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The Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center-Qatar at Texas A&M University at Qatar conducted a continuing education course titled “Laboratory Safety” for lab technicians and lab engineers from Qatar Petroleum on 13 Nov. The course provided an overview of the most common hazards and risks associated to the work in chemical engineering. A laboratory visit was scheduled at the end of the…

The Career Services Office recently re-launched The Real World Speaking Series. Designed to showcase Former Students, this season the series will focus on challenges in the workplace. On 19 Nov., Yousef Al-Jaber spoke on his experience as Total E&P Qatar's Head of Social Corporate Responsibility. Missam Jaffer will be the final featured speaker on 21 Nov. He will speak about his experiences…

Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center-Qatar and GexCon are presenting an advanced course looking into explosion hazards for Liquefied Natural Gas facilities (LNG) 2-3 Dec. The two-day course will address all aspects of explosion hazards on LNG facilities including LNG release and dispersion, explosion modeling, mitigation, preventive measures, probabilistic risk assessments, legislation,…

Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center-Qatar and GexCon are presenting an advanced course looking into dust explosion hazards on 4-5 Dec. The emphasis of this course is dust properties, explosion modeling, preventive measures, ignition sources, protective measures, process hazard analysis, legislation, and case studies. It enables attendees to better understand dust hazards, to recognize…

CES, on 8-11 Dec., will address Quality Control (QC) and Quality Assurance (QA) Processes. This short course will focus on responsibilities of owners, consultants and contractors in QA/QC. It will also cover payment factors and relationship to quality and hands-on development of quality monitoring charts and assessment methods. The course is offered by Dr. Eyad Masad, assistant dean for…

Dr. Hassan Bazzi, associate professor of chemistry and program chair of the Science Program, recently celebrated and honored two faculty members…

The objective of this course is to expose technically trained individuals with two or more years' industrial/governmental experience to the basic principles of managing within a technical organization and to better prepare individuals with technical backgrounds for progressions upwards into management or project management positions. The course is offered by Dr. Hamid Parsaei, professor…

Dr. Othmane Bouhali, research associate professor and director of research computing, will host the inaugural workshop of Texas A&M at Qatar's Advanced Scientific Computing (TASC) group on 18 Nov. The group is a multi-disciplinary group bringing together faculty and researchers from a wide variety of engineering and science disciplines and leveraging their expertise to tackle complex computational…

Dr. Andrej Zwitter, NGIZ Chair for International Relations at Department of Legal Theory, University of Groningen, presented "Pitfalls on the Road to Achieving a Universal Code of Ethics," on 12 Nov. The lecture focused on how one can identify universal principles most clearly with the concept of virtues. The nature of virtues is one of being a set of heuristics for the good character…

Dr. Eyad Masad, assistant dean for research and graduate studies, has recently been named as a contributor to the Stars of Science program. Stars of Science is the first pan-Arab docu-reality television program. Stars of Science contestants have access to cutting-edge laboratories and technology in the Texas A&M Engineering Building while being mentored by University faculty.