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0 | when it comes to aerospace innovation winging it takes on a whole new meaning as several teams competing in this years invent for the planet discovered an intensive 48-hour design competition hosted by the college of engineering at texas a&m university invent for the planet 2019 brought together a global community of e... |
1 | awarded first-place at texas a&m for their solution to minimize hail damage to delicate aircraft wing control surfaces operational delays costly repairs and accidents team hail no included mechanical engineering students mazen ali and bamidele fadayomi the teams dual air bag module design similar to an inflatable sleev... |
2 | i feel like invent for the planet has really shaped my mindset about how other disciplines think and how i should think not only as a mechanical engineer but as an entrepreneur ali said team hail no also included students umang kantesaria computer science and engineering; jacob azbell electrical engineering; jobin geor... |
3 | researchers at texas a&m university are uncovering new methods of working on the nanoscale which could ultimately lead to the development of more advanced electronics and environmentally friendly engineering practices lead researcher dr jonathan felts an assistant professor in the j mike walker '66 department of mechan... |
4 | "i foresee our work providing insight into engineering surfaces with less friction and wear making optic and electronic devices with more sensitivity and efficiency than current technology " felts said efficiency in particular is a significant focus of the team's research as they seek to develop more reliable ways to e... |
5 | felts said the research is a multidisciplinary endeavor drawing on the use of mechanical force chemical reactions atomic physics and more through the study and application of these methods the team has been able to discern fundamental properties that are helpful in developing the ability to better plan for and predict ... |
6 | dr john valasek professor in the department of aerospace engineering at texas a&m university and director of the vehicle systems & control laboratory was an invited panelist on the topic of verification and validation in the age of autonomy at the 2019 american institute of aeronautics and astronautics (aiaa) science a... |
7 | the principal investigators for the autonomous material discovery and manufacturing via artificial intelligence project include dr bukkapatnam dr ding dr karaman dr arróyave dr kumar dr jianhua huang and dr bani mallick (statistics) dr doug allaire (mechanical engineering) dr dimitris lagoudas (aerospace engineering) d... |
8 | the autonomous material discovery and manufacturing using artificial intelligence project funded by several sources including the national science foundation and the new texas a&m university x-grants program is helping researchers at texas a&m university forge a novel path to create materials that are yet to be discove... |
9 | the closed loop solution material discovery will transform from the work of human scientists to an autonomous experimental platform said dr yu ding industrial and systems engineering professor at texas a&m university and co-lead of the project tackling this enormous challenge requires three different kinds of expertise... |
10 | experiments will be completely autonomous and able to use little to no input data creating a closed loop system a truly autonomous materials discovery platform will transform the way materials scientists think about the entire materials discovery cycle said dr raymundo arróyave materials science and engineering profess... |
11 | collaboration: the key to progress it is an interdisciplinary problem kumar said without a multidisciplinary initiative of this sort i would not normally have been involved in a research project with materials scientists researchers from diverse backgrounds are coming together and sitting at a table from a texas a&m po... |
12 | for thousands of years geothermal energy has been harnessed as a clean and sustainable source of power long ago indigenous people around the globe such as the maoris in new zealand cooked their food using water from natural hot springs later the romans engineered a way to use the earths heat to warm their buildings now... |
13 | to combat this a team of researchers from the j mike walker '66 department of mechanical engineering at texas a&m university is developing shockwave and plasma accelerated rock cracking (sparc) drilling technology by making the creation of wells more efficient accessible and cost effective their us department of energy... |
14 | the drilling technology that we are working on has the potential to increase drilling rates (rate of penetration) and reduce the wear and tear of traditional drill bits this is achieved by locally prestressing or precracking the rock being drilled prior to the cutting action of the drill bit said antao as staack furthe... |
15 | its very exciting to be able to apply my expertise in machining research to study rock drilling with a real-world application said tai this is truly a novel interdisciplinary idea that will be a game changer a game changer that us secretary of energy rick perry summed up in his related press release geothermal energy i... |
