January 2016

Dr. M. Sam Mannan, director of the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station’s Mary Kay O’Conner Process Safety Center, was named the first holder of the M.A. Naser Chair by Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET).

Dr. Stratos Pistikopoulos, associate director of the Texas A&M Energy Institute and TEES Distinguished Research Professor in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been named editor-in-chief of the journal Computers & Chemical Engineering.

The ability to gather and analyze large and complex data sets is driving progress in many disciplines. In an effort to increase the level of activity in Big Data research at Texas A&M University, the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), in partnership with the Texas A&M Division of Research, Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Texas A&M Health Science Center (TAMHSC) and the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), has awarded nearly $350,000 in seed grant funding to seven interdisciplinary research teams for Big Data.

Navigating the challenging path from research lab to marketplace was the topic of a deep-dive experiential learning workshop during the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station’s (TEES) first Commercialization and Entrepreneurship Boot Camp, hosted by the TEES Office of Commercialization and Entrepreneurship (C&E).

As part of an initiative to encourage multidisciplinary collaborations and cross-institutional partnerships, the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), the Texas A&M University Dwight Look College of Engineering and Texas A&M University-Kingsville have awarded $150,000 in seed grants to researchers from Texas A&M and Texas A&M-Kingsville.

Dr. Bonnie J. Dunbar, retired NASA astronaut, engineer and educator, has joined Texas A&M Engineering as a Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering. She also has a joint appointment as the director of the TEES Institute for Engineering Education and Innovation (IEEI).

The Texas Center for Applied Technology (TCAT) and the Institute for Infectious Animal Diseases (IIAD), have expanded their mobile Certificate of Veterinary Inspection (CVI) application to multiple platforms to allow compatibility with both iOS and Android devices.

Six current faculty members of Texas A&M University’s Dwight Look College of Engineering have been named Fellows of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

When Dr. Donald Peterson packed up his life in Connecticut and headed 1,500 miles south to Texas, one of his intents was to expand research opportunities for students and faculty, and for himself, by joining the faculty at Texas A&M University-Texarkana.