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the texas a&m energy institute pursues and supports new approaches for multi-disciplinary energy research education and external partnerships these approaches cross departmental and college boundaries and address all facets of the energy landscape that naturally connect engineering sciences technologies economics law a... |
texas a&m engineering researchers have been awarded $13 million in funding from the us department of energys advanced research projects agency-energy (arpa-e) with the award researchers will focus on the design fabrication and testing of a lightweight and ultra-efficient electric powertrain for aircraft propulsion to r... |
the secureamerica institute led by the texas a&m university system and managed by the texas a&m engineering experiment station has released a $4 million project call as part of a nationwide initiative for a secure and resilient us manufacturing and industrial base the secureamerica institute is a private-public partner... |
the texas a&m university system is one of the largest systems of higher education in the nation with a budget of $63 billion through a statewide network of 11 universities a comprehensive health science center eight state agencies and the rellis campus the texas a&m system educates more than 153 000 students and makes ... |
two researchers from the artie mcferrin department of chemical engineering at texas a&m university are making strides in developing the next generation of batteries dr perla balbuena gpsa professor and dr jorge seminario lanatter & herbert fox professor have been developing protective layers for safer and longer-life b... |
structural damage to any of the nations ailing bridges can come with a hefty price of billions of dollars in repairs new bridge designs promise more damage-resistant structures and consequently lower restoration costs but if these designs havent been implemented in the real world predicting how they can be damaged and ... |
to find the correct repair strategy we need to know what the damages look like said sideris our bridge design is relatively new and so there is little scientific literature that we could refer to and so we took an unconventional approach to fill our gap in knowledge by recruiting a panel of experts in bridge damage and... |
the texas a&m engineering experiment station's infrastructure market segment addresses obstacles related to all aspects of land and sea organizational structures and facilities our strengths include infrastructure renewal advanced materials and structural systems deep-water platforms slender and large body hydrodynamic... |
the department of defense (dod) today named a state agency of the texas a&m university system to lead a national consortium for modernizing hypersonic flight capabilities the texas a&m engineering experiment station (tees) will manage a five-year $20 million per-year dod initiative involving many of the nations top res... |
while wildfires remain an unpredictable threat researchers at texas a&m university are attempting to mitigate that uncertainty by using mathematical and statistical models to identify the most cost-effective and efficient strategies for reducing wildfire risk through vegetation removal or fuel treatment strategies texa... |
a team of researchers is creating mobile robots for military applications that can determine with or without human intervention whether wheels or legs are more suitable to travel across terrains the defense advanced research projects agency (darpa) has partnered with dr kiju lee at texas a&m university to enhance these... |
i have recently been awarded a new darpa contract to join the offset sprint-5 effort focusing on enhancements to (the robots) physical testbeds lee said through this new project i will develop unmanned ground vehicles with agile and versatile locomotive capabilities for urban military operations lee and her team are de... |
legged locomotion is more versatile but suffers from inherent structural mechanical and control complexities lee said the proposed testbed will be equipped with novel wheel/leg transformable mechanisms which can switch between the two locomotion modes actively adapting to its environment but without needing any additio... |
although created for military use the team hopes this technology will transcend this field while the current focus is on defense and other military applications these types of adaptable mobile robots can be applied to many other areas such as space domestic service surveillance and agriculture said lee the offset sprin... |
dr michel kinsy has joined the department of electrical and computer engineering at texas a&m university this semester as an associate professor with expertise in cybersecurity and a focus on important engineering and computational problems he will also serve as associate director of the texas a&m cybersecurity center ... |
the texas a&m cybersecurity center is dedicated to combating adversaries who desire to harm our citizens our government and our industry through cyber-attacks the center seeks to advance the collective cybersecurity knowledge capabilities and practices doing so through ground-breaking research novel and innovative cybe... |
researchers from the texas a&m university college of engineering the texas a&m engineering experiment station (tees) and los alamos national laboratory (lanl) are improving magnesium alloys usability which could mean stronger lighter vehicles with improved gas efficiency this collaboration is made possible by the texas... |
