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by comparing field data with the results of the computer simulations he was able to validate the relationship between efficiency and speed understanding how speed effects detector efficiency allows surveyors to tailor their survey plans for maximum effectiveness using this relationship surveyors can be confident in their survey results conduct surveys in the most efficient way possible or identify lower thresholds for their surveys given operational constraints on their detection system falkner is an active duty lieutenant in the medical service corps of the united states navy his previous assignments include the submarine tender uss emory s land and the naval dosimetry center he received a masters degree in applied physics from johns hopkins university in 2010 the views expressed in this article reflect the results of research conducted by the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the department of the navy department of defense nor the united states government this work was supported by navy medicine professional development center as part of falkners duty-under-instruction program falkner is a military service member of the united states government his work was prepared as part of his official duties title 17 usc 105 provides that copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the united states government title 17 usc 101 defines a us government work as work prepared by a military service member or employee of the us government as part of that persons official duties
dr kristen maitland associate professor in the department of biomedical engineering and director of the microscopy and imaging center at texas a&m university has been promoted to fellow of spie maitland was recognized for "achievements in confocal microendoscopy" during a ceremony at the spie photonics west conference in san francisco california on jan 29 fellows of spie are members of distinction who have made significant scientific and technical contributions in the multidisciplinary fields of optics photonics and imaging they are honored for their technical achievement for their service to the general optics community and to spie in particular maitlands research focuses on the development of optical imaging and sensing technologies for the detection diagnosis and treatment of disease she is recognized as a leader in multimodal optical imaging and an expert in endoscopic microscopy maitland is in her second term on the spie board of directors she serves on the editorial board of the spie journal of biomedical optics and on the editorial advisory board for spie professional she has served on program committees for conferences in spie photonics west and spie/osa european conference on biomedical optics maitland received her bachelors and masters degrees in electrical engineering from cal poly san luis obispo and her doctoral degree in biomedical engineering from the university of texas at austin as an nsf igert research fellow maitland joined the faculty at texas a&m in 2008 spie is an international society advancing an interdisciplinary approach to the science and application of light more than 1 300 spie members have become fellows since the societys inception in 1955
according to an article in mashable nasas 2019 budget proposal includes funding for a new x-plane specifically a supersonic aircraft designed to travel faster than the speed of sound without generating a loud sonic boom dr dimitris lagoudas associate vice chancellor for engineering research at texas a&m university and principal investigator for the project leads a team of researchers that includes dr rodney bowersox and dr darren hartl from the department of aerospace engineering they are making recommendations to nasa on ways to reduce the massive shockwaves produced during supersonic flight the article "nasa believes its supersonic x-plane will slice our cross-country flight times in half" describes their research that subtly changes the shape of the aircraft in midflight depending on various weather conditions if nasa has its way the first x-plane prototype of this kind will take flight in 2021
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riser gas behavior was a major factor in the deepwater horizon disaster in april 2010 where an uncontrolled blowout on the macondo well caused explosions that killed 11 people sank the offshore rig and led to a hydrocarbon release in the gulf of mexico damaging the environment
to address the risks of riser gas in offshore drilling dr wesley williams a professional in residence at the craft & hawkins department of petroleum engineering at louisiana state university (lsu) and dr jerome schubert an associate professor in the harold vance department of petroleum engineering at texas a&m university are heading a joint project focusing on gaps in the understanding of riser gas behavior their project is funded with a $49 million award from the gulf research program of the national academies of sciences engineering and medicine with the use of a modified land well and several labs at both universities williams and schubert will gather data to understand and model some of the harsh conditions of offshore drilling their models and predictions mean better sensors advisory systems and equipment can be manufactured to warn about and prevent uncontrolled hydrocarbon releases or catastrophic blowout disasters in the future the project will begin by using the lsu petroleum engineering research and technology transfer laboratory and a modified 5 800-foot deep test well on the lsu campus called the gulf research well to perform simulations of kicks and gas-bubble migrations in offshore drilling muds
