April 2014

Three graduate students from the Genomic Signal Processing laboratory of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University won awards from the Texas A&M Science of Information Days Workshop.

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering held its Annual Spring Banquet and Awards Ceremony on Thursday, April 24, 2014 at the Memorial Student Center. This was the largest spring banquet to date and it was a phenomenal success.

Texas A&M University and The Association of Former Students have announced the recipients of the 2014 Distinguished Alumnus Award, and among them are five graduates of the college of engineering.

The Dwight Look College of Engineering participated in the ExxonMobil Texas Science and Engineering Fair March 22 in San Antonio, but not in a way you would normally expect.

Fifteen students from the Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M University were named recipients of the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME) scholarship.

Zachary Cannon, a computer science senior in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, received the 2014 Community Student Employee of the Year Award at the Student Employee of the Year Ceremony held on April 16 in The Robert M. Gates Student Ballroom at the Texas A&M Memorial Student Center.

Yale N. Patt will give two lectures hosted by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering on Friday, May 2, 2014.

Joey Jabbour, a graduate student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been named recipient of the 2014 George W. Kunze Prize.

Caleb Davis, a graduate student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been named recipient of the Whitaker International Fellowship.

Carlos F. Lopez, a mechanical engineering master’s student won two graduate poster awards at Student Research Week 2014.

Dr. Ibrahim Karaman has been appointed head of the newly formed Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University. Karaman’s appointment is effective beginning May 1.

The Chevron Corporation and the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering held a ribbon cutting ceremony on Tuesday, April 22 for the newly established Chevron Petrophysical Imaging Laboratory at Texas A&M University.

Lisa Larsen, a graduate student in the Zachry Department of Civil Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been selected to participate in the Eno Center for Transportation’s 22nd annual Leadership Development Conference (LDC).

The Smart Grid Center, established in August 2012, organized a workshop to develop further collaborative efforts with industry, government and partner institutions.

Congratulations to third year computer science student Aaron Lindsey on receiving Honorable Mention in the Computing Research Association's (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award (Male) 2014!

The Texas A&M Chapter of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) is a membership organization that enables it’s members to share knowledge, develop engineering skills, and build professional relationships. Follow ASME on Facebook.

Raniero Lara-Garduño, a computer engineering Ph.D. student, and Larry Powell, a senior in computer science, both students in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), were 2nd place winners in two graduate student categories at Student Research Week 2014.

Gurlovleen Rathore, an Interdisciplinary Engineering major with a concentration in engineering education, has been named a University Innovation Fellow by the National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation (Epicenter).

Five students representing the Electronic Systems Engineering Technology Program (ESET) at Texas A&M University presented papers on a number of topics at the ASEE Gulf Southwest Regional Conference in New Orleans April 2-4.

Texas A&M University researchers led by Dr. Xinghang Zhang in the Department of Mechanical Engineering have examined stress induced martensitic phase transformations in magnetic shape memory alloys via in-situ nanoindentation technique.

Approximately 600 students will participate in one of the largest nation-wide events of its kind — the second-annual Texas A&M University Engineering Project Showcase — on April 25 from noon to 4 p.m. in Reed Arena.

Christie Bergerson, a graduate student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been named recipient of the Philanthropic Educational Organization (P.E.O.) Scholar Award.

Twitter is a highly used and very popular social media platform. However, when switching back and forth between several tabs and windows, it’s very easy to lose track of what you initially set out to explore.

The 2014 and 2015 Summer Institutes on Flooding brings together domain experts from invited federal, state, municipal, and NGO stakeholder agencies with academics and industry in a highly interactive visioneering format with talks, demonstrations, and walkthroughs at Disaster City.

For the second consecutive year, a graduate student from the Department of Aerospace Engineering has been awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship Program Fellowship from the National Science Foundation.

ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) and Texas A&M University recently announced a $6 million contribution by ConocoPhillips to the university’s Dwight Look College of Engineering.

Dr. Gretchen Miller, assistant professor in the Zachry Department of Civil Engineering at Texas A&M University, has received a 2014 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for her research in groundwater management.

A high school student working in an engineering research lab has won several awards for her research.

The Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M University honored six alumni April 3 during the Outstanding Alumni Awards Banquet.

The promise of nanoparticles stems from their potential to modify the physical and mechanical properties of polymers for diverse applications, such as photovoltaic cells, sensors, and separation membranes.