by seeking to understand how tiny droplets behave when subjected to high pressure and temperatures texas a&m university researchers could contribute to the development of more efficient engines for propulsion and energy production applications their project titled "droplet breakup and vaporization effects in high-speed... |
the texas a&m engineering experiment station's energy market segment features innovative solutions to obstacles in energy production processing and consumption our strengths include natural gas fossil and non-fossil-based technologies energy economics and multi-scale energy systems engineering; upstream petroleum engin... |
in the september issue of the journal nature scientists from texas a&m university hewlett packard labs and stanford university have described a new nanodevice that acts almost identically to a brain cell furthermore they have shown that these synthetic brain cells can be joined together to form intricate networks that ... |
but tasks that can send digital machines into a computational tizzy are ones at which the brain excels in fact brains are not just quick at recognition and optimization problems but they also consume far less energy than digital systems hence by mimicking how the brain solves these types of tasks williams said brain-in... |
to evaluate if their synthetic neurons can solve real-world problems the researchers first wired 24 such nanoscale devices together in a network inspired by the connections between the brains cortex and thalamus a well-known neural pathway involved in pattern recognition next they used this system to solve a toy versio... |
with the intensity of the ongoing climate change debate scientists and engineers are looking for cleaner energy sources to replace fossil fuels nuclear energy is one such possibility but innovations are being sought to enhance the promise of clean nuclear energy a team from texas a&m university has established a collab... |
the texas a&m/inl/ccte team is addressing nuclear energy from a different angle by delivering optimal performance in existing heavy water reactor designs with proven competitive performance the new aneel fuel breaks barriers for fuel utilization safety and proliferation resistance necessary to lower the hurdles to depl... |
during covid-19 artificial intelligence (ai) has been used to enhance diagnostic efforts deliver medical supplies and even assess risk factors from blood tests now artificial intelligence is being used to forecast future covid-19 cases texas a&m university researchers led by dr ali mostafavi have developed a powerful d... |
sitting atop power transformers are wavy shaped bushing systems that play a critical role in supplying communities with electricity however these objects are also susceptible to breaking during earthquakes once damaged bushings can cause widespread outages and burden the state with expensive repairs in a recent study t... |
the texas a&m engineering experiment station's infrastructure market segment addresses obstacles related to all aspects of land and sea organizational structures and facilities our strengths include infrastructure renewal advanced materials and structural systems deep-water platforms slender and large body hydrodynamic... |
in the 2019 boeing 737 max crash the recovered black box from the aftermath hinted that a failed pressure sensor may have caused the ill-fated aircraft to nose dive this incident and others have fueled a larger debate on sensor selection number and placement to prevent the reoccurrence of such tragedies texas a&m unive... |
john crawford chief financial officer for the texas a&m engineering experiment station (tees) and assistant vice chancellor for business management in the college of engineering was recently designated one of seven regents fellow service award winners for 2019-20 by the texas a&m university system board of regents the ... |
every year an estimated 15 million babies are born preterm (before 37 completed weeks of gestation) and this number is rising current interventions to prevent premature births are not always successful and the health care cost to treat them is over $26 billion per year in the united states alone researchers at texas a&... |
approximately 30% of promising medications have failed in human clinical trials because they are found to be toxic despite promising preclinical studies and about 60% of candidate drugs fail due to lack of efficacy ncats in collaboration with other nih institutes and centers and the us food and drug administration is l... |
seven engineering faculty members at texas a&m university received faculty early career development program (career) awards from the national science foundation (nsf) for their 2020 funding cycle the nsf career program offers support to early career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in res... |
even in the era of smartphones and self-driving cars the grim reality of our ever-modernizing world is that there are communities that still lack electricity and potable water making matters worse these underserved communities are often isolated from centralized power and water treatment plants making them largely depe... |