drilling muds are the heavy synthetic or oil-based muds circulated down the drill string behind the bit and back up the borehole to counter the pressures in a reservoir keeping liquids and gasses deep in the earth from forcing their way up the well while drilling is in progress a kick is the term for pressurized gas from a reservoir entering the borehole and mixing with the drilling mud if the kick is not stopped gas will migrate up and into the riser where it is called riser gas a riser is the conduit between a drilling rig and a well on the seafloor below weatherford deepwater well control will provide offshore muds needed for the gulf research well phase of the project with representative robert ziegler consulting on fluids and deep-water conditions the simulations will generate mud and gas datasets in controlled temperature and pressure environments the mud and gas datasets will be verified in lab-scale test environments at texas a&m using the tower lab under the direction of dr rashid hasan and the dual gradient drilling lab under the direction of schubert both labs will use scaled simulations to replicate and confirm the data and understand the physics behind riser gas behavior once this is done researchers will create computer models in the new high pressure and high temperature fluids laboratory at lsu to better predict the behavior of riser gas
the properties of mud and gas mixtures will also be measured under extreme conditions at schuberts high temperature/high pressure laboratory at texas a&m schubert will use this new data to develop a high temperature/high pressure kick-and-well-control model for gas kicks in oil-based and synthetic drilling fluids which will be superior to the water-based mud assumptions or black-oil models currently used although newer risers are designed with gas handling equipment installed in the top of the riser operations can only improve if more is known about the behavior of gas entering the synthetic drilling muds and what happens when gas reaches the riser that is why williams and schuberts research is so critical "standard operation is not to let any gas get in the riser but when youre in ultra deep water things are different " said schubert who has specialized in deepwater well-control research for many years "if we understand the process we can design a system to prevent it we can develop procedures where gas in the riser is not a problem i want incidents like the macondo (well disaster) to never happen again"
the scent of flowers that we breathe the water in the sea that we play with the colorful world around us that we explore have you ever wondered what they are made of the answer is atoms and molecules teeny-tiny particles that we cannot see with our eyes but scientists have developed many different ways to distinguish dr vladislav yakovlev professor in the department of biomedical engineering at texas a&m university has recently had a breakthrough with one of these ways raman scattering when it comes to viewing these building blocks of life this new technique attains low-background coherent raman scattering that is controlled by a tunable infrared laser raman scattering is the inelastic scattering of a photon by molecules the technique developed by yakovlev is called mid-infrared assisted coherent anti-stokes raman scattering/spectroscopy (mira cars) and is an entirely new technique this approach offers a new advantage including a potential for higher emission intensity a reduction of nonresonant four-wave mixing background preferential excitation of the anti-stokes field and simplified phasing matching conditions currently there are many different raman techniques that are widely used and range from microscopic imaging high-resolution spectroscopy and even the detection of fatality inducing spores such as anthrax yakovlev noted that the current challenge at hand is the availability of mid-ir sources researchers and companies alike are steadily pushing the boundaries of what mid-ir tools are capable of in addition infrared light is absorbed by water and carbon dioxide this in turn could limit the available wavelength if the beam is formed within open air or within biological samples however as demonstrated by andrew traverso and brett hokr two former students in yakovlevs group two-photon excitation lifts most of such restrictions and benefits a background free and highly efficient cars technique that will greatly enhance the sensitivity of current methods the theory for the new raman scattering method was developed by dr marlan scully zhenhuan yi and luqi yuan of the institute of quantum science and engineering and department of physics and astronomy at texas a&m their experimental research eventually became the groundwork for yakovlev the research conducted at texas a&m was funded by the air force office of scientific research office of naval research and the national science foundation
students from all walks of life enter texas a&m university in pursuit of degree for some they dont even step into a classroom douglas compton graduated last fall as the department of mechanical engineerings first graduate in the distance learning graduate program compton graduated with a bachelors degree in mechanical engineering from west texas a&m university and went into the workforce as an engineer for seven years working as a mechanical engineer for companies in the houston area and las vegas in 2015 while living in houston compton said he decided to go back to school for his masters degree to potentially expand future employment opportunities in project management "i wanted to complete that degree online while working because i didnt want to be out of work-i have a wife and a 5-year-old " compton said "i wanted to pursue a degree and earn money at the same time" he said he always wanted to get masters degree at texas a&m and began researching distance learning programs he started his masters degree in fall 2015 the first semester the university began offering the distance learning masters program he graduated in december 2017 with a masters of engineering degree having taken two classes every semester though technology helped him communicate with professors and fellow students while working compton said the distance still presented challenges "you dont get the face-to-face time through email or phone and you have to coordinate with students schedules for group projects " compton said "working full-time time was extremely thin but i was able to still do it some people say its hard for professionals to have interaction with students but the way that this program was done it is very possible" compton now works in dallas and offered some advice to students who may be considering or are already part of the distance learning program "see it through keep working and keep in contact with professors " compton said "while i did not see (my professors) i made sure they knew who i was"
