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autumn leveridge an associate professor of practice in the zachry department of civil and environmental engineering at texas a&m university was recently awarded the legion of merit from the united states army for her years of military servicebefore joining the department leveridge served in the army for 22 years achieving the rank of lieutenant colonel the legion of merit one of the most prestigious awards is bestowed to military personnel for highly meritorious service"i feel that it was a privilege to serve the united states as a military officer for 22 years representing our country with army soldiers other joint service members and interagency partners and multinational allied partners all working to preserve peace through strength " she saidthe award recognizes leveridges significant contributions to improving army medical logistics at the operational and strategic levels by leading construction projects of multiple joint and deployed health care facilities as a medical logistics expert and health facilities planner"she is an accomplished thought leader knowledgeable in forward surgical and combat casualty care health facilities construction and women's health through global health engagements " the award says "this diversity expertise and knowledge combined with her extremely dedicated work ethic enabled her to excel in 2011 while serving as the deputy director of medical logistics in the us army europe's surgeon office (usareur) in this capacity she supported the deployment of a role 3 combat support hospital to kosovo she performed on-site engineering surveys and quality assessments for health care facilities and equipment in romania enabling usareur to use these facilities for combat-casualty care if needed during russian aggression contingency plans"from 2013 to 2014 leveridge served as the site director of the $350 million hospital construction project at the irwin army community hospital and the $50 million initial outfitting and transition contract at fort riley kansas under her leadership the team resolved conflict in design specifications and corrected three critical failures avoiding potentially catastrophic hazards to patient safety under her watch the project gained momentum and achieved vital milestones that allowed the army to deliver a world-class hospital for 50 000 soldiers families and beneficiaries in 2016
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from 2015 to 2018 leveridge returned to europe where she served on the geographic combatant command's joint surgeon staff for the us european command in stuttgart germany providing leadership for us forces and multinational partners she was selected to serve on a quick-response team for three years where she led the medical section for the combined coordination center of a bilateral joint task force that provided overwatch and coordination to the areas of interest she taught joint medical planning for north atlantic treaty organization (nato) officers and advised the command's joint deployment and distribution operations center joint personnel recovery agency liaisons and other interagency partners on medical logistics distribution and personnel recovery medical requirementsleveridge's culminating assignment was as the support operations officer at the 6th medical logistics management center where she positively influenced single integrated medical logistics management operations and planned efforts in direct support from all six geographic combatant commands she supported us army north and us northern command during covid-19 response operations and was instrumental in developing the covid-19 medical logistics concept of support for medical materiel and maintenance which supported the federal response for covid-19 treatment diagnostics and mass vaccination sites"i am grateful and honored to be recommended by the 6th medical logistics management center of fort detrick endorsed by the 44th medical brigade of fort bragg and approved for the legion of merit by the xviii airborne corps in us forces command also at fort bragg these are elite organizations that remain ready and vigilant to respond to our nation's needs " leveridge said
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dr aakash tyagi professor of practice in the department of computer science and engineering at texas a&m university was recently selected to receive the 2022 provost academic professional track faculty teaching excellence award he is one of 10 texas a&m faculty members selected to receive this years award established in 2019 the award encourages recognizes and rewards faculty who provide students with meaningful learning experiences embrace effective teaching approaches and value student-centered learning in addition each recipient receives a $5 000 bursary to support teaching innovations and teaching-related projects and activities tyagi joined texas a&m in 2014 as the departments first professor of practice after 20 years of service at intel he is known both for his passion for teaching and helping students achieve success both inside and outside of the classroom in 2020 he was appointed holder of the zachry teaching professorship i in the college of engineering he also received the association of former students distinguished achievement award in college-level teaching in 2019 and the association of former students university-level distinguished achievement award in teaching in 2021
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its been over 50 years since apollo 11 landed on the moon and we heard the famous words one small step for man one giant leap for mankind now in collaboration with international and commercial partners nasa is working to send the first woman and the first person of color to the moon and beyond the ongoing missions of the artemis program involve innovating and using new technologies to return to the moon and establish a long-term lunar presence with the ultimate goal of sending the first astronauts to mars the first step aptly named gateway is an outpost that will orbit the moon and provide long-term support for astronaut expeditions and scientific investigations gateway will also serve as a dock for deep-space transportation vessels such as landers or larger spacecraft preparing to make the trip to mars joe caram 86 89 is one of a handful of former students from the college of engineering at texas a&m university working on gateway caram who received both his degrees from the department of aerospace engineering is the gateway program lead for the systems engineering and integration office
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he leads a team in evaluating the performance and configuration requirements of the integrated spacecraft that form the gateway hub for future lunar surface missions and deeper space exploration this is complicated by the fact that the spacecraft is being designed by several international and us commercial partners and it is the responsibility of caram and his team to ensure that all the pieces of the vessel will work together efficiently and effectively some of the elements his team are working on include determining how the spacecraft will perform from a power and propulsion standpoint how it will reject heat energy how other visiting spacecraft will operate with it and how the crew will interact with it caram said that gateway will make it easier for crews to travel to and from the lunar surface thus expanding the ability to explore areas of the moon that humans have never visited like the lunar south pole region additionally testing things like innovative habitats for deep-space missions is safer and less expensive when conducted on and around the moon where travel time is a few days compared to mars when it could be months or more gateway is not just a machine; it's something that provides inspiration for others caram said its a continuation of the exploratory spirit and that's what inspires me i hope that others feel that too when they look up at gateway and see it orbiting the moon although he didnt know that systems engineering was where he would end up caram knew he wanted to be in aerospace since he watched the first astronauts set foot on the moon in 1969 as he described from that moment in time his passion was ignited his interest led him to pursue his aerospace engineering undergraduate degree at texas a&m where he was introduced to working in a team environment and encouraged by his professors to return for his graduate degree with the support of several faculty he obtained his masters a degree that ultimately led him to work for the very organization that he watched land on the moon all those years ago its a dream come true actually he said knowing that i have an opportunity to participate in the organization that enabled the first lunar landing and to provide that inspiration for others is part of why i got into this field i want to be part of what enables the next generation to come forward and advance us even further
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ceramic additive manufacturing has vast potential to transform numerous industries from health care to aerospace to national security and increase the economic competitiveness of the united states dr chao ma assistant professor in the department of engineering technology and industrial distribution at texas a&m university will generate new insights necessary for binder jetting to produce dense ceramic parts ma 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 grant provides funding to support promising integrated research and education projects ma will use the career award to create a new granulated powder and an innovative powder bed formation method that will work synergistically to strengthen the use of advanced ceramics advanced ceramic materials provide a combination of excellent properties including high stiffness high hardness and superior chemical wear and heat resistance because of these properties advanced ceramics play a vital role in diverse industries and applications such as joint prostheses aircraft engines ballistic armor chemical-resistant impellers and heat exchangers these products are created by traditional ceramic manufacturing with severe geometric constraints but ma says ceramic additive manufacturing can release these constraints and bring revolutionary impacts to the industry the implications are far-reaching with potentially positive effects on the environment for example without this geometric limitation producing dense ceramic parts could include chemical-resistant pumps and high-temperature heat exchangers to help chemical manufacturers and energy industries purify materials and generate clean energy more efficiently
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"in terms of research i hope to increase the properties for ceramic parts from additive manufacturing and the approach involves powder development and machine-design innovations " he said "ceramics are interesting materials they have excellent properties and are resistant to heat and chemicals additive manufacturing can give us freedom in terms of geometry" to date no powder allows binder jetting to produce dense ceramic parts the novel granulated powder consists of smartly tailored granules for density structure and strength ma and his research team will use these granules in an innovative powder bed compaction system to reach the desired density they will carry out single and multilayer compaction tests to study the compaction behavior and trace the movement of granules and nanoparticles under pressure through particle-scale numerical simulation "it's exciting to me because ceramic additive manufacturing is much less developed and if this technology can enhance it then it will bring a lot of benefits to society " ma said as part of the career award ma will also focus on education and outreach of this new technology to various audiences including primary educators and students undergraduate and graduate students researchers and the general public to strengthen and diversify the advanced manufacturing workforce
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ma will host several primary educators in the lab to help them develop teaching materials for their students undergraduate and graduate students will work directly on the research and collaborate with industry partners and ma plans to create a youtube channel on ceramic additive manufacturing ma received his bachelor's degree from tsinghua university in 2010 his master's degree from the university of wisconsin–madison in 2012 and his doctoral degree from the university of california los angeles in 2015 all in mechanical engineering he was a senior mechanical engineer at cymer from 2015-16 before joining texas a&m
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hypersonic weapons are a strategic part of us defense measures and countries worldwide are adopting this technology however hypersonic capabilities arent exclusive to national security efforts there are countless applications for hypersonics within the commercial and defense markets and businesses are rapidly investing in this emerging industry hypersonic weapons and aircraft travel at least five times the speed of sound (or around 3 500 miles per hour) which is roughly los angeles to new york city in less than 45 minutes researchers from texas a&m university and collaborators from across the country are working with the department of defense (dod) to lead the charge in developing innovations in hypersonics technology the joint hypersonic transition office (jhto) [within the dod] has been given the charge from congress to transition hypersonic technologies to systems more effectively and to assure the future workforce is prepared said dr gillian bussey inaugural director of the jhto in the office of the under secretary of defense research and engineering advanced capabilities the university consortium for applied hypersonics (ucah) is designed to help accomplish this both through applied research and activities targeting the development of this unique community ucah is a five-year $100-million program to unite numerous universities labs and industry partners in hypersonics applied research ucah was established at texas a&m in 2020 and is managed by the texas a&m engineering experiment station (tees) under the direction of dr rodney bowersox associate dean for research and regents and ford i professor of aerospace engineering ucah is facilitating applied research from us universities for hypersonic projects sponsored by the dod which includes many industry partners as hypersonics research is complicated and costly these partnerships are key to applied research breakthroughs and equipping a workforce that is still underdeveloped establishing ucah at texas a&m leverages the seasoned program management expertise of tees and the extensive hypersonic research capabilities of our faculty said bowersox a field as broad and complex as hypersonics requires expertise from a variety of areas from materials scientists to aerospace and mechanical engineers to fabricators and mechanics hypersonics brings together different fields and technologies that are usually disparate said dr richard miles professor in the department of aerospace engineering and university distinguished chair at texas a&m and because everything is going so fast it is also interacting which poses challenges with things like heat flow of air and shock waves this incremental method of testing is used at the texas a&m aerospace laboratory for lasers and electromagnetics and optics (allemo) where simulations and computational models are created to predict outcomes in hypersonics conditions this testing pinpoints specific data and is more cost-effective than sending a fully constructed hypersonic craft through hypersonic conditions at texas a&m there is a rich tradition of cross-college collaboration for example the texas a&m university national aerothermochemistry and hypersonics laboratory has been providing an interdisciplinary venue to improve knowledge and control of non-equilibrium gaseous flows and their surface interactions for almost 20 years in this laboratory researchers from aerospace engineering chemistry physics and mechanical engineering work side-by-side to solve challenging problems in hypersonics which provides unique research and educational experiences another texas a&m university system multidisciplinary testing facility currently under construction at the george hw bush combat development complex (bcdc) is the ballistic aero-optics and materials (bam) test range bam will be a large-scale fully enclosed multidisciplinary research and development facility capable of evaluating high-energy laser propagation hypersonic aerothermodynamics and hypervelocity impact response of materials and structures once completed the bam test range will be the largest and most fully instrumented facility of its kind in the united states this facility will provide unique realistic flight test and evaluation opportunities for faculty research scientists and students "the dod and defense industry are highly interested in the unique capabilities the bam test range will provide for both hypersonic ground flight and directed energy testing " said ret major general tim green bcdc director "the bcdc team is proud and excited to have the opportunity to support the texas a&m systems commitment to national security innovation as the bam test range opens and takes its place among the nations critical experimentation and testing facilities" as we develop the workforce essential for the realization of new hypersonic capabilities it is important to understand that this includes the current workforce moving into hypersonic programs the craft force that builds our systems and students who represent the future workforce said dr john schmisseur hap arnold chair and ucah workforce development committee lead from the university of tennessee space institute academia is well-equipped to train all three of these groups but we need to think about how to do it efficiently this motivates us to explore new nontraditional options such as certificate programs and short courses
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since its inception in 2010 the hagler institute for advanced study at texas a&m university has contributed to an increase in texas a&m research funds enriched student experience and expanded visibility of the institution by fostering collaborations between texas a&ms innovative faculty and students with prestigious scholars from around the world these scholars deepen the intellectual climate and enhance texas a&ms multidisciplinary efforts to solve some of the most difficult problems faced by the world today the department of electrical and computer engineering at texas a&m continues to benefit from collaborations with the hagler institute including partnerships with dr robert a calderbank director of the information initiative at duke university and professor of electrical engineering computer science and mathematics; and dr h vincent poor michael henry strater university professor at princeton university dr xi zhang professor in the electrical and computer engineering department at texas a&m and his doctoral student jingqing wang co-authored a paper with poor that received a best paper award at the institute of electrical and electronics engineers (ieee) global communications conference (globecom) in december 2020 ieee globecom is one of the most prestigious ieee communications society flagship conferences dedicated to virtually all research fields of networking communications signal processing information theory etc only less than 037% papers are selected to receive the ieee globecom 2020 best paper award from all papers submitted at this conference this papers research was also supported by mine and dr vincent poors national science foundation (nsf) grants and its success in winning the ieee globecom 2020 best paper award not only represents the top-quality research accomplishments creating impactful technical breakthroughs but also plays crucial roles in significantly improving the qualities of our daily lives based on the imminent 6g and future-generation multimedia mobile wireless networking technologies zhang said zhang was also awarded an nsf grant for his research project which is closely relevant to the collaborative research projects with poor in total zhang has co-authored more than 40 top-notch quality ieee papers with poor since they began collaborating i have been greatly honored to be working with dr poor the world-class leader in mobile wireless networks wang said as a student its been really impactful to have a close-up view and contribute to cutting-edge research by cooperating with poor together we have had a number of research achievements calderbank participated as a hagler fellow from 2015-16 during his tenure he worked alongside several faculty and graduate students on interdisciplinary research in big data since 2010 the hagler institute has brought over 90 world-class scholars to texas a&m the result from this first decade is that more than 20% of fellows who have completed their time in the hagler institute have permanently joined as faculty of texas a&m the hagler institute is one of the only establishments of its kind in the country princeton university has a similar establishment the institute for advanced study that brought albert einstein as a collaborative faculty member these organizations allow universities to collaborate with national academy and nobel-prize caliber researchers that align with the existing strengths and ambitions of the university to enrich the educational experience of students and advance the research productivity of faculty a few prominent hagler fellows include dr ingrid daubechies who is among the worlds most cited mathematicians and is highly regarded for her study of wavelets; dr roy glauber a pioneering theoretical physicist who laid the foundation of quantum optics and received the 2005 nobel prize in physics for this work; dr donna t strickland who was awarded the 2018 nobel prize in physics for developing chirped-pulse amplification used in corrective eye surgery industrial machining and medical imaging; and dr robert kennicutt jr who is one of the most prominent astrophysicists in the world having co-led the team that measured the rate of expansion in the universe the continuing stream of outstanding researchers brought to texas a&m through the hagler institute is changing the cultural climate of the department bringing new joint research and other activities with faculty members and creating and maintaining professional networks within the field of electrical and computer engineering
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dr byul hur assistant professor in the department of engineering technology and industrial distribution at texas a&m university has received a 2022 outstanding young faculty award presented by the gulf-southwest section of the american society for engineering education i am honored to receive this outstanding young faculty award hur said it has strengthened my passion to become a better engineering educator hur joined the electronic systems engineering technology program at the engineering technology and industrial distribution department as a faculty member in 2016 he received doctoral degrees from the university of florida in electrical and computer engineering he has been teaching embedded system courses at the engineering technology and industrial distribution department and conducting research on hardware cybersecurity and custom internet of things embedded system projects
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ammonia is commonly used in fertilizer because it has the highest nitrogen content of commercial fertilizers making it essential for crop production however two carbon dioxide molecules are made for every molecule of ammonia produced contributing to excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere a team from the artie mcferrin department of chemical engineering at texas a&m university consisting of dr abdoulaye djire assistant professor and graduate student denis johnson has furthered a method to produce ammonia through electrochemical processes helping to reduce carbon emissions this research aims to replace the haber-bosch thermochemical process with an electrochemical process that is more sustainable and safer for the environment the researchers recently published their findings in nature scientific reports since the early 1900s the haber-bosch process has been used to produce ammonia this process works by reacting atmospheric nitrogen with hydrogen gas a downside of the haber-bosch process is that it requires high pressure and high temperature leaving a large energy footprint the method also requires hydrogen feedstock which is derived from nonrenewable resources it is not sustainable and has negative implications on the environment expediting the need for new and environmentally friendly processes the researchers have proposed using the electrochemical nitrogen reduction reaction (nrr) to produce ammonia from atmospheric nitrogen and water the benefits of using an electrochemical method include using water to provide protons and the ability to produce ammonia at ambient temperature and pressure this process would potentially require lower amounts of energy and would be less costly and more environmentally friendly than the haber-bosch process the nrr works by using an electrocatalyst for this process to succeed nitrogen must bond to the surface and break apart to produce ammonia in this study the researchers used mxene a titanium nitride as the electrocatalyst what differentiates this catalyst from others is that nitrogen is already in its structure allowing for more efficient ammonia formulation its easier for ammonia to form because the protons can attach to the nitrogen in the structure form the ammonia and then the ammonia will leave out of the structure said johnson a hole is made in the structure that can pull the nitrogen gas in and separate the triple bond the researchers found that using titanium nitride induces a mars-van krevelen mechanism a popular mechanism for hydrocarbon oxidation this mechanism follows a lower energy pathway that would allow for higher ammonia production rates and selectivity because of the nitrogen from the titanium nitride catalyst without modifications to the materials the researchers reached a selectivity of 20% which is the ratio of the desired product formed compared to the undesired product formed their method could potentially reach a higher selectivity percentage with modifications forging a new pathway to ammonia production through electrochemical processes the department of energy has set a goal of a selectivity of 60% which is a challenging number to reach said johnson we were able to reach 20% using our material showcasing a method that we might be able to take advantage of moving forward if we upgrade our material can we reach 60% soon that is the question we will continue to work to answer this research could potentially reduce the carbon footprint and global energy usage on a larger scale in the future this could be a major scientific reform said djire about 2% of the worlds total energy is used for ammonia production reducing that huge number would drastically reduce our carbon footprint and energy consumption this study was funded by the startup research fund other contributors to the publication are eric kelley from the chemical engineering department at texas a&m brock hunter from auburn university and jevaun christie and cullan king from prairie view a&m university
