High school students design assist devices in Texas A&M at Qatar online STEM program
Published Oct 04, 2020High school students in Qatar designed a variety of assist tools that could be used to provide protection against COVID-19 as part of the STEM@Home Creative Fusion 3D modeling online STEM program organized by Texas A&M University at Qatar, a Qatar Foundation partner university. Texas A&M…
Fadlelmula recognized for teaching excellence
Published Sep 30, 2020Dr. Mohamed Fadlelmula, instructional assistant professor in the Petroleum Engineering Program, has received the College-Level Distinguished Achievement Award for Teaching from the Texas A&M University Association of Former Students. Fadlelmula joined the petroleum engineering faculty in 2016 and has…
Texas A&M at Qatar alumni win local entrepreneurship competition
Published Sep 30, 2020Fatima Al Janahi ’20 and Amera Jama ’20, graduates of Texas A&M University at Qatar, recently won the Best Company of the Year award in INJAZ Qatar’s Mubadara 2020.Al Janahi and Jama’s idea was Tailory, an online platform that allowed customers to…
Texas A&M at Qatar student leaders explore resilience in Student Leadership Summit
Published Sep 30, 2020The Fall 2020 Student Leadership Summit, organized by Texas A&M University at Qatar’s Department of Student Affairs, recently brought together 25 student leaders who hold executive positions in various student organizations within Texas A&M at Qatar. The twice-yearly summit focused on resilience in light of the global pandemic during which the student leaders made a particular emphasis on the…
Texas A&M at Qatar to host Nobel laureate for Al Maerifa virtual lecture series
Published Sep 29, 2020Texas A&M University at Qatar, a Qatar Foundation partner university, will host Nobel laureate Dr. Ben L. Feringa for its next seminar in the Al Maerifa Public Seminar Series 1 Oct. at noon via Zoom. Feringa’s talk, “The Joy of Discovery,” is presented in partnership with the Qatar…
Ricardo Alonso to join editorial board of SIAM journal
Published Sep 28, 2020Dr. Ricardo Alonso, associate professor of mathematics in the Science Program at Texas A&M University at Qatar, has been chosen to serve as associate editor of the SIAM journal Multiscale Modeling and Simulation.
Texas A&M at Qatar project cited by VR industry leader WorldViz
Published Sep 28, 2020WorldViz, one of the virtual reality (VR) industry’s leading solutions providers, recently cited a Texas A&M at Qatar VR project in its annual report.
New STEM program by Texas A&M at Qatar is teaching robotics virtually to school students in Qatar
Published Sep 21, 2020Continuing its online STEM@Home designed to develop STEM skills in Qatar’s school students during COVID-19, Texas A&M University at Qatar — a Qatar Foundation partner university — is offering a new program on robotics for students in grades 8-12. The Virtual Robotics Games STEM (science, technology, engineering…
Research team receives Best Paper Award at IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Systems
Published Sep 20, 2020Professor Erchin Serpedin from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Program and his collaborators Dr. Muhammad Ismail, formerly assistant research scientist at Texas A&M at Qatar and now assistant professor at Tennessee Tech University, and visiting Ph.D. student Zi-Yang Wu received the Best Paper Award at the 10th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Systems (IS'20) held 28-30 Aug. for…
Mechanical engineering professor at Texas A&M at Qatar elevated to ASHRAE Fellow
Published Sep 14, 2020Dr. Ibrahim Hassan, professor in the Mechanical Engineering Program at Texas A&M University at Qatar, has been elevated to Fellow grade of the ASHRAE, a global society advancing human well-being through sustainable technology for the built environment. ASHRAE…