Service based framework of research projects in higher education institutions

Authors

  • Mariam Al Ali Al-Maadeed Qatar University Qatar
  • Shahbaz Hussain University of Engineering and Technology (UET) Lahore, Pakistan Pakistan
  • Mohammed Al-Salem Qatar University
  • Abdelaziz Bouras QATAR Chair Professor at Qatar University Qatar

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.19255/JMPM02601

Keywords:

Grant Management

Abstract

This work presents and disseminates the services and infrastructure required to manage research projects quantity and quality in higher education institutions. To achieve this objective, smart management of research offices, their processes and collaborative projects are of paramount importance in order to understand the underlying activities for effective decision making. This approach has been developed in depth considering the lifecycle of grants in a research office. The processes of a research office, its automation, importance of collaborative projects with academia and industry around the globe and their impact on research output have been developed first and then applied on a public higher education institution. The developed framework with its implementation example can be adopted by various research based organizations to efficiently manage and strengthen their research outlook.

Author Biographies

  • Mariam Al Ali Al-Maadeed, Qatar University Qatar

    Prof. Mariam Al Ali Al-Maadeed, is the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies and Professor of Physics and Materials Science at Qatar University. She has been leading the research and graduate studies strategies, programs and developments since 2016. She played a major role in developing the research and graduate programs, as well as fostering and strengthening national and international relations within this field. Prof. Mariam also holds national and international awards in many fields such as in Physics, Women in Science and others. She published many peer reviwed papers, book chapters in Materials Science, Nanotechnology and Higher Education. She is currently chairing the Academic Network for Development Dialogue, a new UN initiative related to implementing the SDGs within universities of the region and leading the initiative of the university transformation.

  • Shahbaz Hussain, University of Engineering and Technology (UET) Lahore, Pakistan Pakistan

    Shahbaz Hussain received his B.Sc. (Hons) and M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from University of Engineering and Technology (UET) Lahore, Pakistan. He has an industrial experience of more than three years in various mega projects of Qatar. He is currently pursuing his PhD in Electrical Engineering (Power) from Qatar University and is involved in research work related to his field in the same department. His research interests are renewable energy resources, power system protection, cybersecurity and optimization of power system in the fields of generation, transmission and distribution using modern programming techniques. He is also working as Graduate Assistant (GA) in Office of Research Support (ORS), Qatar University where he supports to develop framework and services required to automate the processes of research grants.

  • Mohammed Al-Salem, Qatar University

    Prof. Mohammed Al-Salem, is the Director of Research Support and a Professor in the College of Engineering at Qatar University. In the Office of Research Support, he initiated several research and innovation programs, such as the High Impact, the Collaborative Grants and the IRCC International Research Collaboration Co-fund programs. These programs had a great impact on the transformation of Qatar University into an international university. Prior to that, he held the position of Head of department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering for several years. During his term, Prof. Mohammed introduced innovative pedagogical tools and platforms contributing to the digital transformation of his department.

