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300 | plant leaves have a natural superpower theyre designed with water repelling characteristics called a superhydrophobic surface this trait allows leaves to cleanse themselves from dust particles inspired by such natural designs a team of researchers at texas a&m university has developed an innovative way to control the h... |
301 | the texas a&m design adopts a ‘nanoflower-like assembly of two-dimensional (2d) atomic layers to protect the surface from wetting the team recently released a study published in chemical communications 2d nanomaterials are an ultrathin class of nanomaterials and have received considerable attention in research gaharwar... |
302 | these 2d nanomaterials with their hexagonal packed layer repel water adherence however a missing atom from the top layer can allow easy access to water molecules by the next layer of atoms underneath making it transit from hydrophobic to hydrophilic said lead author of the study dr manish jaiswal a senior research asso... |
303 | since 2015 the data-enabled discovery and design of energy materials (d3em) training program at texas a&m university has been developing interdisciplinary leaders across the college of science and college of engineering d3em is led by dr raymundo arroyave presidential impact fellow and professor in the department of ma... |
304 | levi mcclenny a doctoral candidate in the department of electrical and computer engineering who holds a d3em fellowship and was recently appointed student regent has utilized the program to gain insight as to what happens at the microstructure level in materials in doing so he is working under the mentorship of dr ulis... |
305 | the d3em group has been using data to learn a substantial amount about materials compositions and processing methods and has derived methods that are currently being fielded by entities such as nasa to create materials with specific properties that are useful for very specific applications said mcclenny the d3em resear... |
306 | through his experience with d3em mcclenny has been given the opportunity to pursue his research passions while also honing his professional and technical skills to be able to effectively communicate within collaborate and lead an interdisciplinary team now and into his future career better material implies better struc... |
307 | kendrick lim completed his undergraduate education at texas a&m university in may during which he learned about biomedical engineering both in college station and overseas lim came to texas a&m knowing he wanted to pursue engineering but was unsure where to focus he began to research each major and stumbled upon biomed... |
308 | dr steven m wright royce e wisenbaker ii professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at texas a&m university was elected fellow of the international academy of medical and biological engineering in recognition of his leadership and contributions to the field of medical and biological engineering ... |
309 | artificial intelligence is making headlines from autonomous cars military and healthcare projects advancements and mishaps it has captured the hearts and minds of researchers science fiction writers and the general public alike to spur creativity encourage ingenuity and excite the leaders of tomorrow dr dileep kalathil... |
310 | to demonstrate this concept kalathil described two situations first a machine that is designed to clean a room second a machine that is designed to throw things around and make a mess while these two ais might seem counterproductive to one another they are both functioning within their programmed parameters thus they a... |
311 | however despite careful programming rl does not guarantee success on the first try an ai system will often try many different ways to accomplish its objective gathering and interpreting positive and negative feedback from each attempt to understand how successful it was and adjusting its method until the ideal outcome ... |
312 | the texas a&m university college of engineering announced friday the death of dr m nazmul karim holder of the t michael o'connor chair ii and head of the artie mcferrin department of chemical engineering a position he held since 2012 karim died friday june 21 over the course of an impressive 30-plus year career karim a... |
313 | a deeply personal motivation is helping to drive a texas a&m university researcher in her pursuit of better therapeutic technologies that could provide earlier diagnosis and more detailed progression tracking for neurodegenerative diseases such as parkinson's and alzheimers dr ya wang associate professor and morris e f... |
314 | it was wang's relationship with a close family member who has lived with parkinson's disease for more than 20 years that sparked an interest for her in investigating potential technologies that could one day contribute to the discovery of a cure "i am hoping to develop therapeutic technologies that might ultimately lea... |
315 | "technologies for early detection and non-invasive stimulations of specific inhibitory neurons deep in the brain have long been desired for clinical treatment of neurological diseases " she said "however to date neuroscientists have largely focused on biological phenomena with little engineered tools available for qual... |
316 | texas a&m agrilife research and the texas a&m engineering experiment station (tees) were recently awarded a grant from the us department of agricultures national institute of food and agriculture to study and develop super-repellent and anti-fouling surfaces for foods the grant will be used in their collaboration to he... |
