WEP2024 Credit Requirements

CREDIT REQUIREMENTS - (This only applies to KAUST students)

The 2024 Winter Enrichment Program at KAUST (WEP) will run from January 7 to 18 under the theme ‘Digital Adventure.’   Professor Xin Gao is the Chair, and Professor Prof. Michael Berumen is the co-Chair.

 

DIGITAL ADVENTURE – RIDE TO THE FUTURE

We stand on the threshold of an era of perhaps the most rapid change in human history, with artificial intelligence the keystone in developing smart cities, smart health, quantum computing, virtual reality, the metaverse, and more. 

 

WEP 2024 will explore this AI-infused future across four interrelated zones: health and wellness, environment, energy, and economics of the future. How are the ambitions of AI-empowered smart health, smart treatment, diagnosis, prognosis, and drug development being realized?   What support can AI provide in tackling environmental challenges? How will the economics of the future manifest themselves, and what are their likely impacts? Will our energy demands be eased by the application of AI? And alongside this, how do we ensure AI is the stuff of dreams, not nightmares?

 

Each year, WEP invites experts worldwide to KAUST to share their insights, their journey of discovery, and their hopes for the future. WEP 2024 invites you to join the ride to the future as it embarks on the Digital Adventure!

WHO CAN ATTEND WEP FOR CREDITS?   

  • All master students must register and attend WEP 2024 for credits. 

  • Ph.D. students must attend WEP for credits once during their studies at KAUST. If you are a Ph.D. student graduating in 2024 who has not taken WEP yet, you must take WEP 2024 to fulfill your graduation requirements.

  • Total attendance to WEP is required. Participation cannot be split into different years. 

 

MAKE SURE YOU REGISTER FOR A TOTAL OF 30 CREDITS

20 MANDATORY CREDITS

  • 1 credit – Opening event

  • 8 credits – Keynote Lectures

  • 7 credits – Distinguished Lectures

  • 2 credits-Panel Discussion

  • 2 credits-Final Gala

10 ELECTIVE CREDITS

These are obtained by attending the following

  1. Selection of workshops
  2. A selection of Films or other credited activities.

Workshops

Credits

Duration

1 session  

2 sessions  

3 sessions  

4 sessions  

5 sessions  

6 sessions  

2 hours

4

6

8

10

12

14

3 hours

5

7

9

11

13

15

4 hours

6

8

10

12

14

16

*Starts with 4 credits; every additional session adds 2 credits. Every additional hour adds 1 credit

 

 

IMPORTANT NOTES FOR WEP2024 STUDENTS

  • All students (MS & Ph.D.) participate in WEP for credit once during their studies at KAUST.

  • Credits must be earned during a single WEP program.

  • Some workshops may require attendance at more than one session. These sessions must be attended in full to obtain credit.

  • If a session is canceled, an email announcement will be sent to enrolled participants regarding event replacement.

  • Credit attendance will be confirmed by QR scanning before the session starts.

  • If you decide not to attend a session you have registered for, visit the session listing online and unregister.

 

EVENT TIMES AND LOCATIONS
Please check your schedule, as session times and locations may have changed. If you can no longer attend an event, check your schedule and de-register so other people can attend the event.

 

PUNCTUALITY

Make sure you arrive 10 minutes before all keynote lectures and all other lectures and workshops. This is to make sure your registration is recorded for credit purposes.

 

ATTENDANCE
All the sessions will be in-person sessions.

 

WEP 2024 UNVEILING EVENT

 Join us for the unveiling of the annual Winter Enrichment Program (WEP) on Thursday, November 23, 2023, from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m in the Conference Halls, Level 3, Bldg. 19. Attendance is mandatory for students that require WEP credit.

 

DO YOU HAVE MORE QUESTIONS?

Email contactwep@kaust.edu.sa