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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... |
on june 25 2019 dr sean mcdeavitt director of the nuclear engineering and science center hosted the first experimenters integration meeting at texas a&m university this meeting was attended by approximately 85 contributors from across five different department of energy (doe) laboratories 20 universities and seven indu... |
bridges make it possible to get to places faster and more conveniently but in the face of an earthquake these structures are subject to forces that can cause extensive damage dr petros sideris an assistant professor in the zachry department of civil and environmental engineering at texas a&m university is leading a col... |
bridges with hsr columns are more resilient than traditional columns because they have more deformability meaning they can more easily alter their shape traditional columns are cast as one piece which means that as the earth shakes and bends these structures crack like a stick bent at both ends hsr columns are built as... |
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... |
many texans particularly the poor and elderly live in areas that are far from medical care telemonitoring the use of technology to monitor a patients health status remotely is an emerging medical practice intended to help these patients researchers from the department of industrial and systems engineering the departmen... |
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... |
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 does lawrence berkeley national laborato... |
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... |
the texas a&m university system national laboratories office hosted nuclear security enterprise (nse) day on sept 9 the nse includes the national nuclear security administration (nnsa) and laboratories and other sites around the country managed by the nnsa that maintain the nations nuclear stockpile the nse is among th... |
more than 80 students from the college of engineering attended the annual recruiting event students from west texas a&m university prairie view a&m university and other a&m system universities attended the event as well nse day also featured graduate and undergraduate panel discussions designed to provide students with... |
at the nse day career fair hiring managers were available to collect resumes for open job postings internships and fellowships technical representatives from various companies and national labs spoke with students about employment opportunities and other benefits such as professional development and tuition reimburseme... |
with a grant from the national science foundation texas a&m university will lead a multi-institution network to promote cyber expertise among research universities community colleges minority-serving institutions and other organizations in the southwestern united states the sweeter (southwest expertise in expanding tra... |
in july of 2019 nuclear science technology and education for molten salt reactors (nustem) and safety assessment of molten salt fast reactor (samofar) led the molten salt reactor (msr) summer bootcamp on the campus of the delft university of technology in the netherlands this event brought together participants from un... |
the summer school broke the traditional lecturing model said texas a&m graduate student mohammed bani ahmad who works on the nustem project with kurwitz the workshop turned classes into interactive sessions where we solved problems and did calculations during class time this kept us students involved and interested the... |
a study conducted by stanford university recently recognized dr jn reddy and dr alan needleman as the most highly cited researchers in the texas a&m university college of engineering reddy is ranked no 13 in all engineering fields and needleman is ranked 22 texas a&m and harvard are the only universities with two resea... |
texas a&m university hosted the third workshop for the transatlantic partnership between the texas a&m engineering experiment station and arts et métiers institute of technology jointly referred to as the am2 partnership the workshop held oct 16-18 built on the two before it in hopes of presenting the vision for the am... |
but ushering in progress to a global manufacturing industry has been challenging since companies do not share data with one another so collaborative solutions are rarely developed with any efficiency share your data and you will be stronger advised ivan iordanoff vice president of research and innovation at arts et mét... |
the am2 partnership is of immense strategic benefit to both france and the us because it seeks to effect change to a global manufacturing industry through extensive research collaborations education programs and mutual faculty and student exchange initiatives that serve to elevate the am2 partnership as well over 100 a... |
at the annual america makes members meeting and exchange held last week rob gorham executive director of manufacturing initiatives in the office of business development at the texas a&m engineering experiment station (tees) and former america makes executive director was awarded the america makes distinguished collabor... |
the mary kay oconnor process safety center (mkopsc) will host its 2019 international symposium in memory of dr sam mannan oct 22-24 the symposium will take place at the texas a&m hotel and conference center and registration is free for texas a&m students faculty and staff with a valid universal identification number th... |
cybercrime continues to increase around the country and the state of texas has been hit particularly hard this year in august 22 cities across the state were hit in coordinated ransomware attacks when cities near college station were impacted local officials turned to the cybersecurity experts at the texas a&m universi... |
during this visit comptroller hegar toured several assets and met with many subject matter experts from across the texas a&m system including texas a&ms west campus data center; the texas a&m system security operations center and the college of engineerings zachry engineering education complex additionally he spoke wit... |
