On April 20th 2018, Dr. Phanourios Tamamis, assistant professor in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University, was awarded the 2018 KANEKA Junior Faculty Award for outstanding performance and dedication in his research, recognized by the Polymer Technology Center of the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station and the Kaneka Foundation.
Texas A&M University College of Engineering researchers Dr. Tony McDonald and Dr. Farzan Sasangohar in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering are conducting a first-of-its-kind study on intervention techniques for drowsy drivers in the United States.
A group of juniors from the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University had the opportunity to give back to their host community while studying abroad in Egypt this winter.
Dr. P.R. Kumar and his team of student researchers have been working to create a set of traffic rules for drones in the sky, or what we researchers call “a traffic protocol framework" in which all autonomous systems could safely operate.
Hannah Stroud and Samuel Murley, undergraduate students in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University, won the undergraduate student research poster portion of the University Technical Competition (UTC) hosted by the South Texas division of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
Texas A&M University was one of the eight North American universities selected to compete in the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) AutoDrive challenge, a three-year competition that allows university teams to develop and demonstrate their own autonomous vehicle.
Three students from the College of Engineering have been named Distinguished Graduate Students for 2018. They were among a group of 16 graduate students from Texas A&M University who are pursuing their master’s or doctoral degrees.
On April 16, Dr. James Holste, senior professor and professor emeritus in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University, was presented the prestigious Donald L. Katz Award by the GPA Midstream Association (formerly the Gas Processors Association).
While many Texans were bracing for Hurricane Harvey’s landfall in late August 2017, a team of researchers set out to deploy instrument pods along the Texas coast. The information gathered from these Rapid Response Units (RRUs) could help develop more resilient coastal communities by improving predictive models and tools.
Gordan England, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense and Secretary of the Navy, recently visited Texas A&M University to give a lecture on ethics and the principles of leadership to engineering students in the Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution.
Two graduate students from the Texas A&M University College of Engineering received the U.S. Senator Phil Gramm Doctoral Fellowship Award for scholarly excellence. The awards, each for $5,000, will support the research efforts of the students as they pursue their doctoral degrees.
Jeremy Osborn, a nuclear engineering Ph.D. student working with the Center for Nuclear Security Science and Policy Initiatives, is part of a team of researchers who are working to develop new methods to determine the reactor origins of weapons-grade plutonium.
Dr. Xia (Ben) Hu, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, was awarded the National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) to build a human-centric network-embedding framework, in which human prior knowledge would be properly modeled and integrated in the framework process in contrast to the traditional data-driven network-embedding framework.
A team of Texas A&M engineering students is traveling to China in May to compete in the Asian Supercomputer Community’s Student Supercomputer Challenge.
At the ninth annual Aggie Women in Computer Science (AWICS) leadership workshop, sponsored by Chevron, female leaders from academia and industry participated in two panels that centered on leadership and how to make an impact in the workplace.
Dr. Juan Garay, professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, was named a Fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) for his fundamental contributions at the interface of cryptography and distributed computing and for service to the cryptographic research community.
Dr. Nancy M. Amato, Unocal and Regents Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been elected as a 2018 Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Fellow.
The Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue (CRASAR) received the Emergency Management Association of Texas (EMAT) Emergency Management Technology and Innovation Award at the 11th annual EMAT Leadership Symposium last week.
Human stem cells have shown potential in medicine as they can transform into various specialized cell types such as bone and cartilage cells. The current approach to obtain such specialized cells is to subject stem cells to specialized instructive protein molecules known as growth factors. However, use of growth factors in the human body can generate harmful effects including unwanted tissue growth, such as a tumor. Researchers at Texas A&M University have explored a new class of clay nanoparticles that can direct stem cells to become bone or cartilage cells.
Technology advancement is changing the disability landscape, as demonstrated by the 10 student teams at Aggies Invent for Assistive Technology this past weekend. The 58 participating students were challenged to improve the lives of the more than 57 million Americans who have some form of disability by developing a technological solution to one of the 16 need statements of the competition. This Aggies Invent had students from 18 different majors and ranged from freshmen to graduate students across campus.