first to cut the dependence on centralized sources of power and water xie chellam and their team conceptualized an energy-water nanogrid which is a standalone truck-mountable filtration system whose pumps could run on solar-generated electricity next they developed a cost-minimization mathematical scheme called scenari... |
the simple act of blowing through a straw could soon come to symbolize a breathtaking leap forward in the covid-19 fight – and in combating other public health threats including pathogens that could cause future pandemics that simple exhaled breath is key to a new device that uses artificial intelligence (ai) to detect... |
rob gorham executive director of secureamerica said the texas a&m system specializes in helping businesses like worlds inc get through the so-called valley of death between an invention and commercial viability there's a lot of work that has to happen gorham said you have to think about standards you have to actually b... |
in the united states poor diet contributes to more than half of premature deaths related to cardiovascular and metabolic disease including type 2 diabetes a team of researchers at the precise advanced technologies and health systems for underserved populations (paths-up) center at texas a&m university are developing a ... |
the researchers are collaborating with the sansum diabetes research institute in california the collaboration will involve data collection efforts and translation of findings toward the end of the project mortazavi said a broader impact of the work is enabling patients and physicians to become better educated on how a ... |
the precise advanced technologies and health systems for underserved populations (paths-up) engineering research center was funded by the national science foundation in 2017 paths-up aims to change the paradigm for the health of underserved populations by developing revolutionary and cost-effective technologies and sys... |
more than five million americans are diagnosed with heart valve disease each year and for some of these patients a heart valve replacement may be an inevitable option mechanical valves have proven to be lifesaving for many however due to their design they fall short in their ability to replicate physiological blood flo... |
the texas a&m engineering experiment station's health care market segment advances research in the key areas of medicine health care-related technology and life sciences using a multi-disciplinary approach our strengths include bioinformatics computational biology and systems biology for agricultural environmental and ... |
nuclear power plants have supplied about 20% of the annual united states electricity generation since 1990 according to the us energy information administration but that energy creates high-level radioactive waste that has to be stored dr yong-rak kim professor in the zachry department of civil and environmental engine... |
the texas a&m engineering experiment station's energy market segment features innovative solutions to obstacles in energy production processing and consumption our strengths include natural gas fossil and non-fossil-based technologies energy economics and multi-scale energy systems engineering; upstream petroleum engin... |
the texas a&m university system board of regents created a new center thursday through which the texas a&m university system and los alamos national laboratory (lanl) collaboratively will address pressing national security issues the joint center for resilient national security will develop capabilities that can be app... |
the texas a&m university system is one of the largest systems of higher education in the nation with a budget of $63 billion the system is a statewide network of 11 universities; a comprehensive health science center; eight state agencies including the texas division of emergency management; and the rellis campus the t... |
on thursday the texas a&m system board of regents approved a plan to build the ballistic aero-optics and materials (bam) test range part of the george hw bush combat development complex on the rellis campus in two phases phase one is planned to be 500 meters long construction is scheduled to start in april and be subst... |
the texas a&m university system is one of the largest systems of higher education in the nation with a budget of $63 billion the texas a&m system is a statewide network of 11 universities; a comprehensive health science center; eight state agencies including the texas division of emergency management; and the rellis ca... |
ocean waves represent an abundant source of renewable energy but to best use this natural resource wave-energy converters need to be capable of physically handling ocean waves of different strengths without capsizing texas a&m university researchers have developed analytical tools that can help characterize the movemen... |
for the analysis hao wang falzarano s graduate student used a cylindrical wave-energy device this generic shape allowed the researchers to simplify the problem of prediction and extended their analysis to other wave-energy converters of similar shape he also considered three mooring configurations hao used two analytic... |
for the analysis hao wang falzarano s graduate student used a cylindrical wave-energy device this generic shape allowed the researchers to simplify the problem of prediction and extended their analysis to other wave-energy converters of similar shape he also considered three mooring configurations hao used two analytic... |
