Texas A&M University at Qatar

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1 Texas A&M University at Qatar Dr. César O. Malavé Dean Dr. Hassan S. Bazzi Associate Dean for Research

2 ABOUT TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY Founded in 1876 Located in College Station, Texas, USA More than 68,500 students, including more than 5,915 international students from about 130 countries Degree programs: Undergraduate: 128 Master s: 200 PhD: 100 Major research institution

3 TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM Legacy: Serving Texas with global reach since 1948 Service 22 million citizens served annually through service/extension agencies and organizations Education 143,000 students are taught annually by 28,000 faculty/staff at our 11 campuses Research Annual expenditures $972 million primarily driven by agriculture, engineering, environmental and public health research and development Training 180,000 individuals from 80 countries trained in fire fighting & emergency services, security, search & rescue, public works

4 Texas A&M Engineering

5 College of Engineering Named #1 among the 50 Best Value Bachelor s and Graduate Engineering Programs Highest engineering research expenditures among US universities

6 College of Engineering, Fall Galveston 544 Qatar 19,407 Texas A&M Engineering Enrollment 1,035 Engineering Academies 37 McAllen Campus 17,038 College Station 282 Graduate Distance Education

7 Engineering Departments

8 21 Engineering Majors

9 ABOUT TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY AT QATAR Established in 2003 Joint effort between Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development and Texas A&M University Located in Education City, Doha, Qatar First class (9/1/2003): 29 students 850 awarded degrees since current students 78 faculty members

10 QATAR FOUNDATION: EDUCATION CITY PARTNER UNIVERSITIES

11 DEGREES IN ENGINEERING Degrees are granted by Texas A&M University ABET-accredited Bachelor of Science in: Chemical engineering Electrical engineering Mechanical engineering Petroleum engineering M.Sc. And M.Eng. in Chemical Engineering Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering (dual program with HBKU, fall 18)

12 Research Strategic Plan To maintain high safety standards and to support a prominent research program To maintain high research productivity and increase faculty participation in scholarly service activities To maintain centers of excellence that exemplify prominence in research, increase number of activities organized per year and engage industry To enhance and update technical service facilities to serve the wider community To collaborate with academic institutions in Qatar by pursuing research partnerships and organizing joint scientific events

13 TAMUQ Research Funding $92.5 million in active research funding 109 full time and part time research staff 50 PhD students 67 Masters students Total cumulative funding as of December 2017 is over $248.2M

14 QNRF Funded Projects at TAMUQ

15 TAMUQ Research Output Peer reviewed journal publications 9 Books, 21 book chapters 138 Conference presentations 226 Refereed conference proceedings 70 Invited presentations

16 TAMUQ IP Portfolio 10 Patents 11 Invention disclosures in Overall invention disclosures 22 Patent applications in Overall patent applications

17 TAMUQ Centers and Initiatives - Joint with Main Campus Center for Remote Healthcare Technology Gas and Fuels Research Center Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center Smart Grid Center Texas A&M Advanced Computing Center Qatar Sustainable Water and Energy Utilization Initiative

18 Advanced Scientific Computing Center Center of excellence in computational and data intensive science Multidisciplinary research teams within TAMU in specific CS&E areas to tackle challenging problems Educational and outreach activities to promote the culture of CS&E HPC Suqoor Raad Raad-II Saqr

19 Qatar Sustainable Water and Energy Utilization Initiative Advanced water and wastewater treatment processes Desalination Carbon dioxide utilization Heat to power conversions Resource management at the Water Energy nexus Gas and Fuels Research Center Fuel characterization, blending, and enhancement of properties Development of novel catalysts, reaction engineering and process development Gas to Liquids processes Carbon dioxide conversions Multiscale approaches from quantum mechanics to Life Cycle Assessment

20 Mary Kay O Connor Process Safety Center LNG safety research Dispersion modeling Experimental studies Hazard mitigation Test facility in Ras Laffan City (with QP, fire school) Runaway reactions Strong community/industry outreach Industrial Consortium Continuing education programs for industry Annual Process Safety Symposium

