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The Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution at Texas A&M University recently contacted Dr. John Hill, senior group manager for Cloud and Mobile Technologies within National Instruments Research and Development Group, about working with 14 students in the Electronic Systems Engineering Technology (ESET) Program on a new technical elective focusing on Internet of Things (IoT).

Texas A&M University’s College of Engineering is No. 1 on Best College Values’ ranking of the 50 Best Value Bachelor’s in Engineering, ranking ahead of the University of California, Berkeley, and Georgia Institute of Technology, which ranked second and third, respectively.

Four Texas A&M University Electronic Systems Engineering Technology (ESET) students took their DSTR (pronounced Disaster) robot to Stephenville, Texas, as part of the Mobile Integrated Solutions Laboratory’s (MISL) STEM outreach and recruiting initiative.

Entrepreneur, researcher, professor, software designer, federal task force director, vice chancellor and dean, all titles held by Dr. G. Kemble Bennett during his unusual, yet rewarding career.

Making the transition from high school to college can be difficult for many students. For first-generation college students the transition is often even more challenging.

A multidisciplinary team of researchers at Texas A&M University has been awarded an Early Concept Grant for Exploratory Research from the National Science Foundation to study the viability of collecting infrastructure monitoring data by volunteer citizen scientists from the general public.

Dr. John Valasek, professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and director of the Center for Autonomous Vehicles and Sensor Systems (CANVASS), chaired the third intelligent systems workshop for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).

The Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) Center for Autonomous Vehicles and Sensor Systems (CANVASS), Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension (AgriLife) and the Center for Geospatial Sciences, Applications and Technology (GEOSAT) at Texas A&M University have joined together to work on a multidisciplinary project titled “Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Remote Sensing at the Texas A&M Farm.”

The research of Dr. Jaime C. Grunlan, the Linda & Ralph Schmidt ’68 Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been featured on the cover of three prestigious journals —Advanced Materials; Macromolecular Materials and Engineering; and Macromolecular Rapid Communications.

It does not require a force as powerful as the sun to get Texas A&M University and The University of Texas at Austin to work together, but it certainly helps.

The Zero Robotics Middle School Summer Program held its final competition on board the International Space Station (ISS) with Texas teams meeting at the Johnson Space Center in Houston on Aug. 12.

Dr. Guofei Gu and Dr. Jyh-Charn Liu in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University are developing game-changing defense approaches to beat cyber attackers in two very different, but important, aspects of cybersecurity.

Xin Zhan (left), Dr. Peng Li (center) and Dr. Edgar Sánchez-Sinencio (right), researchers in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, received the prestigious 2016 DAC Best Paper Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Design Automation Conference (DAC).

Shiyan Hu, a former student from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, was named editor-in-chief of the Institute of Technology’s (IET) newly launched journal, Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Application.

Paul Taele, Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, was recently elected to serve as the 47th president of the Graduate and Professional Student Council (GPSC) for the 2016-2017 academic year.

Parisa Khodabakhshi, a Ph.D. student in the Zachry Department of Civil Engineering at Texas A&M University, was recently awarded the O.H. Ammann Research Fellowship from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).

When 80 motivated and innovative students from five universities work together, novel ideas will emerge.

The Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station’s (TEES) Smart Grid Center has received a new grant from the Department of Energy (DOE) that will further the center’s mission to strengthen and protect the nation’s power grid.

According to a recent study by the American College Health Association, more than 30 percent of college students experienced severe depression, 50 percent struggled with anxiety and nearly 55 percent reported feeling alone.

Individuals from the Texas A&M University College of Engineering recently completed a 10-week research for undergraduates (REU) program that was coordinated by the college of engineering and Penn State’s College of Engineering.

Texas A&M University’s College of Engineering is No. 2 on Best College Values’ ranking of the 50 Top Value Master’s in Engineering.

Hannah Pearce, a biomedical engineering student at Texas A&M University, was selected to participate in the Amgen Foundation’s prestigious Amgen Scholars Program.

M. Katherine Banks, vice chancellor and dean of engineering, has appointed Dr. Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe a Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) Distinguished Research Professor.

M. Katherine Banks, vice chancellor and dean of engineering, has appointed Dr. Bjorn Birgisson a Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) Distinguished Research Professor.

Dr. Christodoulos A. “Chris” Floudas, director of the Texas A&M Energy Institute, passed away Sunday (Aug. 14) while on vacation with his family in Greece.

Metal additive manufacturing service bureaus are located in many regions over the world, but the Middle East is not one of them.

M. Katherine Banks, vice chancellor and dean of engineering, has appointed Dr. B. Don Russell holder of a Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) Distinguished Research Chair Professorship.

Dr. Early and Noel Denison ’66 have established the Noel and Early Denison ’66 Scholarship in mechanical engineering.

Tony and Neera Bansal ’87 Talbert have established the Tony and Neera Basal ’87 Talbert Scholarship, which will be used to provide for one or more scholarships to full-time students in good standing who are pursuing an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering at Texas A&M University.

A paper titled “System Identification of a Robotic Hummingbird,” authored by David Coleman and Dr. Moble Benedict, won the best paper award in the “Advanced Vertical Flight” session at the 2016 American Helicopter Society Annual Forum.

Dr. Zhijian (ZJ) Pei has joined the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University and the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) as a professor and researcher.

Taking the class out of the classroom is becoming increasingly popular among summer courses.

Dr. Terry S. Creasy, associate professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been appointed to the editorial board of the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering Journal (SAMPE).

The Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station's (TEES) Nuclear Security Science and Policy Institute (NSSPI) hosted the first leg of the four-week Nuclear Security Training Series (NSTS) at Texas A&M University from July 2-10.

M. Katherine Banks, vice chancellor and dean of engineering, has appointed Dr. Krishna Narayanan holder of the Eric D. Rubin ’06 Professorship in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Researchers in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University are studying memory limitations in high-workload environments, weather alerts for general aviation pilots and remote health monitoring to save the lives of veterans.

Sungtae Shin, a doctoral student in Texas A&M University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been researching myoelectric interfacing, reading the electrical signals from muscles, as part of a project designed to create exoskeletons for physical rehabilitation purposes.

All commercial nuclear reactors in the United States use water as a coolant, a technology that is more than 50 years old.

Most of us have seen the “Not Enough Storage” message on our smart phone or tablet. Cloud computing services provide a way to alleviate this overwhelming need for space by letting programs store their data on remote servers instead of locally.

Richard J. Matus has established the Richard J. Matus ’80 Scholarship in aerospace engineering.

John Mihalick ’61 has created the Beverly and John Mihalick ’61 Scholarship in Mechanical Engineering to provide one or more scholarships to full-time students in good standing who are pursuing an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M University.