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for much of his career texas a&m university nuclear engineer dr marvin l adams has been considered one of the nations foremost experts on nuclear security outside of the federal government now hes on the inside on april 6 congress confirmed adams appointment by president joe biden to serve as deputy administrator for defense programs within the department of energy adams will oversee federal programs that ensure the safety security and effectiveness of the us nuclear weapons stockpile he will help manage a $16 billion budget in the national nuclear security administration (nnsa) the agency oversees the design maintenance assessment manufacturing and dismantlement of all us nuclear warheads and related programs that develop and maintain all the associated science engineering technology supply chain and manufacturing capabilities adams position is one of four top jobs in the nnsa that requires senate approval i look forward to working with the outstanding nnsa team –– the federal workforce and the workforce at the laboratories plants and sites –– to deliver our unique essential contributions to us national security adams said adams has been the htri professor of nuclear engineering a regents fellow and the director of national laboratories mission support for the texas a&m university system after 30 years of research and teaching at texas a&m service as an advisor for the white house and now a key administrator in the department of energy dr adams remains as humble as the day i met him said dr john e hurtado interim vice chancellor and dean of the college of engineering his expertise and reasoned voice will be a tremendous asset to president bidens national security team our department is extremely grateful of dr adams impactful work and his contributions to our students our college and our society we are very proud of him and wish him well as he embarks to our nations capital to selflessly serve said dr michael nastasi nuclear engineering department head his research has advanced the nations ability to use complex computer algorithms to help assess weapons reliability while explosive nuclear testing is banned as an educator adams has taught generations of engineers including many who have gone on to careers at the three national nuclear security laboratories los alamos national laboratory lawrence livermore national laboratory and sandia national laboratories adams also has served for decades in advisory roles at the nations nuclear labs i am grateful to texas a&m for allowing me to pursue national service opportunities during my three decades here adams said before joining the texas a&m faculty adams was a physicist at lawrence livermore from 1986 to 1992 he received his masters and doctoral degrees in nuclear engineering from the university of michigan and his bachelors degree in nuclear engineering from mississippi state university last fall biden named adams among 30 distinguished americans to serve on the presidents council of advisors on science and technology a group from outside the government that he has to resign from now read more about adams distinguished career
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the texas a&m university college of architecture conducted its debut station zero design competition an interdisciplinary competition that tasks students with designing a net-zero energy (nze) 3d-printed building to serve as a robotics research facility in college station texas carlos mendoza undergraduate student in the department of multidisciplinary engineering took home first place with team members bobby boone and logan rath from the department of architecture an nze building produces as much or more energy than its using this means that the total amount of energy used by the building on an annual basis is equal to or less than the amount of renewable energy created on-site considered one of the key solutions to reducing carbon dioxide emissions and eliminating fossil fuels nze buildings are powered by renewable systems such as solar wind or geothermal as part of the challenge stipulations the building needed to consist of 4 500 square feet and include space for a tabletop 3d-printing area a standard-sized conference room and a flexible activity space with enough room for students to collaborate and interact with mobile robotics most of the mechanical electrical and plumbing systems in commercial buildings run off of nonrenewable energy said mendoza they either have air conditioning chillers or a similar mechanical system with an nze building they encouraged us to veer toward a more environmentally sound route like natural ventilation natural ventilation is the process of pulling fresh air into a building from the outside to expel the stale dirty air from the inside this method of cooling creates airflow by taking advantage of the natural changes in air pressure temperature and density levels inside and outside of the building however south texas infamous humidity introduced an added layer of complexity college station natives know that no matter how much force is behind an afternoons breeze you wont cool down much if the air is heavy with water vapor
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my solution was to implement an energy recovery ventilator said mendoza paired with a packaged air conditioner system it will extract the heat and humidity from the building as well as control the humidity levels inside the building mendozas team also added a cistern for rainwater collection and a skylight positioned north to help scatter the daylight evenly across the building and minimize heat gain the teams final proposal drukfabrik is organized to print in six passes using the competitions designated 3d printer icons vulcan the shell of the building consists of a series of louvered openings and square pyramids capped with glulam timbers the dense foundation makes it easier for the 3d printer to build an elevated pass to print the second-story walls each formal component of the building was carefully constructed to all serve passive functions (such as natural ventilation and the stormwater cistern) that contribute to nze consumption mendoza and his team took home a cash prize of $3 000 for winning first place but he said the competition was also an invaluable experience being given a challenge like this with no restrictions whatsoever is really beneficial said mendoza just being able to apply my knowledge identify the constraints and criteria and create a solution is a great opportunity as a student in the department of multidisciplinary engineering mendoza is pursuing a bachelors degree in architectural engineering following the mechanical building systems track the bachelors in architectural engineering prepares students to effectively design building systems (mechanical electrical lighting fire protection and acoustics) and seamlessly integrate them providing creative solutions to modern and emerging challenges mendoza is able to hand-pick the courses he takes each semester and tailor his degree to suit his career goals of designing mechanical electrical and plumbing systems for commercial buildings the architectural engineering degree is great said mendoza essentially since all of the classes i take are geared towards this one end goal to work with buildings im really happy with the department and how it has been able to help me with design competitions as well as outside jobs
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three-dimensional (3d) printing technology has emerged as one of the most important tools in the ever-evolving space of tissue engineering but 3d printing living tissues referred to as bioprinting presents significant challenges which a team in the department of biomedical engineering at texas a&m university is working to address one challenge in bioprinting is the need for the bioink or the material being printed to solidify quickly after printing to hold the desired shape at the same time ideal bioinks should also be able to print under low shear force so as to not damage living cells that are dispersed within the material this requires very specific properties that are not easy to achieve with traditional bioinks said dr daniel alge one of the researchers on the project and an associate professor in the biomedical engineering department hydrogel microparticle (hmp) bioinks make it easier and significantly expand the toolkit of soft biomaterials that we can use in 3d bioprinting hmps can be used to print soft tissue-like structures because the microparticles can move past one another when pressure is applied but are also sticky enough to hold a 3d shape after being printed as an emerging bioink there are still unanswered questions about printing with hmps since they behave differently from other bioinks that is what the team researched and recently published in a paper about in the journal science advances the project includes several biomedical engineering faculty: alge dr akhilesh gaharwar associate professor and dr abhishek jain assistant professor in their study the team sought to understand factors that affect how hmps are extruded from a syringe and nozzle during printing they specifically studied how the particles jam and then flow through a series of experimental and computational methods the team found the interplay between external resistance from the printing apparatus and the physical properties of the microparticles they also showed there is a tradeoff between factors that affect print fidelity and the viability of cells contained within the bioink bioprinting is an exciting field with enormous potential for meeting the need for transplantable organs and tissues alge said however in order to advance bioprinting from the realm of science fiction to reality we need innovative materials like hmp bioinks ultimately our findings can be used to improve the printability of hmps and facilitate their broader use in 3d bioprinting the team aims to apply their knowledge about how to engineer and bioprint with hmp bioinks to the production of functional tissues their target is a bio-artificial pancreas to treat diabetes a project that the team received an x-grant from the texas a&m president's excellence fund to pursue in type 1 diabetes the body does not produce insulin because pancreatic beta cells are attacked by the immune system the goal is to design a 3d-printed bio-artificial pancreas with a vascularized network to protect encapsulated islets that contain the beta cells
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karen and wayne klotz 74 have established the karen and d wayne klotz 74 environmental endowed fellowship distributions from this endowment will provide one or more fellowships to full-time students pursuing a graduate degree specializing in water resources engineering in the zachry department of civil and environmental engineering at texas a&m university for wayne klotz coming to texas a&m was not only about following in the footsteps of generations before him but it was also his way of ensuring he received the best engineering education possible attending texas a&m provided wayne with an education and experience that he would not have gotten anywhere else my attendance at texas a&m served as a great benefit to my career wayne said first i was rewarded with an excellent engineering education and i continue to believe that my aggie degree is second to none six months after graduating with his bachelors degree wayne decided to enter a masters program while retaining a full-time job starting in a new industry and simultaneously furthering ones education would be tough on anyone but wayne was awarded a fellowship that helped relieve some fiscal stress i was fortunate to receive a water resources fellowship from the american society of civil engineers he said my wife and i want to provide that same cushion to future generations the klotzes are huge proponents of civil and environmental engineering and its ability to improve the quality of life for all through not only infrastructure but also clean water clean water is the one infrastructure system that is essential for life wayne said the need for and limited availability of clean water is a growing challenge both domestically and globally our desire is to support students who will carry forward the innovation and sustainability that will be required to provide water to an ever-increasing population the klotzes want this fellowship to enhance the lives and educations of current and future aggies but they also want to pass on the generosity that was shown to them so many years before this fellowship will allow its recipients to embrace all of the experiences aggieland has to offer the foundation of my aggie experiences served me well in every arena wayne said we believe that supporting the next generation through education is a great way to pass on the legacy that i received
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endowments supporting students in the college have an immeasurable impact on their education if you are interested in supporting the college of engineering and its departments or would like more information on how you can give please contact patrick wilson director of development
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sixteen faculty members from the zachry department of civil and environmental engineering at texas a&m university were recently recognized by the college of engineering for their years of service endowed chairs and professorships and deans awards six faculty were recognized by the texas a&m engineering experiment station (tees) for securing significant research grants of $1 million or morefaculty years of service 20 years dominique lord francisco olivera mark w burris richard s mercier30 years hamn-ching chen chairsstefan hurlebaus 2021 rp gregory 32 endowed chair scott socolofsky 2021 j walter "deak" porter '22 and james w "bud" porter '51 chairprofessorships shankar chellam 2021 ap and florence wiley professorship iii mary beth deisz hueste 2021 truman r jones jr 43 professorship marcelo sanchez 2021 ap and florence wiley professorship ii yunlong zhang 2021 peter c forster 61 professorship dean of engineering excellence awardhuilin gaocollege of engineering excellence award for teaching kuang-an changcollege of engineering excellence award for outstanding contributions zenon medina-cetina instructional faculty teaching award stacey lyleexcellence faculty award amy epps martin tees engineering genesis awards focused communities and people: fundamental research to inform holistic decision-making for historically underrepresented communities impacted by coastal hazards principal investigator: maria koliouco-pis: james kaihatu anand puppala petros sideris siyu yu michelle meyer building health bays and cells aging studyprincipal investigator: stefan hurlebausco-pis: joseph bracci and homero castaneda-lopez
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dr vladislav yakovlev professor in the department of biomedical engineering at texas a&m university is on the verge of breakthrough results in changing how researchers and clinicians image cells yakovlevs current research focuses on advancing techniques and methods for noninvasive optical imaging his more recent work uses quantum imaging in biological systems to achieve a spatial resolution or sensitivity of detection beyond what is possible in classical optics quantum properties of light are being considered for the next generation of computers and communication however with a growing number of quantum applications quantum imaging hasnt been seriously considered in many biological applications yakovlev is demonstrating that quantum imaging could overcome the limitations of current technology this is a total breakthrough he said quantum light allows you to do imaging with less light or to use the same amount of light to substantially improve the signal-to-noise ratio yakovlevs team measures local viscoelastic properties of cells and subcellular structures in their lab using microscopy techniques yakovlev developed over the past years the team demonstrates how they can use quantum imaging to measure mechanical properties of cells and tissues in this case cancer cells without perturbing those cells to allow imaging over an extended period to watch cell development and migration in another application fluorescence lifetime imaging is being used to assess the metabolic rate and the differences in metabolic activities of the cancer cells knowing these factors can help direct treatment options however even with the state-of-the-art instrumentation it is barely feasible to gain this information without affecting cells if you shine too much light on those cancer cells they don't behave properly yakovlev said to get more information you need to send more light you send more light you ultimately damage cells we will be using this newly developed technique using quantum light to remove this limitation yakovlev said his research comes at the right time as the department of energy recently announced a new program to explore quantum effects for imaging plants while his project is still in the beginning stages yakovlev said he is excited to see the work unfold were coming into this at the right time and the right place yakovlev said its amazing that opens up so many possibilities that are yet to be explored
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texas a&m universitys college of engineering takes pride in hiring the highest quality of engineering professionals in academia and industry and with over 40 years of experience dr jn reddy represents the pinnacle of excellence in engineering named one of the worlds top 2% of scientists in a 2021 stanford university survey reddy is a testament to years of advancement in the vast field of engineering q: in your words what does it mean to have excellence in engineering how have you seen this demonstrated a: the quality of being outstanding in what we do is excellence in an academic institution this is measured in terms of the degree to which a teacher succeeds in explaining concepts equipping the student with problem-solving tools and creating and disseminating knowledge that has broader (societal) impact demonstration of excellence in engineering also comes in educating students to become inventors entrepreneurs and leaders; in publishing scientific articles that pave the way for others to extend and implement; and in providing intellectual leadership exemplifying excellence in my case was through education (passionate teaching and authoring textbooks that facilitate learning) and the publication of ideas that allowed other researchers to extend advance and use in the engineering work place q: the j mike walker 66 department of mechanical engineering has strived to consistently deliver excellence in engineering education how has excellence in engineering mechanical engineering specifically evolved over the years a: the college of engineering at texas a&m has come a long way from primarily a teaching school to one of the top public engineering schools in the country we have hired many good faculty members who have their doctoral degrees from top engineering departments in the country in particular the mechanical engineering department at texas a&m is currently at its peak in terms of the reputation and stature the department has some of the most well-known and highly-cited researchers in the world mentoring the next generation of scientists it is hoped that our faculty with their significant educational research contributions with societal impact and professional service that advances the material wellbeing of the society (eg mentoring the first-generation students and underrepresented minorities) will take the department to newer heights q: what do you think the future holds for the mechanical engineering industry a: mechanical engineering is the mother of all engineering disciplines the future of mechanical engineering is bright and mechanical engineering at texas a&m continues to provide a large percentage of engineering graduates from the state to the workforce around the country in my opinion it will continue to be the discipline of choice because of the versatility and variety of jobs for which the graduates are qualified for a long time to come
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dr thomas overbye professor and o'donnell foundation chair iii and dr adam birchfield assistant professor both in the department of electrical and computer engineering at texas a&m university co-authored a new edition of the widely used book titled "power system analysis and design the book which has been in print since 1987 introduces the basic concepts behind today's power systems and presents real-world application tools for students this new edition which was published in december 2021 covers fundamental theory and design techniques providing a blend of theory and practical results "the seventh edition of this book is updated with the latest case studies fresh problems and examples and an entirely new chapter on power system economics and optimization birchfield said we hope these updates will help this book continue to be a great resource for those teaching and learning power engineering" as a junior faculty member birchfield offers a unique perspective that is not often shared in books of this kind prior to his appointment as assistant professor birchfield was a research engineer at the electric power research institute he received his bachelors degree from auburn university in 2014 masters degree in electrical and computer engineering from the university of illinois at urbana-champaign in 2016 and doctoral degree in electrical engineering from texas a&m in 2018 birchfields research is in power system modeling large system transient dynamics applications of synthetic power grid datasets and the resilience of power systems to high-impact low-frequency events
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prior to joining texas a&m in 2017 overbye was a professor at the university of illinois at urbana-champaign he received his bachelors masters and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from the university of wisconsin-madison before starting his academic career he was employed with madison gas and electric company he is the original developer of powerworld simulator and a co-founder of powerworld corporation he was also the recipient of a university of wisconsin-madison college of engineering distinguished achievement award the institute of electrical and electronics engineers power and energy society outstanding power engineering educator award and is a member of the us national academy of engineering overbye has extensive experience in many aspects of electric power systems including participating in or leading numerous large-scale electric grid studies he is also the director of the texas a&m engineering experiment station smart grid center the book includes educational examples of the powerworld simulator and the use of interactive computer simulations to help students understand how engineering concepts are used in actual electric grid analysis and design were delighted to have adam join as an additional author with the seventh edition of the book overbye said he adds great new expertise in this rapidly changing field and i hope he can continue to share his insights with the book readers for many years to come
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in february nearly 500 innovative students from 24 universities around the world participated in the first part of texas a&m university's invent for the planet (iftp) competition a 48-hour design challenge to solve some of the worlds most pressing issues following the first round of the competition seven teams have advanced to the iftp finals where they will travel to college station texas to pitch their impactful designs during a livestream on april 7 at 10:30 am the first-place team will win $5 000 the second-place team will win $3 000 and the third-place team will win $2 000 finalists will also participate in an open showcase to the public on april 6 from 10 am to noon in the zachry engineering education complexs second-floor atrium near starbucks all are invited to visit with the teams learn more about their innovations and ultimately vote for a crowd-favorite team which will receive a $1 000 award
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team aquabox from texas a&m has developed an easy-to-use and affordable solution to help increase food production for developing countries their digitized aquaculture monitoring system will also decrease the number of pesticides and fertilizers used to farm fish and crops tackling food waste team bad apple from texas a&m university at qatar has developed "the good apple " an app designed to track and inventory the user's food supply to minimize food waste it notes the amount of each product the user has provides recipes to use what is available and creates efficient shopping lists bio-thess from the aristotle university of thessaloniki in greece plans to use its adaptation of a circular bioeconomy model to improve quality of life by using organic food waste to create small-scale renewable energy sources like heat and fertilizer new mexico state university's team will also be creating small-scale renewable energy sources their team developed an interactive art installation ecoart to imitate a punching bag that can be hit hugged or pulled to conduct electricity and store it within a battery bank for later use island vision from texas a&m university-corpus christi will be helping visually impaired children with their affordable design hero 10 the prototype uses a line tracking system to guide children along paths to key locations in their environment a joint-university team from brazil made up of students from the universidade federal do rio de janeiro and centros federais de educação tecnológica developed a concept to promote repurposing unused and malfunctioning electronic devices through a system that creates a relationship between donors and recycling companies finally a team from mahidol university in thailand has created a survival capsule for use in multiple disaster scenarios that is equipped with disaster-resilient food energy and water infrastructure this capsule can accommodate up to five people providing safe shelter energy clean water and food packs that last up to three years the public is invited and encouraged to attend the finalist showcase on wednesday april 6 and help choose the crowd favorite the iftp finals will be streamed live on youtube on thursday april 7 from 10:30 am-noon for more information visit our invent for the planet webpage
