1,303 SQU Scientific College students of SQU receive degrees
MUSCAT: Assigned by His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said, Dr. Madiha bint Ahmed Al Shibaniyah, Minister of Education patronised over the second session of the 29th Graduation Ceremony of Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) yesterday.
The ceremony marks the graduation of the 10th batch of PhD graduates, the 23th batch of master’s degree holders, and the 29th batch of bachelor’s degree holders. As many as 2,954 graduates of the nine colleges, in the undergraduate and postgraduate streams, received their degrees during the graduation ceremony this year.
In the second ceremony held yesterday, 1,303 graduates from the five scientific colleges received their degrees. The number of graduates from each college is as follows: the College of Science 418, the College of Nursing 100, the College of Engineering 453, the College of Agriculture and Marine Sciences 199, and the College of Medicine 133.
Dr. Madiha Al Shibaniyah, Minister of Education said that the SQU graduation ceremony is held while the Sultanate is witnessing overwhelming celebrations of the 48th Glorious National Day. She added that this ceremony gives us the opportunity to view the major achievements made during the prosperous reign of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said. She pointed out that the education sector is among such achievements as outlined by His Majesty the Sultan since the dawn of the Blessed Renaissance.
Addressing the graduates and the dignitaries on the occasion, Dr. Ali bin Saud Al Bimani, SQU Vice Chancellor highlighted the latest achievements of the students of the scientific colleges. A team of students from the College of Science ranked first in a number of competitions of the Earth Sciences Conference “Geo 2018” held in the Kingdom of Bahrain. The graduation project for the students of the Industrial Engineering Program at the College of Engineering won the second place in the graduation projects competition at the 8th International Conference of Industrial Engineering and Operations Management in Indonesia.
Maysa Al Suwaieh, a PhD student at the College of Engineering won the first place in the SPE Student Paper Contest in the Middle East and North Africa level.
In the Huawei International Competition, Amira Abdul Muati, a Master degree student at the College of Engineering, won the first place in the test of students’ ability to apply the latest protocols in the fields of computer networks. In the field of student innovation, Zawa, a student team invented a heat-cooling product that can be used in vehicles. A group of students from the College of Engineering has also created an automated shopping cart that helps elderly people and people with disabilities to shop more easily by working with an application that contains a special website.
The SQU Vice Chancellor also highlighted the achievements at the academic level. Dr. Abdullah bin Mohammed Al Sa’adi, Dean of College of Agricultural and Marine Sciences, received Abdul Hameed Shoman Arab Researchers Award 2017 in the field of agriculture and technology sciences. Prof. Sabah bint Ahmed Al Suleiman from the College of Engineering won the Qatar Sustainability Award 2018 in the category of Green Research for her research on “the use of waste generated from oil drilling operations as raw material in cement industry: manufacturing of sustainable cement”.