ANNUAL REPORT - The Petroleum Institute

A year of transformation, growth and success
Internship Department
Dr. Hamad Karki, Director
The Internship program at the PI was
previously a decentralized activity supervised
by the Student Affairs Division and directly
monitored by each Engineering program. This
arrangement ended during the organizational
restructure of the PI during the first quarter
of 2012. The role of the new department is
to coordinate with ADNOC’s affiliates and
industrial partners to ensure that eligible PI
students are placed for appropriate internship
training in accordance with the approved syllabi
with the criteria set by ABET (formerly known
as the Accreditation Board for Engineering
and Technology). Dr. Hamad Karki has been
appointed as Director of Internship and A.
Sunil Anwar as Internship Coordinator.
In contrast to previous years, the new team
was successful in completing all the prearrangements
for the internship program in a
timely manner, including (but not limited to)
the following achievements:
• We have coordinated with host
companies to ensure that they have
adequate facilities to accommodate
and train our students.
• We have been successful in obtaining
onshore/offshore CNIA security passes
for all the students, irrespective of their
nationality or gender.
• We have ensured that each student is
assigned a pre-defined Engineering
project which details the technical
aspects and work methodology required
for successful completion.
• We have ensured that appropriate
mentors are allocated to all students and
that proper coordination is established
between mentors and program
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