Credited with acquiring the legislative funding needed for The Texas A&M University System’s Center for Infrastructure Renewal (CIR), Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick was the special guest for the center’s ribbon-cutting ceremony held on the RELLIS Campus April 11.
Six students from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University were selected to participate in the eighth annual RICE 360° Global Health Technologies Design Competition held at Rice University in March. At the competition they presented their project, CommBo, a web-based, speech-generating picture communication board that alleviates the major pain points of AAC users.
In honor of 40 years of teaching and research, Dr. Jean-Louis Briaud was recognized at the Geo-Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Annual Congress in early March 2018 at a special symposium held in his honor. Briaud has also been named a Geo-Legend by Geo-Strata magazine, a series honoring professionals who have left a serious impact on the field of geotechnical engineering.
Dr. Jeff Huang, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, has proposed a new technique that can detect Use-After-Free (UAF) bugs in web browsers with a higher detection ability than the state-of-the-art techniques currently being used.
Lisa Bratton has always loved being outdoors and jumping in the water. Marrying these two passions in college has proven to be the ultimate success story. Bratton, a senior in the Department of Ocean Engineering at Texas A&M University, is also the captain and a member of the women’s swim team.
Dr. Jean-Briac le Graverend, assistant professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, has been awarded the von Humboldt Research Fellowship, one of the most prestigious awards in Germany, from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
Dr. Helen Reed, Regents Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University and AIAA Fellow, is the recipient of the third Yvonne C. Brill Lectureship in Aerospace Engineering from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).
Dr. Jaime Grunlan, the Linda & Ralph Schmidt ’68 Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been named a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). An ASME Fellow is conferred upon worthy candidates to recognize their outstanding engineering achievements. Fewer than 3 percent of all ASME members are Fellows.
Researchers at Texas A&M University are finding new ways to make highways more sustainable and cost-effective, supporting both our economy and the everyday consumer.
In March, the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station’s (TEES) Center for Nuclear Security Science and Policy Initiatives, joined with the TEES Institute of Nuclear-Security and Cyber-Security Education and Research, the Bush School of Government and Public Service, and the Texas A&M University student chapter of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management to present a panel discussion on 21st Century Deterrence and the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review.
Engineering Medicine (EnMed), Texas A&M University’s innovative engineering medicine track at Houston Methodist Hospital in Houston, is now included in the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) accreditation of the Texas A&M College of Medicine’s Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) program. This approval allows the program to begin recruiting the inaugural class of students, set to matriculate in July 2019.
In the latest U.S. News & World Report survey, “America’s Best Graduate Schools 2019,” the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering was ranked the 21st best graduate chemical engineering program in the country overall, and the 12th best among public institutions.
Eighteen outstanding faculty members from the Texas A&M University College of Engineering received one of the highest honors in academia at the investiture ceremony held Tuesday, March 27.
The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the induction of Dr. Duncan Maitland, the Professor Stewart and Stevenson Professorship I and associate department head, and Dr. Melissa A. Grunlan, professor, both in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University, to its College of Fellows. They were nominated, reviewed and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows for outstanding contributions their fields.
Whitney Souery, a student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been accepted into Harvard’s Neonatology Summer Student Research Program at Boston Children’s Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Dr. Mark A. Barteau, the recently appointed vice president for research at Texas A&M University, has been chosen to serve as a professor in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering and the Department of Chemistry.
Joshua Harris, a 2017 graduate from the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been recognized with two prestigious awards: the 2018 U.S. Department of Transportation/Federal Aviation Administration Research Student of the Year, Master of Science level, and the 2018 Association of Former Students Distinguished Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Research – Masters.
For Invent for the Planet, civil engineering graduate student Bansi Rajesh Khajuria and her fellow teammates came up with the idea to develop an app that would help families reduce water consumption and waste.
Civil engineering junior Anh Duong, along with 29 other engineering students, who participated in a 15-day volunteer internship helping the Federal Emergency Management Agency assess damages to public infrastructure sites impacted by Hurricane Harvey.