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faculty from the college of engineering were recently recognized for their achievements during an event on march 29 also recognized during the ceremony were the 2022 faculty investitures and recipients of the texas a&m engineering experiment station's (tees) engineering genesis awards dean of engineering excellence awards assistant professor level sara abedi petroleum engineering theodora chaspari computer science and engineering associate professor level moble benedict aerospace engineering huilin gao civil and environmental engineering professor level david claridge mechanical engineering svetlana sukhishvili materials science and engineering college of engineering excellence award for teaching i yucel akkutlu petroleum engineering gregory chamitoff aerospace engineering kuang-an chang civil and environmental engineering college of engineering excellence award for service debjyoti banerjee mechanical engineering hamid r parsaei industrial and systems engineering narasimha reddy electrical and computer engineering victor ugaz chemical engineering college of engineering excellence awards for outstanding contributions james caverlee computer science and engineering zenon medina-cetina civil and environmental engineering vladislav yakovlev biomedical engineering instructional faculty teaching award dale cope mechanical engineering rené d elms engineering academic and student affairs stacey lyle civil and environmental engineering excellence faculty awards amy epps martin civil and environmental engineering michael demkowicz materials science and engineering tees faculty fellow awards emily pentzer materials science and engineering jean c ragusa nuclear engineering shiren wang industrial and systems engineering tees young faculty fellow awards theodora chaspari computer science and engineering abhishek jain biomedical engineering matt pharr mechanical engineering kelvin xie materials science and engineering tees research impact award moble benedict aerospace engineering association of former students distinguished achievement award dilma da silva computer science and engineering angie hill price engineering technology and industrial distribution karen kirkland nuclear engineering scott miller electrical and computer engineering
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dr stratos pistikopoulos professor in the artie mcferrin department of chemical engineering at texas a&m university comes from a long and decorated history in academia pistikopoulos received the 2022 distinguished achievement award for his research efforts the first award he has earned as an aggie the association of former students presents the award to provide funds and recognize outstanding efforts in teaching research individual student relationships continuing education/extension graduate mentoring staff and administration the award is one of the highest university honors bestowed upon a faculty or staff member and pistikopoulos was one of only 24 selected throughout the university my first award with texas a&m is special because it is from my colleagues and we are in a very competitive demanding environment said pistikopoulos the award signifies that i have helped shape young minds primarily by guiding our doctoral students and post-doctoral associates i am very grateful to receive this honor pistikopoulos pursued his undergraduate degree in greece before receiving his doctoral degree from carnegie melon university he later worked for shell chemical in amsterdam before becoming a professor at imperial college london he began working for texas a&m seven years ago and is currently the texas a&m energy institute director and holds the dow chemical chair in the chemical engineering department in addition he is an affiliate member of the department of multidisciplinary engineering pistikopoulos research focuses on optimizing chemical engineering through artificial intelligence computation and applied mathematics rather than through experimentation which can be costly the computational tools his team developed can solve complex problems through analysis and simulations their software can be used in various fields from oil and gas to energy and manufacturing supply chains a key component of our research is focused on developing computer-based tools for risk management and analysis of energy transition scenarios he said companies need to determine an optimal mix of energy solutions for the future our modeling environment presents alternatives that we analyze systematically to help companies make informed energy business decisions pistikopoulos hopes to use his research ventures and career in academia to lead the way toward cleaner energy solutions i think we have an opportunity through various entities at texas a&m to be a protagonist in the energy sector as it transitions in the future he said texas controls almost over 40% of the united states energy space which provides the university a chance to shape the future of energy in the state and nationwide pistikopoulos has produced over 350 journal publications and over 250 referred conference publications he has also co-authored 15 books these resources have been cited more than 24 000 times according to google scholar his extensive work with doctoral and post-doctoral students significantly contributed to earning this award he has helped 64 doctoral students graduate throughout his career 14 of whom are from texas a&m as well as 20 post-doctorate associates six of whom are from texas a&m in addition 16 former doctoral students and nine former post-doctorates became professors including three from texas a&m they now teach at the university of wisconsin-madison the university of connecticut and west virginia university the award was formally presented to pistikopoulos on april 25
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dr jiang hu professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at texas a&m university is working to revitalize electronic design automation (eda) technology with machine-learning techniques to keep pace with the ever-growing chip design complexity eda is a category of software tools used to design electronic systems such as integrated circuits nowadays chip complexity is extremely high and is continuing to advance at a very fast rate current techniques used for eda are limited in that they don't offer the capability of knowledge reuse another limitation is that chip design has many complicated steps and conventional electronic design automation techniques are centered on point solutions that aim to address a single task at a time alternatively machine learning incorporates past designs and allows for updates and modifications based on those known experiences rather than starting from point-a each time much like the human brain machine learning can build upon experiences and integrate what is learned or gathered to make progress machine learning is quite different from the conventional techniques in the sense that the conventional techniques do everything from scratch while machine learning has the capability to extract knowledge from prior designs and reuse the knowledge which is much more efficient hu said hu is leading a collaborative team of four faculty members from two universities with individual expertise and experience that equips them to address the changing landscape and needs of eda technology this project which is funded by a $12 million national science foundation grant aims to customize existing machine-learning techniques for the most efficient use in chip designs to help design faster and more power-efficient chips with a quicker turnaround than is currently possible
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collaborators include dr yiran chen professor from duke university michael quinn associate professor of practice and dr aakash tyagi professor of practice both from the department of computer science and engineering at texas a&m chen is an expert in machine learning while quinn and tyagi have a collective five decades of industry experience in chip design and verification hu began studying the integration of machine learning into eda four years ago and was drawn to the field due to its impact across many disciplines and industries if you look at the progress of chip design technology and electronic design automation in the past several decades there have been mostly small steps you know but this is something big; it is fundamental hu said machine learning can cover the areas that conventional electronic design automation is simply not able to handle as part of this project hu and his team are also bringing in students including women and under-represented minorities with interdisciplinary skills to learn and gain valuable experience in this area of study
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charlie stegemoeller 85 has participated in significant change in the wm michael barnes 64 department of industrial and systems engineering and the space industry throughout his career both professionally and academically his success has stemmed from his time spent in the department at texas a&m university stegemoeller first chose to pursue electrical engineering but switched to industrial engineering in his sophomore year i understood business and became interested in industrial engineering as the curriculum enabled me to learn the business of engineering stegemoeller said the spectrum of coursework provided me insights into the different skills required to create successful systems across a diverse range of scale and impact after graduation he took a job with nasas johnson space center where he started as a technical analyst performing program performance assessments of the space shuttle program he credits his success in this role to the range of subjects he studied in industrial engineering from business to engineering and systems performance i built upon this core knowledge with each of my successive roles space station space shuttle human research advanced technology research and development and developing mission systems for human exploration of the moon and mars stegemoeller said another highlight for him was leading a team to integrate us research hardware and payloads on board the russian mir orbital space station this effort was key to the us diplomatic efforts to engage the former soviet union adversaries into a peaceful alliance of engagement in space flight stegemoeller said the efforts with the mir laid the groundwork for the successful development deployment and operations of the international space station continuously crewed since october 2000 stegemoeller now works as senior director for business development at the science applications international corporation in houston like many aggies stegemoeller soon sought ways to give back to the department that helped jumpstart his career he joined the departments advisory council in 2008 and said he has seen significant growth and development across the department in the last 14 years to the credit of the department leadership they have sought out a spectrum of insights and perspectives to evaluate and adjust the plans in motion to make this department of great value to the students the university and to the industries that need these skills he said stegemoeller also offered this advice to students: lean forward toward your future by learning as much as you can in every dimension during your college experience you cannot predict which experience along your journey may become a key to your next step
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i grew up using my hands a lot restoring tractors small engines everything like that so i dont mind getting dirty i understand hard work said blake ropers 23 while he might sound like a mechanic in the making ropers will graduate in december 2023 as a petroleum engineer he fully admits that he pigeonholed himself by only applying to texas a&m university and only thinking of petroleum engineering when choosing a major however this young man had a plan in mind even if coming to college station texas was a challenge you come from high school being at the very top and then you come into college as a freshman and youre right at the bottom again said ropers as a freshman the first thing he did was join the texas a&m student chapter of the society of petroleum engineers (tamu-spe) a family member from the class of 86 told him about the organization and ropers decided he should learn from students while he learned from faculty at first it was intimidating dealing with upperclassmen ropers said but as soon as i joined i started as a co-chair for the tailgating committee ive been involved in tamu-spe ever since co-chairing a committee was a great way to learn the ropes and make friends the position also allowed him to meet chapter officers and make mentor connections ropers work ethic impressed them as did his belief that its worth talking to and learning from everyone one of his mentors who had just interned with a drilling company recommended ropers for an internship position the company agreed but covid-19 restrictions put the plans on hold ropers worked the summer after his first year in college restoring machinery instead but he didnt forget the kindness of that recommendation i think petroleum attracts a certain person ropers said and maybe thats the difference between what petroleum engineering encompasses and what i feel most other majors are ropers explained that petroleum is not like other engineering disciplines which are right in front of you in terms of being able to see something instead a petroleum engineering student must fully understand math science and physics because the field involves extremely thorough guesswork working with out-of-sight situations deep underground means all petroleum engineers share the challenge of getting good results through intangible means that shared challenge forges soft critical skills in problem-solving communication and teamwork everyone understands networking and handing out business cards but you build relationships through being kind to someone said ropers from there you can express your technical knowledge and be successful through that the summer after his sophomore year ropers worked for the drilling company that promised to hire him as an intern yet he made a successful but unintended connection before that summer which landed him a double internship at a tamu-spe lunch-and-learn event he thanked the speaker who came to teach students more about the oilfield service industry the representative was impressed with ropers questions and kindness and asked for a resume later he made a job offer ropers explained he had a prior commitment to working two weeks on and two weeks off on an oil rig since the rig was only two hours down the road the service company had ropers work his free weeks with them currently im a mentor for a sophomore and i can happily say i was able to recommend him for an internship through that experience and hes happily accepted said ropers that means a lot to me both my jobs came through tamu-spe and i was able to help someone else ropers said his field of choice would be a drilling engineer despite doing an internship where he worked over 12 hours a day on a rig for 14 days at a time the tough experience helped him understand the hard labor needed in drilling and the skills used by teams of people succeeding together a drilling engineer is the one covered in oil-based mud at the end of the day roper explained theyre out there and they want to be a part of the team i can connect very well with people out there i respect them and i feel i could do a good job keeping everyone safe and be extremely productive while being out there ropers increased his personal productivity this spring semester by working many of his weekends as a pumper for fields in north bryan texas he was responsible for up to 18 wells at a time and the duties ranged from gaging oil and water tanks to maintaining pump jacks to adjusting wellheads he said his education in the harold vance department of petroleum engineering has been fantastic and he takes advantage of every opportunity to ask questions especially from the professors of practice ropers counts the times they share practical advice from working offshore drilling rigs starting or managing companies and relating with others in a global industry as the most valuable of his lessons this is the knowledge he knows he needs to work better and smarter with people no matter where he ends up i come from tomball which does have different cultures but you dont get exposed to much ropers said other languages other cultures other people theyre fantastic seeing different things is so exciting this kind of engineering will let me see the world while im young branch out and learn as much as possible
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twelve members of the j mike walker '66 department of mechanical engineering were honored at the department's 2022 awards and recognition banquet the recipients included four staff members six faculty one graduate student and one post-doctoral research associate in addition to the award recipients the department also celebrated the induction of three former students to its academy of distinguished graduates melbern glasscock '59 af (tony) pelletier '75 and steve brauer jr '02 were all in attendance to accept the honor award recipients the awards and their recipients are as follows: james j cain '51 graduate student teaching award abheek chatterjee graduate teaching assistant j mike walker '66 research staff/postdoctoral award dr jing yang tees senior research engineer peggy l & charles brittan '65 outstanding undergraduate teaching award dr joanna tsenn instructional assistant professor james j cain '51 faculty graduate teaching award dr waruna kulatilaka professor and morris e foster faculty fellow i american society of mechanical engineers best teacher award dr ploy charoenphol instructional assistant professor mechanical engineering industry advisory council outstanding undergraduate teaching award dr shoufeng lan assistant professor mechanical engineering industry advisory council faculty contributions award dr sivakumar rathinam professor mechanical engineering industry advisory council faculty mentoring award dr daniel a mcadams professor and robert h fletcher professor james j cain '51 staff excellence award regina muir academic advisor ii megan simison program specialist ii j mike walker '66 staff excellence award sandra havens senior academic advisor sharli nucker administrator i
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current methods of defending critical energy infrastructure from multi-stage cyber-physical threats remain largely dependent upon human intervention and compartmentalized monitoring with an emphasis on prevention but how can electric power utilities quickly and effectively respond to anomalous cyber and physical events as early as possible dr katherine davis assistant professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at texas a&m university and her research team are utilizing cyber and physical information alongside models with artificial intelligence to provide a solution that helps energy management systems protect themselves with semi-automated real-time data analysis as part of a new project funded through the office of cybersecurity energy security and emergency response in the us department of energy (doe) davis will lead the team in developing a scalable physics-informed and artificial intelligence-enabled cyber-physical intrusion response solution for electric power utilities the project will focus on identifying techniques and scalable working prototypes with the goal of achieving coordinated cyber-physical response of both cyber and physical controls together through hybrid model-based and data-based visibility of events in a secure and reliable testing environment the connections between cyber and physical assets are growing bringing greater risk to both network and physical infrastructure security with expertise in power systems machine learning software development and cybersecurity the multidisciplinary team will develop test and pilot a solution grounded in the real-world utility environment to provide a practical solution for utility companies in response to cyber-physical intrusions one of the key focus areas of this doe-funded project is scalability which emphasizes the importance of translating the algorithms into viable practice and supporting sustainability of the new technology through strategic workforce training and outreach efforts prior to joining texas a&m davis worked for a private entity within the power system industry she values the opportunity to develop a solution that positions energy delivery system providers with trusted capabilities in supporting resiliency through a multi-stage response strategy our research is driven by real industry needs and practice based on the expressed needs of utility service providers in texas and across the nation said davis using our research facilities to create models to serve these providers is the launching pad for developing a solution that offers preventive and reactive measures against cyber-physical intrusion this research builds upon another federally funded project led by davis already underway cyber physical resilient energy systems (cypres) which focuses on the integrated principles of a secure end-to-end system to provide a modeling foundation at the core of next-generation energy management the intrusion response project takes the data and findings from power systems analyzed through cypres to develop an algorithm that can be tested verified and trusted by utility providers as a safeguard to provide and maintain reliable energy distribution to their customer base in its simplest form it is about keeping the lights on powering homes and protecting the cyber-physical infrastructure that enables that process most areas of research place emphasis on protecting and maintaining a power grid system from the perspective of prevention said davis our hope is that these preventive measures are successful but we recognize that sometimes they are not this project leads the development of a multi-stage cyber-physical response mechanism as a critical component of protecting the power system from adversaries at any stage of an incident the importance of this research was recently demonstrated with the colonial pipeline ransomware incident that occurred in may 2021 from just one compromised password the multi-stage intrusion successfully breached the pipelines it system encrypting data and ultimately disrupting the entire us east coasts access to refined oil used primarily for gasoline jet fuel and home heating oil the ramifications of this successful breach were far-reaching and caused a forced proactive shutdown of the pipeline delayed and canceled flights financial investment in external cybersecurity experts and six days of uncertainty for consumers using the resilient energy systems lab a testbed that her group designed and developed within the texas a&m engineering experiment stations smart grid center researchers can replicate past scenarios while deploying new technology at different stages of the intrusion this offers an important tool for developing training courses simultaneously curriculum for short courses workshops and continuing education with structured learning outcomes will be developed through the texas a&m engineering extension services cyber readiness center dr ana goulart associate professor in the department of engineering technology and industrial distribution at texas a&m serves as the co-principal investigator for the three-year $27 million project additional academic and industry collaborators include dr saman zonouz associate professor in electrical and computer engineering at rutgers university; drs rakesh bobba and sibin mohan associate professors in electrical engineering and computer science at oregon state university; dr robin berthier network perception; john camilleri psc consulting; tim simmons tdi; and hala ballouz electric power engineers utility stakeholders include seattle city light bryan texas utilities and the public utilities commission of texas
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julie and david hart 82 recently established the julie and david hart 82 endowed scholarship distributions from this endowment will be used to provide one or more scholarships to first-generation students in good standing who are pursuing an undergraduate degree in architectural engineering in the texas a&m university college of engineering david grew up in college station texas while both of his parents worked for texas a&m his father royce hart 60 worked in the agriculture field and his mother jeanne hart worked extensively for the texas a&m foundation she would often share stories of successful former students coming into the development office to give generously to texas a&m david said texas a&m was davids dream university from a young age he was proud of the aggie roots that had woven their way deep into his heart through family friends and colleagues who sported maroon as an aspiring engineer it only made sense for him to earn his civil engineering degree right in his hometown david began his professional career as a structural engineer hired by former student lawrence white 47 his mentorship was influential at an early time in his career lawrence and his wife were big supporters of texas a&m and there is a president's endowed scholarship in their name david said throughout his career he continued to work alongside many more aggies including three of his current business partners david also had the opportunity to interview and hire many texas a&m graduates when recruiting college graduates over the years for our company i was aware of the architectural engineering programs at other schools and often wished a&m had one he said in the fall of 2019 texas a&m introduced a bachelor of science in architectural engineering david was thrilled with the news and established the endowed scholarship to be set aside specifically for students pursuing their degree in architectural engineering i am hoping it will be an encouragement for more young people choosing engineering as a profession david said the university has given me a lot over the years and i have been blessed it has always been my dream to give back in some way the scholarship that david and julie have generously created has also been established with selection preferences for first-generation students i have become aware of first-generation students unique challenges and wanted to do my part to support these young people david said david is a principle at hart gaugler + associates a structural and civil engineering consulting firm in dallas for over 20 years they have partnered with clients across the united states and puerto rico as a vital member of the leadership team david embodies texas a&ms core values by ensuring that the company maintains a culture of accountability creativity integrity and trust
