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Most university students spend spring break relaxing with their friends and taking a break from the hard work of the academic semester. For sixteen Texas A&M University at Qatar students, however, spring break 2012 was an opportunity to word harder – or at least in a different way – than they work the rest of the year. These students participated in the University’s Aggie Service Learning…

Global engineering education congress to take place in January 2013.Texas A&M University at Qatar has announced that it will host the World Congress on Engineering Education 2013 (WCEE 2013) from 7 – 9 Jan. 2013. The congress will provide a forum for researchers, engineers and academics from all over the world to present and disseminate their research results and development…

The Initiative in Professional Ethics (TIPE) and Academic Services Office (ASO) at Texas A&M at Qatar will host Ethics Week 2012 from 1-5 April.Dr. Hassan Bashir, assistant professor of liberal arts, said, "The week will include activities that promote awareness about ethical responsibilities and prepare people to face ethical challenges with knowledge…

Dr. Khalid Mir, assistant professor of economics at Lahore University of Management Science, will offer a lecture titled "Ethics, Economics and the Environment" on 8 April as part of The Initiative in Professional Ethics's (TIPE) Guest Speaker Series.Mir claims the environmental crisis is now widely recognized as one of the most pressing problems…

Texas A&M at Qatar hosted a continuing education course titled "Rotordynamics of Turbomachinery with Case Studies" from 18-20 March. The course was conducted by Dr. Dara Childs, Leland T. Jordan Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University. It included case studies of field experience with real machines and an introduction to vibrations…

Qatar Petrochemical Company (QAPCO) has launched a Plastic Awareness Campaign to highlight the importance of plastic materials and their influence on public health, the environment and the future.This campaign, held under the patronage of H.E. Dr. Mohammed  Bin Saleh Al-Sada, minister of energy and industry, aims to dispel misconceptions about plastic and promote responsible…

Texas A&M at Qatar's Technical Services facility signed a testing agreement with TOTAL E&P Qatar on 18 March.Under this agreement, TOTAL Research Center Qatar (TRC-Q) will employ the advanced analytical facilities of the University's chemistry laboratories in the form of spectrometry and magnetic resonance techniques. The agreement follows Texas A&M at Qatar's recent opening…

Texas A&M at Qatar hosted a continuing education course titled "Principles and Practices of Risk Assessment" from 11-12 March.The course, conducted by Dr. Luc Vechot, assistant professor of chemical engineering, and Dr. Simon Waldram, managing director of Waldram Consultants Ltd., was specially designed for those starting a career in process safety management. It provided an…

Texas A&M University at Qatar and ConocoPhillips Qatar co-hosted the annual Qatar Process Safety Symposium from 13 – 14 March. The two-day event, titled “The Importance of Leadership Commitment in Making Safety a Core Value,” featured 18 speakers presenting on topics including incident case studies, best practices in process safety, research on process safety, incident investigations and…

Texas A&M at Qatar, in collaboration with Imperial College, London, will host a Carbon Capture Workshop from 2 – 3 April. The workshop will give industrial managers, technical advisors, regulators and other attendees from academia and industry an overview of carbon capture technology and the status of current research and technical innovation in the field. Industrial and academic…