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Texas A&M at Qatar undergrads from the Mechanical and Chemical Engineering Programs participated in The 4th Annual GPCA Fertilizer Convention in Dubai, UAE. Sponsored by Qatar Fertilizer Company (QAFCO) as part of their corporate social responsibility initiative, the convention…

Texas A&M University at Qatar and Occidental Petroleum of Qatar Ltd. (Oxy Qatar) celebrated a send-off of Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) students to the annual SPE technical conference in New Orleans, La. The event was hosted at the Texas A&M Engineering Building on the Education City campus. The trip was made possible by Oxy’s gift to the University that will span three years and…

Nineteen petroleum engineering students, sponsored by OXY, attended the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition in New Orleans from 27 September to 3 October. During the conference Mohammad Ghazaleh, Mohammad Ahmed, Mohammed ElAkkad and Amr Sayed participated in the annual Petrobowl quiz competition.For information contact Ghada Hamed:…

Dr. Hung-Ju Sue, the Linda & Ralph Schmidt Professor, director of the Polymer Technology Center, and professor of mechanical engineering, will present "Fundamental Scratch Behavior of Polymers, Coatings and Films," on 26 Sept. The lecture will focus on a new test methodology based on materials science and mechanics tools for evaluating scratch resistance of…

Texas A&M University at Qatar, in collaboration with the Global Supply Chain Laboratory at Texas A&M University in College Station, will offer a two-day short course on Best Practices in Inventory Management on 25-26 September. This program provides scientific best practices in inventory stratification, forecasting and replenishment. Participants will be exposed to various inventory stratification…

The Aggie men's basketball team will face-off again the Polar Bears of College of the North Atlantic Qatar on 29 Sept. The game is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. at the Hamad bin Khalifa University Student Center. On 2 Oct., the Aggie women's basketball will square-off against the ladies of Qatar University. The game is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. at Qatar University.For…

The Office of Admissions and the Office of Graduate Studies have partnered with Information Technology to build a custom application supporting current business processes for the receiving and managing of admissions applications. AIMS (Application Information Management System) automates data flow to bring together application processing, Compass and ImageNow data. The system also provides…

Dr. Hung-Ju Sue, the Linda & Ralph Schmidt Professor, director of the Polymer Technology Center, and professor of mechanical engineering, presented "Dispersion and Assembly on Nanoparticles for Functional and Structural Applications," on 25 Sept. The lecture focused on main challenges to commercial implementation of many nanotechnology-inspired products and their lack of robust approaches…

Dr. Hung-Ju Sue, the Linda & Ralph Schmidt Professor, director of the Polymer Technology Center, and professor of mechanical engineering, presented an overview of the Polymer Technology Center (PTC) functions at Texas A&M University on 24 Sept. PTC was established in 1986 to serve as a gateway for University faculty members to interact with the Polymer Industry in Texas and internationally.

Dr. Vassilios C. Kelessidis, professor of petroleum engineering and program chair, was the recipient of the Best Professor in Petroleum Engineering award, presented by the Asian Confederation of Businesses during the Asian Leadership Awards ceremony in Dubai,…