The engineering program at Texas A&M University gathered 70 deep water industry leaders on its campus October 18 to discuss the how to best develop a program in subsea engineering, a field dealing with the challenges related to oil and gas to the exploration, drilling and development of oil and gas fields in underwater locations deeper than 600 feet.
The Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) has signed a memorandum of agreement with the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) in Phoenix to relocate the Dynamic Imaging Laboratory, a computational biology division of TGen, to become a part of the recently established Center for Bioinformatics and Genomics Systems Engineering in College Station.
A paper by Dr. M. Sam Mannan, a world-renowned expert on safety in the chemical processing industry, is one of Computers & Chemical Engineering journal’s most-cited papers for 2010-2012. Mannan is co-author of the paper, "Optimal facility layout under toxic release in process facilities: A stochastic approach," which also lists R. Vazquez-Roman as lead author and J.-H. Lee and S. Jung as co-authors.
Dr. Robin R. Murphy, Raytheon Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and director of the Center for Robot Assisted Search and Rescue (CRASAR), was named one of the 25 women in robotics that everyone should know about by Robohub. The list, which was compiled in celebration of Ada Lovelace Day, includes MacArthur Genius award winner Daniele Russ and iRobot co-founder Helen Greiner as well as professors from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Georgia Tech Institute of Technology.
The 42nd Turbomachinery and 29th International Pump Users Symposia (Pump & Turbo 2013) was held recently at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, posting a new record for attendance as 5,857 people took part in the four-day event.
TEES, the TEES Space Engineering Research Center and the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M hosted the Texas Commercial Space Workshop Oct. 2 to discuss the development of commercial space operations in Texas and their impact on the state’s economic prosperity, amid space company representatives, investors, aerospace experts, faculty and students from around the nation.