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endowments supporting students in the texas a&m university college of engineering have an immeasurable impact on their education if you are interested in supporting the college of engineering and its departments or would like more information on how you can give please contact true brown director of development
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dr chanan singh was recently honored by the institute of electrical and electronics engineers (ieee) power and energy society (pes) with the 2022 lifetime achievement award for his contributions to the education research and industrial adoption of reliability theory and practice in large power systems this award recognizes exceptional power engineers for outstanding career-long contributions to the art and science of electric power engineering singh regents professor irma runyon chair professor and university distinguished professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at texas a&m university will be formally presented with this award at the ieee pes general meeting awards gala dinner and ceremony in july i find this a moment to reflect and appreciate all those who have contributed to whatever i have achieved my students my colleagues the institution and our alumni and my family singh said for me work has been my play and i have enjoyed it all along singhs research interests lie in the areas of reliability and security of electric power systems theory and applications of system reliability integration of renewable energy sources and the reliability of cyberphysical systems he was named a 2020 foreign fellow of the indian national academy of engineering a 2020 foreign fellow of the chinese society for electrical engineering and is a member of the national academy of engineering and the academy of medicine engineering and science of texas
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david rice recently established the david n rice '92 first-generation endowed scholarship distributions from this endowment will be used to provide one or more scholarships to full-time first-generation college students who are pursuing an undergraduate degree in the department of computer science and engineering at texas a&m university graduating with a computer science and engineering degree from texas a&m did not come easy for rice as a first-generation college student he was the first in his family to navigate the challenges of secondary education and he wasnt aware of the financial assistance resources available to him he often worked as many as three jobs at a time to afford living and tuition expenses though the curriculum required extensive effort rice was motivated by his parents work ethic and their encouragement for him to pursue his dreams at the collegiate level with this support system and internal drive rice graduated with a degree in computer science and stepped into a successful career that has brought him around the globe when rice received his degree computer science was a relatively new field but his educational background prepared him for success texas a&m was ahead of the technology curve at the time rice said it has been repetitively beneficial that texas a&m has been recognized across the world as a venerable institution i have in large part my career because of this school for that i am grateful rice has established this scholarship to promote the success of first-generation students it is my hope that future aggies will be better able to enjoy the aggie experience without undue economic stress overshadowing their journey rice said i would like to help provide the unique and valuable opportunity for future aggies to attend a world-recognized institution
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endowments supporting students in the texas a&m university college of engineering have an immeasurable impact on their education if you are interested in supporting the college of engineering and its departments or would like more information on how you can give please contact true brown senior director of development
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a team of undergraduate students from the department of materials science and engineering at texas a&m university won first place for the best project video one of the five award categories in the steel founders society of america (sfsa) annual cast in steel 2022 competition held in columbus ohio the students also earned second place in the best technical report and third place in the grand prize categories this years competition featured over 40 teams from universities across north america according to the sfsas website the competition challenged the students to creatively design and produce a functioning version of a celtic leaf sword using modern casting tools apart from creating the actual sword the competition required a technical report and a project video documenting the design and manufacturing processthe team included kenna ashen (team lead) esteban nava bryce miller hadyn kroen and james gonzales together they created a unique design based on archeological finds and their own hand-drawn celtic imagery with a lord of the rings theme the sword was modeled in solidworks allowing team members to collaborate with their sponsors to fine-tune the design and prepare the model for casting the swords were then 3d-printed in a polymethyl methacrylate polymer and attached to wax molds for investment casting a method in which a wax mold is coated in a hard ceramic shell and then burned out so that molten metal can be poured in its place finally the students burned the finished sword onto an oak handle and added a decorative glass jewel for the eye of sauron in the center of the pommelwe really enjoyed the entire process from designing the sword prepping the wax molds watching the metal-pouring process to grinding and sandblasting said ashen filming the project video was a blast we dressed up in medieval garb and filmed a variety of tests for the sword all as if filming an infomercial we actually had a few people drive past and stop to watch us we then added technical information and some cool videos of us actually making the swordthe team worked with texas precision metalcraft pyrology foundry and studio and voxeljet it also received partial financial support from nucor steels dr ankit srivastava associate professor in the department of materials science and engineering advised the team "it is always exhilarating to see students put their passion and classroom knowledge to work and succeed " said srivastava
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dr edwin l thomas professor in the department of materials science and engineering a team of researchers from texas a&m university and yonsei university recently discovered a helicoidal-shaped defect in layered polymers uncovering how solvents can rapidly diffuse through layers and produce color changes this research was recently published in science advances in some human-interactive electronics such as temperature gauges or health sensors polymers are used that are capable of changing color depending on stimuli this phenomenon is referred to as stimuli-interactive structural colors because the material reacts and changes color due to environmental changes such as temperature the presence of a solvent or solution a material that has a one-dimensional periodic structure comprised of two (a and b) layers acts like a photonic crystal and can reflect light of a given wavelength (color) depending on the thickness of each layer stimuli-interactive structural color works by altering photonic crystals using external stimuli or forces the thickness of each polymer layer affects the color of the light reflected: if all the layers in a material are of the same thickness a single color will be reflected if different parts of the material are composed of stacks of layers each having a different thickness each layer will reflect a different color and the material will appear like a normal metal material reflecting all colors in some cases a preferential solvent is used to swell one of the particular polymer layers purposefully causing color changes the researchers noticed that the expected layers were swelling in these materials however it was unclear how the solvent was seeping/crossing through layers that did not swell to those that were supposed to swell lets say we put a solvent over multiple polymer a and b layers said thomas the first a layer swells the b layer doesnt swell but the next layer a will how does the solvent get through the second b layer we realized there must be something in the overall polymer structure that allows the passage of solvent to the other layers" to understand what was occurring within the polymers the researchers used an electron beam imaging to develop a tomogram a reconstruction technique that takes very thin two-dimensional images of sections of 3d objects to uncover what is inside suppose you had a loaf of bread and you wanted to know if there was a hole somewhere within the loaf said thomas if you sliced it thin youd eventually hit the hole you keep slicing and then the hole would disappear if you looked at all the slices you could understand exactly where the holes are this process is similar to the idea of a tomograph using this method the researchers found that within the polymer photonic crystal material helicoidal screw dislocations (defects) were present allowing the solvent to easily and rapidly cross through to different layers causing the swelling and producing the stimuli-interactive structural color changes typically defects are associated with high energy and are singular (abruptly disrupting the periodicity occurring in one location) in contrast the helicoidal defects are nonsingular and spontaneously formed an advantage for the materials this is a good kind of defect that helps properties and allows swift and efficient penetration into the material with solvent and rapid swelling if these things didnt exist the only way the layers could sweat would be from the edges said thomas because stimuli-interactive structural color presents an excellent potential for devices such as health sensors and human-interactive electronics controlling the lateral spacing or amount of helicoidal defects could be a critical factor in future applications these defects currently produce a favorable effect but it depends on the application he said our next challenge is deciphering how to control the spacing and amount of these defects and in turn having more control over the time it takes for the fluid to move through the layers understanding these defects is key for increasing the number of applications this technology can be used in the hagler institute fellowship supported the research completed on this project at texas a&m
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texas a&m university and tarrant county college have launched the texas a&m engineering academy at tarrant county college and will enroll the first cohort of students in fall 2022 the program will accept applications for the fall through july 31 the innovative co-enrollment partnership was developed to address the states growing need for engineers qualified students will be admitted to the texas a&m college of engineering complete the first two years of coursework at tarrant county college and finish their engineering degrees in college station texas we are pleased to offer students in fort worth a unique pathway toward a first-rate degree from an engineering college ranked among the top 10 in the world said texas a&m university system chancellor john sharp our goal is to attract the very best students to texas a&m engineering even if circumstances require them to stay close to home for the first part of their college career the texas a&m engineering academy at tarrant county college allows students to pursue one of 22 majors within the college of engineering at texas a&m the engineering academy program is the first engineering transition program of its kind in the country said dr john e hurtado interim vice chancellor and dean of engineering at texas a&m students benefit by saving money while still receiving a world-class education that prepares them for a high-demand career we welcome these students as proud aggies from day one by offering opportunities like the engineering academies texas a&m is able to better serve texans students will save an estimated $4 200 in tuition and fees each semester they are enrolled in an engineering academy before transitioning to the texas a&m campus this partnership is an innovative solution to addressing the need for more high-quality engineers in texas said tarrant county college acting chancellor elva leblanc under this partnership students in tarrant county will have an affordable pathway to a four-year engineering degree at texas a&m university tarrant county college is committed to providing pathways for students that help them to achieve their educational goals in texas the projected need for engineers in the workforce is 51 000 by 2028 to meet this need universities and two-year colleges must work together to bridge the gap and attract and retain students who are interested in stem fields students in the engineering academy enroll in math science and core curriculum courses through tarrant county college and have the unique opportunity to enroll in engineering courses taught by texas a&m faculty on the tarrant county college campus this newest engineering academy in tarrant county is part of a broader vision of the texas a&m university systems board of regents and chancellor john sharp a&m system leaders have been working with north texas elected officials to create aggieland north which will help strengthen the areas employment base and bring a top-tier research university to the area the members of the board of regents are expected to take a major step in the creation of aggieland north at the upcoming board meeting they will consider adding two facilities – the texas a&m system research and innovation center and education alliance building – to the systems capital plan visit our engineering academy program webpage for more information including how to apply
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phillips 66 ceo and texas a&m university former student greg garland 80 returned to aggieland on april 13 to speak about his journey from first-generation aggie engineer to becoming the ceo of a multinational energy company garland had the student audience chuckling multiple times during the evening remarks he shared his struggles triumphs and humorous situations each story ended with an impactful lesson that shaped his successful career i think both of my parents instilled in me the requirement to go to college garland said theyd say ‘i cant tell you what to do or who to be but i can tell you it is really important that you go to a good school garland was not sure what to major in or what he would be when he was older but he decided to begin his college career as a zoology major that was until he and his friend had a conversation in texas a&ms aston hall while studying for a test he looked at me and said ‘what are you going to do with that i told him ‘just get a degree said garland the next morning i went and changed my major to chemical engineering this was only the beginning of his engineering career and with very little knowledge of where he would end up garland only ever continued to work hard despite the adversities he faced and uncertainties he felt from the unexpected opportunities that came his way one thing i encourage you to do when you move from texas a&m is to look for things that will open your aperture because it will cause you to consider things that you may have not known existed said garland mid-career he was offered the opportunity to go to qatar to run a billion-dollar project he said he never had the desire to live internationally but after being told he would not have a job if he didnt go garland and his wife made their way to qatar i got off the plane it was 110 degrees and the culture hits you in the face says garland it was an absolutely awesome and incredible experience because i worked with the energy minister moved sand dunes built a billion-dollar facility and borrowed all the money to do it which had never been done before in the history of the chemicals business garland said it was an incredible opportunity and if he had not done it he wouldnt have been there that night talking to the students as the ceo of phillips 66 one of the things i want you to understand is that there are going to be points and times in your career where people are going to ask you to do things that are outside of your comfort zone but do them said garland because thats where you learn most of the jobs i had including this one i was not prepared for but i figured it out the stories of the highs and lows throughout his career that garland told the audience only proved that overcoming adversity makes one stronger in the long run opportunities are going to come your way and you are not always going to feel like you are totally prepared for them says garland take those opportunities and do the best that you can because i have got good news for you you only fail if you quit garland will be stepping down during the summer after being the ceo of phillips 66 for 10 years and will become executive chairman until his retirement in 2024
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a team from the artie mcferrin department of chemical engineering at texas a&m university led by associate professor dr zachary gagnon and graduate student md nazibul islam has developed a novel way to fabricate diagnostic devices using paper-based microfluidics that can be rapidly prototyped and scaled for manufacturing their research was recently featured on the cover of analyst the field of microfluidics details the movement of liquids through minuscule channels and how this movement can be controlled for use in technological applications examples of these microfluidic systems include diagnostic devices such as tests for pregnancy and covid-19 these systems contain both a pump and a chip where the pump moves liquid into tiny channels on the chip where liquid flows eventually encountering the diagnostic reagent a substance that chemically reacts with antibodies or agents that initiate an identifiable chemical reaction for example a saliva or mucus sample is provided when taking a covid-19 polymerase chain reaction (pcr) test the liquid is carried through channels on the chip to microwells where viral ribonucleic acid (rna) is first converted to dna then amplified in the presence of the sars-covid-2 virus pcr reagents initiate the above steps to detect covid-19 despite being used for various applications research and development for microfluidic devices combined with their use of plastics makes prototyping and scaling these devices extremely costly a single run of a prototype pregnancy test on a small scale can be a six-figure investment making it nearly impossible for consumer-based microfluidics products to enter the market said gagnon academic labs and researchers are publishing papers but cannot commercialize our motivation is finding a way to democratize rapid prototyping platforms so that researchers can commercialize their microfluidic product to address this problem the researchers turned to paper-based microfluidics paper-based microfluidics is not a new idea its previous uses in diagnostic devices are powered by liquid wicking a process where a liquid can flow due to specific geometries of the chambers without external forces common examples of wicking-based paper devices are pregnancy tests and at-home covid antibody/antigen tests while passive fluid handling has helped develop several diagnostic tests the lack of active fluid control and the resulting variability in capillary transport due to surface evaporation is a major technical limitation for paper-based microfluidic devices in contrast the researchers paper microfluidic devices function similarly to traditional plastic microfluidic devices their method allows the researchers to fabricate diagnostic devices using laminated paper to guide porous microfluidic continuous flows using external pressure sources such as pumps in other words laminated paper can direct fluid through porous paper structures with high accuracy and precision and can be used in complex fluid handling systems such as pcr and dna sequencing machines our study showed that we could create diagnostic devices that would normally require precise cleanroom fabrication out of paper that we laminated in our lab and essentially see the same type of flow behavior said gagnon their paper-based diagnostic devices require minimal equipment can be quickly prototyped and are scaled for manufacturing purposes at a fraction of the cost of traditional microfluidic devices making an accessible and inexpensive pathway for microfluidic operations the porous nature of paper offers several advantages because it allows for continuous fluid flow broadening the span of applications for paper microfluidic devices for example islam used this fabrication technique to investigate different applications of paper microfluidics such as studying the elasticity of red blood cells or concentrating dna another graduate student from the chemical engineering department jarad yost has used this technology to perform dna amplification using a paper microfluidic device eliminating the need for large and bulky lab equipment the research offers a potential substitute for traditional microfluidic devices said gagnon we have shown theres enough overlap between paper-based microfluidic designs and traditional designs providing the opportunity for others in microfluidics to commercialize their products this research was funded by nasas early career faculty award and the national science foundations i-corps grant
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the advent of blockchains has ignited much excitement not only for their realization of novel financial instruments but also for offering alternative solutions to classical problems in fault-tolerant distributed computing and cryptographic protocols blockchains are managed and built by miners and are used in various settings the best known being a distributed ledger that keeps a record of all transactions between users in cryptocurrency systems such as bitcoin underlying many such protocols is a primitive known as a "proof of work" (pow) which for over 20 years has been liberally applied in cryptography and security literature to a variety of settings including spam mitigation sybil attacks and denial-of-service protection its role in the design of blockchain protocols however is arguably its most impactful application as miners receive new transactions the data are entered into a new block but a pow must be solved to add new blocks to the chain pow is an algorithm used to validate bitcoin transactions it is generated by bitcoin miners competing to create new bitcoin by being the first to solve a complex mathematical puzzle which requires very expensive computers and a lot of electricity once a miner finds a solution to a puzzle they broadcast the block to the network so that other miners can verify that it's correct miners who succeed are then given a fixed amount of bitcoin as a reward however despite the evolution of our understanding of the pow primitive pinning down the exact properties sufficient to prove the security of bitcoin and related protocols has been elusive in fact all existing instances of the primitive have relied on idealized assumptions a team led by dr juan garay has identified and proven the concrete properties either number-theoretic or pertaining to hash functions they were then used to construct blockchain protocols that are secure and safe to use with their new algorithms the researchers demonstrated that such pows can thwart adversaries and environments collectively owning less than half of the computational power in the network garay's early work on cryptography in blockchain was first published in the proceedings of eurocrypt 2015 a top venue for the dissemination of cryptography research the techniques underlying pows transcend the blockchain context they can in fact be applied to other important problems in the area of cryptographic protocols thus circumventing well-known impossibility results a new paradigm that garay calls "resource-restricted cryptography" "it's a new way of thinking about cryptography in the sense that things do not have to be extremely difficult only moderately difficult " said garay "and then you can still do meaningful things like blockchains cryptocurrencies are just one example my work in general is understanding this landscape and coming up with the mathematics that explain it and make it work"
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texas a&m university researchers dr sam noynaert and fred dupriest recently presented results from a geothermal project that drastically reduced well-completion times and drill bit changeouts to an audience of mostly petroleum drillers the department of energy (doe) funded the project which improves geothermal drilling practices with physics-based instruction and oil and gas techniques to lower the high cost of drilling geothermal wells the time and equipment saved suggests the oil industry should take note how you use a technology is usually more important than what technology you use said dupriest it's not just the geothermal industry that benefits from this the petroleum industry could have an enormous opportunity here dupriest and noynaert professors of practice in the harold vance department of petroleum engineering presented their results in march during the international association of drilling contractors and the society of petroleum engineers conference and exhibition both geothermal and oil industry drillers have access to the same equipment and face similar challenges the difference is that petroleum wells are drilled in vast numbers compared to geothermal wells so those companies have more experience cutting costs and drilling times yet oil companies often lack time to question unusual bit wear or understand all the fundamentals behind drilling processes so problems are usually met with quick fixes based on guesswork the doe project proves that basic knowledge of physical principles when coupled with communication and teamwork to document drilling issues or limiters reduces costs and improves the ability to address and fix problems with information not guesses
