May 2014

The inaugural Engineering Genesis Award for Multidisciplinary Research was presented to three Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) researchers and their research teams during the TEES Inaugural Advisory Board meeting held May 29. The award, which is presented to TEES researchers who have secured significant research grants of $1 million or more, was given to Dr. Richard J. Malak, Dr. Arum Han and Dr. M. Sam Mannan.

Experts from the National Weather Service, Texas Task Force 1, the Texas A&M Forest Service, the National Guard, American Red Cross, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, emergency management, and the insurance industry will spend June 3-4, 2014, with Texas A&M researchers and partner industries to create a roadmap for using information technology to prevent, prepare, respond, and recover from all types of flooding.

Dr. M. Katherine Banks, vice chancellor and dean of engineering and director of the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), recognized Staff Award winners during the 2014 Faculty and Staff Awards.

Dr. David E. Claridge, Director of the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station’s (TEES) Energy Systems Laboratory and the Leland Jordan Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University has joined the Board of Directors of the Continental Automated Buildings Association.

The Thomas and Joan Read Center for Distribution Research and Education, part of the Industrial Distribution Program at Texas A&M University and the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), recently offered short courses in El Salvador and Panama.

The Turbomachinery Laboratory, part of the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, hosted the 34th annual Turbomachinery Research Consortium (TRC) meeting this week at Pebble Creek Country Club in College Station, Texas.

A $100 million fund at The Texas A&M University System known as the Chancellor’s Research Initiative (CRI) is credited for successfully attracting four world renowned scholars and researchers to elevate the engineering research portfolio: Christodoulos A. Floudas, professor of engineering and applied science, Princeton University; E.N. Pistikopoulos, professor of chemical engineering, Imperial College of London; Alan Needleman, professor of materials science and engineering in the College of Engineering, University of North Texas; and Peter M. Rentzepis, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, University of California at Irvine.

The Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) and Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), have signed an agreement paving the way for a suite of new process safety products and services. The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), which was signed in April, will see both organizations commit to collaboration in process safety education, CPD products and strategic leadership and direction.