texas a&m university system us army and army futures command (afc) officials and the bush family were on the rellis campus today for the official groundbreaking and naming of the new bush combat development complex (bcdc) named in honor of former president george hw bush we face a complex security environment one that ... |
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 sensors and instruments at rellis achieving the goals of the agreement will result in more capable and survivable hypersonic flight systems and materials more... |
conventional gas-processing techniques emit carbon dioxide (co2) and raise the carbon footprint but a novel process developed by researchers from the texas a&m engineering experiment station (tees) could help gas-producing countries process their wealth of natural gas without significantly contributing to co2 emissions... |
phd student mohamed sufiyan challiwala who has been a significant contributor to the project said the cargen reactor is a result of a nearly $5 million exceptional proposal grant from the qatar national research funds national priorities research program challiwala started working on the project as a masters student in... |
if youve ever used a smartphone or a fitness tracker youve likely been using a device thats a part of the internet of things a group of interconnected devices that communicate via remote servers but these central servers process huge amounts of data coming in from multiple devices that in turn cause processing delays d... |
us senator john cornyn joined the us army futures command and the texas a&m university system to announce a cooperative agreement that will provide up to $65 million over five years to texas a&m supporting research into new technologies to help the army futures command modernize the nations fighting force our countrys ... |
with the help of a grant from the nasa innovative advanced concepts program a texas a&m university-led research team will continue the development of a new type of propulsion system possibly enabling missions to the nearest stars in our lifetime since the launch of sputnik in 1957 space probes have explored our neighbo... |
through the nasa innovative advanced concepts (niac) phase ii grant the team led by dr chris limbach assistant professor in the department of aerospace engineering at texas a&m has proposed combining a laser beam and a neutral particle beam using them to push a spacecraft to nearly 10% the speed of light unlike either ... |
the impede® embolization plug originally designed by researchers in the department of biomedical engineering at texas a&m university has won a 2019 r&d 100 award from r&d world magazine the device is owned by shape memory medical inc a california-based company co-founded by dr duncan maitland at texas a&m r&d 100 award... |
solar energy is the cleanest and most abundant renewable energy source available and the us has some of the richest solar resources in the world to support the progression of solar power the us department of energy (doe) announced it would provide $128 million in funding to advance solar technologies through the office... |
the team received $44 million for their project secure monitoring and control of solar pv systems through dynamic watermarking their goal is to develop and demonstrate a cyber-resilient operation for power distribution systems with massively photovoltaic (pv) generation such as rooftop solar panels it is led by dr le x... |
the engineering genesis award for multidisciplinary research was presented to 23 texas a&m engineering experiment station (tees) researchers and their teams during the tees advisory board meeting nov 15 the award which is presented to tees researchers who have secured significant research grants of $1 million or more w... |
the mary kay oconnor process safety center (mkopsc) has appointed dr stewart behie to serve as interim director behie has over 40 years of technical experience in risk assessment and management process hazards analysis safety engineering and the process of safety culture maturation he has worked closely with the mkopsc... |
artificial intelligence (ai) the branch of computer science that emphasizes the development of machines thinking and working like humans is becoming more and more popular it is used extensively in many businesses – medicine education law manufacturing – to name a few researchers at texas a&m university are working to b... |
shell has donated $6 million to the texas a&m engineering program the gift will be divided among the texas a&m engineering experiment stations mary kay oconnor process safety center the shell engineering foundations laboratory and the shell transport phenomena laboratory we are grateful for shells generosity and suppor... |
whether the body of a commercial aircraft or the suspension beams of san franciscos golden gate bridge materials used for carrying heavy loads are engineered for strength and durability but under unrelenting physical stress structures that may appear damage-free can crack suddenly shrouding the reasons for their failur... |
the prevalent view of the cause of this type of crack known technically as shear fracture has been porosity softening according to this theory damaging stress creates empty spaces or voids within the metal alloy resembling holes in cheese under constant tension these voids grow and join at which point cracks form and t... |
imagine a tool that can discover problems on utility lines before outages before power failures spark deadly wildfires or before fears of wildfires prompt massive pre-emptive power outages such as those suffered recently by millions of californians well the tool exists it is available today and it works engineers at te... |
leading a double life as both solids and liquids liquid crystals occupy center stage for creating smaller faster and more efficient technologies even at the level of single particles liquid crystals can bend light and react to external forces like electric fields or physical pushes and pulls and so a tiny quantity of l... |
many particles found in nature like red blood cells nucleosomes and clay particles are disc shaped and under the right circumstances they can self-assemble into liquid crystals said cheng so we used zirconium phosphate as a proxy to investigate if there is a way to experimentally control the liquid crystallization of t... |