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over the course of three geothermal wells completed by different teams over the last two years noynaert and dupriest trained the managers and workers on two of the wells before field operations began the training created a fundamental physics-based understanding of exactly what happens downhole in both the rock cutting process and how the equipment functions after training the researchers continued to help the teams identify and redesign performance limiters and dysfunctions each day as well as implement a more effective workflow to support real-time practices all three teams drilled at the doe frontier observatory for research in geothermal energy (forge) which features a nearly mile-deep formation of hard granite similar to kitchen countertops previous wells drilled through that rock at a rate of 15-20 feet per hour but these three teams started at 250 feet per hour and maintained 100 feet-per-hour speeds while drilling through the stubborn material the first well with a trained team was a highly angled directional well it was finished in about half the time expected and under budget the second team was not trained but copied what they could from the first teams efforts while maintaining the same speeds their well completion time was less than the first well mostly because it was vertical rather than directional the third team was trained and also drilled vertically this team cut the untrained teams completion time in half by drilling much faster and cut costs further by using bits for far longer we had a huge gain with the first well said dupriest but directional drilling aside we've cut everything in half again with the third well plus we made advances to fundamental drilling science the trained teams changed their work methods to include scientifically documenting equipment changes as drilling progressed this required taking specific pictures of bit wear from standard angles the types of damage noted identified the causes of dysfunction and drilling parameters were quickly adjusted to prevent the same damage on the next run the photos were immediately shared with the bit vendor who could improve bit designs based on the evidence since the training instilled better physical knowledge of drilling vertically in hard rock the third team tested the equipment to its limits during operations they safely increased the amount of weight they put on the bit far beyond normal expectations because they understood how to identify and reduce the dysfunction that previously prevented this the additional weight improved drilling times and surprisingly extended bit longevity the third team also used dysfunction evidence to come up with a novel solution to a common but little-understood problem: ductile strengthening of the rock when the bit didnt respond to increased weight and failed to move forward even with tremendous energy use they reasoned that the drilling mud created the limitation and came up with a simple experiment to prove it a 100-gallon water pill was circulated down through the bit to alter the rock-progress situation the bits energy consumption was reduced by half and the drill rate doubled water would not have been used before said noynaert it would have been a 'that's just the way granite works so better change the bit' moment by understanding the physics they could get the solution to the problem right the first time geothermal companies initially thought the training was a petroleum thing but the first team quickly realized its value after seeing the results the second team asked for the training but scheduling conflicts prevented this the third team fully embraced the project goals and made great strides in improving performance dupriest and noynaert now say they must prove the education and processes work in all drilling applications to dispel a growing petroleum belief that the successes are a geothermal thing or only work in granite the future goal of the project will involve finding geothermal drilling teams to learn and test the methods in a variety of geologic regions ideally common to both energy industries
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the engineering staff advisory council recently recognized 13 staff members with awards for their exceptional commitment to serving the texas a&m engineering experiment station and college of engineering at texas a&m university recipients were honored at a ceremony on may 10 at the zachry engineering education complex where they each received a commemorative and monetary award new employee award: kerra clement industrial and systems engineering key contributor award: maria lyons biomedical engineering engineering team award: tricia speed taylor george jarrett david shauna lewis web team engineering communications staff excellence awards: edwin aguilar engineering academic and student affairs shannon caldwell industrial and systems engineering chris cantrell office of the vice chancellor and dean of engineering kourtney gruner engineering technology and industrial distribution gabrielle gunnels donor and alumni relations and events megan meyer engineering technology and industrial distribution griselda vazquez fiscal office
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jessica zamarripa ‘20 a graduate student in the department of materials science and engineering at texas a&m university has received two prestigious awards the 2022 national defense science and engineering graduate (ndseg) fellowship and the national gem consortium phd engineering and science fellowship zamarripa a masters student received her bachelors degree in electrical engineering from texas a&m university her current research focuses on the development of a multiphysics topology optimization tool used to evaluate and analyze alternating current circuit designs for the deployment of novel electronics and flexible circuits created from liquid metal-based inks she collaborates weekly with the researchers at the air force research laboratory and has also spent summers on site at the wright-patterson air force base the department of defense ndseg fellowship is awarded annually to students in recognition of their academic excellence and stem (science technology engineering and math) achievements awardees receive full tuition and coverage for all mandatory fees for up to three years at any accredited us college or university that provides advanced degrees in science and engineering as well as a monthly stipend of $3 400the national gem consortium is a distinguished external fellowship that connects leading corporations laboratories universities and research institutions to support and enable qualified students from underrepresented communities to pursue graduate education in applied science and engineering as part of her gem fellowship zamarripa was selected by nasa headquarters to become a gem employer fellow fellows are provided a paid graduate-level summer work experience for at least one summer zamarripa will utilize both fellowships next year as she begins her doctorate under the guidance of dr darren hartl associate professor in the department of aerospace engineering with a courtesy appointment in the department of materials science and engineering hartl is also the director of the m2aestro laboratoryjessica is one of the hardest-working students i know said hartl "she is a testament to the potential of all first-generation engineering students who surround themselves with a strong team as they face academic and research challenges head on
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the wm michael barnes 64 department of industrial and systems engineering at texas a&m university presented its 2022 distinguished former student award to martha bellens-martin 85 a technical account management program director at vmware a global leader in cloud computing and virtualization software and services gratitude is how i feel about my time at a&m and my time ever since then throughout my career bellens-martin said during her acceptance speech i want to express gratitude to the mentors the professors all the student leaders and my lifelong aggie friends of course a special level of gratitude to the industrial engineering program it is such an incredible foundation that encompasses effectiveness efficiencies and processes bellens-martin received both her bachelors and masters degrees in industrial engineering from texas a&m after graduating she started her career designing plant layout and then began selling software to automate plant design she now manages and leads a team of technical account managers for vmware when you go and look for your career whether it's at the very beginning or you're ready to make a change finding the company that embodies your cultures and your values is critical she said we spend about 25% of our waking hours working so let's make sure that when you choose a career when you choose a path when you choose a company that that piece of your life is meaningful throughout her life bellens-martin has found many ways to give back to the department she actively works with the women in engineering program and has given financially through the establishment of the martha bellens-martin 85 scholarship to support undergraduate students in the department martha has shown exceptional commitment to her academic work in her career said dr lewis ntaimo department head her involvement by volunteering at events and support through scholarship have made a noteworthy impact on our students and establishes her as one of the most significant contributors to this program bellens-martin was presented with the award during the departments spring gala the distinguished former student award is given annually to former industrial and systems engineering students who have gone on to do great things and have an interest in impacting the department
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kristina and steve robertson 89 have recently established the kristina s and steve k robertson '89 endowed scholarship distributions from this endowment will be used to provide one or more scholarships to corps of cadets students who are pursuing an undergraduate degree in engineering technology in the department of engineering technology and industrial distribution at texas a&m university steve robertsons life has been markedly influenced by aggies the corps of cadets and the traditions of texas a&m from his great uncle edwin beck beckcom jr 38 to his oldest son steven p robertson 11 many of steves family members have earned their aggie rings following a high school visit with his second cousin lt col ed beckcom 65 at carswell air force base steve knew college station was the place for him to experience the military traditions that are embodied by the aggie spirit from the moment he stepped onto campus aggies began to shape steves future during his new student conference steve saw a friend (maj bryn a russell 89 us air force ret) he met the summer before at texas boys state and the two began talking about their intentions to join the corps of cadets this coincidental meeting led him to join the e-1 jocks outfit in the corps which would establish lifelong relationships between him and his buddies this was a decision that would shape my adult life robertson said there are 13 of us who made it through all four years together and we are still close to this day steve earned his degree in mechanical engineering technology which provided him a solid foundation of the skills that he would need to start his professional career though his classroom experience was critical it was the dedication and work ethic of his mentors and advisors that proved to be pivotal to his success dr tim coppinger 65 was my academic advisor professor and mentor robertson recalled he made a strong impact on me by encouraging the ‘art of creative ingenuity and persistence in working through a problem aggies continued to rally alongside steve and guide his steps from john heartsill 40 and noel bryant offering him a spring break job in 1987 to pay for his senior ring to david sahm 82 generously helping him and kristina obtain married student housing during their senior year john sodolak 70 mitch beasley 84 and sam weise mentored him in his student maintenance technician job at married student housing after steves graduation dick piner 50 hired him for his first full-time engineering job at total engineering services team incorporated (test inc) in new orleans the opportunity that mr piner gave me with progressive experience in the domestic and international upstream oil and gas industry was invaluable robertson said the exposure he gained at this job and the help of an ‘old ag contact led him to his next career opportunity at halliburton completion products in carrollton texas with what steve recalls as the biggest aggie family outside of an a&m club don perkins 77 rick welch 78 cindy tuckness 80 and numerous others were invaluable in his professional development his journey alongside fellow aggies brought him to chevron in 2007 he is now nearing 15 years of working at the company and currently holds the title of senior subsea controls engineer steve credits the comradery he has found among texas a&m alumni for allowing him to contribute to his industry the way he does today i am eternally grateful for the opportunities that my texas a&m education helped provide and the successes we have achieved together he said texas a&ms culture and traditions are what inspired steve and kristina to give back to the school that has given so much to them i may have walked across the stage alone in august 1989 to collect my diploma but in no way was it a solitary effort he said there are so many people who helped make that possible steve hopes to help others the same way he and kristina were helped we have a very strong desire to pay it back by paying it forward he said this endowment is one of those mechanisms for us to achieve our desire to help someone fulfill their goal of graduating from texas a&m the scholarship will be awarded to a student who is a member of the corps of cadets the strong military backgrounds in both steves and kristinas families led them to texas a&m and the corps of cadets so the desire to continue those traditions was a given we hope to reduce some of the financial strain on the recipient so that they can focus on their academics while still actively participating in the corps of cadets and the university robertson said by financially walking alongside aggie students the robertsons are able to fulfill a goal of generosity that they have had since his graduation it has always been our desire to give back to a&m with more than just our annual century club membership in a manner that directly benefits a student he said this endowment has provided that opportunity on a bigger scale
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endowments supporting students in the texas a&m university college of engineering have an immeasurable impact on their education if you are interested in supporting the college of engineering and its departments or would like more information on how you can give please contact hannah simonds assistant director of development
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the world has been undergoing a digital transformation over the past few decades as technology has advanced the rise of digital platforms such as cloud computing blockchains and machine-learning services is leading to numerous new applications and transforming daily life however users often dont know the others they are dealing with and it is challenging to establish trust on these platforms texas a&m university researchers are working to improve this trust dr yupeng zhang assistant professor in the department of computer science and engineering recently received the national science foundations (nsf) faculty early career development (career) award for his research project towards efficient and scalable zero-knowledge proofs the focus of his research is on developing efficient and scalable zero-knowledge proof schemes an important cryptographic primitive (well-established low-level cryptographic algorithms used to build cryptographic protocols) to ensure data privacy and computation integrity simultaneously in cryptography a zero-knowledge proof is a method by which one party (the prover) can prove to another party (the verifier) that a given statement is true while the prover avoids conveying any additional information apart from the fact that the statement is indeed true the essence of zero-knowledge proof is that it is trivial to prove that one possesses knowledge of certain information by simply revealing it; the challenge is to prove such possession without revealing the information itself or any additional information my research is to enhance the security privacy and integrity of data and computations in the digital world through schemes in the area of cryptography he said in this award ‘zero-knowledge proof is a powerful tool to establish trust between people without knowing each other ahead of time it allows one to convince others that their secret data has some properties without revealing the secret data itself because of this powerful functionality zero-knowledge proofs have found great applications in cutting-edge technologies to provide privacy scalability and integrity
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zhangs project advances three aspects of the zero-knowledge proof schemes: theory application and systems on the theory side new practical schemes with linear running time in the size of the computation are constructed based on error-correcting codes and expander graphs on the application side the project investigates machine-learning algorithms and graph algorithms and develops efficient zero-knowledge proofs tailored for these applications on the system side the project initiates the study of memory-efficient and distributed algorithms for zero-knowledge proofs zhang will bring the efficiency and scalability of zero-knowledge proofs to the next level his results will enable new applications of privacy-preserving and verifiable data mining on digital platforms to protect users data privacy he will also develop new course materials for undergraduate and graduate cybersecurity education and for broadening the participation in computing of underrepresented groups and k-12 students there are many such powerful schemes in the literature of cryptography but they were usually first proposed for theoretical interests zhang said my research is trying to bring them to practice by developing new schemes with good efficiency and scalability this usually involves new ideas from all aspects of theory algorithms applications and systems the research will make the schemes applicable for real-world products and accessible to developers and engineers in the industry to protect the security and privacy of data and computations zhang said there is a rising awareness of the importance of data security and privacy now and governments and companies are developing new regulations to protect user data under these new regulations companies have become open to using a new generation of cryptographic schemes in real-world products beyond the traditional encryption and digital signature scheme all without compromising the privacy and integrity of the data and computations in the long-term my research will make these new powerful schemes ready for wide deployment in practices he said overseen by the faculty early career development program career awards are one of the nsfs most prestigious form of recognition and support for up-and-coming researchers who exemplify the role of teachers/scholars through outstanding research excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations zhang was pleased to receive the prestigious award to help with his research the award is a great honor and a recognition for my research he said it is exciting to see that the research area is important and the new ideas are appealing to people in the community the award provides great support for me to advance the research in these directions i have also learned a lot from the mentors collaborators and reviewers during the process of the career award which improved my understanding of the challenges and the ways to move forward in several research topics
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student organizations across the college of engineering are doing amazing work to support their fellow students they are addressing mental health tackling environmental issues amplifying marginalized voices and more but they cant always do as much as they would like due to lack of funding this notion spurred the student engineers council (sec) to establish the engineering organization fund there are so many ambitious things that people want to do and their biggest inhibitor is resources said kyle beck sec president we want to utilize our resources to amplify the impact of these great opportunities and programs that exist in the college of engineerings student organizations established in 1939 by the dean of engineering the sec has been providing resources and opportunities to engineering students for 83 years its mission has remained the same to be a representative voice of all engineering students to increase engineering awareness and to promote professional advancement for all students in the college of engineering were here to serve the students and the organizations we represent them and their concerns to the faculty and administration working to benefit everyone the best we can beck said the sec currently has 140 members who serve on 15 committees to fulfill this mission the students also seek to use their talents to meet the needs of the surrounding community in addition to service projects with the big event and angel tree they host stem camps and workshops for local school children who may be interested in engineering the group also has a partnership with the reach project and are in the process of developing a digital graduation preparedness course among the many events hosted by the sec is the engineering career fair which serves to provide not only countless doors of opportunity for graduates and employers but also resources that the sec can use to give back to the students they serve after analyzing student survey responses and speaking with student leaders deans and advisors the sec determined that they could best utilize these resources by providing financial support for the 90 plus student organizations in the college of engineering our vision is to ensure that we can provide a platform for other societies and organizations in the college of engineering to connect collaborate and have the avenues to get to know other engineering students outside of a classroom setting beck saidthe sec has been continually impressed with the initiatives that have been accomplished by engineering student organizations its members hope this fund will allow those organizations to have an even greater impact within their community and industry while furthering engineering excellence the goal is for engineering organizations to have the capacity to do so much more beck said hopefully we can remove the financial burden see some creative new ideas and see people do more of what they are already doing really well the sec has also taken action to meet the needs of first-generation students through the establishment of the first-generation engineering students mentoring program fund half of this gift will be used to provide scholarships for first-generation students and the other half will be used at the discretion of the fgen program in conversations leading up to the establishment of this fund sec committee members met with several leaders on campus who outlined the impact fgen has on first-generation students within the college of engineering who make up more than 20% of the colleges undergraduate population among those they met with was dr john hurtado interim dean and vice chancellor for engineering and a first-generation college graduate dr hurtado and others helped bring light to some of the struggles that first-generation students face if you dont have the right resources and support that can be a really challenging transition beck said students across the college of engineering will experience the impact of the secs effort to continually bring the college to a new level of excellence like many previous and current members beck has seen what can be accomplished when aggie engineers stand beside each other in collaboration and innovation at the end of the day its a volunteer organization you are there because you want to serve all of the things we do happen because our members sacrifice their time and effort for other students here at the college of engineering or in the community around us
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endowments supporting students in the college have an immeasurable impact on their education if you are interested in supporting the college of engineering and its departments or would like more information on how you can give please contact patrick wilson director of development
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the 2022 texas aimbots spring showdown competition a battle robot event will be hosted at texas a&m university by the robotics organization texas aimbots the event will take place on saturday may 21 at noon in the memorial student center room 2400 the competition is open to the public and all ages are encouraged to attend the spring showdown is a combat robotics competition focused on the creation of robots and is much like the battlebots competition these robots will go head to head in a small arena to try to destroy the opponent's robot with different weapons and geometries that the students have designed some robots even use internal combustion engines and flamethrowers there are three weight classes for this event: 150 grams for fairy 1 pound for ant and 3 pounds for beetle based on different criteria in the match that are judged using the standardized procedures for the advancement of robotic combat (sparc) set of rules the robots will gain points for stopping stalling destroying or knocking down the other robot many of the competitors participating this year are individual builders around texas traveling to college station to compete for top awards each match will be two minutes long and the 1-pound and 3-pound arena will be large enough to sustain sufficient ventilation for the use of potentially hazardous weapons while the 150-gram arena will be smaller protected by low walls the competition will be streamed on youtube for those unable to attend and all are welcomed to see the head-to-head showdown between these combat robots in person for more information about texas a&ms premier robotics team texas aimbots visit their website
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finding the right weight and strength are essential to success when attempting to make concrete float in early april the texas a&m university concrete canoe team struck the perfect balance and took home first place in the american society of civil engineers (asce) region 6 concrete canoe competition this is the texas a&m team's first victory since 2015with the regional win the team of 24 students including seven officers advanced to the national concrete canoe competition there they will compete against 23 other teams from around the globe on june 3-5 at louisiana tech university in ruston louisiana