dr james cross professor at auburn university and former doctoral student from the department of computer science and engineering at texas a&m university was named a 2017 distinguished member of the association for computing machinery cross is receiving this distinction for his educational contributions to the field of computing his recent research efforts include jgrasp a software development environment with integrated software visualization tools for computer science education he has authored or co‑authored over 100 technical papers in the areas of software methodology testing reverse engineering program visualization environments and software engineering education he received his bachelors degree in mathematics from the university of houston in 1971 his masters degree in mathematics from sam houston state university in 1976 and his phd in computer science from texas a&m in 1986
rachal thomassie a former advisor in the texas a&m university department of mechanical engineering is pursuing her masters degree in interdisciplinary engineering at texas a&m with the hope that she will be able to continue to help students in a whole new way "ive always had a desire to help people and to devote my work efforts toward that value in some way " thomassie said "working with students these past years i have seen my direct and immediate impact on their lives it is a very gratuitous and humbling feeling" thomassie received her undergraduate degree from texas a&m in mechanical engineering then moved to florida to work for the department of defense she worked for a year in mission and ministry work then changed her career path to education when she accepted a position as an academic advisor for the college of architecture at texas a&m she later moved to the college of engineering in the mechanical engineering department where she was an advisor for four years realizing the impact her work and compassion had on students lives thomassie decided to make a change and further her education so she could eventually help more students "id like to make a broader impact by developing programs that support engineering students and aid in their development as people and as future engineers " thomassie said "i also want to guide students academically through teaching and connecting the classroom learning experience to the real world" the master of science in interdisciplinary engineering (itde) has been the perfect fit for thomassie the flexible program accommodates accomplished engineering students whose research interests cross engineering disciplines and colleges interested in systems engineering and engineering student learning thomassie found itde to be ideal because the major allowed her to get an education in a custom degree plan tailored toward her needs "the flexibility of itde has allowed me to create my own degree plan around my interest and research in engineering education and systems engineering " thomassie said "since a&m doesnt currently have a specific program in this area i choose itde"this in turn will help thomassie reach her career goals and stay true to her passion for helping students at texas a&m "my goal is to create and direct programs that enhance engineering student development and engagement and to teach engineering students " thomassie said thomassie was additionally assisted in reaching her goals when she received the bk krezner memorial reentry scholarship through the society of women engineers which is awarded to a nontraditional reentry student who wishes to enter the workforce as an engineer
dr xingyong song assistant professor in the department of engineering technology and industrial distribution with a joint appointment in the department of mechanical engineering was recently presented the prestigious doctoral new investigator award from the american chemical society (acs) for his research on autonomous shale oil drilling each year the acs holds a highly selective competition through peer review to award funding to top young researchers with a track record of producing innovative fundamental research established in 1954 the goal of the competition has been to support "advanced scientific education and the careers of scientists to aid in significantly increasing the worlds energy options" the award provides funding of $110 000 for two years and will support song on some fundamental studies in his proposed research "dynamics modeling and process control of drilling system for unconventional oil and gas production" shale oil is a "tight oil" trapped in hard rocks that in the past has been very difficult to extract since the united states has large reserves of shale oil it has become a priority to engineers to figure out how to ease the process of extraction in addition to the possible transition from the us being an oil and gas importer to a producer shale oil and gas can potentially be cleaner than its crude counterpart however extraction is highly difficult due to the depth of shale oil and the requirement of new types of drills that must operate in a 3-d space "there are three major challenges to shale oil extraction " says song "cost environmental impact and safety" songs research focuses on drilling automation - transitioning from a human drilling operator to a drill that can operate itself similar to a self-driving car or spacecraft "machine learning can optimize the drilling path using analysis and data in ways that a human operator cannot " says song "you can potentially remove human error and effectively drill in a three-dimensional path" song is focused on building the algorithm that autonomous drills would use to make intelligent decisions on their own resulting in cost-effective environmentally friendly and safe shale oil drilling autonomous drilling could also save companies crucial time in locating and extracting the oil allowing them to utilize their drillers in other areas that require human control
