First Omani student to get Doctorate in mechanical engineering

Muscat: Omar bin Said Al Abri of the College of Engineering at Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) has become the first Omani student to get Doctorate (Phd degree) in mechanical engineering from Industrial Mechanical Engineering Department.
His dissertation was on experimental and numerical studies for material related to pipes extendable at multiple levels.
Dr. Nabil Zahran Al Rawahi Head of the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department at the SQU said that the study was financed by the Research Council.
Al Abri is the first Omani student to get PhD from this department, he added.