Al-Abri, Mohammed
Denman, Christopher
Al Alawi, Mubarak
Al Ajmi, Maryam
Article History
Received: 29 June 2023
Accepted: 5 February 2024
First Online: 3 May 2024
Competing interests
: This research did not receive funding support from any public, private, or not-for-profit funding agency. The corresponding author is the coordinator of the Eidaad programme in the Department of Petroleum and Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, Sultan Qaboos University. The third author is the focal point for the College of Engineering’s Eidaad programme and Chair of its Industrial Training Committee.
: This study was performed in line with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. The research reported in this study was granted exemption from formal ethics review by the Head of the Department of Petroleum and Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, Sultan Qaboos University, due to its classification as negligible risk research not collecting personal information and presenting no foreseeable risk of harm or discomfort to respondents other than inconvenience.
: All potential participants were informed in writing about the study’s purpose, voluntary nature, anonymity of responses, and potential for dissemination of findings. In line with institutional approval, consent was considered given when online questionnaires were submitted.