Ioannis G. Economou

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

Ioannis.Economou@Qatar.tamu.edu

March 2018

Texas A&M University at Qatar

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).

Degree Programs at TAMUQ

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

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Qatar Publications 2006 – 2016

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• 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 IP Portfolio

• 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

TAMUQ Research Centers and Initiatives

• 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 – Gas and Fuels Research 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 - Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center

• 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

CHEN - Qatar Sustainable Water and

Energy Utilization Initiative

• 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

• Advanced Remote Healthcare Technologies

• Medical Imaging Systems and Technologies

• Signal Processing and Biomedical Engineering

• Nano-Communication for Biomedical Applications

ECEN - Health Technologies and Systems

ECEN - Grid and Renewable Energy

• 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 - IT and Cyber Security

• Two state-of-the-art research laboratories in the area ofAutomation 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.

ECEN - Automation and Control

• 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.

MEEN - Mechanics, Materials, and Thermal-fluids

• 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.

• Pore Scale Visualization and 3D Image Reconstructions

• Impact of Wettability on Recovery Mechanisms

• Characterization of Relative Permeability & Capillary Pressure Curves for Spontaneous Imbibition

PETE - Reservoir and Fluid Characterization

• Leak Detection in Flowlines and Wellbore

• Multiphase Flow loop

• Core Foam Flooding Set-up

• Computational Fluid Dynamics

• Particle Image Velocimetry

PETE - Multiphase Flow Assurance

• Theoretical

– Reaction mechanisms

– Large Data Bio Analysis

• Experimental

– Polymers

– Solar Cells

– Olefin Metathesis

– Lasers

– Catalysis

– Metal Organic Frameworks

Science - Chemistry

• Theoretical Physics

– Nonlinear Optics

– High Energy Physics

– Multiscale Simulation

• Experimental Physics

– Laser sculpting

– Silicon Photonics

– Ferroelectric Crystal Processing

– Magnetic Control of Solitons

Science – Physics and Mathematics

• 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.

Suqoor

Raad

Raad-II

Saqr

HPC

Technical Services to Support the Industry