317 | when a natural disaster strikes not all buildings will weather the storm even the smallest crack can cause the structural integrity and resiliency of a building to suffer making it unsafe for people to live and take shelter in basing his work on hurricane scenarios samuel leach a phd student in the zachry department of... |
318 | dr nancy m amato former regents professor and unocal professor in the department of computer science and engineering at texas a&m university has been named professor emeritus by the texas a&m university system board of regents amato joined the faculty at texas a&m in 1995 as an assistant professor in the department and... |
319 | dr bjorn birgisson a tees eminent professor and faculty member within the zachry department of civil and environmental engineering at texas a&m university has been elected as a foreign member of the royal swedish academy of engineering sciences (iva) the iva was founded in 1919 and is the first engineering science acad... |
320 | ashley holt biomedical engineering senior discovered soon after starting at texas a&m university that research was her calling holt said she started looking into engineering in high school when she realized how much she enjoyed math and science her older sister was pursuing biomedical engineering at the university of i... |
321 | the beckman scholars program is sponsored by the arnold and mabel beckman foundation which annually selects institutions across the country that demonstrate a significant commitment to undergraduate research in chemistry the biological sciences and/or interdisciplinary combinations selected students from each college a... |
322 | dr jeffrey bullard a materials research engineer at the national institute of standards and technology within the us department of commerce will be joining the zachry department of civil and environmental engineering in fall 2019 as a professor bullard will be contributing his experience in materials science a branch o... |
323 | five students from the department of aerospace engineering at texas a&m university have been awarded 2019 national graduate fellowships christine greve was awarded the national defense science and engineering graduate (ndseg) fellowship she currently works at the plasma dynamics modeling laboratory the goal of greves n... |
324 | rigorous in their pursuits and aspirations a team of former mechanical engineering students has catapulted a small project they started at texas a&m university in fall 2017 called swing sleeve into a marketable product that has found a home in the golfing industry swing sleeve enables golfers to see their arms in virtu... |
325 | eventually the group developed trust in their aspirations as well as faith in their goals i firmly believe in the product that we are creating and i want to be part of something revolutionary from the very beginning chief product officer cesar fuentes '18 said the project attracted many students at first many who left ... |
326 | the team largely credits their successes thus far to texas a&m and their mentors weve been working nonstop making sacrifices working crazy hours and learning new skills at a rapid-fire pace and texas a&m has been so generous cash said after all a wise man learns from his mistakes but an even wiser man also learns from ... |
327 | the department of electrical and computer engineering at texas a&m university was well-represented at the annual physics and engineering festival hosted by the department of physics and astronomy at texas a&m on april 6 the event boasted over 200 interactive demonstrations and lectures and over 7 000 visitors attended ... |
328 | gent showcased several demonstrations including a morse code telegraph which seemed to draw the largest crowd of onlookers as he decoded visitors names by ear another popular display was the wireless spark gap transmitter replica built by gent and similar to the transmitter that saved passengers on the rms titanic in 1... |
329 | a team of students in the department of electrical and computer engineering at texas a&m university recently took first place at the sick tim$10k robotics competition for their solution to foreign object detection on airport tarmacs the team included godofredo freddy sanchez daniel hodapp madison bruns and emily stuart... |
330 | q: what problem does your project address sanchez: fod on airport runways are problematic for airports boeing has reported that fod costs the company about $4 billion a year in airplane repairs our lidar fod detection system solves this problem by autonomously scanning the runway and reporting the presence of fod to a ... |
331 | q: what factors influenced the design bruns: there were many factors we needed to take into account while designing our prototype for example one of the first decisions we needed to make was whether to proceed with a rover or a drone we decided on a rover because of the capabilities of our lidar sensor the sensor neede... |
332 | clean drinking water is necessary for sustaining life as natural freshwater sources such as springs lakes and rivers become contaminated because populations and pollution continue to increase finding innovative solutions to enhance the purification process of water is becoming more imperative each day funded by the nat... |
