Dr. Ali Mostafavi

Dr. Ali Mostafavi, an assistant professor in the Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, recently received the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) — one of the most prestigious awards for up-and-coming researchers. The award provides funding to support promising integrated research and education.

Corroded pipes

In partnership with TEES EDGE, the National Corrosion and Materials Science Reliability Lab at Texas A&M University now offers a short course course that introduces industry professionals to the fundamentals of corrosion and the multiscale-level materials performance for corrosion engineering applications.

Students gathered around desk during workshop

From Jan. 29 through Feb. 1, the Center for Nuclear Security Science and Policy Initiatives collaborated with Amity University in India, Oak Ridge National Laboratory U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency to conduct a nuclear security workshop.

Holly Frost and Kathaleen Wall with students and Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station leadership

The Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) has signed a new research agreement with Kathaleen Wall ’90, co-owner of Texas Thorium LLC, on the new Thorium Research Initiative (TRI). Wall, along with co-owner Holly Frost, donated $5 million to support research geared toward advancing thorium-based nuclear technology.

Photos of Jaime Grunlan, Duncan Maitland and Richard Miles

Three faculty members from the Texas A&M University College of Engineering are among 66 academic inventors named to the inaugural class of senior members by the National Academy of Inventors.

A model of the growable space habitat

Dr. Robert Skelton and his team have proposed a growable habitat with 1 G of gravitational force to meet the need for a program providing sustainable life for long periods in space.

Dr. Mladen Kezunovic

Dr. Mladen Kezunovic participated in a prestigious panel titled “Maintaining Operational Effectiveness for U.S. Naval Forces in Highly Degraded Environments: Ensuring Trusted Resilient Data in the Face of Data Warfare,” organized by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine under the leadership of the Naval Studies Board.

Two female researchers, one with long black hair and the other with black hair pulled into a bun, sit beside each other, with their backs to the camera, as they view a computer monitor. Behind the monitor is an entire wall of Smart Grid monitors.

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers International Conference on Smart Grid Synchronized Measurements and Analytics will bring together leading researchers and developers from academia, research and industry from all over the world to facilitate innovation, knowledge transfer and technical progress in addressing synchronized measurements and analytics to advance smart grids.