In consistency with the vision of the university and its trend towards pioneership and in order to upgrade its educational outputs to cope with the development plans and met the needs of the labor market as well as the criteria of academic performance, a new department has been initiated concerned with the affairs of the plans and programs affiliated to the complement office for academic and educational affairs. The purpose of initiating this new department is to deal with a number of challenges as follows:

• Expansion of technical affiliated knowledge facing the whole of the education process in its various branches.
• The need for more clarity in the criteria and mechanism persuade in preparing the curriculums.
• Lack of proper consultation with the competent recruitment authorities in both the public and private sectors.
• Weakness of the content knowledge and skill as embodied in the current curriculums
• Poor identification of the aims and objectives of the programs and educational plans and their linkage with the intended output.

To ensure success of the curriculums and programs, the following factors should be observed:

• Linkage of the plan with the vision and goals of the academic section.
• A clear-cut methodology and mechanism for preparing the plans and programs.
• Getting acquainted with the experiments of other similar bodies in the local, regional, and international arenas.
• Active participation of concerned bodies, faculty members, teaching staff, students (male and female), and public and private sectors.

On the basis of those challenges and the goals set by the university, a plan has been laid out to upgrade the programs and propose new ones matching with the development plans and the needs of the labor market.