texas a&m university researchers are studying seal leaks in subsea and aging oil well production facilities with the potential to greatly increase the efficiency of multiple-phase pumping and compressors turbomachinery dr luis san andrés mast-childs chair professor in the turbomachinery laboratory along with graduate assistant researcher xueliang lu a phd candidate in mechanical engineering conducted a series of measurements on the leakage and dynamic forced performance of wet seals such as pump liquid seals mixed with increasing contents of gas the test results show the gas or liquid content affects the system pumping efficiency and reliability with a dramatic impact on efficiency recorded with only a few droplets of liquid the experimental results validate mixture model predictions produced by san andrés in the early 2010s by better understanding the role seals have in the machinery researchers can help industry officials continue to enhance pumping efficiency increase reliability by reducing vibrations and ensure availability for extended operation times the researchers said an electric submersible pump (esp) manufacturer gave them positive comments on their work and said their data may help them design novel seal types toward improving the life of seals in their esps the current design can only survive 350 hours of operation about 1/100 of the desired reliability the team wrote a paper recording their results which was recently recognized with the best paper award at the american society of mechanical engineers turbo-expo 2017 selected from 133 papers accepted in the structure & dynamics division their papers title is leakage drag power and rotordynamic force coefficients of an air in oil (wet) annular seal the turbomachinery research consortium (trc) has sponsored the research for the past three years trc members original equipment manufacturers and end users envision more and more applications of multiple phase pumps for the subsea oil and gas industry san andrés and lu said wet seals must retain their leakage restriction ability without impairing the dynamic performance of the machinery follow up lectures are scheduled for presentation at the asia turbomachinery symposium and the turbomachinery symposium later this year more research developments will be published at the gas turbine conference with another journal paper already accepted the research opens a door for the future research career of lu as it verifies the likelihood of using air/gas injection to actively control leakage and force coefficient in pump seals and hydraulic turbomachinery in general san andrés said
during the recent science technology engineering and math (stem) 4 innovation conference spark! texas a&m engineerings education outreach program launched their new mobile trailer designed to help texas children get excited about stem fields nearly 200 educators from across texas attended the conference and had the opportunity to see the 24-foot trailer in which students and teachers will be able to do anything from 3-d printing and welding to learning about robotics and cybersecurity "we want to get students excited about engineering and we have to start with young ones " said shelly tornquist director of spark! and pk-12 engineering education outreach "we want them to know what a screwdriver is and how to solve problems by making things" the stem 4 innovation conference for k-12 education is an interactive experiential event for k-12 stem educators administrators and counselors from across the state of texas the texas a&m college of engineering and the texas a&m engineering experiment station in partnership with the college of education and human development and the college of science hosts the conference which provides workshops tours speakers and hands-on activities
texas a&m is headed to austin texas to the south by southwest (sxsw) conference to bring our outstanding thought leadership research and innovations during innovation week as a worldwide leader in research discovery and innovation this will showcase the superb work happening at our university to a global audience in particular dr gerard coté director of the center of remote health technologies and systems will represent the department of biomedical engineering at the sxsw conference in a panel titled disrupting traditional healthcare with innovation and technology the purpose of this panel is to bring into light some of the current issues that traditional healthcare is facing and how innovations and technology are a driving force to help revolutionize the industry due to the rising costs of healthcare and the large demand for professionals within the medical field traditional healthcare is in need of innovative research in affordable point-of-care health technologies and engineered systems that can enhance the health and quality of life for individuals while reducing the cost burden of the healthcare system coté was awarded the prestigious national science foundation (nsf) engineering research center (erc) on precise advanced technologies and health systems for underserved populations (paths-up) the paths-up vision is to change the paradigm for the health of underserved populations by developing revolutionary and cost-effective technologies and systems at the point-of-care in the early 19th century most patients stayed at home and doctors went to the patient in order to provide health care eventually public hospitals emerged originally to care for the poor but expanded and improved to attract upper middle class said coté by developing innovative health technologies to collect data model that data and send it to the health care provider at