Dr. Hussein Alnuweiri, professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University at Qatar, has been appointed as the first holder of the Maersk Oil Qatar Professorship in STEM Leadership for the next two years.
The University of Tennessee at Knoxville hosted an invited seminar and webinar given by Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) senior research scientist Dr. Frank Garner regarding work he and Dr. Lin Shao, associate professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Texas A&M University, have produced on the study of material behaviors under extreme conditions.
The Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M University and the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) presented Awards for Excellence in Retention as part of the Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI) Pre-Conference on Retention and Transition on March 30.
Research shows that America desperately needs professionals specializing in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) to expand and advance its economy and society.
Ania Kimberly Kaminski ‘’07, a former student of the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Texas A&M University, is currently in her eighth year at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Dr. Xia Hu, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, is collaborating with Arizona State University and Yahoo! to understand user behavior on social media platforms by developing novel data mining algorithms.
M. Katherine Banks, vice chancellor and dean of engineering, has appointed Dr. David Ford the Beavers Charitable Trust/William F. Urban ’41 Professor in Construction Engineering and Management in the Zachry Department of Civil Engineering in recognition of his exceptional record as a researcher and educator.
M. Katherine Banks, vice chancellor and dean of engineering, has appointed Dr. Bryan Rasmussen the Leland T. Jordan Career Development Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering in recognition of his accomplishments and future potential.
M. Katherine Banks, vice chancellor and dean of engineering, has appointed Dr. Anastasia Muliana the Cain Faculty Fellow I in Mechanical Engineering in recognition of her accomplishments and future potential.
M. Katherine Banks, vice chancellor and dean of engineering, has appointed Dr. Partha Mukherjee the Morris E. Foster Faculty Fellow II in the Department of Mechanical Engineering in recognition of his accomplishments and future potential.
A new method for manipulating the gel-like environments that house stem cells could help researchers direct the growth of these versatile cells into bone, tendon, tissue or other specific lineages, says a Texas A&M University biomedical engineer who has developed the approach.
The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (NSF I-Corps) program is designed to challenge engineers during a seven-week business boot camp in an effort to help foster entrepreneurship and the commercialization of technology.
Zhaokai Meng, graduate student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been named recipient of the 2016 Association of Former Students Distinguished Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Research – Doctoral.
Amy Bolon, doctoral student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, has received the Buck Weirus Spirit Award, one of the highest awards a student can earn at Texas A&M.
You’ve seen them in futuristic science fiction movies for decades, but the reality is that unmanned vehicles are just around the corner, quite literally.
Richard Coffman, associate professor at the University of Arkansas, presented on remote sensing for geotechnics on March 11 to the Zachry Department of Civil Engineering’s Geo-Institute student chapter.
Three engineering faculty members are among 24 faculty and staff members who have been selected to receive the 2016 Texas A&M University Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award.
Dr. Moble Benedict, assistant professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been selected to receive the François-Xavier Bagnoud Vertical Flight Award by the American Helicopter Society (AHS).
Dr. Bimal Nepal, associate professor in the Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution at Texas A&M University, has been elected to serve on the Institute of Industrial Engineers, Computer and Information Systems Division board of directors.
By using a first-of-its-kind sales training program based on gamification, Texas A&M University students are learning about the attention and discovery stages of the sales process.
Brandon Sweeney and Blake Teipel, graduate students in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, won the $50,000 first prize for their patent-pending 3-D printing at the 2016 Baylor New Venture Competition at Baylor University.
Haley Marks, graduate student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been recognized for her work developing a handheld device that tests for trace levels of toxins in blood at this year’s 2016 Photonics West symposium in San Francisco.
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University recently held its annual Spring Banquet and Awards Ceremony in the Bethancourt Ballroom located at the Memorial Student Center on campus.
Donald Bruss, a graduate student in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Texas A&M University, won an Outstanding Poster Award at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) 2016 Stewardship Science Academic Programs (SSAP) Symposium in Bethesda, Maryland.
Texas A&M Engineering’s graduate program ranked 11th overall and seventh among public institutions in the latest U.S. News & World Report survey, “America’s Best Graduate Schools 2017.”
Dr. Robin Murphy, Raytheon Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, gave one of the nine invited topical lectures at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) meeting in Washington D.C.
Matthew Aguirre, a senior in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been selected as the first-place winner of the James Barany Student Award for Excellence from the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering (IISE).
Adolfo R. Escobedo, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University, was selected as a 2016 recipient of the U.S. Senator Phil Gramm Doctoral Fellowship.
Dr. Erick Moreno-Centeno, assistant professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been selected to receive the Dr. Hamed E. Eldin Outstanding Early Career IE in Academia Award from the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering.