333 | we are now forced to identify other sources for drinking water by definition this means we are going to exploit waters with a higher level of pollution one such supply is our own municipal wastewater said chellam my group is working on the advanced purification of this water and in some sense increasing the reliability... |
334 | during a boring summer vacation last year duke university undergraduate student joshua farahzad came up with the idea to build an unmanned rocket and send it into outer space knowing he couldnt do it alone he sent out an email to various collegiate rocketry teams across the country gerardo barillas an undergraduate stu... |
335 | a: i got involved because i wanted to learn more about rockets in general i knew i was going to take the senior capstone design rocket class the upcoming school year so i thought this would be beneficial i thought this goal was achievable because i had seen what the texas a&m sounding rocketry team could do as well as ... |
336 | a: i was part of the structures sub team and was in charge of the vast majority of computer-aided design (cad) work done for the rocket as well as the lead for the nose cone design and shape i was also one of the nine team members that met up for build week at nashville tennessee in august of 2018 |
337 | a: in order for the team to get together for a build period we had at least two if not more meetings per week including weekends since we were all mostly in different time zones and doing different things during the summer we used the app slack to communicate with our respective sub teams and the rest of the team googl... |
338 | a: we had two launches because we had two identical rockets one launched on may 31 and the other on june 1 the first rocket cleared the tower ignited its second stage but came apart at around 100 000 ft because we lost a fin for the second launch we also cleared the tower and ignited the second stage but this time we k... |
339 | a: the big picture goal was to show everyone around the world that such a technically challenging project can be successful if determined individuals come together and work hard we also wanted to prove that working remotely and through the internet is a viable way to come together and build something complex |
340 | a: my biggest takeaway from being on this team is that you dont have to be working in industry or have a lot of money in order to take on daunting engineering challenges all it takes is a group of people to really dive into/commit to the project |
341 | a: as of right now i am working for nasa at the johnson space center in houston as a payload systems engineer intern i am hoping at the end of the internship i will be offered a full-time position i also recently received notice that i have been admitted to texas a&ms aerospace masters program i would really love to st... |
342 | intrigued by the thought of creating an online space for people to connect through common interests a team of senior computer science and engineering students enrolled in a capstone design course pursued this passion to develop an app dedicated to just this purpose we saw that a large part of the a&m student culture is... |
343 | momin and his team members alishah dholasaniya and zackary christie hit the drawing board and came up with an idea to create a mobile application groupup to allow users to quickly find create and join events around them and chat with fellow attendees once a user logs in they are presented with a map that shows them all... |
344 | once our application has been widely adopted beyond texas a&m we want to conduct a study that will hopefully validate our work and show that people are happier when they are part of a community and have more offline social interactions momin said we think groupup can help people with this the team was advised by dr tra... |
345 | more minority students at texas a&m university have been given the chance to explore opportunities that benefit them thanks to a grant offered by the national action council for minorities in engineering (nacme) with the intention to create a larger proportion of african american american indian and hispanic students i... |
346 | the nacme scholarship program has benefitted me by enabling me to pay for my college education with less time spent as a student worker civil engineering graduate jose emanuel quiros said as an undergraduate i was thus able to spend more time on my studies and getting involved with organizations on campus not only is t... |
347 | chiranjivi botre a phd student in dr m nazmul karims research group has been awarded an f&pd (fuels & petrochemicals division) outstanding presentation award for a talk entitled detection and isolation of abnormal event in nonlinear industrial processes by a novel data-based method the award was announced at the americ... |
348 | the association for computing machinery's special interest group on design automation (sigda) has recognized dr jeyavijayan "jv" rajendran assistant professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at texas a&m university with the sigda outstanding new faculty award this prestigious accolade honors a ... |
349 | to combat this rajendran and a team of researchers have created a provably-secure logic locking technique – the first of its kind – that can prevent attacks from untrusted manufacturers and distributers like a key to a safe logic locking provides a means to protect the original design of a circuit and keep it from bein... |
