AUS professors get QNRF grant AUS professors get QNRF grant Anonym / Tuesday, June 16, 2015 0 29629 Article rating: No rating Two faculty members from American University of Sharjah (AUS) were recently awarded an $800,000 grant by the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) through the National Priorities Research Program (NPRP), the flagship funding programme of QNRF. The funding is to support their research proposal entitled 'Guidelines for Enhancing the Performance of FRP-strengthened Concrete Beams under Fire and Harsh Environment Exposures'. The proposal investigates the strength and behaviour of externally strengthened reinforcing concrete (RC) beams with fibre-reinforced polymers (FRP) laminates under such severe exposures. Dr Rami Hawileh, associate professor in Civil Engineering, is the Lead Principal Investigator for the research, while Dr Jamal Abdalla, professor in Civil Engineering, is the Principal Investigator. Read more
Challenge 22 recognises region’s innovators Challenge 22 recognises region’s innovators Anonym / Tuesday, June 16, 2015 0 35345 Article rating: No rating The winners of the Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy’s (SC) Challenge 22 innovation award were announced during a ceremony held at Qatar National Convention Centre on Monday evening. Following a successful roadshow introducing the concept to the GCC, more than 300 applicants from all over the region submitted their ideas for consideration. Eighteen finalists presented their ideas to a jury before the winners were eventually chosen. Read more
GU-Q wins UREP grant GU-Q wins UREP grant Anonym / Monday, June 8, 2015 0 15644 Article rating: 3.0 Georgetown University in Qatar's (GU-Q) student Fatma Marafi and her faculty mentor GU-Q Assistant Professor of Economics Alexis Antoniades were announced as one of the 37 winners of the Qatar National Research Fund's (QNRF) 17th cycle of the Undergraduate Research Experience Program (UREP) grant award. Read more
Texas A&M at Qatar Mathematician Offers Theory on What Happened to MH370 Texas A&M at Qatar Mathematician Offers Theory on What Happened to MH370 Anonym / Sunday, June 7, 2015 0 15842 Article rating: No rating The plight of Malaysia Airlines flight 370 (MH370) is one of the biggest mysteries in aviation history, but an interdisciplinary research team led by Texas A&M University at Qatar mathematician Goong Chen has theorized the ill-fated plane plunged vertically into the southern Indian Ocean in March 2014. The researchers' computer simulations lead to the forensic assertion that a 90-degree nosedive explains the lack of debris or spilled oil in the water near where the plane is presumed to have crashed. The research was the cover story in the April 2015 issue of Notices of the American Mathematical Society (see the team's paper here.) Chen is an applied mathematician teaching and researching at Texas A&M at Qatar who has been a faculty member Read more