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Texas A&M University at Qatar hosted its seventh annual Research-Industry Partnership Showcase, “Making an Impact,” in the Texas A&M Engineering Building in Education City. The annual event highlights the work performed by Texas A&M at Qatar faculty, staff and student researchers that is having real-world impact in Qatar and contribute to Qatar’s goal of being a knowledge-based economy. The…

Electrical and computer engineering professor Dr. Khalid Qaraqe, in collaboration with Dr. Murat Uysal from Ozyegin University in Turkey and their teams, have published the first paper exploring the use of visible light communication (VLC) to wirelessly monitor gas pipelines. The paper, "Visible Light Channel Modeling for Gas Pipelines," was published in the IEEE Photonics Journal. Qaraqe created…

Dr. Khalid Qaraqe and Dr. Bilal Mansoor have been awarded a proof of concept project grant of QR 250,000 by Sidra Medicine to investigate remote monitoring of biodegradable cardiovascular stents. They are the first recipients from Texas A&M Qatar to receive seed funding from Sidra. The project is in partnership with Sidra's pediatric cardiology unit chaired by world-renowned cardiologist Dr. Ziyad…

The Mechanical Engineering Program — in partnership with TEES, HBKU and ENSAM — hosted the workshop, Manufacturing for the Future: Toward Competitive Demand-driven Qatar Industry. The goal of the workshop was to address the future needs for advancing Qatar's manufacturing industry through partnerships between academia and industry.

Petroleum and mechanical engineering students participated in the fifth annual Intelligent Field workshop hosted by TNO. The event, organized by the Society of Petroleum Engineers' student chapter at Texas A&M at Qatar, introduced concepts, applications and benefits of incorporating real-time data acquisition and process automation in the management of oil and gas fields. Students also designed…