Ahmad Khanzada, a civil engineering student at CMU, has returned to Doha for a summer internship as part of the Campus Exchange Program.

Khanzada is working at AECOM, the firm that is building Doha Oasis, a multipurpose development that includes residences, a theme park, a shopping mall and a 7-star hotel. His work over the summer will be part of an independent research project he will undertake when he returns to Pittsburgh in September.

Khanzada was one of 10 students from CMU Pittsburgh who visited the Qatar campus as part of the Initiating Meaningful Pittsburgh and Qatar Ties (IMPAQT) program. Each year, the IMPAQT intercampus visits introduce Qatar students to the main campus, and CMU students to the unique culture of CMU-Q.

For Khanzada, the internship is an opportunity to see infrastructure development from a different viewpoint: “I am outside three or four hours every day, consulting with the foreman, the engineers, and the architects. This is exposure I wouldn’t get in the US.”