Energy conservation is a hot topic, and Texas A&M’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and TEES are doing their part to educate students on how to successfully apply energy conservation techniques in real-world situations.

The B.G. Hindes dredge/tow carriage, the only one of its kind on a U.S. university campus, will be christened Friday, Oct. 12, at the Reta and Bill Haynes ’46 Coastal Engineering Laboratory in the Texas A&M University Research Park.

The Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) has collaborated with an environmental research center based in the Frank H. Dotterweich College of Engineering at Texas A&M University-Kingsville.

Texas A&M University and the Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) have been awarded almost $2 million to date from the National Science Foundation to increase retention rates among first-year engineering, science and math majors.