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TEES Impact

Project Offices

The Strategically Aligned Research (StAR) projects are large-scale projects that have broad implications. The StAR offices, led by TEES Associate Agency Directors, help drive collaboration, manage project execution and align efforts with national and global priorities.

Current offices include:

  • Health and Human Performance, including the Precise Advanced Technologies and Systems for Underresourced Populations (PATHS-UP)
  • Industrial Relations and Commercialization
  • National Security, including hypersonics, directed energy, cybersecurity, and nuclear.
  • Semiconductors, including alignment with the Texas A&M Semiconductor Institute
  • Space, including the Space Institute

Semiconductors

Arum Han

  • Associate Dean for Research, Texas A&M College of Engineering
  • Associate Agency Director, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
  • Project Office Director for CHIPS, Strategic Advanced Research Unit, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
Arum Han

Health Initiatives

Industrial Relations and Commercialization

Gerard L. Coté

  • Associate Agency Director, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
  • Project Office Director for Health Initiatives, Strategic Advanced Research Unit, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
  • Director, Center for Remote Health Technologies and Systems
  • Holder of the James J. Cain Professorship I
Gerard L. Coté

National Security

Rodney Bowersox

  • Deputy Director, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
  • Senior Associate Dean for Research, College of Engineering
  • Executive Director, University Consortium for Applied Hypersonics
  • Director, Texas A&M National Aerothermochemistry and Hypersonics Laboratory
  • Professor, Aerospace Engineering
  • Member, National Academy of Engineering
  • Holder, Ford Motor Co. Design Professorship I
Assistant Name: Kendall Bryant
Assistant Email: kcbryant@tamu.edu
Rodney Bowersox

Space

Robert Ambrose

  • Associate Agency Director, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
  • Project Office Director for Space, Strategic Advanced Research Unit, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
  • Associate Director, Texas A&M Space Institute
  • Director for Space and Robotics Initiatives, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
Robert Ambrose