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"the win this year was especially rewarding coming off the virtual covid-19 year " said hilaire garza a senior civil engineering major and co-captain "the team was made up of almost an entirely new group of people who managed to get close during our weekly meetings everyone worked so hard putting in time and effort whenever they could"after a virtual year of concrete canoe competitions in 2021 the team was excited to get back on the water garza and co-captain ethan harris a senior civil engineering major began planning in august they started recruiting team members during the first month of the fall semester and then began planning and budgeting in mid-september when they received the competition rules
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"generally speaking the lighter the concrete is the weaker it becomes " harris said "this creates a balancing act where we try to make our boat as light as possible while also making sure it doesn't break during racing"it's also essential to make sure it doesn't break during transportation to the competition the team uses a 25-foot trailer to haul the canoe stands and display table the canoe is cradled by soft memory foam and styrofoam it takes eight to 10 members to lift the boat by handlast year they chose a viking theme but didn't get to build a canoe or themed display they made up for that this year"the viking regard for tradition makes it a fitting theme for a group of aggie engineers " garza said "the stands (for the canoe) are a sea serpent which is significant to norse mythology" another challenge was using the decorative concrete embellishments in the canoe which they used to create the gold designs inside the canoe
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"we used 2 mm craft foam cut into various shapes and glued them to our mold before placing the concrete over it this left behind small inlays that could be later filled with different colors of concrete " garza said "it was against the rules to use any paints or stains so we had to get creative we included the texas a&m block lettering the viking tree of life and miss reveille in the canoe"another focus for the team was paddling the concrete canoe program is designed to test each team's knowledge creativity and stamina and includes several different races on the water"our team won first place in all of the races for our regional competition and we want to keep that streak going " harris said "races at competitions are rigorous but i'm confident our paddling team can get the job done we are slightly nervous because we know how good the competition is at the national level but we are also really confident in what we have accomplished this year"
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as the future of the automotive industry heads toward the path of autonomous technology the vehicles themselves aren't the only component with changes on the horizon a recently graduated team of students in the j mike walker '66 department of mechanical engineering at texas a&m university used their senior capstone design project to create a scaled-down mechatronic system capable of identifying a mock electric vehicle charging port and connecting itself unlike many capstone projects the electric vehicle autonomous assistant (evaa) team did not have a traditional sponsor instead the student-led project topic was proposed by team member sharon pearlnath and funded by the department as a walker entrepreneurship project it was guided by dr joanna tsenn instructional assistant professor and senior capstone design projects coordinator and dr james hubbard jr oscar s wyatt jr '45 chair i professor in addition to pearlnath the evaa team included mechanical engineering students shaelyn stacy eric tseng aaron hoyt ethan russell skyler roberts and andrew miskell their objective was to develop a mechanism that would locate the charging port of any electric vehicle autonomously a valuable skill for autonomous vehicles of the future
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"as more vehicles can park themselves the demand for an autonomous electric vehicle charging system will allow cars to park charge and drive back to their owners without any further human interaction " said stacy "the focus of our design is to develop a system capable of connecting a charger to an electric vehicle autonomously" the team's design won the overall showcase capstone award at the fall 2021 texas a&m engineering project showcase "the team was impressive from the start with their enthusiasm motivation and ambitious plans " tsenn said "they worked hard and independently and learned many new skills to develop and prototype a system that integrates mechanical electrical and software design the team's win at the 2021 fall engineering project showcase was well deserved" pearlnath said she was astounded by the team's final product when reflecting on her original proposal although it was far from an easy project thanks mainly to the complexity of the subsystems and various electrical mechanical and software challenges the team was well prepared by their education from the mechanical engineering department "as a freshman i could have never imagined working on something so complex " pearlnath said "as mechanical engineering students we were equipped to design and manufacture a working product to full conception"
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as the team worked through challenges in integrating all the separate components needed for a successful final design tseng said it was a good lesson in the value of simplicity at conception the team initially planned to build a mobile autonomous robot to complete the task at hand however given the time and financial limitations they ultimately opted for a less complex design tseng said he learned the value of starting with a simple approach and growing into increasing complexity when working to solve a problem "even after drastically reducing the scope of the project the project was still a huge challenge to implement simply due to the implementation and integration of mechanical electrical and software systems " he said "instead of starting out with an extremely complex problem a better approach would be to start with a simpler solution and iterate and improve upon it over time" the team is excited to see how major automotive companies implement their own versions of their project in the years to come "as things become more autonomous electronic vehicle charging will follow " said russell "companies such as tesla and volkswagen are already working on autonomous chargers to assist with the increasing need for public charging stations we predict that in the next 20 years cars and chargers will be fully autonomous and hope that other teams can pick up where we left off"
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donna and lynn broyles have recently established the james h averett 68 memorial scholarship endowed by donna and lynn broyles distributions from this endowment will be used to provide one or more scholarships to students who are pursuing a degree in the j mike walker 66 department of mechanical engineering at texas a&m university lynn broyles and jim averett first became friends as members of the texas a&m corps of cadets they were both in squadron animal eight and broyles has many fond memories of the two of them during their time at texas a&m aside from their shared experiences in the corps of cadets and accompanying antics around the quad broyles and averett were also mechanical engineering classmates lynn recalled that during their freshman year they were chemistry lab partners in a class that would sometimes continue deep into friday afternoons the two were often eager to get on the road to see madeline averetts girlfriend who he later married and donna broyless girlfriend at the time to both of their advantage averett was incredibly academically inclined thankfully i had jim as a lab partner he could zip through those labs in less than an hour and we would be on our way broyles said the comradery between the two friends continued to strengthen after they graduated from texas a&m together they completed united states air force pilot training at vance air force base and pilot instruction training at tyndall air force base they both became instructors in the t-38a talon a supersonic jet trainer
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after his service in the us air force averett continued his career as a pilot and flew for grand canyon airlines martin aviation and delta airlines in his retirement he became well known throughout the flying formation community known by the call sign flagman he owned and flew both a beechcraft bonanza and an rv-8 unfortunately on nov 6 2020 while practicing for a veterans day performance averett lost his life in a mid-air collision in fredericksburg texas his death was mourned by the flying formation community and all those who knew him jim always had a quick smile and terrific sense of humor broyles said i never knew anyone that did not like him donna and lynn broyles were both significantly impacted by the life and death of their dear friend they established the scholarship within the mechanical engineering department to encourage and enable students to achieve their mechanical engineering degree in honor of averett and the inspiring influence he had he was a true and loyal aggie husband father grandfather and friend broyles saidbecause of averetts experiences at texas a&m the scholarship was established with selection preferences that the recipient be a member of the corps of cadets and a junior or senioraveretts legacy lives on through the loyalty and comradery of the aggie spirit the squadron animal eight class of '68 has gathered for aggie muster for the last 30 years last year we mustered with the gillespie county a&m club which was jim's hometown club broyles said the aggie tradition holds a deeper meaning following averetts passing this year we held a muster in seguin texas and we honored jim gig' em jimmy
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endowments supporting the students in the college of engineering have an immeasurable impact on their education if you are interested in supporting the college of engineering and its departments or would like more information on how you can give please contact kelly corcoran senior director of development
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dr joseph sang-ii kwon associate professor in the artie mcferrin department of chemical engineering at texas a&m university alongside dr arul jayaraman executive associate dean of the college of engineering received the 2021 premium award for best paper for the institution of engineering and technology (iet) in systems biology their study was published in vol 13 issue 4 of iet systems biology for any biological system there are signaling pathways a series of chemical reactions that allow the cell to perform functions such as cell divisions or cell death within these reactions several proteins and catalysts are involved that contribute to the difficulty of developing mathematical models that accurately describe these pathways in addition the cost of obtaining an accurate model can be high and labor-intensive and there is often limited information about the pathway the researchers took a systems biology approach to combat this issue which uses data clustering to combine different iterations of pathways creating a time-varying model based on nominal models available in literature if you were to use this one simple model for the entirety of systems that change frequently the models accuracy could be damaged said kwon if you make small adjustments to a model depending on the time domain you can expect much better accuracy using the researchers intracellular signaling model starts with a global sensitivity analysis that helps give value to the importance of the model and the way inputs will impact outputs as well as the most critical parameters second measurement data is clustered to determine temporal subdomains where the parameters take different values finally a least-squares problem is solved which helps identify the best options for a data set the proposed methodology is a semi-data-driven approach where the model construction is guided by both the available experimental data and the mechanistic model specifically based on the experimental data the temporal profiles of the model parameters are inferred to complement the model mismatch due to the use of a nominal model the resultant model can provide relatively accurate predictions in spite of the incomplete knowledge of the underlying system at the same time the use of the mechanistic model allows the resultant model to be used in the detailed analysis of the underlying mechanisms which is difficult to perform through a data-driven model a better understanding of the nuclear factor kappa b (nf-κb) pathway would enable the design of more specific and effective therapeutic approaches for treating inflammatory diseases the researchers hope to use this pathway in broader capacities as it shows potential to be used when mathematical models are not sufficient for the design of experiments
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tanaya mandal doctoral student in the department of materials science and engineering at texas a&m university was one of 15 recipients from the us to be awarded the 2020 society for the advancement of material and process engineering (sampe) international university leader experience awardthis award gives winners the opportunity to network with peers and industry professionals by sending them to the sampe north america conference and exhibition however due to the covid-19 pandemic the 2020 event was canceled recipients missed out on the opportunity to make the journey to network and increase their knowledge of the materials and processing communityto make up for this lost opportunity 2020 winners have been invited to attend the sampe 2022 conference and exhibition in charlotte north carolina may 22-26mandal will be attending the conference and will also receive her award at the in-person eventi am very thrilled to be receiving this award and finally being able to attend this conference in may said mandal i will not only be gaining valuable networking opportunities and enhance my leadership skillset in addition to this award but also represent the department of materials science and engineering at texas a&mher research focuses on composites with high-heat shielding applicationsaccording to their website sampe is a global professional member society that provides enhanced educational opportunities by delivering information on new and advanced materials and processing technology
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erin ingram a junior in the department of electrical and computer engineering at texas a&m university found an enthusiasm for renewable energy and is pursuing a path toward a more sustainable future to begin this endeavor she established her place within the engineers for a sustainable world program during her freshman year as a team lead for the solar charging station team for the past two years the team has been working to implement a solar charging station outside of the zachry engineering education complex to charge students' phones using the sun the team is comprised of 10 engineering students from different disciplines including electrical engineering and mechanical engineering this multidisciplinary project is currently funded by the aggie green fund and is in the development stage i noticed that there wasn't any renewable energy to be seen on campus and thats something im really passionate about ingram said i wanted to create something that would allow engineering students to interact with sustainable energy see that its reliable and maybe become inspired to pursue it in their career she is also currently pursuing undergraduate research in the stored ion and bio optics research laboratory under dr hans schuessler professor in the department of physics and astronomy at texas a&m there ingram is working on an atmospheric spectroscopy system aimed at detecting dangerous hydrofluoric acid leaks in industrial production plants for batteries microelectronics dna-sequencing reagents and more this semester i've developed from scratch a handheld device similar to a gaming controller that controls the movement of our telescopes motor which is a pivotal part of reading data this technology has applications outside of hydrofluoric acid leaks such as measuring greenhouse gas levels or other pollutants in the atmosphere she said though ingram is excited to now contribute to the role of electrical engineers in the future of climate change mitigation and sustainability she started out in the zachry department of civil and environmental engineering it wasnt until her second internship with freese and nichols an engineering design firm specializing in water resources infrastructure that she realized electrical engineering was the path for her
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ingram has completed three internships thus far and will also be interning with exxonmobil this summer where she will gain hands-on experience with power systems she hopes to become involved in their growing carbon capture and storage initiatives looking ahead ingram hopes to pursue a career in renewable energy research and development but she is also interested in furthering her education in electrical engineering before she dives into the field full time
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nearly 1 200 engineering seniors presented their capstone design projects all over the zachry engineering education complex at the 2022 engineering project showcase on april 29 after two years of being held virtually due to the covid-19 pandemic over 240 projects dedicated to solving engineering industry challenges were on display for the public to see and for industry judges to present with top awards some projects had industry sponsorships who directly gave the teams problems to solve that their companies face in the end 25 teams were awarded prize money totaling $15 000 showcase judge craig brown founder and ceo of bray international inc said it was amazing to see students trying to solve real-world problems proving that they learn more than just academics at texas a&m university
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i love coming back to texas a&ms engineering project showcase; i get invigorated by the energy and the passion of all the young aggie students and the innovations that they come up with said brown it gives a lot of promise for what our engineers from texas a&m are going to do in the future the showcase not only celebrated students for their hard work and accomplishments during their time at texas a&m but it also allowed students to network with industry students who were not yet employed were able to indicate their interest in employment opportunities allowing judges to also recruit for their companies it is almost like a reversed career fair said magda lagoudas executive director of the industry and nonprofit partnerships program in the college instead of the students going around company booths the companies come to the students
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lagoudas emphasized the importance of the showcase as capstone design projects prepare students before they enter the workforce and give them the ability to apply the skills they have learned during their undergraduate years for the public and industry to see the overall showcase capstone design award for $1 500 sponsored by emerson was given to reliable instrument counter a team tasked with finding an efficient and accurate way to count surgical instruments their solution was a table with built-in technology that quickly and accurately counts the number of instruments before and after surgery to avoid any of them being left inside bodies the top three teams from each department are listed below
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engineering project showcase 2022 winners: biological and agricultural engineering award first place ($500)team: anheuser-busch vibration monitoring for predictive maintenance - mamu vibration solutions members: matthew atkins michael unterman second place ($350)team: nicaraqua: la fortuna water conveyance and distribution system members: alexandria werner bailey graham john keener mason fiedler mitchell mcdonald third place ($250)team: camera imaging for plastic detection in cotton gins members: john womack samuel pyka biomedical engineering awards first place ($750)team: endotrack members: amanda trevino kassidy porche nathan bliss rachel greve srichakrika nunna xiao ling second place ($500)team: electronic quadroscopemembers: allison stephens carla bassil carley stafford haley edwards madison turpin skylar gallegos third place ($250)team: hystero-heromembers: coby mcnichols hannah chamberlain maddie jordan megan rodgers nadean zahra rachel rice computer science and engineering awards first place tie ($1 000) sponsored by caterpillarteam: walmart anonymization pipeline members: andrew han hoa nguyen mary faith mitchell rosendo narvaez taylor wilson team: tias tias is a scheduler members: benjamin beauchamp dante barbieri evelyn crowe jeremy spotts shane mcgookey second place ($500)team: altidormembers: julie herrick mason medrano reid neason saul diosdado zachary handshoe electrical and computer engineering awards first place ($1 000) sponsored by baker hughesteam: app-controlled plant watering members: barrett gaertner oren shed sean cooley second place ($750)team: hydrogen line telescopemembers: johanna hein warren herrington third place ($500) team: private information retrieval with side information and message popularitymembers: alejandro gomez-leos engineering technology and industrial distribution awards first place ($1 000) sponsored by kiewitteam: sub orbital astromaterial research (soar) members: kevin leonard michael townsend ryan labarbera sean kersch-hama second place ($750)team: mobile asset transportation system (mats)members: ethan mccall nicolas stockton pedro guillen robert cullen shilow bower third place ($500) team: whoop ai vex roboticsmembers: aaron quigg britton corbett david saunders gabriel rodriguez jonathan ghering lucas seran montana barker ryan vaughan industrial and systems engineering awards first place ($1 000) sponsored by h4 architects + engineersteam: baylor scott & white (rock prairie)members: dylan choate lacey hawthorne michael whittaker rafael ramos second place ($750)team: part degreasing solutionsmembers: bryana moya joaquin cieri lukas featherston morgan roberts third place ($500) team: aggieland coffee: financial and process analysis of roasting operationsmembers: dhakshin subbaiah james chung lissete sillas melanie beattie material science and engineering awards first place ($500)team: modular mannequin leak test developmentmembers: gualberto de la garza nhu vu will bryan second place ($350)team: mitigating corrosion and degradation of metallic fixtures used in the galvanizing process members: bethel oluwole charles shoalmire peyton usoff ritai su third place ($250)team: instrumented tool holder for quick indication of machining performance members: aaron george claire swank david skillern joseph duran mechanical engineering awards first place ($1 000) sponsored by andersen windows & doorsteam: multiplanetary agricultural sustainmentmembers: connor castans holden campbell ian suarez jacob schababerle katherine plaza peter simmons second place ($750)team: lunar container members: jason bondi matthew plummer nathaniel bass tara brown tyler haygood third place ($500) team: sunny the visormembers: alex araujo jacob chaparro kasey dearing lorraine fernando tanner thornton tessa carreno
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laser powder bed fusion a 3d-printing technique offers potential in the manufacturing industry particularly when fabricating nickel-titanium shape memory alloys with complex geometries although this manufacturing technique is attractive for applications in the biomedical and aerospace fields it has rarely showcased the superelasticity required for specific applications using nickel-titanium shape memory alloys defects generated and changes imposed onto the material during the 3d-printing process prevented the superelasticity from appearing in 3d-printed nickel-titanium researchers from texas a&m university recently showcased superior tensile superelasticity by fabricating a shape memory alloy through laser powder bed fusion nearly doubling the maximum superelasticity reported in literature for 3d printing this study was recently published in vol 229 of the acta materialia journal nickel-titanium shape memory alloys have various applications due to their ability to return to their original shape upon heating or upon removal of the applied stress therefore they can be used in biomedical and aerospace fields for stents implants surgical devices and aircraft wings however developing and properly fabricating these materials requires extensive research to characterize functional properties and examine the microstructure shape memory alloys are smart materials that can remember their high-temperature shapes said dr lei xue a former doctoral student in the department of materials science and engineering and the first author of the publication although they can be utilized in many ways fabricating shape memory alloys into complex shapes requires fine-tuning to ensure the material exhibits the desired properties laser powder bed fusion is an additive manufacturing technique that presents a way to produce nickel-titanium shape memory alloys effectively and efficiently offering a pathway to quick manufacturing or prototyping this technique similar to polymer 3d printing uses a laser to fuse metal or alloy powders layer by layer the layer-by-layer process is beneficial because it can create parts with complex geometries that would be impossible in traditional manufacturing using a 3d printer we spread the alloy powder over a substrate and then use the laser to melt the powder forming one full layer said xue we repeat this layering scanning the same or different patterns until the desired structure is formed unfortunately most nickel-titanium materials cannot withstand the current laser powder bed fusion process often resulting in printing defects such as porosity warping or delamination caused by large thermal gradient and brittleness from oxidation in addition the laser can change the composition of the material due to evaporation during printing to combat this issue the researchers used an optimization framework they created in a previous study which can determine optimal process parameters to achieve defect-free structure and specific material properties with this framework as well as the change in composition and refined process parameters the researchers fabricated nickel-titanium parts that consistently exhibited a room temperature tensile superelasticity of 6% in the as-printed condition (without post-fabrication heat treatment) this level of superelasticity is nearly double the amount previously seen in literature for 3d printing the ability to produce shape memory alloys through 3d printing with increased superelasticity means the materials are more capable of handling applied deformation using 3d printing to develop these superior materials will reduce the cost and time of the manufacturing process in the future the researchers hope their discoveries will lead to increased use of printed nickel-titanium shape memory alloys in biomedical and aerospace applications this study can serve as a guide on how to print nickel-titanium shape memory alloys with desired mechanical and functional characteristics said xue if we can tailor the crystallographic texture and microstructure there are far more applications these shape memory alloys can be used in this research was funded by the us army research laboratory the national priorities research program grant the qatar national research fund and the us national science foundation grant other contributors to the publication include materials science and engineering department head dr ibrahim karaman; materials science and engineering professors dr kadri can atli and dr raymundo arroyave; former materials science and engineering student dr abhinav srivastava and current student nathan hite; wm michael barnes 64 department of industrial systems and engineering professor dr alaa elwany; industrial systems and engineering student chen zhang; and us army research laboratory researchers dr asher c leff dr adam a wilson and dr darin j sharar