Dr. Jodie Lutkenhaus, the William and Ruth Neely Faculty Fellow in Chemical Engineering and an assistant professor in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been awarded a 3M Nontenured Faculty Award.

Dr. Krishna Narayanan will receive the 2014 Professional Progress in Engineering Award from the College of Engineering at Iowa State University on April 10.

Helen and Dennis Sander of Houston recently endowed the Helen and Dennis Sander ’62 Scholarship in Civil Engineering. The Sanders have supported Texas A&M University’s athletic and academic programs for more than 35 years.

From January 15 through February 16, 2014, nuclear engineering Ph.D. student Mathew Swinney presented a series of 27 lectures on nuclear safeguards and security to a group of 11 first-year master's degree students at Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University (PDPU) in India.

Student Research Week 2014 was held March 24—28 at Texas A&M University. Department of Computer Science and Engineering senior capstone design students Ruiz Akpan, Stephen Chen, and Stephen Ten Eyck took second place in the poster competition's Mathematics/Statistics/Computer Science category with their project called Spiral.

If you’re new to programming with LabVIEW or looking to improve your existing skills, the LabVIEW Boot Camp is a free hands-on course that introduces you to graphical programming with LabVIEW system design software.

Randall P. Shumaker, Director of the Institute for Simulation and Training (IST) at the University of Central Florida, will present his talk entitled,"Human-Robot Collaboration," as part of the Emergency Informatics Distinguished Lecture Series.

The SAE Aero Design Team from the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University won first place overall in the Regular Class of the International SAE Aero Design West Competition in Fort Worth, TX over the weekend of March 28 – 30, 2014.

HP partnered with Texas A&M University and Geeks Without Bounds, an accelerator for humanitarian projects, to host a code-a-thon with the challenge to create an application to help manage people’s health.

Dr. Valerie Taylor, senior associate dean for academic affairs and the Royce E. Wisenbaker professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, has been invited by The National Research Council (NRC) to join the Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine (CWSEM).

The Texas A&M Nuclear Engineering department proposal was chosen to host the 2015 ANS Student Conference. The decision was announced at the most recent student conference at Pennsylvania State University.

U.S. News & World Report ranks Texas A&M Nuclear Engineering at No. 2 among public institutions, and No. 3 overall, nationally.

James M. Donnell has been appointed Professor of Engineering Practice and William E. Dark '54 Faculty Fellow, by Dr. M. Katherine Banks, vice chancellor and dean of Texas A&M Engineering.

Two Department of Computer Science and Engineering faculty members were among the recipients of the 2013-2014 Texas A&M College of Engineering Teaching, Service, and Contribution Awards.

George K. Hickox Jr., '81, received the Dwight Look College of Engineering Outstanding Alumni Honor Award on April 3 for his “distinguished career and leadership within the oil and gas industry; for his continued support of Texas A&M University through his service to the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering, the Dwight Look College of Engineering and Texas A&M Foundation; for his commitment to education through numerous contributions to Texas A&M University.”

Tony Akl and Brian Cummins, graduate students in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University, each have been named recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Graduate Award for Excellence in Research-Doctoral by The Association of Former Students at Texas A&M.

Dr. Pramod Khargonekar, assistant director of the Directorate of Engineering at the National Science Foundation, presented the Fowler Distinguished Lecture Series in Mechanical Engineering on March 26, 2014.

Gerard L. Coté, professor and head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been named director of the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station's Center for Remote Healthcare Technology (CRHT), announced Dr. M. Katherine Banks, vice chancellor and dean of Texas A&M Engineering.

Texas A&M University will host a Workshop entitled “Science of Information Days” at Rudder Tower this week on April 3rd and 4th, sponsored by the NSF Science and Technology Center for Science of Information.

Dr. Jay Porter, professor in the Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution at Texas A&M University has been selected to receive the American Society for Engineering Education’s 2014 Frederick J. Berger Award.

Dr. Yue Kuo, the Dow Chemical Professor in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been selected as a recipient of the 2014 Innovation Award that is given by Texas A&M System Technology Commercialization.

Dr. M. Katherine Banks, vice chancellor and dean of engineering, has appointed Dr. Reza Langari head of the Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution.

Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez, associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been appointed to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering Study Section of the Center for Scientific Review.