16 | rita and mark puckett 73 have established an endowed scholarship for global studies funds will be used to provide scholarships to full-time undergraduate students participating in a global program experience in the college of engineering at texas a&m university the pucketts had this to say: we have been blessed to live... |
17 | the college of engineering is one of the leading engineering programs in the united states ranking first in undergraduate enrollment and ninth in graduate enrollment endowments supporting the students in the college have an immeasurable impact on their education if you are interested in supporting the college of engine... |
18 | a prize will be named in memory of dr m sam mannan executive director of the mary kay o'connor process safety center (mkopsc) and pioneer in process safety at hazards 29 the institution of chemical engineers (icheme) premier process safety conference in association with the mkopsc as a tribute to mannans career icheme ... |
19 | dr ralph wurbs a senior professor in the zachry department of civil engineering at texas a&m university has been selected as the first american academy of water resources engineers (aawre) outstanding research and innovation award recipient founded in 2004 in affiliation with the american society of civil engineers (as... |
20 | mohammad taghi nikoukalam a doctoral student in the zachry department of civil engineering and his advisor dr petros sideris an assistant professor in the department |
21 | nikoukalam and sideris are designing a novel system of sustainable bridge columns with damage-resistant joints and replaceable energy dissipating links |
22 | the design could save lives through more earthquake-proof bridges in the united states a vast number of bridges several of which are located in regions of moderate and high seismicity have been classified as structurally deficient or functionally obsolete new bridges built using their design will be more damage resista... |
23 | leadership is an aggie core value and a common word found on resumes; however few true leaders get the recognition they deserve but this april environmental engineer bob pence 72 will be honored for his lifestyle of leadership that accompanied his others-focused attitude a former member of company b-2 pence feels that ... |
24 | cristi and darrell petty 90 have established the petty family engineering scholarship to provide one or more scholarships to full-time students in good standing who are pursuing an undergraduate degree in electrical and computer engineering from texas a&m university darrell currently serves on the external advisory and... |
25 | the college of engineering is one of the leading engineering programs in the united states ranking first in undergraduate enrollment and ninth in graduate enrollment endowments supporting the students in the college have an immeasurable impact on their education if you are interested in supporting the college of engine... |
26 | q: what is your role at nasaa: one of the most important things i do is to help provide health and medical technical authority what does that mean after the columbia accident there was an external independent board called the columbia accident investigation board the board zeroed in on our culture and the fact that pro... |
27 | q: how has your position changed over timea: i started out doing physics and engineering when i first started i was a part of the space radiation analysis group and sat at the console in mission control for at least a dozen years we used a lot of transport codes we did everything related to radiation radiation is just ... |
28 | q: what steps did you take to move into a leadership positiona: i had to actively go out and let upper management know i was interested in a leadership position and then had to go on interviews it felt different difficult and risky compared to what i was comfortable doing when i became a branch chief i had all kinds of... |
29 | q: are you contributing to the mars colony missiona: about five years ago going to mars officially became one of our long-term goals everything we're doing is trying to help us learn and get to the point where humans are an interplanetary species the next mission we have planned is a miniature space station that will o... |
30 | q: can you go into some of the radiation humans would encounter on the satellite the moon and marsa: space radiation has three sources it can come from the trapped radiation belts known as the van allen belts which has a proton belt and an outer electron belt the inner belt is mostly protons and these are trapped parti... |
31 | q: if far in the future humans were on a deep space probe what kind of shielding would that requirea: we've talked about that a lot hypothetically of course we are doing a little bit of research on active shielding which means basically creating your own magnetic field to deflect or shield the particles most of what we... |
32 | q: how much radiation is safe for humansa: our goal is to protect the astronauts and the mission currently we allow 500 millisieverts for the blood forming organs per year (the millisievert is a measure of the absorption of radiation by the human body) we were granted that exception in order to carry out our mission bu... |