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texas a&m university researchers have received a grant from the national science foundation's (nsf) resilient & intelligent nextg systems (rings) program the three-year $1 million project aims to advance the resiliency of next-generation wireless and mobile communication networking sensing and computing systems dr krishna narayanan the eric d rubin 06 professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at texas a&m will serve as the lead principal investigator of the project narayanan will be working alongside co-principal investigators professor dr jean-francois chamberland and associate professor dr sebastian hoyos from electrical and computer engineering and dr sunay palsole assistant vice chancellor for engineering remote education in the college of engineering currently a primary focus for cellular providers is the peak data rate on the downlink or the fastest data transfer rate available from the internet to a cellular device this means that depending on a persons location and accessibility to a base station or cell tower they may occasionally have an excellent connection and high-speed access to the network apps for example will perform well at that moment but not at times when accessibility to a cell tower is limited for this project narayanan and his team are looking at ways to expand the resiliency of the network and build an infrastructure to allow for consistently reliable access to the network regardless of location or other factors that impact current connectivity rates many applications need a more resilient reliable connection to a base station this project not only aims to advance the resiliency of devices such as cell phones but it also looks to open new doors for many types of systems such as machines surveillance cameras autonomous vehicles remote sensors etc that connect to base stations to execute this the team will pursue the idea of using cell-free systems where a device may be connected to multiple base stations at the same time to improve resiliency every device encodes the data in exactly the same way without the base station telling them how to pick the parameters for how to encode their data the team has been at the forefront of research in designing these unsourced random access schemes while narayanan chamberland and hoyos are focused primarily on the research palsole will lead an educational outreach aspect of the project this effort will include the creation of educational modules and their dissemination for broad use by students at other universities and by engineers in the industry a distinct facet of this project is that in addition to government funding the rings program also features industry partners who provide an opportunity for researchers to receive pertinent feedback and information on their perspectives and challenges related to current wireless systems this collaboration ensures the rapid transition of ideas from academia to industry the opportunity to actually get feedback from companies and learn about problems that are of actual interest to them is one of the most exciting things for me in this project narayanan said the nsf rings program is partnered with the office of the under secretary of defense for research and engineering the national institute of standards and technology and a number of industry partners the project was also endorsed by the united nations decade of ocean science for sustainable development
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the texas chapter of american traffic safety services association (tx-atssa) recently established the texas chapter/american traffic safety services association scholarship distributions from this endowment will provide one or more scholarships to full-time students in good standing who are pursuing an undergraduate degree in the zachry department of civil and environmental engineering at texas a&m university atssa represents the roadway safety infrastructure industry with effective legislative advocacy traffic control safety training and a far-reaching member partnership atssa helps shift the focus of transportation toward saving lives and reducing injuries tx-attsa is largely comprised of well-respected transportation professionals from all over the state of texas each year the chapter hosts several fundraising events that enable it to give charitably in its field this year texas a&m was its top-choice recipient of the funds shelley williams tx-atssa president said that over half of the organizations members graduated from texas a&m our aggie members are all productive contributing members of the transportation community she said other members experience with aggie professionals and friends was highly influential on their decision to financially support students at texas a&m the companys representatives are hopeful that their gift will help eliminate the financial hurdles engineering students face they have made additional selection preferences that recipients of this scholarship be a sophomore junior or senior a graduate of a texas high school and pursuing a career in construction management texas a&ms reputation brings a lot to the table in the professional world williams said it is our hope to inspire aspiring traffic or construction engineers to continue their education and to use it in a transportation role in texas
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endowments supporting the students in the texas a&m university college of engineering have an immeasurable impact on their education if you are interested in supporting the college of engineering and its departments or would like more information on how you can give please email ryan nichols assistant director of development
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shauna noonan recently established the shauna noonan petroleum engineering endowed scholarship - honoring women in the petroleum engineering industry distributions from this endowment will be used to provide one or more scholarships to full-time students in good standing who are pursuing an undergraduate degree in the harold vance department of petroleum engineering at texas a&m university noonan is a petroleum engineering graduate from the university of alberta in canada during her time there she was fortunate to receive scholarships similar to the one she endowed to help alleviate the financial burden of attending college she was proud to know she was able to help pay her way through her college journey and has always dreamed of paying it forward once she became established in her own career why did she choose texas a&m unfortunately the university of albertas petroleum program has changed considerably since noonan was a student and no longer has its own petroleum engineering department many universities around the world have begun reshaping their programs away from the petroleum industry noonan wanted to present her endowment to a school that would have a strong petroleum department for decades to come ive been in a bit of a quandary for probably the last five years as to where i even want to (endow) the scholarship noonan said after researching and weighing her options for scholarship recipient locations noonan made her final decision after attending a texas a&m petroleum engineering department former student event noonan spoke to many former students and learned more about the culture of texas a&m engineering but the one person that solidified her decision was department head dr jeff spath (spath) ended his talk by saying that as long as he is around texas a&ms petroleum department will be the last one standing noonan said that was when i had the epiphany that i now know the home of where i want to establish my scholarship noonan intends for this scholarship to not only alleviate the financial burden students may endure but also to promote champions of gender diversity in the petroleum industry thus noonan has designated this scholarship for those involved in the society of women engineers (swe) program whether youre male or female being involved as a student in swe makes you aware of several things if youre female how to best set yourself up on a great career trajectory if youre male how to not only be a better collaborator but understand some of the unique issues that women in this industry have noonan said noonan did not have many women role models in her early career due to this some of her biggest supporters and most influential mentors have been men that understand working women she believes that the increased inclusion of women in oil and gas will be more beneficial for future generations and will encourage women to step outside of stereotypically female roles i had few female role models available to me i had to create my own doors of opportunity noonan said even after her role as the 2020 spe president of the society of petroleum engineers noonan still travels globally with work and speaking at industry events through the years she has become confident in her position in the petroleum industry and has developed traits needed to succeed in her career inspiring fellow women engineers to do the same a lot of that is realizing those traits in myself which has motivated me to seek opportunities noonan said i try to instill these traits into my two daughters allowing them to enter the workforce more self-aware than i was
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endowments supporting students in the college of engineering have an immeasurable impact on their education if you are interested in supporting the college of engineering and its departments or would like more information on how you can give please contact kelly corcoran senior director of development
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mars is a yearly conference hosted by amazon founder jeff bezos that brings together innovative minds in machine learning automation robotics and space to share new ideas across these rapidly advancing domains dr kiju lee associate professor in the department of engineering technology and industrial distribution and the j mike walker 66 department of mechanical engineering at texas a&m university attended the 5th annual event to present her adaptive wheel-and-leg transformable robot (α-waltr) with an on-stage live demonstration in ojai california lee was one of 14 invited presenters this year α-waltr can efficiently traverse varying surfaces including staircases using wheels or legs depending on its immediate need with or without human intervention
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lee designed α-waltr with the goal of advancing ground mobility in robots she presented the design-driven innovation as well as her teams rapid and intensive development journey during the covid-19 pandemic toward the end of her talk lee invited α-waltr onstage while her demonstration team controlled the robot to climb over the stairs and come up to the stage demonstrating the robots signature stair-traversing capability
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i was very humbled to be there with so many brilliant and innovative minds said lee it was such an inspiring and fun experience lees demonstration team included three mechanical engineering graduate students: kangneoung lee yuan wei and annalisa tostenson the development of α-waltr was supported by the defense advanced research projects agency under the offensive swarm-enabled tactics sprint-5 effort
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brent vela ‘20 a graduate student in the department of materials science and engineering at texas a&m university has received the prestigious national science foundations (nsf) graduate research fellowship (grfp) vela received his bachelors degree in chemical engineering from texas a&m and is currently a doctoral student under the direction of materials science and engineering professor dr raymundo arróyave velas exposure to bayesian statistics in a safety engineering course led him to arróyaves lab where researchers use bayesian inference in materials science and design velas current research focuses on the development of artificial intelligence-enabled frameworks capable of optimally designing experiments based on all information currently known including experiment simulation and expert opinion the framework is being deployed on a project where they are designing high-entropy alloys for jet turbine blade applications it is like searching for a needle in a multidimensional haystack said vela vela works with arróyave to realize the computational aspects of the framework as well as with dr ibrahim karaman department head and his students to incorporate expert opinion and experimental measurements into the framework vela said he was pleased to get the award for his research no man is an island i am thankful to all my mentors past and present he said i am grateful to the people who gave me a strong foundation and the opportunity to even pursue higher educationbrent is a brilliant student who is an essential member of our team as we try to solve an extremely hard problem said arróyave i am really lucky to have him as my student and i am sure he will achieve great things in the future as he pioneers these new methods to accelerate the discovery of materials the nsf grfp recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in nsf-supported stem disciplines who are pursuing research-based masters and doctoral degrees at accredited us institutions the five-year fellowship includes three years of financial support including an annual stipend of $34 000 and a cost of education allowance of $12 000 to the institution
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the association of former students at texas a&m university featured dr chibueze amanchukwu 12 in its latest 12 under 12 young alumni spotlight the award recognizes the contributions of young alumni who have graduated within the last 12 years and are leading the way in innovation and service amanchukwu is a graduate of the artie mcferrin department of chemical engineering but his interest in engineering began in high school his elective engineering course was taught by a former student who frequently spoke of and used texas a&m resources in her lessons i think i was indoctrinated into being an aggie without even knowing said amanchukwu i knew i wanted to pursue engineering; i had heard about texas a&m from class and read it was one of the countrys top chemical engineering programs all these factors encouraged me to attend texas a&m after receiving his undergraduate degree in chemical engineering he obtained his doctorate from the massachusetts institute of technology he then completed his postdoctoral training at stanford university now an assistant professor at the pritzker school of molecular engineering at the university of chicago he also has a joint appointment at argonne national laboratory his research focuses on developing materials for next-generation batteries and carbon dioxide conversion he has published more than 20 research papers on the subject many of which are in top-tier journals a significant part of his career focuses on mentorship to date he has mentored over 20 undergraduate and graduate students in addition he strives to introduce minority students and underrepresented groups to science technology engineering and mathematics (stem) it is rewarding to see how the impact of mentorship can spread into industry and academic spaces said amanchukwu i remain invested in bringing minority and underrepresented students into stem my motivation as a professor is to ensure that i open doors for students interested in revolutionizing sustainable and renewable energies minority populations must have opportunities to participate in this process" amanchukwu fondly remembers his time at texas a&m playing intramural sports with his friends being part of the american institute of chemical engineers participating in related cultural events hosted by the african student association and studying in the jack e brown engineering building the training and mentorship i received from texas a&m alongside the support system and leadership experiences i gained set me up to succeed in my future endeavors said amanchukwu i learned the importance of service community and academic excellence which provided opportunities for me after graduation amanchukwu continues his studies hoping to solve some of the challenges of next-generation battery chemistries so that batteries can last longer and be more efficient a key component of his research is making lower-cost and higher-performance products additionally he plans to continue developing programs for minority students ive always felt supported by texas a&m throughout my career he said i hope this highlight brings awareness to the things my research group and i are doing and showcases the opportunities available in stem another graduate of the chemical engineering department dr lance brockway 09 earned a spot in the 12 under 12 young alumni spotlight a technologist and entrepreneur brockway is the founder chief technology officer and vice president of business development at nelumbo an advanced materials startup
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dr emily pentzer associate professor in the department of materials science and engineering and department of chemistry at texas a&m university was named a national finalist for the 2022 blavatnik national award for young scientists in physical sciences & engineering presented by the new york academy of sciences and the blavatnik family foundation the award recognizes faculty under the age of 42 who are making significant contributions to life sciences chemistry and/or physical sciences and engineering i dont even know what emotion i could say i felt when i found out that i was a finalist for the blavatnik award said pentzer i felt a sense of gratefulness and excitement to tell my students the hard work theyve contributed the time the energy and the effort are paying off while i am a finalist i think (the award) really speaks to what my research group has accomplished pentzer has an established history in materials science engineering and chemistry additionally highlighted by her affiliate position in the artie mcferrin department of chemical engineering at texas a&m after starting her research group at case western reserve university in 2013 she and her team moved to texas a&m in the summer of 2019 her research focuses on applied science inspired by societal problems this includes research areas such as thermal energy harvesting carbon capture energy storage and materials development in particular her group uses additive manufacturing and 3d printing to design and develop materials that can help regulate temperatures in buildings we input a significant amount of energy into controlling the temperature inside buildings from air conditioning to turning on a furnace she said if we can create materials and structures capable of passively controlling temperature within buildings this could reduce energy input we can architect these materials into different structures and test them for specific properties that aid in temperature control in addition to her research pentzer has served as a mentor to students many of whom have pursued careers in stem (science technology engineering and medicine) im most proud of the students who have graduated from my group who have not only developed as researchers but in their laboratory techniques and how to discuss and convey their research results she said this has prepared them for positions in stem fields and many are part of the stem workforce in the united states moving forward she hopes to use this accomplishment as a catalyst to support the various research ventures her group is pursuing being a finalist for the blavatnik award sets our group up for prolonged contributions to materials science and engineering pentzer said i hope this honor aids in continually attracting top students and postdoctoral students to texas a&m i also hope this honor enables us to start collaborations with researchers across the university and nation on a larger scale pentzer is using this achievement to help build a more inclusive collaborative and integrated scientific community im proud of the scientific community as we continue developing an environment where we can support people from all different backgrounds said pentzer the support of honors like this helps us become more innovative more creative and provides the opportunity for us to really pursue solutions that arent possible within standard ways of thinking the blavatnik national awards will be presented at the american museum of natural history in new york city on tuesday september 19
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a team of students from texas a&m university placed third in the mitre corporations 2022 embedded capture the flag (ectf) competition this year 32 high school and university teams from across the united states singapore england and india competed "i am really pleased to see texas a&m students consistently excelling in this competition keeping pace with competitors from top schools like mit and carnegie mellon said dr martin carlisle professor of practice in the department of computer science and engineering and the teams faculty advisor this is our third year competing and each year we have been one of the top teams" the ectf is a semester-long two-phase competition where participants are challenged to create a secure system for an embedded device and learn from their mistakes its focus on securing embedded systems like mobile devices and gps systems and inclusion of a design-and-build phase set it apart from traditional capture the flag competitions this year the teams were challenged to design a secure bootloader for an avionic device system which refers to electronic systems used on aircraft satellites and spacecraft the system had to be able to protect aircraft mission secrets and intellectual property while in untrusted environments as an additional challenge it also had to have the ability to counter supply chain threats such as hardware trojans a bootloader is a small program that verifies and loads all relevant operating system data when a computer/device is turned on its responsible for ensuring that malicious operating systems do not run and providing a secure mechanism through which the operating system can be updated using the programming language rust the team verified that a trusted machine had signed the operating system in their bootloader they also used encryption to make sure that attackers with the ability to see when an update is delivered to the device could not gain access to proprietary secrets their use of rust and secure design principles led them to earn a fortress award which is given to the team whose defenses last the longest "mitre ectf is something i never thought id be a part of but im so glad to have been said computer science student emily murphy i learned a ton about what embedded systems are how to design a secure one and how we can attack others it was a real application of how the security of these systems can have a huge impact" the teams were recognized in a virtual awards ceremony on april 27 the members of this years team included: abhishek bhattacharyya (general engineering) justin block (electronic systems engineering technology) ryan brasseaux (computer engineering) cormac cupples (computer engineering) liam haber (computer science) danny hernandez (technology management) luke loera (computer science) nathan nguyen (computer science and applied mathematical sciences) mark poveda (general engineering) bode raymond (computing) lane simmons (general engineering) anna slater (computer engineering) derek viet (computer engineering) and rohan viswanathan (computer science)
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accurately monitoring the flow of fluids injected downhole to enhance oil recovery is critical for improving the efficiency of reservoir production methods current software uses streamline calculations to visualize the flow digitally but streamline math assumes a consistent fluid velocity texas a&m university researcher dr hongquan chen is spearheading a two-year project to upgrade the software with pathline calculation visualizations which can show how changing conditions underground affect the speed and direction of fluids the advanced work is funded by a $328 000 saudi aramco grant since no cameras exist underground to show detailed reservoir activity tracking injected fluid movement is a matter of math based on data and the laws of physics to render or visually create flow simulations streamline software is fast enough to render an instant flow field like a snapshot still it cant keep up with flow alterations especially when reservoir pressures drop or increase with startups or shutdowns in adjacent wells pathline calculations consider fluid to be made of individual particles and all instances of each fluid particles movements are traced and combined into a tracking flow like a video think of buildings on the texas a&m campus as the geologic structure underground and the students moving between them as the individual fluid particles chen explained streamlines would be the timed snapshots from security cameras that track students leaving or entering the buildings pathlines would be tracking every students phone by gps location as they traveled their entire routes to class so streamlines assume a steady walk between buildings and pathlines show if they ran walked or stopped to talk
