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Message From the Vice President
Vice-President of Student Affairs, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
Welcome to the Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) Student Affairs webpage. This platform is an essential resource for our students and alumni, both throughout and after their academic journey at HBKU.
This webpage aims to create an online community where students can engage themselves through Student Affairs’ services, as well as co-curricular activities, such as student engagement, leadership activities, experiential learning, and community outreach. It also strategically provides help and assistance to resolve any problems that may arise as students pursue their degrees and is the first contact for questions, concerns, or issues pertaining to the learning environment.
The Student Affairs team strives to educate, empower, and support students in their development to become engaged citizens in Qatar and globally, by providing a wealth of information about Student Services, Career, Alumni Services, and International Services.
Student Affairs is committed to creating, supporting, and sustaining student initiatives to enable students to enhance personal growth and community development. Our webpage is geared towards promoting these goals that will benefit the local market and beyond.
We recognize that our success comes from our students, and we hope each one will find this space beneficial during their journey at HBKU.
Our Mission
Our focus is on the wellbeing and academic success of our students, promoting career and professional services, as well as student services and activities. We aim to engage students in developing skills and competencies through diverse educational learning opportunities.
Our Vision
The Student Affairs Office leads with a student-centred approach designed to help HBKU students within academic and non-academic contexts holistically. Our vision involves creating opportunities for students, as supporting them is our highest priority.
Goals
- Cultivate a community of support
- Promote a culture of civic engagement and outreach with the outside community
- Foster a network of innovation for future use of our academic and research capabilities
- Encourage intercultural knowledge of HBKU to thrive within a global context
- Create opportunities and relations with the community in Qatar for possible internships, employment, and other endeavors to successfully achieve HBKU’s mission
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Student Stories
Samar Elkhalifa, a CSE graduate from the Class of 2022, is currently working as a "brand ambassador" with VISA company for the duration of her internship that finishes on the last day of the FIFA World Cup 2022, and also works as an Academic Research Assistant. After her graduation, she visited 3-2-1 Qatar Olympic and Sports Museum with fellow students and graduates representing HBKU, and volunteered in the UNESCO launch event conducted by the College of Law, HBKU. She worked with a diverse group of people who made the event a success, and was responsible for hosting and welcoming ambassadors, ministers, deans and other audience members. During her tenure as a PhD student at HBKU, her paper "Food waste to biochars through pyrolysis a review" achieved two awards: the most downloaded and the most cited article in the journal resource, conservation and recycling for paper published since 2018.
Salar Mujeeb Khan
College of Science & Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) Major: PhD in Sustainable Energy (2022)
Yousef Mohammed Yousef Al-Jaber, a CSE graduate from the Class of 2016, is currently the VP of Innovation and Change Management and Director of TotalEnergies Research Center at Qatar (TRCQ). He represented HBKU as an alumnus during the first Qatar Foundation graduate reunion and managed many research activities and projects in alliance with QEERI (HBKU). He restructured Total Research Center Qatar (TRCQ) and launched two programs: Sustainable Development Program (2017) and the Solar Energy Program at TRCQ (2018). For the Solar Energy program, he challenged the team to localize the research with QEERI and today, they have all of their current projects done in alliance with QEERI, with an estimate of millions of Qatari Riyals spent on an annual basis in Qatar on Solar Energy technologies. Ever since he took on the leadership of TRCQ in November 2016, he feels proud to have had the opportunity to localize and expand TRCQ’s research, with many successful projects deployed in Qatar.
Yousef Mohammed Yousef Al-Jaber
College of Science & Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) Major: Executive Master in Energy and Resources (2016)
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