autonomous vehicles (av) are the wave of the future in the automobile industry and there's extensive discussion about the impacts on transportation society the economy and the environmenthowever less attention has been focused on the potential health impacts of self-driving vehiclestexas a&m university researchers have... |
in 1989 a geomagnetic disturbance (gmd) event in quebec left six million people without power for nine hours the disturbance caused seven of the electrical devices used to regulate voltage in the grid the static var compensators to be tripped within 59 seconds causing a voltage collapse 25 seconds later gmd events cont... |
data is captured every second allowing for the potential to better understand changes in the grid affected by gmds and gics analyzing the data received from the magnetometers is the first step to understanding the events themselves and can help overbyes team recreate past events and do post-event analyses in addition t... |
the smart grid center (sgc) brings together several smart grid electric energy efforts already under way in the texas a&m university system and positions the system as a leader in education research and public service in the modernization of the electricity system the center brings together interdisciplinary research t... |
an essential component of engines used in aircraft and power generation is a gas turbine the efficiency of these machines can be significantly amplified if they are made of materials that can endure harsh environments such as high temperatures these high-performance futuristic turbines will have the potential to benefi... |
each waking moment our brains process massive amounts of data to make sense of the outside world thus by imitating the way the human brain solves everyday problems neuromorphic systems have tremendous potential to revolutionize big data analysis and pattern recognition problems that are a struggle for current digital t... |
both a machine-learning algorithm and an engineer can predict if a bridge is going to collapse when they are given data that shows a failure might happen engineers can interpret the data based on their knowledge of physics stresses and other factors and state why they think the bridge is going to collapse machine-learn... |
the texas a&m teams first step will focus on evaluating shale oil and gas field tests sponsored with doe funding and identifying the machine-learning systems to use as the platform for the project next they will upgrade these systems to merge multiple types of reservoir data both actual and synthetic and evaluate each ... |
hydraulic fracturing an oil-recovery process in shale reservoirs uses tremendous amounts of fresh water to crack shale rock and free trapped oil and gas some of this water eventually flows back to the surface where it can be reclaimed and treated for reuse however this flowback water flushes out another kind of fluid f... |
many of the other solids in produced water naturally attract salt and are suspended in the form of colloids which are larger in size than the salt ions hascakir and her student researcher damir kaishentayev are exploring three basic water treatment methods alone and in combinations to remove these larger solids while a... |
the united states generates a colossal seven million tons of sewage sludge annually enough to fill 2 500 olympic-sized swimming pools while a portion of this waste is repurposed for manure and other land applications a substantial amount is still disposed of in landfills in a new study texas a&m university researchers ... |
hospital-acquired infections are a global health problem that threatens patients treatment in intensive care units patients who require intubation are at a higher risk of contracting life-threatening cases of ventilator-associated pneumonia dr vanderlei bagnato a hagler faculty fellow with the department of biomedical ... |
as a physicist bagnato professor in the department of physics and materials science at the university of são paulo in brazil works with light as a physical element one common technique he uses is photodynamic inactivation where certain molecules are exposed to light and produce a free radical oxygen molecule which is d... |
the texas a&m engineering experiment station's health care market segment advances research in the key areas of medicine health care-related technology and life sciences using a multi-disciplinary approach our strengths include bioinformatics computational biology and systems biology for agricultural environmental and ... |
with the growing global concerns over climate change scientists are looking for cleaner energy sources and other ways to minimize the carbon footprint in the world researchers at texas a&m engineering and the ecole nationale superieure d'arts et métiers (ensam) are collaborating to look at the materials and products we... |
first was the creation of a smart experimental setup to study forces vibrations and acoustic emissions generated during the machining of natural-fiber composite materials and thereby using the signal patterns themselves to understand the physical phenomena underlying the way the material is removed from the surface of ... |
how has energy consumption changed during the covid-19 pandemic this is a question that researchers in the department of electrical and computer engineering at texas a&m university are hoping to answer dr le xie professor in the department and his team and collaborators have created a first-of-its-kind cross-domain ope... |