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chen graduated with a doctoral degree from texas a&m and his research topic involved advanced streamline tracing techniques geologic model calibration and rate optimization in fact he developed the currently used streamline software as part of his doctoral project so providing the upgrade seemed logical upgrading the software means chen is enhancing the software architecture to accommodate a robust parallel calculation process while developing algorithms to trace the fluid particle positions or pathline segments across time steps in the end all the pathline segments will be chain-linked into a flow-over-time video like a computer-animated movie because the particle locations are captured frame by frame any flow field changes that disturb the particles movement will show up in the video the upgrade is a huge undertaking thankfully chen made a hobby of learning computer science and parallel computing during his graduate school years noting that these tools are extremely useful in engineering solutions to problems he is putting that education to good use while designing the software architecture and algorithms to be efficient and practical enough for field application however the software must handle models with billions of cells within minutes and show a video of movement in almost real time to be helpful on site according to chen several aspects of the project are ready the high-performance computing strategy the functional module hierarchy and the data structures to be used as critical designs in the software the project is progressing smoothly but chen did mention caveats more challenges await us in the testing and debugging stage chen said most software engineers say to allow 20% of your time for implementation and 80% for testing and debugging we face the challenge of large-scale models and time-consuming computations making debugging even more difficult the project currently focuses on fluid flow in conventional oil and gas reservoirs but chen said pathlines could also reflect fluid migration in more complicated reservoirs the calculations could also work with gas injections easily tracking and displaying whether carbon dioxide or hydrogen penetrates deeply into a storage reservoir or migrates to a place of high leakage risk we could even extend this to geothermal problems said chen like fluids thermal energy can also be traced though heat flow is more intangible this could visualize any subsurface flow whether fluid or heat the potential is there
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six faculty members from the wm michael barnes 64 department of industrial and systems engineering received recognition from the institute of industrial and systems engineers (iise) during its annual conference in may i am proud of our faculty and how they are representing industrial engineering at the national level said department head dr lewis ntaimo two professors were named 2022 fellows the highest classification of iise membership it is a great honor to be elected as a fellow dr amarnath banerjee said i would like to thank my department colleagues for nominating me for the award and our peers in iise who selected me for the award dr zhijian zj pei said he was grateful to be named a fellow industrial and systems engineering is one of the best engineering disciplines pei said we find better ways to make products and provide services both my children have degrees in industrial engineering dr hamid parsaei professor received two awards: the albert g holzman distinguished educator award and the joint publishers book-of-the-year award i extend my heartfelt thanks to many colleagues who took a chance on me over the past 38 years by granting me the opportunity to work with them and benefit from their wisdom experience and guidance parsaei said dr alaa elwany associate professor received the george l smith international award for excellence in promotion of industrial engineering award elwany promotes industrial engineering at the eindhoven university of technology in the netherlands by organizing workshops that involve prominent participants from three continents to promote stochastic operations research and its applications he has also contributed to training students to solve core industrial engineering problems at leading organizations such as philips healthcare and asml and organized study abroad opportunities for students through the arab academy for science and technology in egypt engineering is a discipline with no borders and i have been particularly fortunate for having gotten the opportunity to engage with some of the finest members of the international industrial engineering community elwany said dr ranjana mehta associate professor received the award for technical innovation in industrial engineering which honors an innovative technical contribution to the industrial engineering profession that may be recognized through either theory design application implementation or leadership research and development efforts in my lab translate the fundamental science of neuroergonomics into meaningful industrial engineering tools practices and workplace safety standards mehta said dr farzan sasangohar assistant professor received the dr hamed k eldin outstanding early career ie in academia award which recognizes individuals in academia who have demonstrated outstanding characteristics in education leadership professionalism and potential in industrial engineering i am grateful for the recognition i have received for my early career research teaching service and my overall scholarly and practical contributions sasangohar said winning this award would not have been possible without the inspiration i have received from my mentors colleagues and students all six were recognized in a ceremony in seattle washington
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in january 2021 texas a&m universitys formula sae a student organization that builds different formula cars for competitions debuted a new team formula electric (formula e) which focuses on building formula-style cars with pure electric engines the team will be competing with their first-ever formula electric car on june 15 2022 in detroit at the international speedway luis garcia graduate student and project manager for formula e described the team as an opportunity for young engineering students to gain experience in the complete engineering design process in our classes we only learn so much said garcia we are taught the fundamentals of the theories we are supposed to know but formula e is a place where students can apply them not only physically but throughout the entire process from scratch to the final product during the complete engineering process students research past designs similar to what they are trying to create design components such as parts and materials that they will need based on what they have learned and construct and manufacture them when finished students validate their work by making sure that the analysis they made in the beginning was correct and that the vehicle works this provides students with a lot of skills for the automotive industry and can be applied to any engineering field because of that common process said garcia garcia serves as a point of contact for the team and when there is a problem the students go to him for guidance and work together to create solutions he oversees the entire team and makes sure they continue on the right path to success this is a first-year team and there is no blueprint we can follow since no one else has done it before said garcia we are truly learning from scratch and i just try my best to help out the team dr srikanth saripalli professor in the j mike walker '66 department of mechanical engineering and director of center for autonomous vehicles and sensor emphasized that the team is filled with engineering students of all disciplines he said there is a high demand for manufacturing electric vehicles there has been a push toward electric-based transportation said saripalli every major manufacturer of passenger vehicles has decided they will focus on electric vehicles over the next decade primarily because of emissions saripalli said major companies such as tesla and toyota have moved to texas to begin manufacturing so as an important venue for electrical and mechanical engineers it was important for texas a&m to get into the electric business throughout this one-year process formula e not only helps students apply their fundamental knowledge from courses to the building of the cars but also helps them build teamwork communication and leadership skills while also acknowledging that everyone has different skillsets communication is key and there are many moments that could have gone better if there was communication garcia said it is impossible to know everything and there will always be someone else that is a subject-matter expert but this is motivation to always keep learning
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texas a&ms formula e team will be competing with their first-ever formula electric car on june 15 in detroit at the international speedway stay up to date with the team during this competition by downloading the formula sae app and searching the team number 244
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nuclear forensics involves the analysis of nuclear materials to determine their origin and history in support of investigations into nuclear security events dr sunil chirayath is conducting research to develop new methods for nuclear detection as a member of the consortium for monitoring technology and verification (mtv) led by the university of michigan
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chirayath is an associate professor in the department of nuclear engineering director of the texas a&m center for nuclear security science and policy initiatives and the projects principal investigator at texas a&m university he is focusing on nuclear forensics methodology development and testing and verification including neutronics simulations radiochemical experimental efforts and nondestructive and destructive assay of irradiated uranium and plutonium samples the nuclear forensics methodology development involves machine learning and maximum likelihood statistical techniques this methodology will provide demonstratable proof for us government agencies to identify the origins of plutonium produced in foreign nuclear fuel cycles if such material is subjected to experimental analysis the consortium is funded by a five-year $25-million award from the us department of energys national nuclear security administration with the focus on developing new methods to detect and deter nuclear proliferation activities and to educate the next generation of nuclear security professionals under the direction of dr sara pozzi of the university of michigan the consortium is composed of 14 universities and 13 national laboratories the overarching goal of the mtv is to significantly advance the national capability to detect and characterize foreign nuclear weapons development programs and detect activities not in compliance with current treaty obligations the mtv plans to meet this goal by conducting research focused on three technical thrust areas: fundamentals of nuclear particle physics; signals and source terms for nuclear nonproliferation; and nuclear explosion monitoring cross-cutting areas of mtv include modeling and simulation nuclear policy and education and outreach chirayaths research team mainly contributes to the mtv thrust area of signals and source terms for nuclear nonproliferation in addition to the cross-cutting areas of modeling and simulation and education and outreach the consortium project at texas a&m supports three nuclear engineering doctoral students and engages four nuclear engineering undergraduate students in research and collaborates with lawrence livermore national laboratory and sandia national laboratories in this research endeavor students are also offered internship opportunities to expand training and research activities at national laboratories through their close collaboration with the national laboratories the activities at texas a&m are supporting the us governments need to grow the nuclear forensics workforce in the us through training job-ready experts in the field along with the university of michigan and texas a&m the consortium includes columbia university; the georgia institute of technology; the massachusetts institute of technology; penn state university; princeton university; the university of california berkeley; the university of florida; the university of hawaii; the university of new mexico; the university of tennessee knoxville; the university of wisconsin; and virginia polytechnic institute and state university
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with an increase in commercial space flight and further exploration of our solar system on the horizon there is a growing need for more robust integrated circuits or chips capable of weathering the harsh and damaging effects of radiation to which satellites and spacecraft are exposed david dolt a doctoral student in the department of electrical and computer engineering at texas a&m university is working alongside his faculty advisor and professor dr sam palermo to design self-healing radiation-hardened integrated circuits these integrated circuits or chips are designed for the space environment with special circuit techniques that allow them to heal after experiencing damage from radiation to accomplish this dolt incorporates sensor circuits that monitor the different parts of the chip to ensure that everything is operating as it should if something changes these sensor circuits are able to vary things in the main circuit to restore the chip to a nominal working condition and compensate for the radiation-induced performance degradation we are looking at developing a healing methodology that utilizes a micro-heating system that will restore devices with radiation-induced defects to a nominal state dolt said dolt measures the effects of radiation on these chips using two types of testing techniques first he performs a total ionizing dose test which exposes the chip to an equivalent long-term term dose of radiation that degrades the circuits nominal performance as it would in a space environment over many years he also performs single-event effect testing which is when high-energy particles penetrate the silicon chip and cause instantaneous current pulses or glitches in the circuit dolt measures the sensitivity of a circuit to single-event effects at the texas a&m cyclotron institute
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we use the texas a&m cyclotron institutes particle accelerator to irradiate the chips and then measure how many upsets occur while we're irradiating it to test the sensitivity of the chip dolt said long-term effects of radiation include disruptions in circuit operation degradation and a limited lifetime dolts ultimate goal is to design chips for space applications such as satellites space vehicles or spacecraft that are more impervious to radiation and subsequently have extended lifetimes to accomplish this in the past chips were manufactured using technology nodes that are inherently robust to radiation the downside is that these chips are expensive to manufacture and have slow performance and high power many companies are still using these old parts in their systems because of their inherent robustness but now with commercial spaceflight and other contemporary needs companies are looking for faster smaller and less expensive chips that can withstand the harsh environment of space the impact is figuring out hardened-by-design techniques to make our constantly evolving technology nodes as robust to radiation as some of these older radiation-hardened technology nodes dolt said you can then have state-of-the-art performance and manufacture chips with lower power and area as well as competitive radiation performance dolts research is supported by the air force research laboratory there are still a lot of unknowns about this testing and designing these circuits he said its a good area where you can come up with new things and discover new things without being suffocated by all that has already been accomplished theres a lot to learn and understand in the area and there's a lot of innovation that im excited to continue exploring
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dr dilma da silva professor and holder of the ford motor company design professorship ii in the department of computer science and engineering at texas a&m university was recently named director of the national science foundations (nsf) division of computing and communication foundations (ccf) for a three-year term effective july 11 2022 i am thrilled to have this opportunity to serve the nsf while remaining a faculty member at texas a&m said da silva it is such an exciting time in computing and engineering the research and education funded by ccf have had a tremendous impact on the evolution of computing and this is just the beginning computer technology is now embedded in virtually all aspects of our society amplifying the need for foundational research and the urgency in enabling emerging technologies that advance our well-being the ccf administers research and education activities that seek advances in computing and communication theory computer and computational science algorithms and architecture and design of hardware and software in addition projects supported by the ccf investigate revolutionary computing paradigms based on emerging scientific ideas and integrate research and education activities to prepare future generations of computer scientists and engineers as division director da silva will also serve as a member of the nsfs directorate for computer information science and engineering leadership team during her term she will remain a full-time employee at texas a&m da silva holds a doctorate and masters degree in computer science from the georgia institute of technology and the university of são paulo respectively her research interests include operating systems distributed computing cloud computing and high-end computing
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fluxworks a developer and manufacturer of magnetic gears and magnetic gear-integrated motors took the grand prize and more at the eighth annual texas a&m new ventures competition (tnvc) the annual event hosted by the texas a&m engineering experiment station (tees) and texas a&m university innovation partners recognizes some of the most innovative startups in texas bryton praslicka president and ceo of fluxworks competed with other startups throughout texas at tnvc to win the $35 000 first-place prize and several other sponsored prizes for its magnetic gear technology which has improved reliability and reduced maintenance costs compared to its counterpart the mechanical gear magnetic gears are like mechanical gears they change high-speed low-torque rotation to high-torque low-speed rotation gears are useful because they help reduce the size weight and capital expense of many motor-generator systems but magnetic gears are contactless so they don't need lubrication which has the potential to eliminate the major issues associated with mechanical gears such as frequent maintenance and reliability issues they may also significantly reduce the risk of failure in the event of an overload praslicka said they the company has already received interest in its magnetic gears from commercial and military delivery drone manufacturers air taxi startups wind turbine manufacturers space robotics companies and nasa as well as surgical robotic actuator companies all interested in the benefits of magnetic gears so the impact of their new technology could be huge the prize pool for this years competition was more than $475 000 in cash and in-kind services in all $2 860 000 in prizes have been given out during the eight years of the competition and praslicka was excited to be the latest grand prize winner additionally the startup won the aggieland business park/brazos valley economic development corporation launch prize the knobbe martens prize the versa business partners prize and the stibbs & co prize but the competition is important for startup companies like fluxworks well beyond the cash prizes having incorporated just six months ago being at the competition and experiencing this momentum is incredible praslicka said in fact the team wants to keep the growth organic and sustainable so while at the competition we were focusing on seeking more business leadership and building our advisory board to be sure we make the right steps at the right pace winning the competition felt like it validated the hard work we have put in so far and gives us the energy to keep going even when times are hard this has already led to so many connections which is helping us build our business team the funds and partnership are helping stimulate our organic sustainable growth aimed at promoting the commercialization of emerging technology tnvc recognizes companies with high-growth potential like fluxworks and helps them effectively execute their ideas and advance product development tnvc provides a great return for its stakeholders here at texas a&m as well as its participants said chris scotti tnvc chair and director of new ventures texas a&m university innovation partners sure science- and engineering-based companies from across the state of texas get an opportunity to compete for high-value prizes but even more importantly they get exposure to resources and make connections that act as a springboard for their technologies journey to market for texas a&m specifically he said tnvc also is a friendly opportunity for spinout and alumni-led companies to test their mettle against their peers and for the entire texas a&m university system to showcase its offerings such as tees- and texas a&m health-sponsored research this couldnt be more evident with this years winner being a texas a&m engineering spinout scotti said one of the things about fluxworks that stood out to the judges this year was doctoral candidate bryton praslickas charismatic yet humble approach demonstrating that he had the technical chops while asking the well-connected audience to help him in his search for business-savvy leadership they are now at the top of an already elite group of texas businesses with groundbreaking technologies we look forward to watching fluxworks and all the tnvc 2022 competitors progress over the coming years visit here for more information on fluxworks and a full list of the tnvc winners
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dr robert ambrose received the 2022 thomas a edison patent award bestowed by the american society of mechanical engineers (asme) recognizing his role in creating safer robots for use in outer space established in 1997 the award highlights the creativity of a patented device or process that has the potential of significantly enhancing some aspect of mechanical engineering according to the asme ambrose serves as the j mike walker '66 chair professor in the j mike walker '66 department of mechanical engineering at texas a&m university he also serves as director for space and robotics initiatives for the texas a&m engineering experiment station and is a member of the national academy of engineering ambrose came to texas a&m from nasa where he served as chief of the software robotics and simulation division at the johnson space center with the support of his previous team at nasa ambrose developed robots that are safe to operate around people he implemented concepts utilized elsewhere in linear actuators to create a simpler approach for a rotary actuator "it is great to celebrate invention and it is an honor to be associated with an inventor like thomas edison " ambrose said "my goal for the invention was to be able to measure the torque of a rotary actuator with a single and low-cost part the approach enabled us to build the first robot in space to work next to astronauts without people needing to monitor its safety" ambrose brings decades of experience to his research focusing on robotic manipulation and mobility specifically in relation to space robotics
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gripping the handlebars and planting his feet on the pedals three-year-old brad worsham launched his tricycle down the road to his grandmothers house he had watched previous apollo launches on her color tv and was about to watch humans land on the moon worsham 88 is an associate professor of practice in the department of aerospace engineering at texas a&m university and a recent donor of $500 000 to the aerospace engineering excellence fund he considers himself a product of the space program having grown up in a world racing to the moon and he loved it so much that when his mother let him choose the wallpaper for his new bedroom he went with a red white and blue apollo theme the wallpaper on one big wall in my room had astronauts moons saturn v rockets and all of that said worsham having astronaut wallpaper was really cool for the first five years but when i was 18 it was really stretching its coolness by that time he was leaving his childhood bedroom for college it meant a lot for worsham when he received a presidents endowed scholarship to attend texas a&m and could follow in his brothers footsteps without that scholarship i wouldnt have come to texas a&m said worsham not necessarily because we couldnt afford it but because i had opportunities elsewhere so im very sincere when i say that my donors changed the course of my life he entered texas a&m as a mechanical engineering major but during his new student conference (nsc) two aerospace faculty members at the time stan lowey and retired lt col thomas mcelmurry asked him if he had considered majoring in aerospace engineering for worsham it felt like one of those chance encounters that puts everything into place when they asked me about my major the memories of the astronaut wallpaper and going to my grandmothers house to watch the launches flashed in the front of my mind said worsham that next morning i changed my major and thats how i got to be an aerospace engineer paying it forward during his sophomore year of college worsham started working part-time with the cia once he graduated he joined them full time as an analyst that position eventually took him to australia where he met his wife liz worsham since then hes lived in the united states from the east coast to the west coast and raised two daughters he has worked as a systems engineer for lockheed martin was a consultant for the national reconnaissance office and started a company in 2009 his company was acquired by a private equity fund and he made his first gift to texas a&m establishing a presidents endowed scholarship was the first thing on my to-do list after we sold the company because it changed my lifes trajectory said worsham it felt like a debt of gratitude to the university and my donors and it was just the first obvious thing that i felt like i had to do when i had the opportunity
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