21 Grid and Renewable Energy Electrical Energy Conversion and Electric Grid Integration for Solar Photovoltaic (PV) and Wind Systems Smart Grid Control of Electric Machines and Mechatronics Advanced Power Electronic Converter Topologies and Controls Power Electronics and Systems for Water and Oilfield Applications Health Technologies and Systems Advanced Remote Healthcare Technologies Medical Imaging Systems and Technologies Signal Processing and Biomedical Engineering Nano Communication for Biomedical Applications

22 IT and Cyber Security Smart Transportation Systems Securing Building Automation Networks Big Data Analysis for smart grid application Machine Learning Physical Layer Security Cellular D2D and Indoor Communication Systems

23 Automation and Control Two state of the art research laboratories in the area of Automation and Controls: The Engine Testing Laboratory The Smart Systems Laboratory These labs are used to produce solutions for a wide range of problems, ranging from unmanned autonomous emergency systems to health applications to more fuel efficient engine controllers.

24 Mechanics, Materials, and Thermal-fluids Expertise in the fundamentals and applications of materials science, solid mechanics and constitutive modelling: understand and characterize existing materials & to develop advanced materials enhance manufacturing processes design mechanical and infrastructure systems. The thermal fluids group performs research in energy related systems, e.g. efficient fuels and new energy sources, and heating and cooling, and ocean engineering.

25 Reservoir and Fluid Characterization Pore Scale Visualization and 3D Image Reconstructions Impact of Wettability on Recovery Mechanisms Characterization of Relative Permeability & Capillary Pressure Curves for Spontaneous Imbibition

26 Multiphase Flow Assurance Leak Detection in Flowlines and Wellbore Multiphase Flow loop Core Foam Flooding Set up Computational Fluid Dynamics Particle Image Velocimetry

27 Chemistry Experimental Polymers Solar Cells Olefin Metathesis Lasers Catalysis Metal/Organic Frameworks Theoretical Reaction mechanisms Large Data Bio Analysis

28 Physics and Math Theoretical Physics Nonlinear Optics High Energy Physics Multiscale Simulation Experimental Physics Laser sculpting Silicon Photonics Ferroelectric Crystal Processing Magnetic Control of Solitons Applied Mathematics Large Scale Numerical Simulation Pure Mathematics Interaction of Complex Analysis and Geometry Number Theory

29 Technical Services to Support the Industry

30 Research Output Data Web of Science Core Collection, which indexes over 12,000 key scholarly journals in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, was used. The search spanned the date range from January 2006 to December 2016, to determine the number of citations indexed from each country and included all languages. Credit is calculated by any author s listed affiliation with a country or Institution within that country. All authors and all listed affiliate countries per citation are credited equally. In order to limit the focus to contributions of research, rather than news, letters to the editor and other editorial materials the document type field was restricted to articles, notes, proceedings, and reviews. Source: Mrs. Nicole Brothers, Texas A&M University at Qatar Library (

31 Qatar: Publications `01 `02 `03 `04 `05 `06 `07 `08 `09 `10 `11 `12 `13 `14 `15 `16 `17

32 TAMUQ: Publications

33 Qatar: Publications 2017 QU TAMUQ QF HMC WCMCQ SIDRA ASPETAR QU 1,080 TAMUQ 542 QF 396 HMC 276 WCMCQ 268 SIDRA 140 ASPETAR 131 WCMCQ 9% ASPETAR SIDRA 5% 5% QU 38% HMC 10% QF 14% TAMUQ 19%

34 Qatar: Publications QU 4944 TAMUQ 3050 QF 1831 HMC 1551 WCMCQ 1286 SIDRA 288 ASPETAR % 9% 2% 4% 37% 14% 23% QU TAMUQ QF HMC WCMCQ SIDRA ASPETAR

35 Thank You!