Texas A&M University at Qatar Ioannis G. Economou Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Ioannis.Economou@Qatar.tamu.edu March 2018
Degree Programs at TAMUQ Four ABET-accredited undergraduate degrees: Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Petroleum Engineering. M.Sc. and M.Eng. in Chemical Engineering. Dual Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering together with HBKU (to be launched in fall 2018).
Fall 2017 student data
TAMUQ Research Profile (end of 2017) Personnel 72 full-time faculty / 55 research active, 149 post-docs, research scientists, and junior researchers, 44 PhD and 62 MSc/MEng students. Funding $92.5 * million in active research funding (excluding NPRP Cycle 10 awards), $3.09 million in industry-sponsored research, 19 new projects in NPRP Cycle 10. Total cumulative funding is over $248 million
QNRF Funded Projects at TAMUQ
TAMUQ Research Output 2017 396 Peer reviewed journal publications 9 Books, 21 book chapters 166 Conference presentations 207 Refereed conference proceedings 78 Invited presentations
TAMUQ Publications 2005 2016 550 500 450 400 350 300 250 200 150 100 50 0 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Source: Web of Science
Qatar Publications 2006 2016 SIDRA 1% ASPETAR 3% Others 5% WCMCQ 9% QU 35% HMC 11% QF 13% TAMUQ 23% QU TAMUQ QF HMC WCMCQ SIDRA ASPETAR Others Source: Web of Science
TAMUQ IP Portfolio 10 Patents (as of end 2017) 22 Patent applications in 2017 105 Overall patent applications (as of end 2017) 11 Invention disclosures in 2017 81 Overall invention disclosures (as of end 2017)
TAMUQ Research Centers and Initiatives 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
CHEN 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 Technical support to governmental and industry partners: ISO certified fuel characterization lab, Human capacity building through training schemes and involvement of Qatari students.
CHEN - 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.
CHEN - 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 Technical support to governmental and industry partners: Involvement in national and regional programs for water and energy strategies, Providing technical services and state of the art laboratory analysis to many stakeholders. Human capacity building through training schemes and involvement of Qatari students
ECEN - 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 ECEN - Health Technologies and Systems Advanced Remote Healthcare Technologies Medical Imaging Systems and Technologies Signal Processing and Biomedical Engineering Nano-Communication for Biomedical Applications
ECEN - 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
ECEN - 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.
MEEN - 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.
PETE - 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
PETE - Multiphase Flow Assurance Leak Detection in Flowlines and Wellbore Multiphase Flow loop Core Foam Flooding Set-up Computational Fluid Dynamics Particle Image Velocimetry
Science - Chemistry Experimental Theoretical Polymers Reaction mechanisms Solar Cells Large Data Bio Analysis Olefin Metathesis Lasers Catalysis Metal Organic Frameworks
Science Physics and Mathematics 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
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, Delivery of Peta and Exa-scale science for researchers and scientists, CS&E activities: workshop, conferences, training, etc. HPC Saqr Suqoor Raad Raad-II
Technical Services to Support the Industry