Dr. Austin Buchanan, graduate of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been selected for the second place Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award by the Institute for Industrial and Systems Engineering.
Julie Hammett, Ph.D. student in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been selected to receive the Heep Graduate Fellowship by the Texas A&M Institute for Advanced Study.
Two researchers with the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) have received research instrumentation awards from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD).
Dr. G. Kemble Bennett, senior professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University and vice chancellor and dean emeritus of the Dwight Look College of Engineering, will receive the Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Industrial Engineering Award from the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE).
Dr. Alaa Elwany, assistant professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University, is a member of a multidisciplinary team led by Dr. Ibrahim Karaman that was awarded a $550,000 grant from the Airforce Office of Scientific Research’s Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP).
The second annual Big Data workshop was held recently at Texas A&M University to foster connections across disciplines that intersect this area and help people to continue to identify opportunities for collaboration.
More than 100 Texas A&M University engineering students spent a Saturday learning how to become better leaders during the Accenture Leadership Symposium hosted by the Student Engineers’ Council (SEC).
Dr. Robin Murphy, Raytheon Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been named one of the 30 Most Innovative Women Professors Alive Today by The Best Master’s Degrees, a website that provides reviews and rankings to help narrow down the field when it comes to selecting which programs to pursue in higher education.
Dr. Satish Bukkapatnam and Dr. Cèsar Malavè of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering have been selected to receive the Fellow Award from the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE).
The business and engineering colleges at Texas A&M University are partnering in a new entrepreneurial training program to better prepare undergraduate and graduate students interested in the oil and gas industry.
Dr. Bonnie J. Dunbar, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been awarded membership into the International Honor Society for Systems Engineering by the Omega Alpha Association Board of Directors.
Honghuang Lin, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, received a third-place Best Paper Award at the premier conference for the functional design and verification of electronic systems.
Two Texas A&M University students in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Ryan Vrecenar and Zach Varnadore, completed all four tiers of the third annual National Security Agency 2015 Codebreaker challenge – an impressive feat very few have accomplished.
Dr. Svetlana Sukhishvili, professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, has received a $424,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to conduct fundamental research on controlling the structure of functional polymer coatings for biomedical and optical applications.
Dr. Costas Georghiades, associate dean for research and Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) associate agency director for strategic initiatives and centers, has been appointed Texas A&M University’s new senior associate vice president for research.
The most recent publication of Dr. Jodie Lutkenhaus, associate professor and the William and Ruth Neely Faculty Fellow in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University, is on ACS Macro Letters Top 20 Most Read List for the month of February.
A workshop this month will pair some of the most brilliant minds in cardiovascular health with some of the brightest minds in engineering, and the end result could make waves throughout the medical community and the world.
Each year the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University supports students who design and build a Formula style racecar that is raced in the annual Formula SAE (FSAE) student design competition held in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Dr. Rafiqul Gani, acclaimed for his extensive research in computer-aided methods and tools for sustainable products and processes in chemical engineering, delivered the J.D. Lindsay Lecture at the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University.
Dr. Hung-Jen Wu, assistant professor in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been awarded the 2016 KANEKA Junior Faculty Award for his excellence in research.
Jordan Evans, a materials science engineering doctoral student at Texas A&M University, was named a recipient of the Roy G. Post Foundation Scholarship and will be receiving the award, valued at $5,000, at the annual Waste Management Conference in Phoenix on March 8.
Knowledge of how DNA folds and bends could offer new perspective on how it is handled within cells while also aiding in the design of DNA-based nano-scale devices, says a biomedical engineer at Texas A&M University whose new motion-based analysis of DNA is providing an accurate representation of the molecule’s flexibility.
Dr. Michael Moreno and Dr. Partha Mukherjee, faculty members in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, have been selected as Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) Young Faculty Fellows.
Dr. Anastasia Muliana, professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, was selected as a Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) Faculty Fellow.
More than 80 people who work in the oil and gas industry in Qatar attended the 2016 International Workshop on Computational Methods with Applications to Oil and Gas, hosted by Texas A&M University at Qatar.
Dr. A. Dan Hill made a presentation on behalf of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) during a working group dinner convened on the first night of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 19.
Thirteen nationally and internationally prominent scholars, including four who will be part of the Dwight Look College of Engineering, were formally inducted as Faculty Fellows during a ceremony on Friday, Feb. 26.
The Master of Industrial Distribution (MID) program at Texas A&M University has been selected as one of the recipients of the 2016 Texas Distance Learning Association (TxDLA) Award for Outstanding Commitment to Excellence and Innovation by a four-year higher education institution.