just like water in a boiling pot circulates from the bottom where it is hot to the top of the container where its cold water in our tubes was also circulating from warmer to cooler temperatures said dali huang graduate student in the texas a&m college of engineering and a primary author of the study accordingly the zir... |
in the perennial clash between man and microbe ultraviolet light has emerged as one of mans powerful tools against many pathogens although ultraviolet light can wipe out several germs the exact mechanisms that orchestrate the radiations damaging action have long been elusive in the september issue of pnas texas a&m uni... |
also unlike most other biological molecules tryptophan interacts with ultraviolet light when hit by ultraviolet light tryptophan molecules absorb the radiation and get energized and when they lose this absorbed energy they reemit a much weaker ultraviolet light dubbed fluorescent light rentzepis and his team investigat... |
researchers at texas a&m university have recently developed a more comprehensive mathematical framework that can help engineers at petrochemical plants to not only reduce production costs and increase economic gain but also make these factories safer and more environmentally friendly the researchers said their new algo... |
researchers at texas a&m university have recently developed a more comprehensive mathematical framework that can help engineers at petrochemical plants to not only reduce production costs and increase economic gain but also make these factories safer and more environmentally friendly the researchers said their new algo... |
jain and her colleagues found that after taking social factors into account the most promising compressor system design was not the one that was already in the existing plant but the one that the researchers had created jain noted that their observations indicate the feasibility of using their algorithm to evaluate new... |
before dr qingsheng wang became an associate professor of chemical engineering at the mary kay o'connor process safety center at texas a&m university he was a doctoral student working there wang answered a few questions about his journey from texas a&m and back and how this experience has shaped him into the researcher... |
q: what is it like being on the faculty at texas a&m a: my journey has come full circle unlike when i was a student i now see the organization from a different vantage point i hope to bring all my experience in leadership and research to manage the safety engineering academic program i also now collaborate with several... |
according to ancient lore genghis khan instructed his horsemen to wear silk vests underneath their armor to better protect themselves against an onslaught of arrows during battle since the time of khan body armor has significantly evolved silk has given way to ultra-hard materials that act like impenetrable walls again... |
scientists know high-speed jolts cause boron carbide to have phase transformations a phenomenon where a material changes its internal structure such that it is in two or more physical states like liquid and solid at the same time the bullets impact thus converts boron carbide from a crystalline state where atoms are sy... |
dr xia "ben" hu assistant professor in the department of computer science and engineering and a lynn ‘84 and bill crane 83 faculty fellow has recently been given a national science foundation (nsf) and amazon joint award under their fairness in artificial intelligence program with this research funding hu will now take... |
because of their unique ability to be pulled twisted and conform to 3d surfaces stretchable electronics have a variety of applications that include wearable health monitors cyber skin for robotic devices and flexible solar cells however even with these superpowers stretchable electronics can tear but not in ways that o... |
pharr first suspected that stretchable materials have a unique tear pattern when he was playing with a soft elastic material called elastomers when he pulled on a crack in the material he noticed that the tear became bigger in the direction of the pull this observation led him to further investigate the sideways cracki... |
pharr aims to use his knowledge about the structural properties of elastomers to engineer new elastic materials that show sideways cracking by investigating how to reverse engineer microstructures that lead to sideways cracking researchers can harness the benefits associated with it and develop application methods for ... |
by incorporating the architecture of city drainage systems and readings from flood gauges into a comprehensive statistical framework researchers at texas a&m university can now accurately predict the evolution of floods in extreme situations like hurricanes with their new approach the researchers said their algorithm c... |
to predict which way flood water will flow along drainage channels and cause an inundation mostafavi and his team developed a probability-based model that was fed as one of its inputs the water-level readings on flood gauges these readings were for different time points during two major flooding events in texas hurrica... |
texas a&m university-san antonio will advance cyber research through a newly established cyber engineering technology/cyber security research center with a $1 million grant from the texas a&m university system chancellors research initiative (cri) the center will be housed in the department of computing and cyber secur... |
mental health issues are becoming more prevalent on college campuses across the country and researchers at texas a&m university are working to develop evidence-based services that will help manage students mental health while mental health counseling is available on most college campuses the stigma around mental health... |
the tool utilizes advanced machine learning and a wide range of sensors provided on commercial off-the-shelf smartwatches to detect signs and symptoms of high anxiety and direct the smartwatch wearer to resources the wearable device would be triggered by negative indicators such as anxiety patterns of heart rate and se... |
