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this statement was made after a final successful demonstration of the articulated suspension robot called louie (lunar observation utility and imaging explorer) was conducted by texas space technology applications and research (t star) atg mobile electric systems and undergraduate students from the mechatronics program...
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on july 31 the industry-academic team successfully completed its demonstration of louie which was then accepted by graham mechatronics students shane blozis and daniyal ansari were the primary hardware and software engineers on the project atgs herbert baumgartner 09 led the major mechanical modifications and addition ...
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working with t star atg and the misl has allowed us to move forward from ideas to working prototypes in a timely and cost-effective manner stated graham it is great to have this type of functional turn-around in these projects but what may be far more important is the fantastic learning experience these undergraduate s...
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this summer petroleum engineering student sriniketh sukumar 21 took part in the college of engineerings undergraduate summer research grant (usrg) program which funds an engineering student to participate in a project with a faculty mentor of the students choice sukumar took time to share his thoughts on his mentor dr ...
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spyridon tsolas a phd student in the artie mcferrin department of chemical engineering won a best poster award at the 2019 foundations of computer aided process design conference tsolas is a third-year student in a research group led by dr mm faruque hasan assistant professor and kim tompkins mcdivitt 88 and phillip mc...
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dr mladen kezunovic eugene e webb and regents professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at texas a&m university was honored as the recipient of the cigre philip sporn award the award was presented at the annual luncheon meeting of the cigre united states national committee (usnc) which was held...
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meet brian welsh a senior civil engineering student who sat down with us to talk about his aggie civil engineering experience his love for engineering and how his time at texas a&m university has impacted his future for the better q why were you interested in pursuing civil engineering a the thing that drew me toward c...
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an accurate knowledge of the initial state of a petroleum reservoir is crucial to optimize its development and production plans such knowledge relies on correct descriptions of the spatial distribution of the fluid (hydrocarbon) components in the reservoirs dr keshawa shukla addresses these issues in a chapter he wrote...
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shuklas book chapter thermodynamics of thermal diffusion factors in hydrocarbon mixtures deals with one of the key aspects of hydrocarbon production from the oil and gas reservoirs known as the thermal diffusion process this process plays an important role in separating isotopic mixtures and isobaric mixtures analyzing...
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until recently research on automated vehicles (avs) and human driver interaction was not a well-studied subject in the realm of transportation a team of graduate students in the department of civil and environmental engineering has dedicated the last few years to looking deeper into this area these vehicles have fundam...
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this study was the first step toward characterizing the human-av interactions in the transportation system rahmati said the findings suggest there is a statistically significant difference between human drivers behavior when following an av and when following a human-driven car human drivers felt more comfortable follo...
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dr arun srinivasa is the latest recipient of the american society of mechanical engineers (asme) 2019 worcester reed warner medal the medal is awarded for outstanding contributions to the permanent literature of engineering through single papers treatises or books or a series of papers the contributions should be progr...
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the texas a&m university college of engineering received a bronze level award for the inaugural american society for engineering education diversity recognition program (adrp) the highest level of achievement they can currently achieve the college also received exemplar status which was only bestowed on a select number...
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two faculty members from the texas a&m university college of engineering were among 54 academic inventors named to the spring 2019 class of senior members by the national academy of inventors (nai) the new senior members include dr robert balog and dr balakrishna haridas balog is an associate professor in the departmen...
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dr stephen a holditch 69 who served on the faculty of the harold vance department of petroleum engineering at texas a&m university since 1976 passed away on aug 9 2019 holditch was a perfect example of an outstanding aggie he was a member of the corps of cadets and ross volunteers as an undergraduate in petroleum engin...
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over the years holditch earned a reputation as a world-renowned expert in the areas of tight gas reservoirs coalbed methane shale gas reservoirs and the design of hydraulic fracture treatments he received numerous technical awards and other high honors in his profession including honorary member of spe in recognition o...
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in the soft lighting of the bethancourt grand ballroom in the memorial student center a throng of first-generation students chattered among themselves in anticipation as the opening speaker took the stage for the 2019 engineering summer bridge programs (esbp) closing ceremony a hush fell over the cohort of 75 incoming ...
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then as each students name was called out and they walked across the stage graduating from esbp the room was illuminated with the delighted glow of smartphones as the surrounding crowd of family and friends recorded each moment of all of the programs that i am privileged to coordinate the engineering summer bridge prog...