  • Abdelaziz Bouras, QATAR Chair Professor at Qatar University Qatar

    Abdelaziz Bouras is Chair Professor at Qatar University, QU. He is currently the Chair of the IFIP WG5.1 on « Global Product development for the whole life-cycle". His current research interests focus on distributed systems for lifecycle engineering, including ontologies and lifecycle modeling for intelligent products. He teaches Software Project Management and Simulation in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of QU. Also was professor at the University of Lyon (France) where he leads a research team of the LIESP laboratory. He has been recently conferred the HONORIS-CAUSA honorary Doctoral Degree in Science of the Chiang Mai University (Thailand) from Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand. His current research interests focus on industrial engineering and information systems and methodologies including open standards for product information and knowledge exchange, reference models for product lifecycle and supply chain integration, and multi-agent simulation. He guided more than 20 PhD students in these fields, some of them were co-advised in partnership with international institutions under co-tutelle agreements (with EU, Africa and Asia). He is also regularly invited for PhD dissertation committees in Europe, Africa and Asia. Prof. Bouras is also leading the CERRAL Innovation Center of the Lumière IUT Technology Institute, a unique public center in France dedicated to innovation in cooperative education. This center has led to the participation in several EU-Asian exchange projects, such the SQUARE project on the implementation of QMS Quality Management Systems in Thai universities and the deployment of Cooperative Teaching in the north of Thailand in collaboration with Japanese and EU companies. From 1993 to 2000, he coordinated a Master diploma at the Université Claude Bernard of Lyon in the CAD/CAM fields and developed strong relationship with many European companies. He also managed the French-Swiss student exchange within the bilateral Master in Multimedia and is currently representing the Knowledge & Decision Making Research Master at the Université Lumière of Lyon. He teaches enterprise information systems and product development, both for undergraduate and graduate levels in Lyon and gives study seminars in France and abroad. Prof. Bouras is Editor-In-Chief and founder of the International Journal of Product Lifecycle Management (IJPLM), Associate-Editor and co-founder of the International Journal of Product Development (IJPD), and Editorial Board Member of several International Journals related to knowledge management and supply chain management. He is also co-founder of the new International Federation of Information Processing IFIP WG5.1 Group on Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) for which he acts as Vice-Chair in charge of Europe and Africa; and is member of the IFIP WG 5.7 Group on Integration in Production Management. He is also the co- founder of the international WG-PLM and its annual international doctoral workshop on PLM. He is currently leading or collaborating on various French and European Projects (French/Greek Platoon, IMS NoE SIG PLM, Ancar-PLM, ISPRI PLM, PEGASE etc) and International Projects (Erasmus-Mundus Sustainable E-Tourism, Euro-Asia Asia-Link, Erasmus-Mundus eLink, Euro-Thai Ethics-Fed, Euro-Thai Square, Franco-Thai PHC e-Tourism, NIST Manufacturing Interoperability etc). He acts as President or Member of several Steering Committees of international events every year, such as the International IFIP PLM conferences series (Bangalore’06, Milano’07, Seoul’08, Bath’09, Brehmen’10, Eindhoven’11...), the International IEEE SKIMA conferences (ChiangMai’06, Kathmandu’08, Fez’09, Paro’10, Benevento’11...) and other European events related to Lifecycle Management and Supply Chain Management. He is (or was) part of the program committee of more than 50 International Conferences in these fields and was regularly invited as Guest-Speaker. Professor Bouras is currently Expert for the evaluation of the European FEDER Competence Centers Program and Expert for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs on educational projects in North- Africa. He also serves as Expert for European and American Research Agencies (Canadian NSERC and FNRT, French ANR, European Commission, Greek Ministry of Education...). He has published more than 100 papers in different areas and was a visiting researcher in different universities and institutes in USA (NIST), China (Fudan and SJTU Shanghai), India (IISc Bangalore), Nepal (Kathmandu), Mexico (Pachuca), Cambodia (Phnom Penh), Morocco (Fès), and Thailand (Chiang Mai). HONORIS-CAUSA honorary doctoral degree in Science (ChiangMai university) IJPLM International Journal (founder, editor-in-chef) IJPD International Journal (co-founder, associate editor) IJIEI International Journal (sc. board member) IJEBM International Journal (sc. board member) IJASM International Journal (sc. board member) Ing. Numériq. Collab. Journal (sc. board member) EU European Commission Programs (expert) French Ministry Of Foreign Affairs (expert) (FR) ANR COSINUS program (evaluation committee) (FR) ANR CONTINT progrm (expert) (FR) ANR Programme Blanc (expert) (FR) AERES Research Units (expert) (CA) NSERC research agency (expert) (CA) FNRT research agency (expert) (GR) Ministry of Education (expert) PLM International Conference (co-founder, steering committee) IEEE SKIMA International Conference (co-founder, steer. committee) LIESP laboratory (Lyon 2 team leader + council member) Lyon Infomaths Doctoral School (council member) CERRAL Innovation Centre (Director) CoDe Research Master (representative at Lyon 2) Erasmus-Mundus Elink (french coordinator) Erasmus-Mundus “E- Tourism” (coordinator) Asia-Link “East-West” (french coordinator) Interministry PEGAS Serious Games project (leader at Lyon 2) Rhône-Alps ISPRI-PLM project (leader) EU-Thai SQUARE project (French leader) EU-Thai ETHICS project (French expert) Franco-Thai E-Tourism project (French leader) (NP) Kantipur Engineering College - Kathmandu (Adjunct Professor) (TH) CAMT/CMU (Adjunct Professor) (USA) National Institute of Standards and Technology (Guest Researcher)

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Published

2022-05-20

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Vol. 9 No. 1 (2021): The Journal of Modern Project Management

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Service based framework of research projects in higher education institutions. (2022). The Journal of Modern Project Management, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.19255/JMPM02601

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