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Doha, Qatar: Nineteen female undergraduate students from Pakistan participated in the second annual US-Pakistan Women’s Council Future of Women in Energy Scholars programme, hosted by Texas A&M University at Qatar, a Qatar Foundation partner university.
The programme was sponsored by the US-Pakistan Women’s Council, a public-private partnership between the US Department of State and Texas A&M University, that seeks to increase women’s economic participation in Pakistan by promoting women’s entrepreneurship, employment, and access to career-enhancing educational opportunities.
In addition, USAID, the US Department of Energy, the US Embassy in Islamabad, and the US Embassy in Qatar provided support for the programme.
The young women represented nine universities from four different cities in Pakistan and were proficient in a wide range of academic disciplines including chemical engineering, electrical engineering, biotechnology, software engineering, geophysics, environmental engineering, mechanical engineering, geography, and earth and environmental sciences.
The students were welcomed to Texas A&M at Qatar by Dr. César O. Malavé, Dean of Texas A&M University at Qatar, and Dr. Ioannis Economou, Executive Associate Dean.
During their time in Doha, the students participated in courses that covered a variety of topics including natural gas processing, fossil energy, laboratory safety, artificial intelligence tools, research methodology, career perspective in oil and gas, hydropower, solar thermal energy, global innovation, wind energy, energy consumption, nuclear power, and energy security.