33 | q: do you think that space travel is ethical given the dangers of radiationa: i do one of the first principles of bioethics is respect for autonomy which includes volunteerism and informed consent if someone took the three-year round trip to mars today given our current technology they would have around a 10 to 15 perc... |
34 | q: what do you think the future of space travel will look like a: i believe access to low earth orbit will become a lot more common in the next 20 years we will keep pushing the envelope for making humans a multiplanetary species we have more countries and companies interested and developing space travel than ever befo... |
35 | q: with nasa specifically what are you most excited fora: we have broad political and public support and a workforce that will take on and can accomplish anything i honestly think the future is wide open its whatever the public space experts and our elected officials agree should be our path right now we're headed down... |
36 | q: what life advice do you havea: you get out of life what you put into it so take risks the director of human resources (hr) came to me one day and she asked if i would be her deputy director for a year in hr i'm an engineer and i don't know the first thing about human resources but i took it and i went with it for a ... |
37 | ravi lad who graduated last year from texas a&m university with a petroleum engineering degree looks back on his time as a student he was a member of the first cohort of students in the zachry leadership program (zlp) and he sat down with us recently to talk about how the program continues to benefit him ravi now works... |
38 | q: looking back what are some of the most important lessons you learned from the program a: one of the most important lessons i learned in the program was how to be self-aware and how to empathize with others as it was reflected in zlps structure it all begins with yourself to this day i still journal and use tools (li... |
39 | deborah and stuart anderson will be the first to tell you that they are not officially former students but they became aggies as fast as they could now as an acknowledgment of stuarts 30 years of service to texas a&m his wife deborah has established the dr stuart d and deborah f anderson endowed fellowship in civil eng... |
40 | han co-leads $15m darpa grant to create rapid ways to test dangerous bacteria bacteria are microscopic organisms that thrive in diverse environments they can live within soil in the ocean or other water environments and even inside the human body bacteria can be helpful like recycling nutrients in the environment or he... |
41 | possible target environments are soil and water because they typically have millions of bacterial cells already in them and again no one can determine easily which ones are safe or not dr arum han and a texas a&m university-led research team received a grant from the darpa program totaling more than $15 million to deve... |
42 | the department of aerospace engineering at texas a&m university hosted a pitch up! competition giving undergraduate aerospace students the opportunity to showcase their technical work and receive feedback on their presentation skills based on the three minute thesis (3mt) competition pitch up! challenged the students t... |
43 | sherri and todd elder 84 have established the sherri and todd elder 84 scholarship to provide one or more scholarships to full-time students in good standing pursuing an undergraduate degree in industrial and systems engineering at texas a&m university when it came time to choose a college to attend the answer was an e... |
44 | the department of industrial and systems engineering is celebrating its 80th anniversary in the coming years the department's goal for this celebration is to have 80 scholarships for the 80 years that the department has existed endowments supporting the students in the college have an immeasurable impact on their educa... |
45 | alicia 82 and jeff collins 80 have established the alicia 82 and jeff collins 80 scholarship to provide one or more scholarships to full-time students in good standing pursuing an undergraduate degree in civil engineering from texas a&m university jeff graduated with a bachelors degree in civil engineering and currentl... |
46 | the college of engineering is one of the leading engineering programs in the united states ranking first in undergraduate enrollment and ninth in graduate enrollment endowments supporting the students in the college have an immeasurable impact on their education if you are interested in supporting the college of engine... |
47 | melissa h 85 and joe c schneider 83 have established the melissa h 85 and joe c schneider 83 scholarship to be used to provide one or more scholarships to full-time students in good standing pursuing an undergraduate degree in civil engineering from texas a&m university the schneiders long-time supporters of the univer... |
48 | the college of engineering is one of the leading engineering programs in the united states ranking first in undergraduate enrollment and ninth in graduate enrollment endowments supporting the students in the college have an immeasurable impact on their education if you are interested in supporting the college of engine... |
