Dr. Kenneth R. Hall has been appointed associate director of the Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) by the Board of Regents of The Texas A&M University System today (Sept. 28) at their meeting in College Station. Hall is a professor in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University, a Regent’s Professor and holder of the Jack E. and Frances Brown Chair in Engineering. An internationally recognized expert in the area of thermodynamics, Hall has 224 refereed publications. He also has received 12 patents in areas that include natural gas flow measurement and conversion of natural gas into liquid fuels and other chemicals. As TEES associate director, Hall will emphasize interdisciplinary research projects and oversee TEES centers and institutes.