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students who attend esbp will be prepared for the upcoming year said shawna fletcher director of women in engineering these students are building connections to the college and our programs they now have a head start and know how to navigate the university in addition to meeting faculty and peer mentors the cohort was ...
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being an aggie engineer means everything to me said jorge hernandez an incoming freshman i mean ive been building up to this moment my entire life and (esbp) really helped me get started with that equipping first-generation students like hernandez with resources and campus know-how is a vital element to success – helpi...
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watch what some of the students have to say to the next generation of aggie engineers as well as the generous sponsors for this year:
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bringing together man and machine a team of researchers is studying how machine learning could be used to better predict the probability of a patient bleeding during and after coronary procedures their findings have set the stage for providing doctors researchers and clinicians a vital data-driven tool to help them qui...
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the 15th international conference on polymers for advanced technologies (pat 2019) was hosted by texas a&m university aug 8-10 the three-day conference organized by faculty from the colleges of science pharmacy and engineering is associated with the journal polymers for advanced technologies pat 2019 was arranged into ...
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the department of computer science and engineering at texas a&m university had an influential role in the institute of electrical and electronics engineers 33rd international parallel and distributed processing symposium (ipdps) held in may in brazil ipdps gathers engineers and scientists from around the world to prese...
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the texas a&m university system board of regents on thursday authorized the construction of a $130 million combat development complex at the texas a&m systems rellis campus in bryan the complex will include a one-of-a-kind kilometer-long tunnel that will make texas a&m engineering the hypersonics research capital of th...
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the aim is to shorten the time it takes to get emerging technologies from the lab to the field and maximize technology capabilities through soldier feedback a team of army and texas a&m system researchers will quickly evaluate prototypes that can be tested by soldiers in a real-world environment using a vast array of s...
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joan and michael mcgee together with maxine and michael mcmahan have established the wanda and jack e mcmahan 43 scholarship to provide one or more scholarships to full-time students in good standing pursuing a degree in the department of biomedical engineering at texas a&m university michael mcgee graduated from texas...
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in addition to his desire to help bolster the departments scholarship offerings to students mcgee shared that family played a large role in the decision to establish a scholarship my father-in-law jack mcmahan graduated from texas a&m with a degree in engineering and immediately went into the military where he had a lo...
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wanda mcmahan was a nurse in the army during world war ii and she met jack mcmahan while they both were serving overseas mcgee said a unique aspect of their story is that jack served in the unit that liberated the first concentration camp discovered by us troops their dedication to our country spurred the idea of namin...
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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...
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with a $300 000 grant from the national science foundation a team of researchers at texas a&m university is diving deep into the physics of plasma to question the fundamental theory of local thermodynamic equilibrium (lte) in arc discharges plasma often called the fourth state of matter is an ionized gas that is presen...
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paul burke and daniel varnum-lowry graduate students in the department of aerospace engineering at texas a&m university won the best poster award at the international space station (iss) research and development conference (issr&d 2019) held in atlanta undergraduate and graduate students were invited to compete in the ...
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each year the college of engineering at texas a&m university awards outstanding doctoral students with the prestigious engineering graduate merit fellowship – supporting them on their transformational academic journeys and research endeavors this year six students across multiple departments in the college were chosen ...
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ethan kamphaus artie mcferrin department of chemical engineering
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kamphaus a chemical engineering doctoral student is the sixth and final awardee of the 2019-20 engineering graduate merit fellowship he began his phd journey three years ago in the computational materials group directed by dr perla balbuena holder of the gpsa professorship and tees eminent professor having also receive...
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carson hanel department of computer science and engineering
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q what inspired you to be in computer science and engineering a like many millennials i grew up with the internet – utilizing it as the technology transitioned from its relative infancy into being an integral part of everyday life through it ive built lifelong friendships with loved ones around the globe; fighting drag...
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q what are you passionate about how would you like to apply your area of study to that passion a i am passionate about discovering methods that ease accessibility to the bountiful information that the internet has to offer this pursuit of methods to provide end users with greatly enhanced experiences and throughput is ...
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benjamin fennell zachry department of civil and environmental engineering
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q what inspired you to be in civil and environmental engineering a my biggest inspiration for pursuing civil and environmental engineering is my father an electrical engineer by trade he cultivated within me a deep hunger for solving problems at a young age we would build things together take things apart and try to pu...