350 | three interdisciplinary student teams led by their faculty advisor dr wayne hung won top prizes at two student competitions that were held earlier this year the society of manufacturing engineers (sme) organizes manufacturing events at major manufacturing hubs across the united states on feb 23-25 they hosted a 3d prin... |
351 | two teams won first and second place while competing against 13 other teams from across the country the teams came up with environmentally friendly solutions by using recycled biomaterials such as coffee powder and saw dust for 3d printing useful objects each team won a cash prize new 3d printers of their choices and p... |
352 | solutions that have already been created include high-impact glass plywood and installing exterior shutters however these designs can be expensive or have a very cumbersome installation process as well as being permanent or requiring nails to be driven into the walls of the structure the design the team came up with is... |
353 | harsh juneja a former student of the department of electrical and computer engineering at texas a&m university has been honored with exxonmobils pinnacle award for 2018 he was recognized for his outstanding work and dedication as a member of the engineering services team at the baton rouge refinery this distinguished a... |
354 | a team of researchers from texas a&m university and texas a&m university at qatar were awarded the best conference paper award from the institute of electrical and electronics engineers (ieee) communications society technical committee on green communications and computing the award was given to postdoctoral fellow dr ... |
355 | petroleum engineering former student janeen judah 81 was recently appointed to the board of directors for jagged peak energy she is also a director for patterson-uti energy crestwood equity holdings and aethon energy judah was named to the top 25 influential women in energy by hart energy/oil & gas investor magazine wa... |
356 | q: why did you choose petroleum engineering as a degree a: my dad is an engineer and many of the women engineers in that very first wave in the 1970s and 80s that studied engineering were daughters of engineers it was still a pretty unusual career choice for a girl at the time i grew up in houston around the oil busine... |
357 | q: you have a total of four degrees two of which are in business and law why did you choose to study these things a: i did my mba and law degree at night while working during a downtime in the oil industry i think that an mba is an excellent complement to an engineering degree as you move up the management ladder both ... |
358 | q: what else are you up to these days a: i retired from chevron a little more than a year ago and joined my first corporate board the next day board work is periodic with a busy month followed by two months of mostly quiet giving me time to do things i wasnt able to do while working full time and managing a large team ... |
359 | the texas a&m college of engineering is proud of our former students such as janeen judah who demonstrate aggie core values like leadership and are committed to empowering young engineers to fulfill their potential if you know an aggie who is celebrating an accomplishment and would like them to be recognized by the col... |
360 | rishita das and komal kumari two doctoral students from the department of aerospace engineering at texas a&m university have been named 2019 amelia earhart fellows by the zonta international foundation the $10 000 fellowship is awarded annually to up to 30 women pursuing doctoral degrees in aerospace-applied sciences o... |
361 | imagine going out to the garage jumping into your flying vehicle and heading off to work sounds a little like the jetsons right now saturday morning cartoons are closer to reality thanks to the gofly prize competition sponsored by boeing to make human flight a reality and a team from texas a&m university has accepted t... |
362 | "winning both phases i and ii of the gofly prize especially with such fierce competition has brought lot of excitement and confidence to the team we hope to keep this momentum going and win the $1 million grand prize in phase iii " said benedict the goal of the gofly prize is to foster the development of a near-vertica... |
363 | in phase i the team spent a semester brainstorming different vehicle configurations before developing a unique personal air vehicle concept that simulations showed made less noise at 20 yards than a hair dryer next to your ear they built a 1/8 scale prototype to demonstrate their vehicle design in phase ii the team spe... |
364 | dr jn reddy is the latest recipient of the timoshenko medal a prestigious honor awarded by the applied mechanics division of the american society of mechanical engineers (asme) the award recognizes the distinguished contributions of its honorees in the field of applied mechanics reddy is receiving the award for lifetim... |
365 | infrastructure is the backbone of society to better understand each segment of it – such as energy water telecommunications and transportation – engineers and governments must understand all of it like a tangled web each sector is heavily influenced and affected by changes in others for example say we need energy resou... |
366 | the national science foundation (nsf) recently awarded the texas a&m university system louis stokes stem pathways and research alliance (lsamp) $4 million to implement programmatic initiatives to increase engagement and enhance the success of underrepresented minority students in stem and conduct research to explore th... |
