New building starting to look like home
Work on the new building in Doha is continuing around the clock. Last week a true sign that the structure is Carnegie Mellon's home was evident as the words of Andrew Carnegie were proudly displayed.
Carnegie’s quote was mocked-up in paper before the words are carved in stone and installed. The quote will be about 10 meters above the ground floor on the big monolith in the assembly area of the expansive building.
There are lots of exciting moments watching progress on the new building, but seeing these workers from scattered parts of Asia climbing high up the scaffolding to tape up Carnegie’s words was particularly special.
Campus News
Professional Day
42 companies will talk with students about internship and career opportunities
The entire Carnegie Mellon Qatar community is invited to attend Professional Day this Wednesday from 5 to 8 p.m. in the tent outside the LAS Building.
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top corporations including RasGas, Shell, Qatar Airways, KPMG and Deloitte will set up booths and talk with our students about internship and job opportunities. This is a chance to meet with local business leaders and show support for our student body.
Professional dress is required by everyone who attends.
Second Programming Contest a success
The Second Annual Carnegie Mellon Qatar Programming Contest was held yesterday, Saturday, March 15. Student participation was excellent with 8 teams competing: 3 all freshmen teams; 2 all sophomores teams; 2 all juniors team and 1 team with a sophomore, a junior and a senior.
The winning team was Hatem Alismail, Rishav Bhowmick and Anirban Lahiri - the sophomore, junior and senior team. Second place went to Aysha Siddique, Shakir Hussain and Shahriar Hague. Third place was captured by Lina Agha and Fatma Al-Binali. The top freshman team was Laila Khan, Maryam Al-Semaitt and Abdalla Al-Kuwari (all Business Administration students from the current 15-100 class!)
The winning team will go on to represent Carnegie Mellon in the UAE NAtional Programming Contest, April 2 & 3.
Qatar National Universities Debating Championship
Thursday and Friday last week saw the inaugural Qatar National Universities Championship here in the LAS Building. Carnegie Mellon Qatar entered one team in the competition made up of students Basheera Banu (Tepper 2009), Khaled Ziyaeen (Tepper 2011) and Saleh Majid Alkhulaifi (Tepper 2011).
In their first public debates, the Carnegie Mellon team narrowly lost to WCMC-Q (A), the eventual 2nd place winner, and won against a team from CNA-Q on Thursday evening. On Friday they had another narrow loss (1 point) to the team from ABP.
The quality of the Carnegie Mellon debaters was borne out by Khaled Ziyaeen being declared best speaker in the tournament and Basheera Banu as runner-up best speaker.
Final tally of money raised
The donations are in and counted. The inaugural Bill Brown Ride from Doha toward Al Khor on March 1 raised $3,978.03 or QR 14,519 for the Bill Brown Scholarship Fund. Thank you again to everyone who donated, cycled and volunteered. We'll see you next year.
Other News
Upcoming Events
Public Art Forum
Sunday, March 16
4:30 p.m.
Room B015
Mural artist Doug Cooper has been invited to design and install a mural in Carnegie Mellon’s new building. This forum, open to everyone in the Carnegie Mellon community, will provide an opportunity for questions and comments on the concept Doug and his team are developing.
Doug has taught drawing in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Architecture since 1976 and is the author of a well-known text on the subject, Drawing and Perceiving. For the last 15 years he has focused on large panoramic murals (up to 200 feet-long and 15 feet-high) in various cities world-wide including Frankfurt, New York and Rome.
Special Lecture
Chris Urmson
Sunday, March 16
5:30 p.m.
Lecture Hall B
Join Chris Urmson, director of technology for the Tartan Racing Team at Carnegie Mellon, for a special lecture on the DARPA Urban Challenge and the Boss, which is Carnegie Mellon's autonomous vehicle.
Urmson's talk will illustrate the overall system architecture and highlight the many component technologies that made up the boss.
All are welcome to attend. Refreshments will follow the lecture.
Graduation
Monday, May 5
7 p.m.
Education City
Graduation for the Class of 2008 will take place in a tent on the Education City Grounds. Nearly 1,000 guests are being invited to attend this historic event.
In addition to the graduation, several other events, activities and celebrations will take place this week. More details will come.
