The Aerospace Vehicle Systems Institute (AVSI), a center in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, successfully achieved a worldwide radio frequency spectrum allocation for wireless avionics at the 2015 World Radio communication Conference (WRC-15), held in Geneva, Switzerland.
Dr. Christodoulos A. Floudas, director of the Energy Institute and the Erle Nye ’59 Chair Professor for Engineering Excellence in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).
Students from Texas A&M University and The University of Sydney in Australia participated in the Aerial International Robotic Racing of Unmanned Systems (AIRUS) where teams were able to successfully demonstrate remote piloting of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) more than 8,000 miles away.
Dr. Nancy M. Amato and Carol A. Huff were named recipients of The Texas A&M University System’s Regents Professor Award and Regents Fellow Service Award, respectively.