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learn more about the remaining engineering graduate merit fellowship recipients in their q&a
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david and denise senor have established the david 88 and denise 85 senor scholarship to provide one or more scholarships to full-time students in good standing pursuing an undergraduate degree from the department of nuclear engineering at texas a&m university david earned his bachelors masters and doctorate in nuclear ...
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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...
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lila fox and chad ermel 96 have established the lila fox and chad ermel 96 scholarship in engineering to provide one or more scholarships to full-time first-generation students in good standing pursuing a degree from the college of engineering at texas a&m university ermel graduated from texas a&m with a bachelors degr...
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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...
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in the early hours of july 17 international space station flight engineer christina koch received the command from nasa to activate hermes power with the flip of that switch the two-year development project became live online texas a&m university students dustin tish jeremy coffelt and luis orozco were on hand at the h...
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the students were ecstatic as they witnessed the system begin its bootup configuration and initial operation tish and coffelt are seniors in the mechatronics program and orozco is a senior in the electronic systems engineering technology program within the department of engineering technology and industrial distributio...
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the team of students were responsible for all facets of the command and control system within hermes tish was tasked with all of the mechanical aspects of the project orozco was responsible for all the real-time operating system-based code running on six different microcontrollers and coffelt was the software lead for ...
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the project which began as a capstone design two years ago was sponsored by texas space research applications and technologies (t star) a bryan-based startup company that was contracted to develop and deliver the prototype system once the prototype passed all of nasas testing and operational validation t star led an ap...
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from snapchat photo filters to super bowl crowd surveillance to identity verification in airports facial analysis techniques have taken the industry by storm with a multitude of applications this branch of artificial intelligence is ever evolving – encompassing image tagging on social media expression recognition secur...
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as wang explained the texas a&m team will develop algorithms that can be used to recognize video conference participants across multiple sessions and dates despite changes in attire hairstyles lighting seating arrangement etc by adopting deep learning into their design the researchers are not only improving already sta...
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dr garrett mckay postdoctoral researcher at the colorado school of mines will be joining the zachry department of civil and environmental engineering in fall 2019 as a member of the environmental engineering research group mckays research interests include aquatic photochemistry dissolved organic matter and treatment o...
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dr bert sweetman and collaborators are working to develop a system to protect houston from hurricane-driven flood waters entering galveston bay his idea came to fruition as an improvement to a plan developed in a study funded by the state of texas
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most texans will forever carry the memory of the widespread devastation left behind by hurricanes harvey and ike along the states coastal cities and communities the storms were two of the costliest tropical cyclones on record specifically in houston where catastrophic rainfall and wind-driven waters triggered major flo...
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offering a solution this is where his solution came into play i suggested that we should investigate a different gate design objective he said i wondered if we could change the structural design of the gates to eliminate the islands entirely eliminating the islands would theoretically solve the issues of reduced salini...
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what now four competing gate concepts are still under active consideration by the project team sweetmans proposed concept has the least environmental impact with potentially the lowest cost but is the least proven of the competing concepts the key challenge is to develop the design to the point that the decision-makers...
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more than 1 000 miles span the distance between college station texas and yucatán mexico but a texas a&m university program is breaking down the boundaries between these two vastly different yet surprisingly similar locations in its fifth year the international research abroad program (irap) came full circle when 17 st...
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during the closing ceremony held recently in the zachry engineering education complex the secretary of research and higher education in the state of yucatán confirmed that this collaboration is yielding amazing results i want to say that today science and technology play a leading role in economic and social developmen...
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how it began the irap program began five years ago when dr sonia garcia director of the access and inclusion program approached alves about a national science foundation grant with the louis stokes alliances for minority participation access and inclusion has been receiving funding from the organization for the last fi...
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each may a cohort of texas a&m students travel to yucatán for two weeks and are immersed in mexican culture they stay with host families and visit cultural sites such as uxmal chichen itza cenotes and other landmarks of yucatáns vast pre-and post-hispanic history students also visit more than a dozen research laborator...
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this is the first year that the students from mexico also traveled to college station to present their proposal alongside aggies thanks to a grant provided by 100 000 strong in the americas innovation fund dr john walewski associate professor of practice in the zachry department of civil and environmental engineering s...
