September 2013

Dr. Dara Childs, director of the TEES Turbomachinery Laboratory has recently completed the book, "Turbomachinery Rotordynamics with Case Studies."

Dr. Xingfu Wu, associate research professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Division of the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, has been awarded a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation.

John Sharp, chancellor of The Texas A&M University System, announced Thursday (Sept 19) that the National Center for Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease Defense (FAZD) received $2 million in federal funds from the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate to develop a disease-surveillance technology designed to protect U.S. animal agriculture from potentially catastrophic outbreaks of infectious pathogens. The project has the potential for a total $9 million investment over a three-year period.

Valerie Segovia, director of outreach and development with the Nuclear Power Institute (NPI) at Texas A&M University, was a keynote presenter at the 57th International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) General Conference held recently in Vienna.

The TEES Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center’s research in developing new technologies aimed to prevent and mitigate industrial disasters, recently received five new grants, furthering the center’s mission of "making safety second nature.”

The number of citizens of the State of Texas who live in Colonias along the Texas-Mexico border continues to grow on a daily basis. Currently almost a half-million people call an estimated 2,000 Colonias home. Among the major concerns facing these inhabitants is the lack of water, wastewater, or electrical service due to unscrupulous developers. To help with this problem the Texas Center for Applied Technology (TCAT), a center within the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), is partnering with T-STEM academies and other high schools to develop a local power micro-grid for use in the underserved communities along the Texas-Mexico border.