the phenomenon of human mobility became an even greater factor to understanding electricity consumption once nasa published nighttime satellite images of large cities when looking at images of houston and new york city lit up at night from before and during the covid-19 pandemic the stark contrast is clearly visible in... |
two faculty members from the texas a&m university college of engineering are among 175 scientists elected to the 2020 class of fellows by the national academy of inventors (nai) the new fellows are dr duncan j maitland director of research and stewart & stevenson professor i in the department of biomedical engineering ... |
texas a&m university is offering researchers a new flagship high-performance computing platformnamed in memory of programming pioneer vice admiral grace hopper the grace supercomputer powered by dell technologies will serve as a platform for ground-breaking discoveries and innovations in science and engineering at texa... |
the texas a&m institute of data science (tamids) serves and fosters collaborations across the university and its affiliated agencies tamids is a joint undertaking of texas a&m university with the texas a&m engineering experiment station and texas a&m agrilife research it is an inclusive umbrella organization for data s... |
in a new study published online in the journal american chemical society (acs) applied polymer materials scientists at texas a&m university reported they have designed a hydrogel membrane that may be used to house optical glucose sensing materials toward building a biosensor for monitoring sugar levels in diabetics by ... |
therefore grunlan and her team focused their efforts in fine-tuning the properties of poly nipaams to limit the leaking of glucose-sensing molecules while still allowing the glucose to freely diffuse through the hydrogel to decrease the size of gaps the researchers inserted dangling molecules of different charges lengt... |
the precise advanced technologies and health systems for underserved populations (paths-up) engineering research center was funded by the national science foundation in 2017 paths-up aims to change the paradigm for the health of underserved populations by developing revolutionary and cost-effective technologies and sys... |
to develop effective therapeutics against pathogens scientists need to uncover how they attack host cells first in that effort researchers at texas a&m university have invented a high-throughput cell separation method that can be used in conjunction with droplet microfluidics a technique whereby tiny drops of fluid con... |
getting cell separation within a tiny droplet is extremely difficult because if you think about it first its a tiny hundred-micron diameter droplet and second within this extremely tiny droplet multiple cell types are all mixed together he said to develop the technology needed for cell separation han and his team chose... |
dr sara abedi assistant professor and stephen a holditch faculty fellow in the harold vance department of petroleum engineering at texas a&m university recently received the national science foundations (nsf) faculty early career development (career) award overseen by the faculty early career development program career... |
we are pulled toward the earths surface at approximately 98 meters per second squared otherwise known as acceleration due to gravity and measured as 1g (g-force) in space there is microgravity or 0g as astronauts leave earth and shoot into space and onto other planetary surfaces their experience is unique as they could... |
traffic lights at intersections are managed by simple computers that assign the right of way to the nonconflicting direction however studies looking at travel times in urban areas have shown that delays caused by intersections make up 12-55% of daily commute travel which could be reduced if the operation of these contr... |
the texas a&m engineering experiment station's infrastructure market segment addresses obstacles related to all aspects of land and sea organizational structures and facilities our strengths include infrastructure renewal advanced materials and structural systems deep-water platforms slender and large body hydrodynamic... |
lithium-ion batteries have enabled the use of numerous technologies from smartphones and tablets to electric vehicles but their convenience and versatility come at a cost the potential for flammability dr olivier mathieu research associate professor in the j mike walker '66 department of engineering at texas a&m univer... |
the turbomachinery laboratory conducts theoretical and applied research on the reliability and performance of turbomachinery - rotating machinery that extracts or adds energy to fluids the turbo labs acclaimed turbomachinery and pump symposia (tps) is held annually in houston texas and its sister event the asia turboma... |
gastric bypass surgery is sometimes the last resort for those who struggle with obesity or have serious health-related issues due to their weight since this procedure involves making a small stomach pouch and rerouting the digestive tract it is very invasive and prolongs the recovery period for patients in a new study ... |
