The PI Annual Report 2009 - The Petroleum Institute

Electrical Engineering Department
Student-Related
Academic Activities
1.
Three EE students, Saif Al Dhaheri, Wail Habri and Mohammad Tamer Chaklab, supervised by Dr. Youssef
Abdel Magid, Dr. Lisa Lamont and Eng. Sayed Faisal, participated in the 2009 ‘Made in the Arab World’ in
Cairo.
2. Osama Al Ameri, a Junior EE student, participated in the 2009 Made in the Arab World in Cairo with his project
“Photovoltaic Curve Tracer.” He was supervised by Dr. Lana El Chaar, Dr. Lisa Lamont and Eng. Mohammed
Serhan.
3. EE students and their course instructor went on a field trip to the Umm Al-Nar power station. The total production
of the station is about 2000MW, coming from 8 generators. They visited the transformer substation and
the control room and observed the SCADA system operating in real time. In addition, they visited one of the
protection centers with 15kV SF6 circuit breakers and its associated relaying circuits.
4. EE female students visited the 2009 Abu Dhabi Power and Energy Exhibition (accompanied by EE faculty)
where they saw generators, motors, and cables together with different options for system monitoring devices.
Photos from the trip are attached.
5. Accompanied by Dr. Lana El Chaar, EE female students attended the 5th IEEE GCC Conference in Kuwait.
The trip was organized in recognition of the students’ achievements at the IEEE student competition.
6. Students went on a field trip to Abu Dhabi Cable Factory with Dr. Lana El Chaar. This trip was part of the
power systems course taught during the semester.
7. Accompanied by Dr. Su, students went on a field trip to ADYARD, an electric motor and generator maintenance
and repair company.
8. Mr. Mahmoud Zaher, a Senior Engineer at ADCO gave several seminars to the EE Class on Electric Machines
on industrial practices in maintenance and repair of motors and transformers.
9. Dr. Heithem Hasan Beck, Chief Engineer at TAKREER spoke to the EE Design Class on Six Sigma, a business
strategy that involves process, organizational, and technical change designed to increase customer satisfaction,
operational efficiencies and revenue.
10. PI International Earth Day and Foundation 3 Renewable Energy Presentations: Dr. Lisa Lamont and Dr. Lana
Chaar organized students’ presentations of the potential for photo-voltaic exploitation in the PI and in the UAE
generally.
Student Non-Academic Activities
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EE students Ahmad Al Azizi, Mohamad Tamer Chaklab, Mohammad Azzam, Saif Al Dhaheri and Wail Al
Habri participated in a community outreach project, titled “Energy Saving Campaign.” Their work targeted 3rd
and 4th grade school students and focused on building awareness of personal steps towards energy savings.
Accompanied by Dr. Lana El Chaar, Dr. Lisa Lamont and Dr. Abdurrahim El-Keib, EE women students visited
the Abu Dhabi “Future Center” (a center for physically challenged children) and presented a check for funds
raised through a campaign conducted at the PI and outside
Following the “2009 Celebrating EE Day,” students, faculty and staff joined in a game of bowling followed by
dinner and distribution of awards.
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