the right time they may be able to again visit the patient in their home virtually in addition dr carrie l byington who serves as dean of the texas a&m college of medicine senior vice president of the texas a&m university health science center and vice chancellor for health services of the texas a&m university system will join coté on the panel also on the panel dr roderic i pettigrew a physician-scientist and internationally recognized leader in biomedical imaging and bioengineering has a senior leadership role at both texas a&m and methodist hospital and is the ceo of the new program known as enhealth that will integrate engineering into all of the texas a&m colleges within the universitys system that are part of the healthcare enterprise dr joseph frassica is head of philips research americas and chief medical officer royal philips north america and will moderate the panel frassica is focused on leading a broad-based medical science and technology team to bring clinically meaningful innovation to the bedside the 2018 sxsw conference is friday march 9 through tuesday march 13 and this panel will be on tuesday march 13th at 3:30 pm at the courtyard marriott 300 east 4th street austin tx
with a gelling agent commonly used in preparing pastries researchers from the inspired nanomaterials and tissue engineering laboratory have successfully fabricated an injectable bandage to stop bleeding and promote wound healing in a recent article nanoengineered injectable hydrogels for wound healing application published in acta biomaterialia dr akhilesh k gaharwar assistant professor in the department of biomedical engineering at texas a&m university uses kappa-carrageenan and nanosilicates to form injectable hydrogels to promote hemostasis (the process to stop bleeding) and facilitate wound healing via a controlled release of therapeutics injectable hydrogels are promising materials for achieving hemostasis in case of internal injuries and bleeding as these biomaterials can be introduced into a wound site using minimally invasive approaches said gaharwar an ideal injectable bandage should solidify after injection in the wound area and promote a natural clotting cascade in addition the injectable bandage should initiate wound healing response after achieving hemostasis the study uses a commonly used thickening agent known as kappa-carrageenan obtained from seaweed to design injectable hydrogels hydrogels are a 3-d water swollen polymer network similar to jell-o simulating the structure of human tissues
when kappa-carrageenan is mixed with clay-based nanoparticles injectable gelatin is obtained the charged characteristics of clay-based nanoparticles provide hemostatic ability to the hydrogels specifically plasma protein and platelets form blood adsorption on the gel surface and trigger a blood clotting cascade interestingly we also found that these injectable bandages can show a prolonged release of therapeutics that can be used to heal the wound said giriraj lokhande a graduate student in gaharwars lab and first author of the paper the negative surface charge of nanoparticles enabled electrostatic interactions with therapeutics thus resulting in the slow release of therapeutics this research is funded by the national science foundations chemical bioengineering environmental and transport systems division and the national institutes of healths national institute of biomedical imaging and bioengineering see more details about the inspired nanomaterials and tissue engineering laboratory here
dr james e hubbard jr has joined the faculty of the department of mechanical engineering at texas a&m university as a texas a&m engineering experiment station (tees) research distinguished professor before joining texas a&m hubbard served as the samuel p langley distinguished professor at the university of maryland college park and director of the morpheus laboratory and the center for adaptive aerospace vehicle technology through the national institute of aerospace hubbard received his bachelors masters and doctoral degrees all in mechanical engineering from the massachusetts institute of technology he is known internationally for his work in aeroacoustics for noise control adaptive structures spatially distributed transducers and the extension of modem time domain control methodologies into the spatial domain for the real-time control of distributed systems hubbard is a member of the national academy of engineering a fellow of the american society of mechanical engineers a fellow of the american institute of aeronautics and astronautics and a senior member of the international society for optical engineering his research interests include: smart structure design and control; morphing aircraft technology; control of distributed parameter systems; smart skin sensing technology; ultra-low power energy management and storage; self-powered wireless sensor networks; energy harvesting; and internet of things
all nuclear facilities contain assets that must be protected against security threats threats may be in the form of outsider adversaries seeking to steal materials to produce nuclear weapons or dirty bombs or to attack the facility to cause a dangerous release of radioactive materials adversaries may also collude with insiders people with authorized access to the facilities protection elementslike barriers detectors alarms doors and so forthare installed at a facility as part of the physical protection system (pps) to detect the intrusion of adversaries and then delay their progress in order to give the response force such as the police time to interrupt the intrusion and neutralize the adversary analysts evaluate the effectiveness of a pps by calculating the probability that an adversary would be stopped by a response force for each possible path an adversary could take to get from outside the facility to the target there is currently a method used to measure the physical protection system effectiveness called the estimate of adversary sequence interruption (easi) in which single adversary intrusion paths are analyzed one at a time however imagine if the facility is massive with many different possible intrusion paths analyzing these paths one at a time is not only tedious but it can also be limited in its ability to evaluate the system as a whole
