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The Mechanical Engineering Department Mechanical engineering Department Dr. John Chai, Department Chair 37 The Petroleum Institute Annual Report 2009
The Mechanical Engineering Department Department Chair’s Summary Over the calendar year 2009, mechanical engineering (ME), with 270 students and 13 faculty members, was the largest engineering department, both in terms of student numbers and faculty strength at the Petroleum Institute (PI). In the January 2009 graduation ceremony, 34 students were awarded the Bachelor’s Degree and in July 2009 25 additional students completed their requirements for graduation in January 2010. We continued to meet our commitment to provide quality manpower training for Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. Many of the students have done ME proud locally, with our sponsors, and internationally. As a case in point, a senior ME student Mr. Hussain Al-Hashimi received the Outstanding Student Paper (BS/MS category) award during the ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping conference held in Prague, Czech Republic July 26 – 30. This award was part of the 17th Student Paper Competition. This competition is an annual event where 5 finalists in the BS/MS category from around the world are selected to present their research work. Dr. A. Seibi and Mr. A. Molki were the supervisors of this awardwinning work. In April 2009, the ME Advisory Board, consisting of personnel from private companies, our alumni and selected ME faculty members met for the first time. The advisory board recommends future directions to the department which may result in broad-base curriculum revision to meet the needs of the industry. ME is leading the PI’s effort to start a Materials Science and Engineering degree starting from Fall 2010. The application for initial accreditation for the Bachelor of Science in Materials Science and Engineering was submitted to The Commission for Academic Accreditation in the Ministry of Higher Education and Research in May 2009. The task force was lead by Dr. N. Tarfa from ME and the documentation was developed in collaboration with the Chemical Engineering Department. Our Master of Engineering (M. Eng; Master by course work), program has been growing steadily since its introduction in Fall 2007. In Fall 2009, there were eight students registered. Six more students were exspected to start their studies soon. We expect to graduate our first M. Eng. student in May 2010 with two more in Dec. 2010. We will launch the Master of Science degree in January 2010. By the end of 2009, the department had admitted 11 students under the graduate fellowships program of which five are pursuing a Master degree and seven are registered for a PhD degree. Our faculty continued to increase their research activities. ME faculty members published 66 scholarly articles (2/3 of these were archival journal articles). This represents a 120% increase from 2008. As we proceed with our research activities, we expect this figure to continue to increase in the future. ME is growing as we move into 2010. With four new faculty members joining the department, our faculty strength will increase to 17 representing a 25% increase over last year. With the new M.S. program and the recently signed MOU with the Chinese University of Petroleum, Beijing, we are anticipating significant growth in our research activities in the coming year. Annual Report 2009 The Petroleum Institute 38
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