49 | dr shinjiro sueda assistant professor in the department of computer science and engineering at texas a&m university recently received the faculty early career development (career) award from the national science foundation (nsf) one of the most prestigious awards for up-and-coming researchers the award provides funding... |
50 | q: what are you researchinga: i am researching new computational models for the biomechanical simulation of humans suitable for a wide range of applications including anatomy training/education computer animation virtual reality and medicine |
51 | q: when did you start studying this what sparked your interesta: i have been working on musculoskeletal simulation since my phd years i was fascinated by how humans move i was particularly interested in the complex interaction of muscles tendons and the skeleton during movement muscles and tendons form branches wrap ar... |
52 | q: how do you integrate your teaching and research a: in my classes i cover many concepts related to my research such as motion capture forward/inverse kinematics various skinning methods and finite element modeling one of the most popular course modules is physically-based animation where we combine physics concepts a... |
53 | q: how will this research impact the worlda: this research will lead to novel applications in many areas including: medicine for surgical training and stroke rehabilitation; ergonomics for better understanding of energy use; bio-paleontology for discovering the movement of extinct animals; robotics for bio-inspired ten... |
54 | q: what is the expected outcome of the projecta: this research will build on existing musculoskeletal simulations in biomechanics and graphics in recent decades two contrasting methods for musculoskeletal simulation have been developed: line-based methods and volume-based methods unfortunately there is currently no way... |
55 | seven student teams from around the world sat in anxious anticipation last wednesday afternoon as a group of judges determined their fate in the invent for the planet final competition in the end it was a team of six students from brazil who took home first place for their innovative idea that could benefit millions of... |
56 | the sun never sets on innovation when we started invent for the planet last year we wanted to create an opportunity for students around the world to ignore borders and connect all in the name of innovation said rodney boehm director of the engineering entrepreneurship program this time around the competition doubled in... |
57 | how the competition works invent for the planet hosted by the engineering entrepreneurship program at texas a&m university began in february with local competitions at 26 universities around the world more than 600 students participated in the 48-hour challenge to solve some of the worlds biggest problems first-place w... |
58 | first place: team tupa team tupa from brazil was inspired to design a solution that would benefit students at a school for the visually impaired across the street from their university in brazil there is a shortage of guide dogs and assistive technology for people who are blind they said when they entered this competit... |
59 | second place: team hydrowhirl the second-place team was team hydrowhirl from texas a&m they designed a water filtration and transportation system that could be used in developing countries where clean water is not available this is the greatest experience ive had at a&m said nick justice mechanical engineering student ... |
60 | third place: supersocials third-place team was team supersocial from swansea university they designed an app to reduce loneliness by incentivizing face-to-face interaction between users offering discounts at participating businesses what drew me to this challenge was precisely because it was as much a social problem as... |
61 | mechanical engineering department namesake j mike walker and incoming texas a&m university system regent michael plank were recently honored with the outstanding alumni award by the college of engineering walker who died in december received the award posthumously his wife donna walker was present at the banquet in his... |
62 | ten members of the j mike walker 66 department of mechanical engineering were honored at the departments 2019 awards and recognition banquet the recipients included four staff members five faculty and one graduate student |
63 | in addition to the award recipients the department also celebrated the induction of two former students to its academy of distinguished graduates holly ridings 96 and jay still 84 were both in attendance to accept the honor ridings is the first woman to serve as chief flight director at nasa directing human spaceflight... |
64 | the awards and their recipients are as follows: james j cain 51 staff excellence award sandra havens program specialist ii adrienne krenek administrative associate iv j mike walker 66 staff excellence award nicole latham administrative coordinator i jennifer bloom academic advisor iii james j cain 51 graduate student t... |
65 | tuberculosis is a highly contagious and deadly disease that has recently surpassed the human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) in number of worldwide deaths current methods of diagnosing and treating tuberculosis take time and are not always successful leading to wider proliferation of the disease researchers at texas a&m a... |