yanuar (ady) setiawan a masters student with the center for nuclear security science and policy initiatives (nsspi) worked on this issue with dr sunil chirayath director of nsspi and an associate professor in the nuclear engineering department and developed a software code that can measure the effectiveness of the physical protection system using a multi-path analysis that includes all of the possible intrusion path options in the facility the developed code utilizes a stochastic approachcompared to the deterministic approach used in the easi modeland is able to analyze the whole facility the code also incorporates considerations of the uncertainty in the performance of the protection elements of the pps and is capable of analyzing the various adversary intrusion strategies as well as the possibility of an insider helping the adversary in the intrusion process according to setiawan beside the automation of adversary analysis by the software code the combination of the ppss performance adversarys strategy and insiders involvement in the multi-path analysis simulations may give results which are not provided by the single path easi analysis that are useful for the pps analysts conservative approach of design and analysis setiawan completed his undergraduate degree in nuclear engineering at universitas gadjah mada in indonesia in 2015 he will be receiving his masters degree in nuclear engineering from texas a&m university in may 2018 and then continue as a doctoral student with nsspi setiawans research is fully sponsored by the government of the republic of indonesia through the indonesian endowment fund for education institution under the authority of the ministry of finance
the manner in which students learn and retain content from higher education courses is constantly evolving because of this progression faculty members need to find innovative ways to teach courses that have been taught the same way for years this opens new doors for creativity and change four faculty members in the texas a&m university college of engineering were awarded a grant from the instructional technology services (its) innovative pedagogy grant program this program offers texas a&m faculty and staff the opportunity to learn how to skillfully interlace technology into an online or hybrid course out of 16 awards three faculty members from the department of computer science and engineering and one professor from the department of aerospace engineering were presented an award to transform engineering education in their respective courses
dr aakash tyagi professor of practice is focused on rebuilding the computer organization course content in a pseudo-flipped format where classroom activities include elements of traditional homework and classwork weaved together with real-time feedback on conceptual learning through this grant its will help with audio video and graphic content creation to realize the concept his ongoing vision for this course is to modernize content to include real-world computing devices and applications and their engineering tradeoffs and to increase student motivation and retention of the foundational principles of computer organization
shawn lupoli instructional assistant professor is focusing on creating advancements in the data structures and algorithms course offered to students in computer science and engineering and other engineering majors lupoli plans to convert the traditional class to a hybrid course with mentoring and faster feedback that would utilize several technologies to enhance the overall learning process one technology lupoli would like to implement is a course management system that would contain the content order of the course and provide simulated exercises to enforce student learning with this process in place class time can be better utilized this can eliminate lecture time in material that does not need to be covered enabling deeper discussion and understanding of the already difficult topics in data structures
dr paula dewitte associate professor of practice is focused on developing an online course on cybersecurity risk the risk assessment and management course provides students with the knowledge and skills to assess analyze and manage risk to make good business and technical decisions as stated in her proposal the initial goal is to have this course available for a minor in cybersecurity as well as for graduate and certificate programs throughout the colleges to meet the demand for myriad types of cybersecurity workers projected to be two million by 2020 the ultimate goal is to build a library of case studies for students from various disciplines and interests to make the course more worthwhile in building the knowledge and skills required by industry
dr john whitcomb aerospace engineering professor hopes to create a much more active learning environment in the aero structural analysis course that introduces students to the theory and use of finite element analysis whitcomb believes that there is a difference between providing students with numerous learning resources and having the students take advantage of those resources utilizing digital technology to motivate students to take ownership of the concepts learned in class is an essential component of whitcombs teaching philosophy the redesigned course will be rooted in student-curated digital notes that will allow for the integration of static content such as that provided by a standard textbook with resources ranging from videos that introduce key concepts to engaging computational tools that encourage exploration students will also have the opportunity to revisit a lecture via a recorded video with whitcomb a teaching assistant or a classmate and discuss questions that they did not realize they needed to ask at the time of the lecture or were too shy to ask as stated in his proposal the onenote class notebook app will be used as the framework for gluing together an accessible interactive electronic textbook that is tailored for each student
