On the record. Dedicated Staff Receive Charles E. Thorpe Awards
Inter-Campus Team Wins Case Competition
The Charles E. Thorpe Distinguished Service Awards, named after Carnegie Mellon Qatar’s founding dean, are a tribute to the teamwork and dedication of the university’s staff members. Each year, the community nominates non-faculty university employees in five categories, with the winners announced at the end of the school year. The 2013 winners are:
The Carnegie Mellon students who braved crowds at Doha’s new IKEA store recently weren’t there for the furniture. They were learning about the store and scoping out its target market. This year’s Internal Case Competition challenged students to position the Swedish furniture retailer in the local market. Pittsburgh students who were visiting Doha as part of the Impaqt exchange program joined Qatar students to form six teams in the contest, which was held over a two-day period in March. The winning team, Epsilon Consulting, worked around the clock to produce a plan that impressed a panel of faculty and alumni judges. "Epsilon succeeded in presenting a practical step-by-step solution to the case at hand, providing multiple recommendations that would have been just as successful realistically as they were within the fictional confines of the case competition,” said Omar Allouba (TPR’09), a sales assistant at Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing and a competition judge. Epsilon Consulting consisted of Dana AlAnsari, a junior in business administration; Zainab Baqri, a sophomore in business administration; Kenrick Fernandes, a junior in computer science; and Alexis Georgiadis, a senior in business administration at the Pittsburgh campus.
Carnegie Mellon Qatar received applications from a record 835 prospective students representing 61 nationalities for the 2013–14 academic year. Admitted students and their families attended the Marhaba Tartans reception in April to meet faculty, alumni and students, and learn more about what it will be like to be part of the Carnegie Mellon community.
RasGas: Vision Affects Long-term Success
Outstanding Innovation
Outstanding Service to Students
Khairunisa Mohammed Dalwai, Administrative Assistant
Shazia Haq, Academic Assistant
With an annual output of around 77 million tons, Qatar is the world’s largest producer of liquefied natural gas (LNG). RasGas produces about half of it—supplying countries across Asia, Europe and the Americas. This alone does not predict that RasGas will be a successful company, said Khalid Sultan Al Kuwari, chief marketing and shipping executive, who spoke at Carnegie Mellon as part of the Dean’s Lecture Series. To become a major energy supplier, you need a vision, execution, a deep understanding of markets, a robust strategy and good people, Al Kuwari said. According to Al Kuwari, RasGas, through its major shareholders (Qatar Petroleum and ExxonMobil), has invested in the full LNG supply chain, from drilling larger wells to managing the largest ships on the seas. The result: Qatari LNG delivered to all corners of the globe efficiently and reliably. The lecture elaborated on key variables that influence the global energy market and demonstrated how a shrewd marketing strategy can result in long-term success.
نموذج مثالي لتحقيق الرؤية.. راس غاز إلى نجاح فعلي وتنتج وحدها نحو نصف هذه، مليون طن سنوي ًا77 تعتبر قطر أضخم مصدر للغاز المسال في العالم بمعدل . التي يتم تصديرها إلى بلدان مختلفة في جميع أنحاء آسيا وأوروبا واألمريكتين،الكمية كبير مسؤولي، على حد قول السيد خالد الكواري،""بيد أن هذا وحده ال يضمن نجاح الشركة في المستقبل والذي ألقى محاضرة بجامعة كارنيجي ميلون في إطار سلسلة،مجموعة التسويق والشحن براس غاز فإن هذا يستلزم وجود قيادة، "لكي تصير من كبار مصدري الطاقة في العالم: حيث يقول.محاضرات العميد ." إلى جانب توافر فهم عميق لألسواق العالمية واستراتيجية قوية وكوادر إدارية وفنية متميزة،ملهمة في، قطر للبترول وإكسون موبيل: من خالل مساهميها الرئيسيين، فقد استثمرت راس غاز،وبحسب الكواري )سلسلة تحويل الغاز الطبيعي إلى سوائل (بدءا بحفر آبار أكبر وصو ًال إلى تشغيل أضخم السفن في البحار .األمر الذي أتاح نقل الغاز المسال القطري إلى شتى بقاع العالم بكفاءة ونجاح إلى جانب،كما تطرقت المحاضرة قد تطرقت إلى المتغيرات الرئيسية التي تؤثر على سوق الطاقة العالمية . والقادرة على تحقيق نجاح دائم ومتنامي،استراتيجيات التسويق الجيدة
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Record Number of Students Apply
Outstanding Dedication to CMU
Outstanding Commitment to the Community
Roula Albradee, Senior Accountant
Ahmed Husane Aldobashi, Housing and Transportation Manager
Nora Al Subai, Carnegie Mellon Qatar alumna and SAP senior business analyst at Qatar Petroleum, shared her CMU experiences in an address to prospective students and their parents. “The Carnegie Mellon experience is a privilege, one that is paved with hard work, growth and success,” Al Subai said. “I am eternally grateful to my mother for making me apply to CMU. It has honestly been one of the best decisions in my life. It was clear to my parents, and to me, that I came to CMU a child and walked out a confident, independent woman.”
CMU Researchers Awarded QNRF Grants This spring, Carnegie Mellon Qatar has received four grants from Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF). Jorge Sacchini and Edmund Lam, both post-doctoral research associates, received funding through the Junior Scientists Research Experience Program (JSREP). Sacchini was selected for his work on the interactive theorem prover, Coq, which is used in large-scale projects, including formalizing mathematical theories and verifying programs. His project will
Summer 2013 / Fall 2013
attempt to implement extensions to increase the expressive power and usability of Coq and help bring it to a wider range of applications and users. Lam’s project involves developing an extension of the high-level programming construct Join Pattern, with features that will make the system more robust and effective for parallel and distributed programming. The university also received two National Priorities Research Program (NPRP) grants during the sixth funding cycle,
which was announced in May. Kemal Oflazer, teaching professor of computer science, will lead a project to explore partial diacritizations of Arabic text in the context of both Natural Language Processing and human readability, aiming to discover the optimal diacritization level. Jonathan Finkel, assistant teaching professor of biology, will lead a project to better characterize the diverse collection of pathogenic fungi isolated at Hamad Hospital in Qatar.
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