An official from ExxonMobil making her presentation.
Subject matter experts from ExxonMobil have conducted a two-day “Carbon Management – Advancing Climate Solutions” course for more than 25 senior and graduate engineering students from Texas A&M University at Qatar.
ExxonMobil employees, including Loan Tran, GHG and Climate Change Advocacy and External Interfaces Manager, Dr. Jayanth Balasubramanian, Carbon Management Program Lead in Qatar, and Hazem Abdel Moati, Joint Interest Asset Advisor in Qatar, leveraged their combined 50 plus years of ExxonMobil experience when delivering the course.
They discussed in depth the energy industry’s role in meeting the needs of the modern world, as well as the risks of climate change, the range of sustainable solutions to mitigate the risks, and the importance of policy support. The ExxonMobil instructors elevated the students’ practical understanding of the challenging topics through an innovative case study.
“We thank Texas A&M at Qatar University for the opportunity to teach this course to its students,” said Dominic Genetti, President and General Manager for ExxonMobil Qatar.
“It benefits students, our future generation of inventers, scientists and engineers, to fully understand climate science and the range of potential solutions.
This requires universities to embed carbon literacy into their disciplines – it’s commendable that Texas A&M is taking this approach.”
“With a long history of innovation, combined with scientific and operational expertise, ExxonMobil has the technical readiness to play a lead role in development and scalable deployment of sustainable solutions like carbon capture and storage technologies, as well as recycling, other lower-emission solutions that improve quality of life and meet society’s evolving needs. It was a pleasure to share this knowledge with the enthusiastic students,” he added.
Dr. César O. Malavé, Dean of Texas A&M University at Qatar, said, “Through our Engineering Enrichment program, we aim to empower students from across Education City – not just engineering students from Texas A&M at Qatar. And we are grateful for the collaboration from our partners such as ExxonMobil, as it gives the students a real-world perspective.
Mitigating the effects of climate change requires all of us to work together, and industry-academia partnerships such as ours will contribute to creating students who are ready to take on that challenge.”
Students who attended the course are cognizant of the role of science and engineering in meeting the net-zero challenge. This learning opportunity comes as an enriching experience for young people to understand the range of exciting engineering roles that they could have in the future, and through them contribute to achieving net-zero and a more sustainable world.