assistant professor dr justin wilkerson and his team are working to advance the state-of-the-art capabilities of new protection materials for defense wilkerson the james j cain 51 faculty fellow ii in the department of mechanical engineering at texas a&m university recently received a two-year award to continue his work with the materials in extreme dynamic environments (mede) collaborative research alliance (cra) for his proposal titled novel void nucleation models enabling higher fidelity magnesium spall strength predictions this research is sponsored by the united states army research laboratory traditionally new protection materials have been developed through an edisonian trial-and-error process which typically requires decades of laborious experimentation paid for by millions of taxpayer dollars wilkerson said our goal here is to demonstrate the utility of computational modeling in accelerating and reducing the costs of the development of the next-generation of lightweight protection materials for the soldier this most recent award comes in a series of related mede cra projects wilkerson has successfully led for the past few years the objective of the mede cra is to bring academia government and industry together to establish the capability to design materials for use in specific dynamic environments especially high strain-rate applications in this particular project we aim to improve the damage nucleation criterion in our crystal plasticity framework for dynamic failure of light-weight magnesium alloys wilkerson said this new capability will enhance our likelihood of computationally discovering a new magnesium alloy with the desired ballistic performance wilkersons research interests include deformation and failure dynamic behavior of materials impact mechanics shock physics materials in extreme environments and planetary science click here for more information about the mede collaborative research alliance and its research
an interdisciplinary team of researchers at texas a&m university has been awarded a division of computing and communication foundations grant by the national science foundation to develop a gut-microbial investigation model that can identify critical dietary risk factors that cause colorectal cancer the three-year $350 000 project is a direct outcome of the texas a&m engineering experiment stations interdisciplinary seed grants for strategic initiatives which provided initial funding to establish the collaborative research effort the project titled minimum mean square error estimation and control of partially observed boolean dynamical systems with applications in metagenomics aims to develop and apply innovative signal processing techniques to uncover the complex interactions among microbes human cells and their metabolic products in the gut the project will produce innovative methods for estimation and control of processes that consist of the complex interactions of many switching elements such as presence and absence of a particular microbial species in the gut which are only indirectly observed through noisy biomedical assays our goal is to develop a signal processing framework that formalizes the interactions of the complex ecosystem observed in the human gut such as the microbial communities and their interactions with the gut epithelial cells said dr ulisses m braga-neto associate professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at texas a&m and the principal investigator of the project this framework will allow us to study the effects of nutritional supplementation on this complex ecosystem in terms of changes in the microbial diversity and human gut gene expression in cell-signaling pathways the project will provide life scientists with computational tools for biochemical pathway discovery as well as rational intervention design as in optimal drug scheduling and diet modifications to treat human disease the project will also provide training opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students preparing them for highly interdisciplinary biomedical research braga-neto is assisted by an interdisciplinary collaborative team that includes dr robert s chapkin distinguished professor in the department of nutrition and food science at texas a&m agrilife; dr arul jayaraman ray b nesbitt endowed chair professor in the artie mcferrin department of chemical engineering; dr xiaoning qian assistant professor in the electrical and computer engineering department; and dr ivan ivanov clinical associate professor of bioinformatics in the department of veterinary physiology and pharmacology dr johanna w lampe associate division director of the cancer prevention program in the division of public health sciences at the fred hutchinson cancer research center is an external collaborator
the energy was high saturday night when a team of students learned they had taken the top prize at the open minds showcase during the venturewell open 2018 conference in austin texas for their creation of a device that could bring light and electricity to millions of children around the world currently unable to study at night for the 10 students the aftermath of the 48-hour design challenge hosted by texas a&m universitys engineering entrepreneurship program last month culminated in their winning first place and being awarded $3 000 for the continuation of their product