however park said wireless technology as well as the application of advanced genetic and optical tools have the potential to make nerve stimulation devices less cumbersome and more comfortable for the patient despite the clinical benefit of having a wireless system no device as of yet has the capability to do chronic a... |
the precise advanced technologies and health systems for underserved populations (paths-up) engineering research center was funded by the national science foundation in 2017 paths-up aims to change the paradigm for the health of underserved populations by developing revolutionary and cost-effective technologies and sys... |
the national cemetery administration (nca) has awarded a contract to the texas a&m engineering experiment station as part of ncas veterans legacy program (vlp) to engage texas a&m university students in the development of an immersive and interactive digitized national cemetery experience we are excited to be partnerin... |
artificial intelligence (ai) and machine learning have transformed our daily lives our phones keep getting smarter we have smart home devices that can control everything in our home by voice command even social media platforms and web browsers have a good understanding of what we really want to see and do based on the ... |
in a new study published in nature machine intelligence researchers at texas a&m university have unveiled a machine learning-based algorithm that can reduce graininess in low-resolution images and reveal new details that were otherwise buried within the noise images taken with low-powered beams can be noisy which can h... |
in conventional deep-learning-based image processing techniques the number and network between layers decide how many pixels in the input image contribute to the value of a single pixel in the output image this value is immutable after the deep-learning algorithm has been trained and is ready to denoise new images howe... |
in a recent study texas a&m university researchers described a new process to purify astatine-211 a promising radioactive isotope for targeted cancer treatment unlike other elaborate purification methods their technique can extract astatine-211 from bismuth in minutes rather than hours which can greatly reduce the time... |
the nuclear engineering and science center seeks to improve the health wellbeing and environment of mankind through the application of nuclear technology the center provides services to researchers and/or faculty from texas a&m university other colleges and universities government agencies and private industry the cent... |
electric grids are an indispensable infrastructure as evidenced this week by winter storms that have left an estimated 3 million texans without power in dangerously cold temperatures the electric reliability council of texas (ercot) the electric grid operator for the state lost control of the power supply this week pro... |
among the many avenues that viruses can use to infect humans drinking water may pose only a tiny risk for spreading certain viruses like the coronavirus however in cases where there is unauthorized wastewater disposal or other events of inadvertent mixing of wastewater with water sources the possibility of transmission... |
the gram-negative bacteria helicobacter pylori (h pylori) colonize the stomachs of the majority of the worlds population although most people may never experience major complications due to the pathogen h pylori infections increase the risk of certain types of gastric cancer as well as other illnesses such as peptic ul... |
a new detonation research test facility (drtf) will be built and opened next year on the rellis campus adding to its array of capabilities for solving complex global problems dr elaine oran a world authority on the physics and chemistry of explosions will lead a team at the drtf examining how flammable gases and other ... |
harmony aeronautics a company started by members of the texas a&m university department of aerospace engineering has recently won a small business technology transfer (sttr) contract from the air forces agility prime program to further develop and commercialize their quiet rotor technology for vertical flight capable u... |
the texas a&m engineering experiment station's office of commercialization and entrepreneurship aims to help inventors with planning effective patents copyright or trademark strategy invention disclosures and marketplace technology transfers the office connects industrial and private sector entities to a variety of tec... |
the texas a&m university system board of regents on wednesday confirmed dr m katherine banks as the 26th president of texas a&m university banks who is currently vice chancellor of engineering and national laboratories and dean of the texas a&m college of engineering assumes her duties june 1 banks also will carry the ... |
on sultry summer afternoons heating ventilation and air conditioning (hvac) systems provide much-needed relief from the harsh heat and humidity outdoors these systems which often come with dehumidifiers are currently not energy efficient guzzling around 76% of the electricity in commercial and residential buildings in ... |
dr vladislav yakovlev professor in the department of biomedical engineering at texas a&m university is part of a multiuniversity team researching how electrical and optical pulses can benefit cell absorption of materials including vaccines the team investigated the optical and electrical breakdown of materials those ef... |
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