Guidelines for Innovative Ideas Award



King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals

Office of Planning and Quality (OPQ)

Guidelines for

Innovative Idea Award

November 2007

Table of Contents

1. Background

2. Eligibility

3. Criteria

4. Submission for the Award

5. Procedure for Selection

Appendix A: Criteria for the Innovative Idea Award

Appendix B: Idea Documentation

Appendix C: Committee Input

Appendix D: University Nominees for the Innovative Idea Award

Innovative Idea Award

1. Background

King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals has established a yearly “Innovative Ideas” award to recognize persons who are the proponents of outstanding ideas that are expected to bring about substantial improvements in the areas of teaching, learning, research, community services, the University’s internal processes and its administrative affairs.

KFUPM will offer a maximum of three distinguished awards for KFUPM community members who have suggested creative ideas that have the potential to bring about substantial improvements in the way the University conducts its business.. The ideas will be rated as first, second, and third and the amount of the awards will be SR.10,000/-, 8,000/-, and 6,000/- respectively. Ideas rated in the same rank will get same monetary amount.

2. Eligibility

All KFUPM community members (including students, faculty, staff and their dependents) are eligible for the award.

3. Criteria

The purpose of this award is to promote the participation of the KFUPM community with innovative ideas that enhance the main lines of business of the University, which are education, research and community service. The award will focus on the outcomes or potential outcomes of the idea. The essential elements of the award criteria include impact, feasibility, originality, effectiveness (cost and time), and transferability. The elements of the criteria are:

1. Impact: refers to the level of improvements the idea will bring and whether those improvements are at the unit level, college or university-wide.

2. Feasibility: refers to the possibility and the ease with which the idea can be implemented in the KFUPM environment.

3. Originality: means how new or unique the idea is.

4. Effectiveness: means the benefit the idea will bring and at what cost.

5. Transferability: means the ease of transferring the idea to similar units or institutions.

Candidates will be evaluated using the criteria in Appendix A. If two or more members of the community submit the same winning idea, the award will be divided equally among them.

4. Submission for the Award

The Director of the Office of Planning and Quality (OPQ) will inform the KFUPM community members of the regulations and the deadline for applications for the yearly innovative idea award. All members of the community shall submit their ideas to the OPQ for evaluation. The OPQ will request documentation for the idea/s in the format given in Appendix B, and it will screen the idea/s to check for its/their completeness and eligibility. All candidates' names should be coded, and only code numbers and information about the ideas shall be forwarded to the selection committee. All proponents submitting ideas surrender their rights to the University for utilizing them to improve KFUPM operations and functions.

5. Procedure for Selection

The Director of the OPQ shall appoint a five-member selection committee from the University after the award closing date. The committee shall comprise experienced members of the community. Competing members or those who have dependents or relatives competing for the award shall not be members in the selection committee. The deliberations of the committee are confidential. The committee may use the expertise of other individuals if needed. After obtaining all the relevant information from the Director of the OPQ, the committee shall conduct a blind review of the cases received and apply the criteria in Appendix A. The committee shall select five candidates (in order of merit) as the nominees for the award. The committee, using the forms in Appendices C and D shall report the results, including codes for the candidates, scorers with justification; (in order of merit) etc, and forward them to the Director of the OPQ who in turn shall forward them to the Chairman of the Committee on Convocation, Honors and Public Events. The decisions for the yearly award are final and can not be contested by the proponents.

Appendix A

Criteria for the Innovative Idea Award

The criteria consist of the elements detailed in the following table.

|Criteria |Low (0-50)% |Medium (50-70)% |High (75-100)% |

|I. Impact |Unit |Division |Campus wide |

|II. Feasibility |Hard |Moderate |Easy |

|III. Originality |Known |Adaptation |Uniquely new |

|Effectiveness ( cost |( Expensive, Time consuming)|(In between) |(Not expensive and not time |

|and time) | | |consuming) |

|V. Transferability |Not transferable |To similar higher education |To all higher education |

| | |institutions |institutions |

The order of the criteria in terms of importance is as follows:

I Impact 30

II Feasibility 25

III Originality 20

IV Effectiveness 15

V Transferability 10

Total 100

Appendix B

Idea Documentation

The candidates are asked to submit documentation of their ideas in the following format:

1. Candidate's name and contact information

2. Name of university employee related to the candidate if he/she is not an employee.

3. Title of the idea

4. Description of the idea using the following headings:

• Summary

• Description of the idea.

• Impact.

• Feasibility.

• Originality.

• Effectiveness (time and cost).

• Transferability.

• Additional information if needed.

Declaration:

Submission of this idea for award will entitle King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals to use or utilize the idea for improving the University's functions and operations without infringing on the intellectual property right of the originator of the idea.

Candidate's Name:

Signature:

Appendix C

Committee Input

The committee members should fill this form to provide their evaluation of the ideas.

Candidate code number:

|Item |score |Max score |Justification |

|1. Impact | |30 | |

|2. Feasibility | |25 | |

|3. Originality | |20 | |

|4. Effectiveness | |15 | |

|5. Transferability | |10 | |

|Total | |100 | |

Appendix D

University Nominees for the Innovative Idea Award

|No. |Candidate Code Number |Total Score |

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University Nominee Code Number (in order of merit)

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King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals

Office of Planning and Quality

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