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At a joint press conference held at the Swedish Embassy in Riyadh, ABB Arabian Peninsula HR Manager Zeid Al-Rumaihi congratulated the students who returned to Saudi Arabia recently after the completion of their masters degree course at Chalmers University in Gothenburg in Sweden.
The felicitation ceremony chaired by H.E. Dag Juhlin-Dannfelt, the Swedish Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, was attended by ABB Saudi Arabia Country Manager Mahmoud Shaban, and Deputy Minister of Electricity Dr. Saleh Al-Awajee, ABB Saudi Arabia Country Training Manager Awad Al-Enazy, CFO Andy Daniels, and a large number of distinguished guests and representatives from the Ministry of Higher Education.
The three electrical engineering graduates, Badr Bin Salamah, Hashem Jaber and Salem Feras Al-Yami were selected from a list of over 1000 candidates who had applied for the master degree scholarship in Sweden.
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Badr Salamah is from Riyadh Region, Hashim Jaber from Jeddah and Salem Al-Yami from Al-Kharj. All three are electrical engineering graduates from the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in Dhahran in the Eastern Region
The scholarship program offered by ABB Saudi Arabia covered all expenses of the students during the course of their two-year study period in Sweden, including accommodation, transportation allowances, medical insurance, food allowance, books and round trip ticket.
The scholarship program was fully funded by ABB Saudi Arabia and approved by the Ministry of Higher Education. The objective of ABB's scholarship program was to provide quality higher education to distinguished Saudi engineers and to meet the increasing demand for qualified Saudi engineers in the marketplace, said Zeid Al-Rumaihi.
Zeid Al-Rumaihi further noted that ABB Saudi Arabia has been imparting vocational training to students from the universities and technical institutions in the Kingdom, at its manufacturing facilities in the Second Industrial Area in Riyadh for the past 10 years. Zeid Al-Rumaihi said that ABB Saudi Arabia is always in the forefront to provide better job opportunities to young talented Saudis.
ABB's scholarship program is an on-going program and the latest batch of students left for Sweden last month to pursue their studies in the current academic year.
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Speaking further, Zeid Al-Rumaihi noted that the scholarship program is a noble idea and ABB Saudi Arabia is the first among multinational cooperates in Saudi Arabia to take the initiative. In the coming 10 years the demand for electrical engineers will grow multi-fold. Investing in Saudis is an added value to the business and the country in particular as the result may come in different ways. "We hope to carry on the program and are planning to send more students next year," he said. "The success of our program is a lesson for other companies to emulate."
The Swedish envoy thanked ABB and said that his country's mission in Saudi Arabia is happy to work with ABB. "We are looking forward to wider cooperation with the Kingdom in various fields," he said. Chalmers is one of the finest and elite universities in Sweden, he said.
The scholarship graduates also thanked ABB for giving them an opportunity to pursue studies aboard and do internship at ABB Sweden. They said that though initially they found difficult to get accustomed with the local culture, they found Gothenburg a tranquil and serene place to further their studies.
ABB (www.abb.com) is a leader in power and automation technologies that enable utility and industry customers to improve performance while lowering environmental impact. The ABB Group of companies operates in around 100 countries and employs about 124,000 people.