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the craig and galen brown engineering honors program recently held its annual fall industry night at texas a&m university the event allowed engineering honors students to hear from industry leaders about life after college former nuclear engineering student ray rothrock venture capitalist and redseal ceo gave the night...
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in addition to being an investor rothrock is also an advocate for nuclear energy climate change and education in his free time rothrock is a bassist in a cover band named up and to the right alongside his son and other investors (all of the best things in new york ie stocks increase up and to the right he explained) wh...
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before opening up the floor to his fellow panelists john walsh of schlumberger and claire rubrecht-robertson of qorvo rothrock offered the best advice that he accumulated throughout the years such as the importance of being a lifelong learner never stop learning said rothrock ive learned more in my past year as a ceo t...
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dr rui tuo assistant professor in the department of industrial and systems engineering has been awarded a national science foundation grant for his research on statistical and data science methodologies in computer experiments that will help improve computer simulation practices computer simulations are widely used in ...
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dr kayleen helms former aerospace engineering student and member of the aerospace engineering advisory board was awarded the 2019 prism award from the society of women engineers the prism award recognizes an individual who has charted her own path throughout her career providing leadership in technology fields and prof...
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texas a&m university is part of the national alliance for water innovation (nawi) consortium which was recently awarded a five-year $100 million energy-water desalination hub by the us department of energy (doe) that will address water security issues in the united states led by doe's lawrence berkeley national laborat...
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betty and thomas randy bendall 69 have established the betty and thomas randy bendall 69 endowed scholarship which will provide one or more scholarships to full-time undergraduate students pursuing a degree in the artie mcferrin department of chemical engineering in the past few years i have realized that i want to hel...
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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...
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dr shima hajimirza has been awarded two grants from the national science foundation (nsf) for her research in radiation heat transfer in materials her first project eager: predictive surrogate modeling and analysis of radiative heat transfer in porous media aims to develop a more efficient and effective way of measurin...
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the texas a&m engineering experiment station (tees) has been awarded $7 million in federal grant funding from the us department of transportation to study automated driving systems us secretary of transportation elaine l chao made the announcement last week of $60 million in federal grant funding to eight projects in s...
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the texas a&m university college of engineering is proud to celebrate with bruce chinn 79 (bachelors in chemical engineering) as he accepts his election to vice president of the board of trustees at the american institute of chemical engineers (aiche) foundation originally from edna texas chinns prestigious career has ...
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the texas a&m college of engineering is proud of our former students like bruce chinn who display aggie core values such as excellence selfless service and loyalty if you know an aggie who is celebrating an accomplishment and would like them to be recognized by the college please contact the office of alumni relations
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a team of researchers from the artie mcferrin department of chemical engineering at texas a&m university have developed new a new glycoarray tool and a new computational tool leading to a breakthrough in the characterization of lectin-glycan interactions
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dr hung-jen wu and dr joseph sang-ii kwon assistant professors in the artie mcferrin department of chemical engineering at texas a&m university have developed a new theory to predict a pathogen infection pathway this new development which was featured on the cover of the may issue of the journal glycobiology is based o...
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summers at texas a&m university are hot but that doesnt hinder faculty students and staff in the department of materials science and engineering from conducting important research the materials science and engineering department offered two summer research programs for undergraduate students between may 28 - aug 2 the ...
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the master of engineering technical management (metm) program at texas a&m university is a 21-month part-time online program designed specifically for working professionals in engineering and technology the program is currently ranked 15th on collegechoicenets best online masters in engineering management degree list a...
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part of the time in the class was spent at the texas a&m challengeworks outdoor learning laboratory students were separated into small groups and completed a wide variety of ropes course activities that built teamwork and camaraderie students returning to residency week for their second and final year attended the caps...
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on the final day of residency week students received presentations from their future online professors and had the opportunity to engage with them and ask questions before returning home and beginning the semester second-year students were escorted to the clayton w williams jr alumni center to try on and select an aggi...
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cecilia klauber a doctoral student in the department of electrical and computer engineering at texas a&m university was awarded the society of women engineers (swe) 2019 outstanding collegiate member award this prestigious award is only presented to 10 students annually being a graduate student recipient of this recogn...
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i help lead a team of students that are providing programming and resources for grad students around the society so its especially exciting to get this award because only 10 people can get it and its been primarily won by undergrads in the past klauber said in my work at all these universities and even getting involved...
