Nuclear Engineering graduate student Megan Pritchard, former department head Dr. Alan Walter, and former student Dr. Braden Goddard traveled to Doha, Qatar to participate in the 3rd WNU School on Radiation Technologies, held March 7-20, 2014.
Meagan Harris, a graduate student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been awarded the 2014 U.S. Senator Phil Gramm Doctoral Fellowship.
Each year the Texas A&M Association of Former Students nominates worthy candidates who are distinguished among their peers in the areas of teaching, research, student relations, administration, staff, graduate mentoring; and for extension, outreach, continuing education, and professional development.
CSE Former Student Steve Swanson has successfully boarded the International Space Station and is ready to begin his six month stay roughly 250 miles above the Earth’s surface.
Texas A&M University at Qatar leads the Gas and Fuels Research Initiative (GFRI) and is hosting a workshop on natural gas monetization at La Torretta Lake Resort and Spa in Montgomery, Texas, March 26-28.
Dr. M. Katherine Banks, vice chancellor and dean of engineering, has appointed Dr. David Schechter holder of the Aghorn Energy Career Development Professorship in the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering.
Dr. M. Katherine Banks, vice chancellor and dean of engineering, has appointed Dr. I. Yucel Akkutlu holder of the George & Joan Voneiff Career Development Professorship in the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering.
Dr. Edward White, Associate Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been named a recipient of the William and Montine P. Head Fellows Award by Dr. M. Katherine Banks, vice chancellor and dean of engineering.
Two aerospace engineering faculty members are among 24 faculty and staff who have been selected to receive the 2014 Texas A&M University Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award.
Majid Tabesh, a graduate student in the Department of Aerospace Engineering working under the advisement of Dr. James Boyd and Dr. Dimitris Lagoudas, was awarded first place in the SPIE/ASME 2014 Best Student Paper Presentation Competition.
A team from the Texas Institute for Intelligent Materials (TiiMS) at Texas A&M University along with researchers from the ASME Active and Multifunctional Materials Technical Committee at NASA-Langley have begun collaborations on the development of a new implementation of shape memory alloys (SMAs) for the purpose of reducing airframe noise.
Dr. Helen Reed, professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, has been appointed to the endowed Edward “Pete” Aldridge ’60 Professorship in the Dwight Look College of Engineering.
Steven M. Drucker, a Principal Researcher and manager of the VUE group in VIBE at Microsoft Research, will be the Department of Computer Science and Engineering's first distinguished lecturer for the spring semester.
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Computer Engineering & Systems Group at Texas A&M University along with the NSF Science and Technology Center’s Center for Science of Information are sponsoring the Texas A&M Science of Information Days on April 3 and 4.
Sean P. Merrell, a graduate of the Zachry Department of Civil Engineering at Texas A&M University, was named the Engineer of the Year by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Dallas Branch.
Six students, along with Dr. Yassin Hassan, nuclear engineering department head, Dr. William Charlton, professor and NSSPI director, and Dr. Richard MacNamee of the Bush School, traveled to Tokyo, Japan to attend the International Symposium and Seminar on Global Nuclear Human Resource Development for Safety, Security and Safeguards from Feb. 25 - March 7.
Michael Penny, Master of Science graduate student and former student (Class of 2011) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, was awarded the First Place in Artistic Merit at the Central States Section of the Combustion Institute’s 2014 Spring Technical meeting in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Dr. Xinghang Zhang, Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering is a recipient of the 2013-14 College of Engineering Faculty Fellow Awards.
The Department of Physics and Astronomy and Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University invite audiences across Texas to get up-close and personal with science and technology this Saturday (March 22) at the 2014 Physics & Engineering Festival, an entertaining and informative weekend scientific extravaganza for all ages.
Dr. M. Katherine Banks, vice chancellor and dean of engineering, has announced the recipients of the 2013-2014 College of Engineering Faculty Fellow Awards.
Dr. Jun Kameoka, an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, and several co-authors recently had their paper published in the prestigious research publication, Science Signaling.
Dr. B. Don Russell professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University was recently named vice chair for membership of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in Washington DC.
Dr. Erick Moreno-Centeno, assistant professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, has won this year’s award for excellence in teaching operations research from the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) Operations Research Division.
Dr. Valerie Taylor, senior associate dean of academic affairs, participated as the moderator for the Microsoft-Sponsored Fireside Chat, “Discussing the Hard-hitting Problems,” at the 2014 Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference in Seattle.
Dr. M. Katherine Banks, vice chancellor and dean of engineering, has appointed Dr. Amy Epps-Martin holder of the A.P. & Florence Wiley Faculty Fellow in the Zachry Department of Civil Engineering at Texas A&M University.
Six engineering faculty members are among 24 faculty and staff who have been selected to receive the 2014 Texas A&M University Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award.
Mechanical Engineering graduate student Huaping Xiao's research paper titled “Spatial evolution of friction of a textured wafer surface” was awarded the ‘2013 Best Research Paper’ by the Friction journal in Vol.1, No. 1, 92-97.
Aggies Robert (Bob) Timm, computer science junior, Eleni Mijalis, biology sophomore, and Rafael (Rafa) Moreno, computer science sophomore, took first place at the Facebook Texas Regional Hackathon held February 28 - March 1, 2014 in Austin, Texas.
The Workshop on the Impact of Pen and Touch Technology in Education (WIPTTE), coordinated by the Sketch Recognition Lab and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at Texas A&M University, will be hosted on the Texas A&M Campus March 12-15, 2014.
Aggieland Saturday is Texas A&M University’s annual open house where current students and staff of the University get a chance to introduce to prospective students and their families what Texas A&M is all about.
Dr. Duncan J. Maitland has been appointed assistant agency director for commercialization for the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), Dr. M. Katherine Banks, vice chancellor and dean of Texas A&M Engineering announced recently.
Dr. Rusty Harris, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, recently joined the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) collaboration in announcing a new threshold of dark matter detection with extremely improved background rejection capabilities.
Dr. Robin Murphy, Raytheon Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and director of the Center for Robot Assisted Search and Rescue (CRASAR), will moderate a panel at the 2014 South by Southwest festival in Austin.
Dr. Guofei Gu, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at Texas A&M University, was chosen by the Google Faculty Research Awards Program as a recipient of financial support for his proposal, "Exploring Network Security Innovations in the New Paradigm of Software-Defined Networking (SDN)."