mental health is affecting students academic success and their overall quality of life sasangohar said mental illness can also affect a students motivation concentration and social interactions which are all crucial factors for a student to be successful in college and lifethis program is the first of its kind and coul... |
dr jaime grunlan and his team are helping lead the effort to pursue safer more effective ways to protect flammable objects through the development of flame-retardant surface treatments grunlan the linda & ralph schmidt 68 professor in the j mike walker '66 department of mechanical engineering is an international leader... |
there is a layer that separates the sky and sea its tiny – only one millimeter at its thickest – and yet this sea-surface microlayer plays a major role in weather prediction and the relationship between the air and oceanwhile the sea-surface layer has been known about for decades the dynamics and greater implications o... |
while an undergraduate and graduate student at texas a&m university sekaran was introduced to hydrodynamic instabilities hydrodynamic instabilities – the study of fluids in motion and how their flow can be disrupted – look at how such instabilities can cause large-scale dynamic changes in systems (such as weather patte... |
weve all shared the frustration software updates that are intended to make our applications run faster inadvertently end up doing just the opposite these bugs dubbed in the computer science field as performance regressions are time-consuming to fix since locating software errors normally requires substantial human inte... |
by using deep learning the researchers were able to monitor data coming from a large number of the counters simultaneously by reducing the size of the data which is similar to compressing a high-resolution image to a fraction of its original size by changing its format in the lower dimensional data their algorithm coul... |
baby diapers contact lenses and gelatin dessert while seemingly unrelated these items have one thing in common theyre made of highly absorbent substances called hydrogels that have versatile applications recently a type of biodegradable hydrogel dubbed microporous annealed particle (map) hydrogel has gained much attent... |
once fastened onto the microbeads the stem cells use the space between the spheres to grow and transform into specialized cells like bone or skin cells and so when there is an injury map hydrogels can be used to deliver these new cells to help tissues regenerate however the health and behavior of stem cells within the ... |
to their surprise alges team found that for both types of cell-binding proteins the map hydrogels that degraded the fastest had the largest population of stem cells furthermore the cells were changing the shape of the map hydrogel as they spread and claimed more territory in the intact map hydrogel we could still see t... |
reaching for something on the top shelf at the grocery store or brushing one's teeth before bed are tasks many people can do without much thought but performing these same tasks as an upper limb amputee using a prosthetic device can require a lot more mental effort machine learning algorithms and computational models c... |
electromyography (emg) is a technique that records the electrical activity in muscles this electrical activity generates signals that trigger the interface which translates them into a unique pattern of commands these commands allow users to move their prosthetic devices there are over 100 000 people with upper limb am... |
the department of industrial and systems engineering at texas a&m university installed a new driving simulator to use in research pertaining to driving autonomous vehicles and innovative research like zahabis it is a one-of-a-kind feature on campus that can be driven manually or autonomously with a 270-degree field of ... |
with a touch of inspiration from macgyver texas a&m university researchers have developed a way to make medical protective gear from readily available materials to construct desperately needed personal protection masks for medical personnel who have seen a depletion of resources as the number of covid-19 cases increase... |
the project began after emergency room physicians asked criscione to explore potential solutions in case masks became unavailable the prototype never was intended to join the supply chain of approved personal protective equipment or personal protective equipment criscione said rather the aggie masks should be reserved ... |
criscione and his team will be quantitatively testing do-it-yourself masks in the coming days and will continue their efforts to create a mask that has features similar to the n95 respirator which is capable of filtering 95% of airborne particles including viruses (surgical masks cannot block as much) another group at ... |
objects around us from everyday utensils to touch screens are made of a blend of ingredients that can include a variety of metals and nonmetals although these synthetic materials have been engineered for strength and durability with time they can gradually weaken and in extreme cases crack particularly if subjected to ... |
mcclenny who incidentally is also a blackhawk pilot in the united states army reserves explained that his research has important uses within the military like all vehicles those used by the army such as tanks and planes are also composed of many parts each made up of a different mix of elements consequently different c... |
the texas a&m university systems george h w bush combat development complex (bcdc) under construction at the rellis campus is the result of a partnership with the army futures command the bcdc will bring together academic researchers the military and the private sector for collaboration demonstrations and high-tech tes... |
with the millions of bacteria that naturally exit in the environment and the many more that can be engineered for biological warfare the need to recognize whether a bacterium is potentially harmful is ever-increasing to rapidly identify different bacteria that exist in a given sample dr arum han professor in the depart... |
