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Qualification and Specialization aims:

Studying in qualification and specialization diplomas aims to update the scientific and technological knowledge and it aims to get specialization and acquiring experience and methodology in practice and development and exploitation in advanced specializations which fulfill the needs of public establishments for adapting with the accelerating technical new conditions.

Higher Institute for Applied Science and Technology can make qualification and specialization in many fields, benefiting from its teaching expertise and teaching and research laboratories. HIAST has already qualified many engineers in the fields of communications, informatics and administration. A diploma in science and material engineering was opened in 2005-2006 to fulfill the increasing need for this specialization in many of the production companies.

The aim of Qualification and Specialization Diploma in “Science and Material Engineering :

This diploma aims to update scientific and technological knowledge and to get specialization, and to acquire experience and methodology in preparing different kinds of glass, ceramic, plastic, metal and compound materials. And manufacturing, describing and developing them to fulfill the need of manufacturing, describing and using materials.

Conditions of Diploma Registration:

It's conditioned for a student to register in the qualification and specialization diploma to be:

1. Getting a university degree in science ( physics- chemistry) or in engineering (civil-mechanical-chemistry-physics-materials) and fulfilling one of the following conditions:

  • a- Getting a university degree with a good grade at least.
  • b- Getting a higher certificate than a university degree, relevant to diploma’s specialization, and that would be determined by the supervising committee on the diploma.
  • c- He should be experienced in diploma field, in addition to having the suitable scientific base that qualifies him to proceed with diploma subjects, which are determined by the supervising committee on the diploma.
  • d- He should be a governmental establishment candidate to work in the diploma field for those who work in public bodies.

2. Mastering Arabic, and has an acceptable level of a foreign language enables him to understand lectures in this language, according to what the supervising committee decides.
3. He shouldn’t have failed in the same diploma.
4. The applying students to study diploma are admitted after a differentiation carried out by the supervising committee according to the Institute capacity.
5. The admitted students in qualification and specialization diploma register after they had paid the tuition fees to the institute.

Registration Fees in the Diploma:

Fee and groups it contains Syrian students and other students who are under the same rules.   ( SP ) Arab students and foreign students. ( $ )
Annual university Services Fee ( tuition fee )
Students of Syrian certificates
Students of non-Syrian certificates
125000
150000
4000
4000
Registration Fee and re-registration fee for cut off students 2000 250
Annual Fee 7500 150
Certificate fee& losing fee 3000 150
Transcript of marks fee 1000 100
According to the need, one unit, or more of the mentioned diploma’s units, could be enough, knowing that the cost of one unit is/40000/ forty thousand Syrian pounds. But in such a case a student doesn’t get a diploma certificate but a document certified.

Studying Regulation

  • The period of studying in the diploma is one full-year if a student is completely devoted from the beginning of the academic year. Non-devoted students can prepare diploma in no more than two years..
  • Studying in diploma is divided to six units:
    • First Unit: basics in physics, chemistry and material mechanics( common for all students). Number of hours: 160. It consists of a set of subjects dealing with the following topics:
      -analysis & description- thermodynamics- thermodynamics of surfaces- science of crystals- chemistry of a solid- material mechanics- practical experiments.
    • Second Unit: Polymers (specialized). Number of hours: 120
      It consists of a set of subjects dealing with the following topics:
      Polymers synthesis- physics & chemistry of polymers- physical characteristics of polymers- artificial polymers and formation- composing of polymers- compound materials in a matrix of polymer- practical experiments.
    • Third Unit: Ceramics and Glass (specialized). Number of hours:120
      It consists of a set of subjects dealing with the following topics:
      - Ceramics: families of ceramics and their characteristics- formation methods- mechanical & thermal characteristics- practical experiments.
      - Glass: preparation ways & specifications- glass transmutation & looseness- optical & mechanical characteristics- practical experiments.
    • Fourth Unit: Metal materials (specialized). Number of hours: 120
      It consists of a set of subjects dealing with the following topics:
      mining science- changing the characteristics of metal materials- thermal treatments of steal- mining & welding- capability of welding- analysis of metal materials- non-damaging tests- practical experiments
    • Fifth Unit: Complementary Symposiums (common for all students). Number of hours: 30
      It consists of a set of lectures aiming to introduce students to the most modern achievements that science and technology have achieved.
      These lectures deal with:
      advanced compound materials- intelligent materials- metal mixtures with formal memory- manufacturing and forming by laser.
    • Sixth Unit: Graduation Project. The project period is 6 months, 3 months of which should be in complete devotion.

Every student has to prepare a graduation project in a scientific establishment or in an industrial centre supervised by specialized researchers. At the end of it the student submits a dissertation as a report, which he defends in front of a specialized arbitrating committee.

Exam Regulation and Marks Calculation

  • Student submits one written exam in every subject, and he may also submit, in the same subject, tests, classroom activity, homework, or practical classes, according to the size of the subject and the supervising teachers’ evaluation. And student’s level in the fifth unit may be determined as a seminar, and in the sixth unit through a lecture in front of a specialized committee.
  • the total mark of each subject is /100/. The final exam has three coefficients. But practical classes, tests, classroom activity and homework have no more than two coefficients for each.<!--
  • Each unit’s mark is calculated by getting averages of the subjects that form the unit, after giving each subject coefficients in proportionate with its teaching hours.
  • The project’s mark (the sixth unit) is calculated by giving three coefficients to the examining committee’s mark, and two coefficients at most and one coefficient at least to the project supervisor’s mark.
  • General average of the diploma is calculated by giving a percentage which is no less than 65% and no more than 75% to all the teaching units, and the rest is given to the project mark, According to the period specified for projects, and their natures. And the teaching units mark is divided among each other; according to coefficients in proportionate with teaching hours of each unit.

Success Conditions

  • Student passes a teaching unit when his mark in it is no less than (50%), provided that his mark in each of this unit subjects wouldn’t be less than (40%).
  • Student passes the project when his mark in it is no less than (60).
  • Student passes the diploma when he passes every unit of the teaching units, and in the graduation project.
  • If a student gets a mark in a subject less than (40%), he is called to a make-up exam after the exam results announcement, and the make-up exam’s mark replaces the written exam’s mark, the written tests’ average or both of them; according to the student's benefit.
  • If a student gets a mark in a unit less than (50%) in the end of the year, he is called by the unit coordinating committee, after the exam results announcement, to do a set of oral or written exams in the unit’s subjects. Once the committee decides to pass the student, his mark determined as fifty degrees only in this unit.
  • If a student doesn’t get the required mark to succeed in the graduation project, he can proceed with the same project for additional period, no more than one month. Then he has to rewrite the report and argue again in front of the specialized committee.