66 | a conversation with dr lin shao an expert in nuclear energy and radiation materials science about the positives of nuclear energy shao is a professor of nuclear engineering at texas a&m university and the faculty undergraduate advisor |
67 | a: i started in particle physics but i wanted to have a greater impact on society i began to use accelerators to conduct radiation damage studies when i worked at los alamos national laboratory today i use accelerators to simulate neutron damage inside the reactor texas a&m university has the largest accelerator labora... |
68 | a: nuclear energy has many benefits the biggest one being it is a low-cost clean energy people may be surprised that a nuclear power plant is the lowest cost resource we have the main cost of a nuclear power plant isnt continued upkeep its the capital investment to construct a nuclear power plant the construction costs... |
69 | a: a carbon tax would apply to industry businesses that emit carbon dioxide pollution meaning a coal plant would have to pay an additional tax for contributing to climate change nuclear energy is emissions free so it would make the price for nuclear even more competitive than i stated earlier |
70 | a: i think it would be fantastic to have both nuclear energy is a form of clean energy because it is emissions free it does not add dangerous pollution to the atmosphere nuclear energy isnt renewable because uranium is a finite resource unlike sunlight or wind however we have a great deal of uranium spent fuel is recyc... |
71 | a: a small modular reactor is not only small but also uses an advanced design the costs go down significantly with small modular reactors making it an attractive reactor for industry investors the reactor is extremely safe and can satisfy the needs for a small community for example a small modular reactor can support a... |
72 | a: my favorite reactor is the pebble bed reactor it has an impressive optimized system design when you focus on the small scale of refining engineering materials you can greatly impact reactor performance its fascinating advanced reactor design is also amazing because they physically cant melt down |
73 | a: yes i know a lot of people will hate my statement but as a nuclear physicist im not worried about nuclear storage in deep geological disposal areas at all even if they leach out in thousands of years they will not by their elemental composition be soluble in water |
74 | for senior clare lamers the texas a&m university experience has been all about taking steps in the right direction as a student ambassador for the department of electrical and computer engineering she has helped prospective students take their first steps toward higher education and has taken her own steps to improve h... |
75 | not all tumors are made alike a tumor may consist of different populations of cancer cells each having its own distinct genetic and metabolic profiles these differences create obstacles for effective cancer therapy because the drugs may suppress one group of cells but leave another intact a team of researchers from tex... |
76 | the team then combined this process with photoacoustic microscopy an imaging technology where laser light produce ultrasonic vibrations in a sample researchers can use the vibrations to detect changes in optical absorption of cells blood vessels and tissues they were able to monitor tiny variations in oxygen saturation... |
77 | the department of industrial and systems engineering at texas a&m university had its annual gala on april 12 at the brazos county expo center the event recognized the achievements of faculty staff and students over the past year many students were recognized for receiving scholarships at the national university and dep... |
78 | faculty in the department were recognized for winning national awards receiving promotions and leading winning capstone project teams dr rodger koppa associate professor emeritus received an award for 45 years of service to texas a&m which was commemorated with a pin koppa worked for nasa before joining texas a&m and i... |
79 | the distinguished former student award recipient was brent lyon the departmental advisory council president who has given 19 years of service to the department and university lyon has a bachelors and a masters degree from texas a&m in industrial engineering and currently works for lockheed martin the gala also served a... |
80 | dr xia ben hu assistant professor in the department of computer science and engineering at texas a&m university has been selected as a recipient of the jp morgan artificial intelligence faculty research award through this recognition and grant hu will be investigating how to enhance the widespread understanding impact ... |
81 | billy g walton 51 and ned e walton 63 have established the walton endowed scholarship fund to provide one or more scholarships to full-time students in good standing pursuing an undergraduate degree in civil engineering from texas a&m university the scholarship is the result of the walton brothers desire to give back t... |
82 | the texas a&m university college of engineering is one of the leading engineering programs in the united states ranking first in undergraduate enrollment and ninth in graduate enrollment endowments supporting the students in the college have an immeasurable impact on their education if you are interested in supporting ... |
