The First Institutional Gulf Engineering Meeting
29th - 30th April 1997

Kuwait Society of Engineers hosted the first Gulf Engineering meeting during the period of 29th to 30th of April 1997.The first gulf engineering meeting has been participated by numerous engineering corporations in the gulf countries.

The results of the engineering forum disclosed a decision from the members approving that a meeting should be held annually and circulates in the gulf council According to alphabetical order that will include the aims and goals of the meeting.

The Participants

Various types of Engineering council and organizations in the G.C.C. countries participated, for instance:

I. Society of Engineers – United Arab Emirates

1. Ahmed Hassan Al Rostomani –Vice President of the association.
2. Abdul Rahman al Bannay - the Councilor of the Administration.

II. The Bahrain Society of Engineers

1. Diya Abdul Aziz Tawfiqi - the President of the Association.
2. Jawad Hassan Ibrahim - the Vice President.
3. Mohammed Khalil Al Sayid - the Director of the information.

III. The Engineering Committee in Saudi Arabia

1. Yahya Koshak - the Councilor of the Committee.
2. Abdulla Al Ghanim - the Councilor of the Committee.
3. Abdul Rahman Al Waheeb- the Vice-President of the “Aramco” Saudi Arabian enterprises.
4. Nabil Shoonu- the General Manager for the Affair of the general public of the committee.

IV. Muscat's Municipality in Sultanate of Oman

1. Abdulla Bin Abbas Bin Ahmed- Muscat's Mayor.
2. Adel Bin Abdulla Al Asfoor- the deputy of the General Manager for the technical affairs.
3. Said bin Mohammed Al Qasmi- the Director of the sanitary drainage administration.
4. Salem Bin Hammad Al Cannadi –Head of Surveying Department.

V. The Qatari Engineers

1. Ahmed Jassim Al Jullu - the Vice President.
2. Jacob al Malla - Member.

VI. The Kuwait Society of Engineers

1. Faissal Abdulla Al Khalaf- the Head of the association.
2. Abdulla Latif Al Dakhil - the Vice President.
3. Majid Nasir Al Kumlas-the Treasurer
4. Yussif Ali Abd Al Raheem-President of the Preparatory Committee.

The Contract of the G.C.C. Forums

After the speaker gave their words, documents were handed to Muscat Municipality, Bahrain Society of Engineers, The Qatari Engineers and The Kuwaiti Society of Engineers, later a meeting was held and after a serious discussion the members agreed on forming a representative for the participants who would organize the ideas to meet the goal / aim required, and it gains a lot of co operation and co ordination between the participating members.

The General Principles

1. The gulf engineering meeting takes place annually , each time in a different country in  the Gulf  (according to the alphabetical order of the countries)
2. The meeting includes all Gulf engineers to participate in the First Gulf Engineering meeting.

The goal of Meeting
 
I. In the Fields of the Engineering Profession

1. Supporting the rules and regulations of the association in practicing the engineering profession by keeping its high moral, conforming and co operating for the aims of its growth and development.
2. Working with public and private sectors in promoting the engineering membership in the Gulf.
3. The role of the Gulf engineering corporation in contributing in the evaluation of different engineering majors in all universities around the world especially in the G.C.C. countries to co operate to unite this evaluation.

II. In the Field of Supporting the Gulf Engineering works

1. Looking after the gulf / local engineers and working on advancing their skills, technicians and professionals, and everyone who takes interest in this matter.
2. The importance of rehabilitating the training and development for the gulf engineers to increase their professional skills and exchange experiences between the gulf engineering corporations.
3. Placing proper developed machinery to build up the gulf engineering offices and raise its status and going after the responsible side to give it a priority in the grand expanding enterprises in the gulf co operation council.

III. In the Field of Engineering artistic co operation

1. Having common engineering cases between the states of the council for instance (Environment, water, petrol, engineering arbitration, etc…)
2. Co operation in exchanging experiences, researches, information, and organizing conferences.

IV. Going after the Official sides:  To represent the gulf engineering in the national membership of the corporations for the specifications, measures and the corporations of arbitration engineering etc.

V. Supporting and coordinating the completion of the organizational structure for the Gulf engineering corporations.

VI. The cooperation in the scale attached by the engineering arbitration wherefrom the exchange of experiences and rehabilitation of arbitrators between the Council state.

The autos of the work

1. Having the annual meeting in one of the states (according to alphabetical order) and each association should have 3 representatives which includes the President or Vice President of the engineering sector.
2. Appointing a coordinator to take the responsibility in organizing the meetings and engineering activities.
3. A member from each Gulf engineering sector will correspond to the checking of the subject on the general co ordination.
4. A seminar is set once every two years (mutually with the engineering conference) besides the annual gulf meeting; the subjects discussed are ones that interest the gulf engineers and the engineering professions in the gulf.
5. A conference is set once every two years (mutually with the seminar) the subjects discussed are the working papers about any of the engineering cases that would interest the Arab society.
6. The coordination in setting dates and time for the seasonal trainings.