The unemployment situation is an important issue in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia that has been increasing since 2011. One major contributor to its high rate is the fact students are unable to find work. The lack of their success can be attributed to their job search methods, many of which rely on social networks. This practice disadvantages graduates from abroad who have not developed their local networks as domestic graduates have. Because governmental policies have incentivized students to travel abroad, the government has a responsibility to address the growing problem of unemployment. One solution is to provide an effective way for unemployed persons to search for jobs with a high rate of success, like offering an Online Government Employment System.

This paper aims to study the average waiting time spent by travelers at the LAX airport by examining the airport's CBP Immigration process and other waiting lines. The CBP Immigration waiting line is the most congested waiting line at LAX simply because this airport deals with a high volume of travelers; thus, it's one of the most busiest airports in the world. Accordingly, LAX would need to consider new ways in managing a high volume of travelers, and this paper seeks to present new systems and technology that would provide new solutions through a systems engineering perspective.

Saudi Arabia is an historic country, and her past goes back from the beginning of the emergence of humans on earth. There are many civilizations that have lived in the area. The most fact about Saudi Arabia is that it was the birthplace of Islam and home to Islam's two holiest shrines: Mecca and Madinah. Unfortunately, the contribution of tourism income to GDP is just 2.9% or 22.8 billion. A tourist system is not developed and suffers from a lot of obstacles. For example, Saudi Arabia does not issue a tourist visa which makes Saudi Arabia one of the most difficult countries to visit on the earth. Another problem is the lack of infrastructures such as hotels, resorts, museums and entertainment venues. However, improving the tourist system will increase the income of the country, and this will create a lot of jobs. Other benefits are that tourists will increase the level of openness, tolerance, and will decrease fundamentalism. Most importantly, the impact of tourism up will break stereotyping.

In 2011, Congress passed The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to reduce the number of uninsured Americans and reduce the overall cost of healthcare in the U.S. The PPACA encourages healthcare providers to form Accountable Care Organizations (ACO's). Accountable Care Organizations are groups of providers and suppliers that work together to coordinate care for the Medicare-Fee-For-Service patients they serve (RTI International, 2011). The PPACA is managed by The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which is responsible for writing, implementing and enforcing the rules of the PPACA. The PPACA has implemented the Medicare shared savings program, which is designed to create incentives for health care providers to work together to improve patient outcomes and lower the cost of care delivery. CMS has established requirements that the ACO must achieve to be eligible to participate in the shared savings program. CMS has outlined 33 required performance and quality metrics that the ACO must improve and report. The scope of this project will focus on the Medicare patient population within the ACO. The cost savings and patient outcomes will be analyzed through the evaluation of a diabetes disease management program that will emphasize the six diabetes related "pay for performance" metrics that are required by CMS. These six metrics include CMS performance metric numbers 22 to 27. The project objective is to design a disease management care model that can be utilized by both new and established ACOs. The care model will demonstrate improved diabetic patient outcomes while reducing the cost of delivery, and also while meeting the expectations of CMS to participate in the shared savings program. The project evaluated the implementation of a diabetes disease management program and the utilization of a diabetes care team. The purpose of the care team is to improve patient outcomes by standardizing the care for diabetes patients throughout the entire ACO. Standards of care were established to ensure that all patients are treated with the same quality of care, from diagnosis through treatment. The system will utilize an Electronic Medical Records (EMR) System that will allow providers within the ACO access to the patient's health record and care plans, allowing communication across the care continuum. The ACO will have the ability to generate reports on the performance metrics required by CMS, allowing the ACO to evaluate their care plans and the cost of care delivery. The standards for reporting and capturing data will be consistent across the ACO to ensure all the proper data is collected and reported to the CMS. A Patient Safety Alert System (PSA) will be incorporated into the EMR to alert healthcare providers if duplicate test or procedures have been order, or if the standards of care are not being followed. The project will utilize the systems engineering tools learned through class work as a student at Loyola Marymount University, as well as the INCOSE and DoD Architecture Framework. Trade studies will be evaluated to identify the preferred alternative that has the lowest level of risk and highest financial incentives, all while meeting the performance and cost savings requirements of CMS. Some key components that were evaluated in the trade studies include the addition of a diabetes care team, diabetes disease management program and the implementation of lean healthcare. The trade studies revealed that the implementation of a diabetes care team, diabetes disease management program with the implementation of lean healthcare provided the ACO with the greatest opportunity to participate in the Medicare shared savings program. The profit sharing due to the implementation of the disease management program ranges from $1. 5 million to $2.5 million per year for a small ACO (5000 beneficiaries) to $23 million to $76 million per year for a larger ACO (150,000 beneficiaries). The implementation of lean healthcare allows the ACO healthcare providers to see more patients per year. The suggested increase is 25 percent more patients per year, regardless of the size of the ACO. The implementation oflean and sixsigma provides a patient centric focus that is concentrated continuous improvement and the elimination of non-value added waste.

With technological advancements reaching heights never before imagined, it is a wonder how a region of the world so greatly in need of such technology has yet to take advantage of it. The Gulf region, comprised of the following countries: Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman, has the finances and the immediate need to implement the latest technological advancements when it comes to their traffic ticketing system. The current system in the Gulf region differs from country to country. Each has its own set of laws and procedures completely independent of one another. As a result, when foreigners commit traffic violations from one of the neighboring countries, they can avoid responsibility by simply crossing over the border. The paper proposes applying Systems Engineering as being the solution to the traffic ticketing problem in the Gulf region. This solution will entail implementing a uniformed traffic ticketing system ( or UTTS) throughout the Gulf region where all the countries will adopt the same set of traffic laws and procedures. The paper further goes on to discuss and illustrate how the new UTTS is designed by using the Systems Engineering V model, which includes System Architecture, risk assessment, and cost benefit analysis. Included in the design process, quality and lean methods are applied to ensure continuous improvement and eliminate wastes. Thus, from concept, to production, to operation, Systems Engineering is applied throughout the entire process of the creation and implementation of the new UTTS.

Cities around the globe try to alleviate congested traffic, especially in economically fast growing cities. In order to help maintain this economic growth, cities must make alleviating congested traffic a priority. The purpose of this paper is to study the traffic problem in Riyadh city in Saudi Arabia and propose a solution. This paper will begin with a brief background about the city and then explain the problem. Afterward, the requirements of the new system will be discussed. Next, using analysis of alternatives, different solutions will be explored and through trade study, some of those alternatives will be chosen to be a part of the new system. Systems Architecture will be used to help readers visualize the current and future systems and in the modeling section, the results of a survey regarding the traffic problem in Riyadh are taken into consideration. This will be combined with a discussion on queuing and forecasting methods. The project is looked at from a Lean point of view to try and minimize waste within traffic administrations by suggesting a new organizational chart. Finally, ethics and risk managements are discussed. The goal of the document is to explore the traffic problem in Riyadh in hopes of finding a solution.

This paper explores the issues that influence the implementation a safe and efficient online purchasing service in Saudi Arabia. Comprehensive research was done to determine the purchasing habits of Saudis from online retailers and explores the current e-commerce climate in Saudi Arabia. Key concerns are discussed as well as current challenges faced by consumers and online retailers. This paper seeks to analyze the need for and the benefits that may be derived from implementing a safe and secure efficient online purchasing service. It also discusses how it can impact the business owners, the consumers and the overall economy in general.

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