Students attended a month long internship with UK based clean energy giant Amec Foster Wheeler.
Five Khalifa University students had the opportunity to delve into the world of clean energy during their recent internship with British energy company Amec Foster Wheeler. Hussain Abdullaziz Hind Alhamiri Budour Al Yammahi Alanoud Alabdouli and Abdelaziz Alzaabi were all chosen to travel to the UK in order to gain hands on experience with a wide variety of sustainable energy options that the company runs.
The month-long visit gave students the opportunity to be introduced to the operations of the company’s training rig facilities and laboratories the Hunterston power station and visits to the National Nuclear Laboratory’s Cumbria labs the Gen2 training centre (where they viewed a simulator of the Pressurized Water Reactor) and the Dalton Nuclear Institute at the University of Manchester and the institute’s facility in Cumbria UK.
They also engaged in interactive seminars and training sessions in reliability engineering scheduling and design software project management commercial awareness and technical sketching as well as engaging in an engineering practical where they discussed and derived key Critical Safety Functions and Safety Functional Requirements before moving on to apply this as part of a case study.
Hussain commented on his experience saying “I had prior opinions about the nuclear industry. However upon completing this visit my opinions have changed. I would now consider joining the nuclear industry.”
“We are very pleased that our students had the opportunity to travel to the UK to work with Amec Foster Wheeler and experience the myriad ways they can work in the clean energy sector ” said Dr. Tod Laursen President. “Nuclear energy is at the center of the UAE’s future energy goals and spurring student interest in working in this sector is vitally important. Khalifa University is dedicated to developing the UAE’s nuclear energy leaders and clean energy leaders of tomorrow and these exciting internships are a part of that journey.”
Students attended a month long internship with UK based clean energy giant Amec Foster Wheeler.
Five Khalifa University students had the opportunity to delve into the world of clean energy during their recent internship with British energy company Amec Foster Wheeler. Hussain Abdullaziz Hind Alhamiri Budour Al Yammahi Alanoud Alabdouli and Abdelaziz Alzaabi were all chosen to travel to the UK in order to gain hands on experience with a wide variety of sustainable energy options that the company runs.
The month-long visit gave students the opportunity to be introduced to the operations of the company’s training rig facilities and laboratories the Hunterston power station and visits to the National Nuclear Laboratory’s Cumbria labs the Gen2 training centre (where they viewed a simulator of the Pressurized Water Reactor) and the Dalton Nuclear Institute at the University of Manchester and the institute’s facility in Cumbria UK.
They also engaged in interactive seminars and training sessions in reliability engineering scheduling and design software project management commercial awareness and technical sketching as well as engaging in an engineering practical where they discussed and derived key Critical Safety Functions and Safety Functional Requirements before moving on to apply this as part of a case study.
Hussain commented on his experience saying “I had prior opinions about the nuclear industry. However upon completing this visit my opinions have changed. I would now consider joining the nuclear industry.”
“We are very pleased that our students had the opportunity to travel to the UK to work with Amec Foster Wheeler and experience the myriad ways they can work in the clean energy sector ” said Dr. Tod Laursen President. “Nuclear energy is at the center of the UAE’s future energy goals and spurring student interest in working in this sector is vitally important. Khalifa University is dedicated to developing the UAE’s nuclear energy leaders and clean energy leaders of tomorrow and these exciting internships are a part of that journey.”
with more submissions and increasingly innovative apps some of which were adopted commercially by different industries. Innovation entrepreneurship and creativity are the keys to the development of the knowledge economy and the achievement of the National Innovation Strategy and by challenging youths with exciting competitive contests such as MAC we are driving them to excel and to invent. It is Khalifa University’s goal to foster the research and development environment in the UAE and organizing events like this one are an important way in which we do that.”