367 | programmatic initiatives will include a robust academic year undergraduate research program international research experiences and a multipronged mentoring strategy for their high-impact research abroad experience students will be visiting the yucatán and belize i am motivated to provide these different types of experi... |
368 | the group will analyze mentoring relationships between faculty and students to assess the growth of grit after they gather the data they hope to be able to train educators on how to best mentor students to foster success mentorship is about finding out what that person really aspires for and helping them decode what th... |
369 | the project builds on a 26-year track record of success by texas a&m university system lsamp working with lsamp schools from across the nation allows texas a&m to have a broader perspective on issues and collaborate on concrete solutions that will help students thrive their combined findings led to the discovery that s... |
370 | if theres one thing dr sonia garcia wants you to know its this underrepresented minority students thrive when given the opportunity and resources to succeed as senior director of the access and inclusion program in the college of engineering at texas a&m university garcia works tirelessly to make sure that underreprese... |
371 | finding her purpose a first-generation college student garcia admits that she was apprehensive when she first arrived at the university of massachusetts in 1990 but she leaned in and listened to the advice of those around her and she carved out her own path there were advisors faculty members and deans who encouraged h... |
372 | establishing access and inclusion in 2014 garcia was hired to lead a brand-new initiative at the college of engineering at texas a&m the access and inclusion program the program provides opportunities for high school students to visit the college and learn about engineering it also helps facilitate a transitional progr... |
373 | engineering students put their pitching skills to the test during aggie pitch 2019 except they werent playing ball the mcferrin center for entrepreneurship hosted its second annual aggie pitch this year aggie pitch is open to all currently enrolled students and seeks to identify the best student business pitch at texas... |
374 | junior jacob good said the team has been working to develop the idea under assistant professor dr corey bishop now that the team had a successful proof-of-concept pitching their idea and raising awareness was the next step competing in aggie pitch helped us understand how to bridge the knowledge gap between engineers s... |
375 | team lazarus which included mechanical engineering senior elise hackney chemical engineering senior ben omonira and biomedical engineering senior seth reine placed fourth in the competition the teams project works to develop a form of ammunition that would provide neutralization power of a lethal round while preserving... |
376 | a successful life by definition includes service to others george hw bush nuclear policy and a shared commitment to serve tie together the department of nuclear engineering and the bush school of government and public service at texas a&m university creating cross-disciplinary interactions that connect the opposite sid... |
377 | good nuclear policy is essential for maintaining peace and making sure countries have a diverse energy portfolio said dr sunil chirayath associate professor and director of the center for nuclear security science and policy initiatives (nsspi) nsspi is a multidisciplinary organization at texas a&m the first us academic... |
378 | nsspi combines the talent of internationally recognized researchers from the uss largest nuclear engineering department with renowned policy expertise from the bush school the team brings unique capabilities to face complex nuclear threats and proliferation challenges involving both policy and technology nsspi students... |
379 | dr evans kitcher an assistant research engineer for nsspi teaches nuclear technology for policy makers a class that informs bush school students studying international affairs with an interest in nuclear security or energy on the technical aspects of nuclear engineering effective policies achieve goals said kitcher in ... |
380 | policies tend to allow countries to have guidelines on how they act with one another said sagadevan from an energy perspective policy allows you to make sure that a certain quota of your energy comes from nuclear meaning that it's clean for example pollution is a significant challenge in china currently mainland china ... |
381 | the institute of nuclear materials management (inmm) is a nonprofit technical organization dedicated to the safe secure and effective stewardship of nuclear materials and related technologies inmm unites engineers technicians managers policymakers analysts commercial vendors educators and students across the globe texa... |
382 | benefits for a student include meetings every other week with food and events that put you in contact with people from industry academia and national labs said sagadevan the 2018-19 texas a&m chapter vice president at texas a&m inmm is a great platform to connect with undergraduate students graduate students students f... |
