Dr. Nancy M. Amato, the Unocal Professor and interim head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, was named the 2014 recipient of the Computing Research Association’s (CRA) A. Nico Habermann Award.
Dr. Dallas Little, Snead Chair Professor and Regents Professor in the Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, has been named the Saudi-Aramco Honorary Chair in asphalt technology at King Faisal University (KFU) in Saudi Arabia.
Pi Tau Sigma is an international Mechanical Engineering Honors Society, whose members are chosen on a basis of sound engineering ability, scholarship, personality, and probable future success in their chosen field of Mechanical Engineering.
In "Broadway Bots: Robots Take Lead Roles in Drama, Standup," by Nidhi Subbaraman, contributing writer at NBC News Digital, Ms. Subbaraman reports on the thespian arts currently in play at Tokyo's Robot Restaurant and in the Texas A&M University 2009 production of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer's Night Dream."
Dr. Bonnie J. Dunbar is the M. D. Anderson Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Houston. She also serves as the Director of the university’s ‘STEM Center’ and Director of the Cullen College of Engineering Aerospace Graduate Program.
Eric Marin’s pride for his alma mater and the opportunity to make a difference in a young person’s life is the driving force behind his gift of $100,000 to the Engineering Education Complex (EEC).
Herb Richardson, director emeritus of the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) was inducted as the 39th member of the Texas Transportation Hall of Honor during a Feb. 19 ceremony at TTI.
Vladislav Yakovlev, professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been promoted to the rank of Fellow by the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) for his achievements in optical instrumentation for biomedical imaging.
Dr. Erchin Serpedin, professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, will become the new editor-in-chief of the journal EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology.
Richard Monschke of Fort Worth, Texas, has endowed a $25,000 scholarship designed for students pursuing a degree in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University.
Dr. Jean-Louis Briaud, the Spencer J. Buchanan Chair in the Zachry Department of Civil Engineering at Texas A&M University, was recently elected President of the Federation of International Geo-engineering Societies (FedIGS) for the 2014-2018 term.
The Zachry Engineering Center, the Jack E. Brown Building and the Emerging Technologies Building bustled with newly admitted incoming freshmen and prospective students and their families on Feb. 15 at Aggieland Saturday, Texas A&M University’s annual premiere recruiting event.
BP named Team Maroon Fish the winner of the Texas A&M University Ultimate Field Trip (UFT) Competition Campus Finals, a contest that asked college students in technical fields from leading U.S. universities to solve real-world energy challenges.
Dr. Andrea Strzelec’s recent publication Oxygen Reactivity of Devolatilized Diesel Engine Particulates from Conventional and Biodiesel Fuels is featured by Renewable Energy Global Innovations as a key scientific article contributing to the excellence in energy research.
At a ceremony held February 7, 2014, nine nationally and internationally prominent scholars were formally inducted as the newest Faculty Fellows of the Texas A&M University Institute for Advanced Study (TIAS).
Libby and Terry Gerhart have contributed $60,000 to establish a scholarship focusing on undergraduate students pursuing a degree in the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering.
Disaster Robotics, MIT Press, by Dr. Robin Murphy, Raytheon Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University and director of the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue and founder of Roboticists Without Borders is now available.
Byron Anderson has created a fellowship in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. The Byron H. Anderson ’54 Fellowship will provide one or more scholarships to full-time students in good standing pursuing a graduate degree in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M University.
CSE Associate Professor James Caverlee was named as the recipient of the 2013-14 Caterpillar Teaching Excellence Award by the Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M University.
Dr. Johannes Strobel, director of educational outreach programs for the Dwight Look College of Engineering and the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), has been appointed to serve on the Committee on Guiding Implementation of K-12 Engineering Education in the United States.
Four graduate students from the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University were selected for best paper awards at the 37th Annual American Astronautical Society’s Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference held in Breckenridge, CO January 31 – February 5, 2014.
Brock Nelson ’90 of Wichita, Kansas, has endowed a sixth scholarship through the C.D. Holland Scholars Program in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering.
Clifford Hart, a graduate student enrolled in the nuclear engineering Master of Science program at Texas A&M, was recently awarded the Roy G. Post scholarship for the 2013-2014 academic year.
A former Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University recently received the prestigious NSF CAREER Award.
Chun-Wei Yao, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, was selected as the Dwight Look College of Engineering’s recipient of the George Bush Presidential Library Foundation Grant.
The Dwight Look College of Engineering will participate in Texas A&M University’s annual premiere recruiting event, Aggieland Saturday, on Feb. 15 from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has named M. Katherine Banks, vice chancellor and dean of engineering at Texas A&M University, director of the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station and Harold J. Haynes Deans Chair Professor, among its 2014 class of new members.
The Dwight Look College of Engineering and College of Science at Texas A&M University hosted more than 120 high school Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) teachers from across Texas at the seventh annual Teacher Summit, held at the College Station Hilton and Conference Center on January 31, 2014.
The Federal Aviation Administration has selected Texas as one of six test center sites to develop drones, or Unmanned Air Systems (UAS), for commercial use by businesses, farmers and researchers.
After more than 30 years of support for Texas A&M University, Susan and Robert Williams of Ohio have endowed a scholarship benefiting undergraduate students pursuing a degree in the Dwight Look College of Engineering.
