The First Interior Design Engineering Program in Saudi Arabia: Relevancy to Introduce the Program at Yanbu University College

This paper discusses why Interior Design Engineering (IDE) program has been introduced at Yanbu University College (YUC) of Saudi Arabia. Interior design program is considered as an art program in most universities and in some universities is considered part of architecture schools and not an engineering program. In contrary, IDE program at YUC is designed with emphasis on engineering oriented courses into interior design program. Further research is made to investigate interior design programs offered in Saudi Arabia and compared with IDE program at YUC. The paper concluded that the introduction of IDE program at YUC is relevant as demanded by the profession and graduate students will be benefited to be technically knowledgeable and earning privileges of being engineering graduate holders.