The people! WEP is an opportunity to network. Make the most of this natural resource by talking to some of the most experienced, innovative, passionate people ... more
What is WEPs greatest natural resource? The people! WEP is an opportunity to network. Make the most of this natural resource by talking to some of the most experienced, innovative, passionate people ... more
Analysis of processed food and biofuels - Using modern mass spectrometry methods
Location: Bldg. 9 Lecture Hall 2322/B
Thermally processed food and biofuels obtained from thermal treatment of biomass are chemically remarkably similar. In both materials primary and secondary metabolites of plant or microbial origin inc ... more
Chebfun: Numerical computing with functions
Location: Library, Computer Lab
Chebfun is a collection of algorithms and an open-source software system in object-oriented MATLAB which extends familiar powerful methods of numerical computation involving numbers to continuous or p ... more
Distributed Strategic Learning
Location: Spine Auditorium B/W Bldg 4
LOCATION: Spine Auditorium B/W Bldg 4 & 5 Recently, there has been extensive research that employs distributed optimization, learning in games, and distributed control to model and analyze the perfor ... more
How to Build a Simple Radar (From Theory to Practical Design) - Workshop
Location: Bldg 9. Lab # 4128
Radar stands for Radio Detection and Ranging, and it is one of the inventions that changed the world. Radar transmits radio frequency (RF) waves into the environment and receives reflected signals fr ... more
Lab to Film: Story- Telling in Science
Location: Bldg. 9 Classroom # 4125
Tell me a fact and I’ll learn. Tell me a truth and I’ll believe. Tell me a story and I’ll remember it forever. - Gail Matthews-DeNatale Science and technology have infinite potential for solving loca ... more
Novel Materials and Devices for Millimeter-wave and THz Applications
Location: BLdg. 9 Classroom #4222
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What to do with my PhD? - How to get that job
Location: Bldg 9. Lecture Hall 2325
How to get that job: shifting gears from academia to a non-academic environment. In line with KAUST’s mission to support knowledge-based economic diversification and creating a “brain- gain” effect b ... more
Angklung is a traditional Indonesian musical instrument made of bamboo. In each piece, there are two tubes attached to a frame, and each has a particular pitch. Each performer in an Angklung ensemble ... more
Drawing & Painting Workshops with TANG
Location: Discovery Square Multi-purpose Room
LOCATION: D-Square Multi-purpose Room A 3-day workshop offered to the entire KAUST community on the theme of Trees and Forests. 14 Jan: Walking Tour of KAUST campus to observe, take photos & sketch. ... more
This course is designed for students with either no prior knowledge of Arabic or some limited experience of studying the language. The course will introduce you to simple listening, speaking, reading ... more
The Greenhouse of Center for Desert Agriculture at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology has a built-in area of 1600 m2 , divided into head house (500 m2) and plants growing area (1100 m2 ... more
Keynote Lecture - Challenges for Environment: Feeding 9 Billion People in 2050?
Location: Bldg 20 Auditorium
ls the world headed toward a major food crisis? After several decades of seeming indifference, public opinion is slowly awakening to the fact that a daunting task lies ahead. If a global populati ... more
