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Mechanical Engineering Texas A&M University at Qatar

A Message from the Program Coordinator

Howdy! Welcome to Texas A&M University Qatar’s Mechanical Engineering web page. As you visit these pages, we hope that you become excited about mechanical engineering at TAMUQ as we are.

Mechanical engineering students are given a solid education in the fundamental principles of engineering including social, ethical, and environmental concerns with a strong emphasis on design. An introduction to engineering is given during your freshman year. In your sophomore year, you take the basic engineering science courses that build on your understanding of physics, chemistry, and mathematics. During the junior and senior years students take specialized mechanical engineering courses such as thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, materials and manufacturing, advanced mechanics of materials, heat transfer, and controls. In addition, the program culminates in a series of design courses where the previous education comes to fruition in real world design projects. Students’ work in teams to provide a solution to industry posed problems. As part of the process, student teams present their findings and recommendations to their industrial sponsors.

Our class sizes are small, typically 10 or 12 students for upper division mechanical engineering courses. The student body is international in its makeup. Courses are taught in classrooms and laboratories, which have access to current technology. Industry has requested that students be able to work on diverse teams and the program uses teaming and active learning to help develop the educational program and promote learning.

Currently, the program has about ten faculty members who cover the range of teaching and research in mechanical engineering. As you surf this website, information for individual faculty may be found. Many of the areas are related to energy, which is of such importance for Qatar and the region. Please see specific faculty members for their individual activities. With the aggressive faculty members in the department, there are excellent opportunities for undergraduate students to work on research projects with faculty members.

Since the program is only four years old and the initial graduates earned their degrees in May 2008, the department has a wide variety of equipment for students’ use in classes and for projects. In controls, thermo-fluids, mechanics, materials, and design, the department has state of the art equipment available. For projects, the limits are your imagination.

For the future, the department will have a graduate program. Faculty are already working on developing programs that will be of interest to industry and push the boundaries of knowledge.

The future is bright for Texas A&M University at Qatar, and we would be interested in you being part of that future. For additional information on becoming a student, please contact admissions@qatar.tamu.edu.

If there is a question about mechanical engineering that you were not able to find an answer to on this website, please contact me by e-mail, mail or by phone, and I will do my best to find an answer for you.

Richard B. Griffin, Ph.D., P.E.
Program Coordinator
Mechanical Engineering Program
Texas A&M University at Qatar
richard.griffin@qatar.tamu.edu

PO Box 23874 | Doha, Qatar
228A Texas A&M Engineering Building | Education City

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www.qatar.tamu.edu

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