83 | nasa has selected two aerospace engineering graduate students as 2019 nasa space technology research fellows hunter johnston and carl leake are both doctoral students under the advisement of dr daniele mortari professor in the department of aerospace engineering at texas a&m university being selected as a nasa space te... |
84 | dr anthony guiseppi-elie has been appointed full affiliate member of the houston methodist research institute (hmri) recommended by the board of directors of the institute and appointed to the department of cardiovascular sciences guiseppi-elie assumed his appointment march 1 he was also appointed adjunct professor of ... |
85 | for 48 hours college students from over 26 universities around the world joined texas a&m university virtually to tackle some of the most challenging issues facing the planet today the top five teams from the first round of invent for the planet have been selected by a team of external judges and will compete at texas ... |
86 | hail no a team from texas a&m aims to minimize hail damage to aircraft wings operational delays costly repairs and accidents the team's design is similar to an airbag that would be installed over the leading and trailing edge of the aircraft wings using nylon straps to reduce the risk of it blowing off in a storm team ... |
87 | hail no team members include umang kantesaria computer science and engineering; azbell electrical engineering; bamidele fadayomi mechanical engineering; jobin george mathew industrial engineering; mazen ali mechanical engineering; and william smith manufacturing mechanical engineering technology |
88 | q: what has been the most memorable experiencea: the most memorable experience was proving that a team of engineers that are still in school can apply their knowledge to create a product that is feasible and marketable in the real world q: did anything surprise you or come out of the experience that was unexpecteda: i ... |
89 | after the competition the team will develop a design that encompasses every process involved in the use of the product from deploying the system to retrieving and storing it they will also calculate the cost of labor and parts involved to fully understand if it will function as expected and be as cost-efficient as calc... |
90 | the invent for the planet final competition is wednesday april 24th at 2 pm in the zach chevron rooms for more information view our website |
91 | nasas management and development of spacesuits audit in 2017 noted that nasa continues to manage an array of design and health risks associated with the current suit worn in space the extravehicular mobility unit (emu) a new intelligent hybrid smartsuit design proposed by dr ana diaz artiles from texas a&m university h... |
92 | q: why did you choose engineering at galveston a: i decided to attend texas a&m engineering at galveston because it was close to home a smaller campus and it would allow me to spend my first year in college building strong study habits q: what has been your most memorable experience in galveston a: the most memorable e... |
93 | for 48 hours college students from over 26 universities around the world joined texas a&m university virtually to tackle some of the most challenging issues facing the planet today the top five teams from the first round of invent for the planet have been selected by a team of external judges and will compete at texas ... |
94 | tupa a team from universidade federal do rio de janeiro and centro federal de educação tecnológica celso suckow da fonseca designed a two-part sensor system that could assist people with visual impairments or blindness their design uses a low-profile hat with sensors and a vibrating mechanism along with a lightweight w... |
95 | q: what has been the most memorable experiencea: creating a technology that impacts an entire social branch and will help many needy people was incredible but the most memorable experience was to see a smile on the professors faces after using our prototype - breno christianes ferreira q: did anything surprise you or c... |
96 | their next of plan of action is to research further decrease the sensor size and improve accuracy tupa will strive to learn more about business from experienced professionals develop a business plan pursue grants and patent their idea tupa will conduct tests to improve the capacity of what was developed and increasingl... |
97 | the invent for the planet final competition is wednesday april 24th at 2 pm in the zach chevron rooms for more information view our website |
98 | for 48 hours college students from over 26 universities around the world joined texas a&m university virtually to tackle some of the most challenging issues facing the planet today the top five teams from the first round of invent for the planet have been selected by a team of external judges and will compete at texas ... |
99 | supersocial a team from swansea university in wales created an app that promotes in-person social engagement and activities to prevent loneliness users can earn points by meeting new people creating and participating in events hanging out in communal areas or by participating in monthly scavenger hunts these points can... |
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