383 | students from around the state of texas and the world gathered on the campus of texas a&m university this summer for the institute of electrical and electronics engineers (ieee) tryengineering summer institute hosted by the department of electrical and computer engineering the camp is structured with two two-week camp ... |
384 | many students come to texas a&m university without knowing what their future career will be dr brian craig can relate craig wanted to pursue a program that involved engineering yet was human-centered not solely focusing on math and design he found it at texas a&m receiving bachelors degrees in bioengineering (1990) and... |
385 | q why did you choose to attend texas a&m a i was in the first generation of aggies in my family preceded by my older brother david i had opportunities to visit aggieland and attend fightin texas aggie football games while i was in high school those visits along with the core values made the choice of which university t... |
386 | q how has being an aggie engineer helped you in your career a the world-class education you receive by earning an engineering degree from texas a&m is immediately recognized and respected whether i am traveling or walking into a meeting for the first time i have an instant network i simply scan the meeting room or as i... |
387 | students also shouldnt lose sight of the fact that they are responsible for their future level of success and shouldnt be afraid to pursue their dreams accept the difficult assignments in college and in your career when you work you should always have a sense of urgency and be driven so you never have people waiting on... |
388 | texas a&m universitys engineering entrepreneurship program (eep) has created the concept creation and commercialization (c3) certificate program that allows both undergraduate and graduate students to gain insight into industry and sharpen their entrepreneurial skills this 13-hour credit program includes insight into s... |
389 | a team of researchers from the texas a&m energy institute and the artie mcferrin department of chemical engineering led by dr mahmoud el-halwagi are developing novel technologies and integrated systems that could dramatically reduce the amount of water needed in the natural gas extraction process |
390 | researchers from the texas a&m energy institute and the artie mcferrin department of chemical engineering are leading a major initiative to reduce the amount of water needed in the natural gas extraction process and to treat wastewater so that it is safe for reuse since the early 2000s hydraulic fracturing has been the... |
391 | the texas a&m university college of engineering was named recipient of the cigre outstanding collective member award which previously had only been won by companies in industry cigre is an organization of 90 countries promoting electric power technology worldwide the outstanding collective member award is given for out... |
392 | senior madeline loftin has taken her college education to the next level by starting a business developing her entrepreneurial skills alongside her engineering ones growing up loftin said she wanted to be a doctor but didnt feel medical school was a good fit when she realized biomedical engineering combined science and... |
393 | biomedical engineering draws students from across the country including senior jacob good who had to learn to shift into college life while also moving from his home state of pennsylvania to live in college station good said texas a&m university offered the best opportunity academically and financially with the scholar... |
394 | tucked away in a quiet corner on the second floor of the chemistry building at texas a&m university dr abraham clearfield's office is blanketed with research papers old and new personal items naturally mingle with beakers scientific posters and the trove of professional accolades that line the walls the distinguished p... |
395 | i told them that youre making a big mistake if you dont have a materials science program at texas a&m because its the future said clearfield and apparently some people heard that and they were willing to start in a small way the university secured a grant from the national science foundation (nsf) and under the guidanc... |
396 | it was the seed that professor clearfield planted at that time and his continuous support that took us where we are today said dr ibrahim karaman chevron professor i and head of the department of materials science and engineering at texas a&m in fall 2018 the department enrolled its first undergraduate cohort as the pr... |
397 | in addition complimenting his achievements at texas a&m clearfield also served on several boards and committees including: chairman of the synchrotron radiation special interest group (1995-96) secretary and treasurer of us national committee for crystallography (1995-97) vice president and president of the american ce... |
398 | a recently discovered geometric shape found in animal skin cells is providing texas a&m university researchers with a bio-inspired methodology for designing a wide array of engineered creations the interdisciplinary project to develop the shapes -- dubbed delaunay lofts by the researchers -- holds potential application... |
399 | nasa has a new directive to return humans to the moon by 2024 this directive generates a compelling need for a more comprehensive understanding of the lunar environment we find your rover to be fully acceptable said lee graham senior project engineer within the astromaterials research and exploration science (ares) div... |
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