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Texas A&M at Qatar’s Society of Petroleum Engineers’ (SPE) student chapter has won the 2015 Outstanding Student Chapter Award of the Year Award for the Middle East Region.

Dr. Lin Shao, an associate professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been awarded $1.2 million in funding by the U.S. Department of Energy as a part of an initiative to promote projects with potential in the fields of nuclear energy research and infrastructure enhancement.

Trevor Terrill, a doctoral student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, was recently awarded a 2015 Outstanding IAC Student Award by the National Industrial Assessment Centers.

James Eggebrecht, assistant director of Texas A&M University’s Industrial Assessment Center (IAC) and a lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, was recently awarded the Outstanding Alumni award by the U.S. Department of Energy Industrial Assessment Centers.

Dr. Mark Avnet and Dr. Alaa Elwany, assistant professors in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University, jointly won Best Engineering Management Track Paper at the annual Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) conference in Nashville, Tennessee.

Vishal Patel, a graduate student researcher in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Texas A&M University, and other experts from the U.S. Department of Energy’s national laboratories gathered via webinar to answer questions about the forms of energy used in the "Star Wars" universe.

Nuclear engineering graduate students Ryan Kelly and Richard Vega have received scholarships from the American Nuclear Society for the 2015-2016 academic year.

Robin Hall, a senior in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University, was recently awarded the A.O. Putnam Memorial Scholarship by the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE).

Texas A&M University has announced the formation of the Texas A&M-Chevron Engineering Academies at four two-year colleges across the state of Texas.

A team of four engineering students from Texas A&M University placed second in the inaugural Drillbotics Competition hosted by the Society of Petroleum Engineers Drilling Systems Automation Technical Section (SPE DSATS).

Each year engineering students at Texas A&M University participate in a senior project that will tie together and challenge all the skills they have achieved while pursuing their degrees.

Dr. M. Katherine Banks, vice chancellor and dean of engineering, has appointed Dr. Jaime Grunlan holder of the Linda & Ralph Schmidt ’68 Professorship in Mechanical Engineering.

Logan Harbour, a senior in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Texas A&M University, gave a presentation on the student exchange program between Texas A&M’s nuclear engineering department and the College of Nuclear Science and Technology at Harbin Engineering University, China, during the Infrastructure Development Working Group (IDWG) meeting held recently in Paris.

Texas A&M University chapter of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) elected a new officer cabinet for the 2015-2016 school year and recently sent five student representatives to the June ANS Conference.

Dr. Yossef Elabd, professor in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University, has received a 2015 Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) grant, funded by the Department of Defense.

Anthony Ramirez, a senior in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been selected to be a student ambassador for the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME).

Dr. M. Katherine Banks, vice chancellor and dean of engineering, has appointed Dr. Anthony Guiseppi-Elie head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University.

Students from the Texas A&M University Department of Nuclear Engineering and Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) participated in the 4th annual domestic Nuclear Facilities Experience (NFE) May 17- 23.

Dr. Maria Barrufet, professor in the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University, received the 2015 Society of Petroleum Engineers North America Gulf Coast Regional Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty.

Some of the best and brightest engineering minds from around the country will be coming to Texas A&M University in January for a SpaceX competition to design and build the company’s proposed Hyperloop transit pod.

Dr. Mark Lawley, TEES Research Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University, and Dr. Michelle Alvarado, a postdoctoral research associate in the department, were recently presented the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute’s (PCORI) Tier I award.

Dr. Moble Benedict, assistant professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University, has received a 2015 Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) grant from the Army Research Office for his proposal titled “Instrumentation for Performance, Blade-Loads and Flowfield Measurement of Novel Hover-Capable Meso-Scale Aerial Platforms”.

Dr. Christodoulos A. Floudas, Erle Nye ’59 Chair Professor for Engineering Excellence in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University and director of the Texas A&M Energy Institute, has been elected as a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Athens, the most prestigious scientific society in Greece and the world’s oldest academy.

Texas A&M University recently recognized 70 engineering undergraduate and graduate students who earned their business management certificates.

Michael Bass, an undergraduate student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, received the 2015 Brown Foundation-Earl Rudder Memorial Outstanding Student Award.

Dr. Jean-Louis Briaud, distinguished professor and holder of the Spencer J. Buchanan Chair in the Zachry Department of Civil Engineering at Texas A&M University, was recently elected technical region director in the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) for 2015-2018.

Ali Beheshti, Tanil Ozkan and Stephen Keen, tribologists from the Microtribodynamics Group led by Dr. Andreas A. Polycarpou, represented Texas A&M University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering at the student STEM camp held in May.

Carlos Briseno-Vidrios, a graduate student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, presented innovative engineering research at the fourth annual Broadcom Foundation University Research Competition sponsored by Broadcom Foundation, a non-profit funded by Broadcom Corporation.

Dr. Nobuo Morita, an expert in rock mechanics, has joined the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University as a professor.

The Department of Nuclear Engineering at Texas A&M University began its new student conference orientations for those considering a specialization in nuclear engineering.

Dr. Stratos Pistikopoulos, TEES Distinguished Research Professor in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University, received an honorary doctorate from the University of Pannonia in Veszprém, Hungary at a ceremony June 19 at the university.

The Department of Aerospace Engineering in the Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M University inducted 10 individuals into the Aerospace Engineering Distinguished Alumni Academy during the Aerospace Engineering 75th Anniversary and Annual Awards Banquet.

Dr. Arul Jayaraman, a professor in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University and holder of the Ray Nesbitt Professorship, was one of the recipients of the 2015 Engineering Genesis Award for Multidisciplinary Research.

The plight of Malaysia Airlines flight 370 (MH370) is one of the biggest mysteries in aviation history, but an interdisciplinary research team led by a Texas A&M University at Qatar math professor has theorized the ill-fated plane plunged vertically into the southern Indian Ocean in March 2014.

Texas A&M University Computer Science and Engineering Raytheon Professor Dr. Robin Murphy was a keynote speaker for the RoboUniverse Conference and Expo.

Aditya Konduri, a graduate student in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University working under the supervision of Dr. Diego A. Donzis, received the Best Graduate Student Presentation Award at the American Physical Society Meeting — Texas Section this past fall.

Dr. M. M. Faruque Hasan, assistant professor in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been awarded the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU).

A multi-university team that includes Vladislav Yakovlev, professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been awarded a five-year grant, totaling more than $7 million from the Department of Defense’s (DOD) Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) program.

Dr. Hong Liang, professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been appointed as co-editor for the journal Tribology International.

New medical technology that enables monitoring of a baby’s brain oxygen levels during labor and delivery is a step closer to reality after its startup company, Noninvasix, Inc., was awarded $100,000 in funding as the top company at the 2015 Texas New Ventures Competition (TNVC) at Texas A&M University.

Charles Peak, first-year graduate student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been awarded Best Poster at Biomaterials Day, funded by the Society for Biomaterials (SFB).

Research conducted in the Advanced Vertical Flight Laboratory (AVFL) at Texas A&M University was featured in the recent IEEE Spectrum online magazine.

Nuclear engineering faculty members from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janiero (UFRJ) in Brazil visited the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station's (TEES) Nuclear Security Science and Policy Institute (NSSPI) to learn about the nuclear security courses being taught at both the undergraduate and graduate levels in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Texas A&M University.