Capabilities

Within the Texas A&M Engineering Building, faculty researchers have cutting-edge equipment across 32 laboratories to conduct their research.

Fuel Cell Laboratory
Dr. Shehab Ahmed, Visiting Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dr. Prasad Enjeti, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research emphasis is on the design of fuel cell power conditioning systems and their system integration as well as other sustainable energy technologies.

Wireless Communication and Networking Lab
Dr. Hussein Alnuweiri, Visiting Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dr. Mohamed-Slim Alouini, Visiting Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dr. Joseph Boutros, Visiting Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dr. Khalid Qaraqe, Visiting Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dr. Erchin Serpedin, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Building upon existing and proven strengths, Texas A&M at Qatar's research group in the area of wireless communications and networking will endeavor to achieve the following strategic goals and objectives:

Fundamental Research: To build on our substantial achievements to further strengthen our research activities and become a leading research group in the middle east north Africa (MENA) region with demonstrable international excellence and world-class research in wireless communication and networking.

Applied Research: To transfer our output and inventions for the development of innovative products and services through the QSTP as well as to develop technical leadership in the area of wireless communication and networking and contribute to the IEEE and the ISO based WiMedia ECMA standards.

Educational Goal: To offer excellent training and education to our students and local engineers through coursework, short-courses, and specific workshops.

High Performance Computing and Visualization
Mr. Khalid Warraich, Chief Information Officer, Information Technology Services

By October 2008, Texas A&M at Qatar's Information Technology Services will put into production a 512-core Linux compute cluster (SGI Altix XE 1300) consisting of 64 8-way SMP nodes, a total of 2 TB of system memory, and a high speed DDR infiniband interconnect.  This powerful system will be linked to a 60 TB shared storage system from Panasas, Inc., capable of providing 2 GB/s aggregate throughput to the cluster nodes. The cluster will enable large scale parallel computations suitable for a distributed memory architecture on cutting edge hardware.  Furthermore, ITS is able to support post-processing  and 3D visualization of output data on a stereoscopic immersive display.  The visualization facility (an SGI Cave) is powered by a SGI Prism Extreme graphics system with 20 Intel Itanium processors, 12 graphics cards, 64 GB of memory and 2 TB of disk storage. The new cluster system will replace the current system, a 101 node Apple G5 Xserve cluster, which has been in continuous operation since 2005.

Qatar Sustainable Water and Energy Utilization Laboratory
Dr. Ahmed Abdel-Wahab, Visiting Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering
Dr. Patrick Linke, Visiting Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering

Power Laboratory
Dr. Haitham Abu-Rub, Visiting Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dr. Shehab Ahmed, Visiting Assistant Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dr. Prasad Enjeti, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Electrical and Computer Engineering


Research emphasis is on the design of advanced motor drives and power system simulation and design.