(MENAFN- The Peninsula) The Peninsula
Doha, Qatar: President of the Public Works Authority 'Ashghal', H E Dr. Eng. Saad bin Ahamd Al Muhannadi, along with a range of Ashghal officials, paid a visit as Ashghal wrapped up the 2nd edition of the“Future Engineer” programme organised with the Qatar Scientific Club, and in coordination with the Ministry of Sports and Youth and the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, with the participation of Al Jazeera media Institute.
The President and the accompanying delegation were briefed on the benefits and output of the programme aimed to familiarise students with the different engineering disciplines by providing various workshops, and field and projects visits while introducing the importance and advantages of each discipline, as the programme also contributes to meeting the requirements of the market in the future.
Thirty students, in the age group of 12-18 years, participated and the training programme provided 20 trainers from different engineering disciplines from Ashghal and the Qatar Scientific Club, where 15 workshops were offered, in addition to 3 field visits in Ashghal.
To deepen the scientific and practical knowledge of the participants in the engineering field, the programme was divided into two main sections over the span of eight days. One section was offered at the laboratories and departments of Ashghal, whereas the other section was offered at the laboratories of the Qatar Scientific Club.
The first section of the programme will enable students to learn about the sampling methods, their inspection and whether or not they are approved according to the national engineering specifications, and then they will learn about Ashghal's Centre for Research and Development, and the environmental laboratories and construction material laboratories. Students will also learn about GIS and use Virtual Reality techniques in some of the engineering projects.
The participants will then move to the 2nd section of the programme which will be at the Qatar Scientific Club and includes engineering activities such as building and distributing teams, planning the engineering project, initiating prototypes design for the project, managing engineering projects and completing the implementation of the prototype to become a final model. On the last day, the projects will be presented by the participants and evaluated by a competent committee from Ashghal.
Children from the Orphans Care Centre (Dreama) also participated in“Future Engineer 2” which aims to enhance the skills of students and familiarise them with the different engineering disciplines to guide them through the process of choosing their own. This is by offering various workshops on different engineering disciplines while highlighting the importance and advantages of each one, in addition to encouraging students to explore different engineering fields in line with the market requirements. Dreama thanked Ashghal for its continuous efforts to include those children in its different societal initiatives and programmes.
Dr. Eng. Saad bin Ahmad Al Muhannadi, President of Ashghal stated:“We look forward to cooperating continuously with different governmental entities and organisations in the country, to achieve a strategic cooperation that encourages consolidating all efforts in the field of training and development for the next generations. This is to meet the market needs when it comes to the engineering field in the future, and to offer an opportunity to all our students in different engineering disciplines and familiarize them with the engineering environment in-depth, as well as allow them to be able to decide the most suitable discipline for them in the future.” Abdulla Saad Al Saad, Manager of the Public Relations, and Communications Department at Ashghal expressed his gratitude for the success of the programme which comes within the social responsibility framework of Ashghal, to enrich students with insights and ideas that prepare them for future work environment, an aspect that was taken into consideration during the workshops and field visits offered to the students. This allowed them to be fully aware of the responsibility of the engineering work, its commitment and planning.
Regarding the activities that take place in the Qatar Scientific Club, Eng. Abdulrahman Saleh Khamis, Deputy Executive Director of the QSC stated that the club management was keen for the programme to be comprehensive and that it carries an engineering nature in terms of the choices of projects and the engineering methods into transforming the prototype into a final model that can be implemented. He also stated that the QSC management values Ashghal's support for the“Future Engineer” programme which reflects its full commitment to social responsibility towards the country.
Dr. Ali Al Marri, Manager of the Quality and Safety Department at Ashghal stressed the importance of practical experiments in the development of the required skills and expertise for the future engineer, as well as the steps followed in Ashghal to ensure the quality of the materials used in projects.