April 2013

Dr. M. Katherine Banks, TEES director, has announced two new administrative appointments for Dr. Costas N. Georghiades and Dr. Teri Reed-Rhoads.

The National Center for Therapeutics Manufacturing and the Energy Institute will be jointly operated by TEES and Texas A&M University.

The Nuclear Security Science and Policy Institute (NSSPI) at Texas A&M University recently conducted the 2013 Nuclear Facilities Experience (NFE) in Japan. The event was co-coordinated with the Integrated Support Center for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Nuclear Security (ISCN) of the Japan Atomic Energy Authority.

TEES safety officers have received the Spring 2013 Environmental Health and Safety’s Safe Laboratory Award.

The TEES Smart Grid Center will host a workshop, “Smart Grid Research: Opportunities and Challenges,” April 17 at the Annenberg Presidential Conference Center at Texas A&M University.

The TEES Space Engineering Research Center and students from Texas A&M have partnered with Citizens in Space to build a payload integrator to be flown on the XCOR Lynx space plane.

The TEES Turbomachinery Laboratory wrapped up another successful event in March in Doha, Qatar.

The TEES Space Engineering Research Center (SERC) delivered an innovative star field simulator to technical personnel at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., in March.

Texas A&M University, the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station and the Food Protein Research & Development Center are hosting the 23rd Annual Practical Membrane/Filtration & Separations Technologies Short Course, April 14-18.