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for the past three years dr berna hascakir has been involved in a program funded by the national science foundation (nsf) that allowed her to teach the basics of research to three undergraduate students from schools other than texas a&m university the program research experiences for undergraduates (reu) lets students ...
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nathan bliss sits on the porch swing of his parents houston home with his arm around his older brother charles its like a scene carved out of a norman rockwell painting theres an american flag waving in the distance and their golden retriever princess is playing in the yard as they rock nathan speaks calmly to charles ...
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like many other families who have a loved one with a disability each member of the bliss family has learned to fill the role of caretaker and they do so seemingly with ease for nathan his brothers condition has inspired him to study biomedical engineering at texas a&m university where he is now a sophomore someday he h...
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a passion for research when nathan was in high school his mother met a neuroscience physician-scientist at a luncheon dr hsiao-tuan chao assistant professor in pediatrics molecular and human genetics and neuroscience at baylor college of medicine runs a lab located in the jan and dan duncan neurological research instit...
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walking in his brother's shoes in many ways nathans childhood was different than that of his peers his brother was in and out of the hospital sometimes spending months away at a time it was challenging to see him struggle nathan said but its made me more responsible the biggest thing its done is its given me this sense...
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hes not verbal anymore nathan said you dont know what it is he wants or what hes thinking you have to put yourself in his shoes and think ‘does he need to use the restroom his personal experiences and compassion drive him in his research and thats something that chao finds very valuable in the lab nathans personal expe...
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david cotten has established the andria n elkins 04 scholarship to provide one or more scholarships to full-time students in good standing pursuing a degree in the industrial and systems engineering department at texas a&m university cotten is a graduate of the university of louisiana at lafayette and tulane university...
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the department of industrial and systems engineering is celebrating its 80th anniversary in the coming years the departments goal for this celebration is to have 80 scholarships for the 80 years the department has existed endowments supporting the students in the department have an immeasurable impact on their educatio...
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a study conducted by stanford university recently recognized dr jn reddy as the most highly cited researcher in the college of engineering at texas a&m university and number six worldwide among engineers the study analyzed data collected during the period of 1996-2017 covering more than six million scientists in 22 maj...
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natural disasters present unique challenges to civil engineers because they can damage infrastructure systems such as transportation power and communication services disruptions in any of these services could dramatically impact the livelihoods of an areas residents two students natalie coleman and brice sherer dedicat...
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her work focuses on the societal impacts of infrastructure service disruptions on different social subpopulations in a community it investigates whether the social characteristics of a community can influence the disaster experience one of my research projects has focused on how socially vulnerable populations (such as...
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sherer a senior construction science student at texas a&m also dedicated much of his summer to working in mostafavis lab with hamed farahmand a doctoral student in the civil and environmental engineering department i first started studying the subject of resiliency and had no prior knowledge on it or research experienc...
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four faculty members have joined the department of computer science and engineering at texas a&m university with research expertise in areas such as cybersecurity human-computing interaction and motion-planning algorithms with the fierce competition for talent in both academic and industrial settings we are delighted t...
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dr martin carlisle professor of practice received his doctoral degree in computer science from princeton university and his bachelors degree in mathematics and computer science from the university of delaware carlisles research interests include computer security programming languages and computer science educationdr j...
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daniel toerner a senior in the department of ocean engineering at texas a&m university participated in the international submarine races competition in bethesda maryland according to the competitions website the race provides a platform for teams at all grade levels to develop a one or two-person wet submarine crew mem...
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q: what does the team go through each year to reach the point of competition a: every year the team has to go through the process of designing procuring manufacturing and constructing everything that goes into the submarine this year there was a major focus on developing more efficient drive-train control and safety sy...
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q: how has being on the submarine team impacted your experience as an ocean engineering student a: this organization has helped me learn that even though something may work in a design or simulation it may not work in real life it has given me the opportunity to have very valuable hands-on experience that encompasses s...
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for dilipkumar patel 66 what started out as a surprise visit to his alma mater this past summer turned out to be a day he will never forget patels daughter bela jain had made plans to spend the day with her parents but wouldnt give them any details about where they were going accompanied by his wife devayani the family...
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on sept 4-5 the student engineers council (sec) at texas a&m university held their fall 2019 engineering career fair at kyle field and the texas a&m hotel and conference center the event attracted approximately 10 100 students seeking internships and jobs from the 558 participating companies in attendance the fair is a...