it was very hard she said we used candles to study since this is a problem i faced in my village i wanted to solve this edu-lite is a collaborative team comprised of five texas a&m students and five students from the university of technology in yatanarpon cyber city myanmar the teams were named first and second place winners respectively during invent for the planet a 48-hour design challenge hosted by texas a&m universitys engineering entrepreneurship program last month after invent for the planet winners were announced rodney boehm director of engineering entrepreneurship at texas a&m invited the team from myanmar to college station so the two teams could collaborate it was the first time any of the students from myanmar had ever left their country or flown in an airplane the team spent the past week collaborating on their designs when combined the two devices create an overall solution to the problem of extending education into the evening in areas without electricity the texas a&m students focused on creating an inexpensive and lightweight lighting platform while the university of technology in myanmar students focused on creating a source of electricity modeled after a sewing machine treadle for both teams being able to work together all week and then win first place was unforgettable
i could not be more proud of these students they bridged cultures to work extremely hard together to come up with an overall solution to this problem that affects millions of children around the world boehm said to see their hard work and dedication pay off at the open minds showcase was amazing it was especially remarkable because edu-lite had some steep competition at the showcase there were 13 teams in the competition boehm said each had tables that showed their products and prototypes most teams had been working on their solutions for nine to 12 months some teams already had products on the market or were very close to launching their product the reason i believe they won is because this combined team demonstrated a very unique solution to a real need and the story behind the team and the development was just so darn compelling boehm said almost every team member from texas a&m and the university of technology in myanmar has personally experienced not having reliable access to electricity in fact about 55 percent of the entire population in myanmar is without electricity this drove each team even harder to find a solution to this problem van lar ruat a computer engineering student from kale myanmar said she grew up without electricity freshman texas a&m engineering student an nguyen said this problem hit close to home for her as her father grew up in vietnam and had limited access to electricity to study she said he would place fireflies in an eggshell to create a small glow lamp other teammates shared similar stories of hardship which ultimately inspired them to solve this problem boehm said he hopes to see the teams continue to work together to bring this product to market
the national science foundation recently awarded a grant through the engineering education and centers (eec) unit for a new reu site on cybermanufacturing the site will engage participants in the research experience for undergraduates (reu) program in high-quality research enrichment and development experiences through a 10-week long summer research program
dr bimal nepal associate professor in the department of engineering technology and industrial distribution at texas a&m university will serve as the principal investigator of the group to increase enthusiasm and research skills in advanced manufacturing among early stage undergraduates dr satish bukkapatnam rockwell international professor in the industrial engineering department and dr prabhakar pagilla james j cain professor in mechanical engineering will serve as co-principal investigators the reu projects will leverage the diverse cybermanufacturing efforts and testbeds of the institute of material science faculty members to provide the students with a broad perspective of cybermanufacturing with a specific on three critical areas said dr nepal holleran-bowman faculty fellow these are design and planning in situ prognostics and process control and enterprise-wide optimization and coordination ten students from across the nation will be accepted each summer to participate in the program which will equip them with professional skills to enter the science technology engineering and mathematics (stem) workforce or to pursue a graduate degree the grant will begin may 2018 and end in april 2021 totaling $358 850
yong-yu jhan a student in the department of biomedical engineering at texas a&m university has been awarded a fellowship to the taiwan ministry of education jhan is currently in the second year of her doctoral program students are selected for the fellowship based on academic achievement research experience research proposals and letters of recommendation the fellowship supports a variety of majors including: business history politics arts education and science technology engineering and mathematics (stem) fields and are awarded to 125 graduate students every year jhan plans to use the funding to provide financial support for her studies and further her doctoral research project i felt like i met the requirement for the fellowship and i felt it is a good opportunity for me to practice my research proposal writing said jhan i am blessed that i have been given the opportunity to be awarded a fellowship that encourages me to work harder on my current research jhan has been working in dr corey bishops pharmacoengineering laboratory since last september focusing her research on developing a stable and convenient drug delivery platform for pulmonary delivery the labs goal is to explore combinational therapeutic formulations for cancer and infection diseases including small molecules and gene therapy this year 17 engineering students received the fellowship and each recipient was awarded $16 000 per year for two years
the average distribution firm carries between 10 and 30 percent more inventory than needed the result millions of dollars are wasted that could be reinvested in competitive processes like new services or new product offerings distributors are facing forces of change that range from nontraditional competitors like amazon who have superior technology human capital and customer experience changing the way one goes to market requires new ways of thinking innovative business models and creative leadership