Texas A&M at Qatar partners with QCRI and QNRF to offer programming workshop for school students
Published Jun 26, 2018Twenty-one students in grades 7, 8, 9 and 10 from schools around Qatar designed their own Android mobile app game as part of a recent two-day workshop on mobile app development. The workshop was organized and offered by Dr. Eman A. Fituri from the Qatar Computing Research Institute in Texas A&M University at Qatar’s STEM Hub, a joint initiative of Texas A&M at Qatar and the Qatar National…
Elbashir appointed chair of petroleum engineering
Published Jun 26, 2018Dr. Nimir Elbashir has been appointed chair of the Petroleum Engineering Program at Texas A&M University at Qatar effective 1 July. Elbashir succeeds Dr. Mike Bowman who led the program from August 2015 to November 2017 and Dr. Vijay Panchang who has held the position of interim program chair since then. Elbashir is currently professor of chemical engineering with a joint appointment…