Malcolm Verdict, associate director of the TEES Energy Systems Laboratory (ESL) and a certified energy manager (CEM), has been selected for admission into the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) Energy Managers Hall of Fame. AEE is an international organization of more than 15,000 professionals in 84 countries and is widely recognized for its energy certification programs.
Dr. Mladen Kezunovic, the Eugene E. Webb Professor in the electrical and computer engineering department at Texas A&M University, and his team received the $4.9 million dollar grant from ARPA-E for their research on Robust Adaptive Topology Control (RATC). Kezunovic, also a researcher with the Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) was among 14 Principal Investigators whose research teams received a total of $156 million from the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) for their "cutting-edge research projects."
Researchers and responders from The Texas A&M University System have received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to create a visual "common ground" between operators and responders who use micro and small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for search and rescue. Following principles in how people know what other people are talking about in conversations, visual common ground will allow responders to easily express where they want the UAV to fly and what angle to examine collapsed structures using an iPad or other tablet. The responders would also be able to review imagery and video while the UAV continues its mission rather than waiting for the UAV to land.
Former Congressman Lee H. Hamilton, who served as vice chairman on the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, known as the 9/11 Commission, is scheduled to speak about energy-related issues and the protection of the nation’s chemical infrastructure Tuesday, Oct. 25 as part of a three-day symposium aimed at making the process industry a safer place.
MSNBC’s Future of Technology featured the rescue robotics work of one TEES researcher as well as a unique training facility that is part of Texas A&M Engineering.
