Dr. Nicole Zacharia, a researcher in the TEES Mechanical Engineering Division, has received the prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for her proposal, “Electric Field Processing of Polyelectrolyte Complex.”

Mechanical engineering researcher Dr. Devesh Ranjan has been awarded the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for his five-year project, “Transition, Turbulence and Mixing in Shock-Accelerated Variable Density Flows at Extreme Conditions.”

TEES chemical engineering researcher Dr. Jodie Lutkenhaus has received a $350,000 grant to develop organic electrodes for structural energy and power, or in simple terms, “bullet-proof” batteries as part of the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Research Program.

The TEES Smart Grid Center and faculty members in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University will host a smart grid workshop April 17 in College Station, Texas..

Dr. Darren Hartl has been named assistant director of the TEES Aerospace Vehicle Systems Institute, replacing Dr. Fred Fisher who has been with AVSI in a variety of roles since the institute was formed in 1999.

Dr. Devesh Ranjan, researcher in the Mechanical Engineering Division, received a Young Investigator Program grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for his research proposal, “Breaking with Tradition: Turbulence with Memory.”

Dr. Guofei Gu, researcher in the Computer Science and Engineering at Division, has received an award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research’s Young Investigator Research Program for his proposal, "Go Ahead of Malware’s Infections and Controls: Towards New Techniques for Proactive Cyber Defense."

The Texas A&M Energy Institute’s Wind Energy Center will lead the Texas Offshore Wind Farm Innovation team as part of the Gulf Offshore Wind (GoWind) Project, which will be the most innovative wind farm built to date and will generate power at peak demand and a high capacity factor.