while han develops the microchip dr james samuel (pi) and dr paul de figueiredo (co-pi) from the department of microbial pathogenesis and immunology in the texas a&m college of medicine will look at the microbial pathogens to determine what aspects of their harmfulness to humans or animals can be tested rapidly using a... |
electrical power outages commonly are caused by falling trees that tear down lines or failures of devices such as clamps switches conductors and connectors the devices can deteriorate over weeks or months impacting electrical currents in small ways before actual failures perhaps triggered by adverse weather conditions ... |
utility systems today operate like my 1950s chevy russell said they have some fuses and breakers and things but they really dont have anything diagnostic they dont have that computer under the hood telling them whats about to go wrong dfa interprets variations in electrical currents on utility circuits caused by deteri... |
engineers at texas a&m developed dfa over 20 years of research and testing at more than a dozen utilities across the nation including texas utilities such as pedernales electric cooperative mid-south synergy and bluebonnet electric cooperative dfa is now being tested by two of californias biggest utilities pacific gas ... |
major hospitals in the houston area reached out to the texas a&m engineering experiment station (tees) and texas a&m university to determine if researchers and staff could use their rapid manufacturing expertise to assist with the shortage of medical devices and personal protective equipment (ppe) as the nation respond... |
as an america makes satellite center tees boasts one of the largest concentrations of core manufacturing subject matter experts in the country the knowledge base is multidisciplinary comprised of representatives from various colleges within texas a&m and the texas a&m university system we have advanced manufacturing an... |
manufacturing anything requires diversity in approach gorham continued we have to focus not just on making a functional solution but a functional solution that works and is safe to use by the many people depending on our answers texas a&m as a tier one university has all of that in-house ordinarily a university campus ... |
tees has partnered with america makes the national additive manufacturing innovation institute to establish an america makes satellite center on the campus of texas a&m in college station america makes is the countrys leading collaborative partner in additive manufacturing and 3d-printing technology research commercial... |
the texas a&m new ventures competition (tnvc) is hosting its annual competition completely online this year to protect competitors judges and staff during the covid-19 pandemic sixteen semifinalists and eight alternates for the 2020 competition will compete may 14 for hundreds of thousands in startup funds during onlin... |
the texas a&m engineering experiment station and the texas a&m university system along with a growing number of sponsors are working with the entrepreneurial ecosystem throughout the state to ensure todays innovative ideas become a reality through the texas a&m new ventures competition |
as texas a&m engineering finds innovative ways to help the community deal with the covid-19 pandemic the team at the susu and mark a fischer '72 engineering design center (fedc) in the zachry engineering education complex is working around the clock to make those solutions a reality the fedcs skeleton crew of essential... |
dr david staack director of engineering laboratory instruction said due to supply shortages staff technicians had to find a way to make the design work with the materials they had on-handincluding supplies he had available in his research lab as well as those able to be sourced from the college of architecture typicall... |
the fedc team also includes technical laboratory coordinators adam farmer and todd williams as well as nathan panak cody ricther brey caraway richard mccalley iran ramirez and tobias gualandri you see all kinds of stuff online and on tv of people trying to help farmer said for us to be able to do something and know tha... |
the susu and mark a fischer '72 engineering design center is an exclusive academic makerspace and design center that focuses on learning designing and building through partnerships with industry and non-profit sponsors the center is an environment where concepts become solutions to real-world problems and student teams... |
in light of the emergence and spread of covid-19 researchers across many disciplines are using their expertise to address these and future pandemics and texas a&m university urban resilience lab researchers are joining the global effortdr ali mostafavi assistant professor in the zachry department of civil and environme... |
the urban resilience networks and informatics lab focuses on creating transformative solutions for addressing the grand challenges pertaining to the nexus of humans disasters and infrastructure systems our urban resilience lab at texas a&m is uniquely positioned to undertake this work in addition to our expertise in ai... |
the texas a&m engineering experiment station (tees) edge program is known for providing professional education reflective of the ever-changing needs of the world and there has never been a more ever-changing time than now to meet the needs of those searching for professional education opportunities tees edge has severa... |
texas a&m university through its unique engineering medicine (enmed) partnership with houston methodist hospital is stepping up to help the health care system keep up with the demand for medical supplies brought on by the increasing number of confirmed and suspected covid-19 cases a team led by dr michael r moreno has ... |
the spacer or diffuser that we created will allow the doctors to use metered dose inhalers to treat diagnosed and suspected covid-19 patients who are not yet in need of ventilator therapy without using nebulizers that may aerosolize the virus moreno said and this is important because if this early stage intervention is... |
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