Dr. M. Katherine Banks has begun her tenure as vice chancellor for engineering for The Texas A&M University System and dean of the Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M University — the first woman to ever hold the position. Banks also holds the Harold J. “Bill” Haynes Dean’s Chair in Engineering and is director of the Texas Engineering Experiment Station, an engineering research agency of the State of Texas and a member of the A&M System.
Through a program known as the Continuous Commissioning® process, the Energy Systems Laboratory (ESL), a center within the Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), has worked to produce more than $100 million in savings in more than 300 buildings throughout Texas, the United States and the World.
