A team of Texas A&M University researchers have developed a weakly supervised approach that can train machine learning algorithms quickly to recognize social media text related to disasters.
The interaction between neurons and infrared light could open doors in expanding disease treatment options and improving medical devices. Researchers still aren't sure how infrared light plays a role. With the help from a U.S. Air Force grant, Dr. Alex Walsh looks for answers.
Blue whirls attracted great interest since their discovery in 2016, in part because they represent a potential new avenue for low-emission combustion. Now, a team of researchers at the University of Maryland and Texas A&M University has identified how these intriguing whirls are structured.
Researchers at Texas A&M University have created a new type of photonic chip using optical waveguides that can reliably identify the molecular composition of chemical compounds.
Calvin T. Ladner, P.E., ‘80, who served on the advisory council for the Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Texas A&M University, passed away Aug. 18. He was 62.
Jonathan Samuel, a junior engineering student at Texas A&M University, has created an intuitive, faster way to keep track of, notify and launch Zoom meetings encompassed in one application.
Dr. Tracy Hammond, professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, was recently named the director of the Institute for Engineering Education and Innovation. The appointment is effective Sept. 1 and she will devote 40% of her effort to lead the institute.
The Student Engineers' Council members saw their peers struggling with obtaining summer internships or having their internships canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Within a few weeks, they developed a plan to provide engineering students with an opportunity to participate in an internship program remotely.
Inspired by the same modeling and mathematical laws used to predict the spread of pandemics, researchers at Texas A&M University have created a model to accurately forecast the spread and recession process of floodwaters in urban road networks. With this new approach, researchers have created a simple and powerful mathematical approach to a complex problem.
The Distinguished Alumnus Award is the highest honor bestowed upon a Texas A&M University former student. Among the 2020 recipients are three Texas A&M College of Engineering graduates: industrial distribution graduate Mike Hernandez III ’83, industrial technology graduate Weldon Jaynes ’54, and petroleum engineering graduate Tim Leach ’82.
With the help of the National Science Foundation I-Corps Site program, a team of students is adapting their award-winning sanitization technology. The program provides resources and funding to further the commercialization of student products.
The Texas A&M University System has appropriated $60.3 million to build the nation’s largest enclosed hypersonic testing facility, as well as an autonomous combat vehicle testing site, at the George H.W. Bush Combat Development Complex.
Taking advantage of the unique waterfront location on the Galveston campus, Engineering Academic and Student Affairs and the Department of Ocean Engineering launched the inaugural Educating Smart Marine Aggies Robotic Technologies (eSMART) competition in spring 2020.
Dr. M. Katherine Banks, vice chancellor and dean of engineering, has appointed Dr. Lewis Ntaimo head of the Wm Michael Barnes ’64 Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University. The appointment is effective Sept. 1.
What does it take to install offshore structures in some of the most extreme conditions on Earth? Subsea engineering industry experts will share their experiences with students during a virtual information session on Aug. 21.
As with many seniors graduating from Texas A&M University, biomedical engineering student Amanda Rakoski has much to look forward to as she prepares for her upcoming graduate program at the prestigious Johns Hopkins University next fall.
Invent for the Planet, an annual competition hosted by Texas A&M University, brought together more than 800 students from nearly 40 universities around the world. The final presentations were held on July 28, 2020, where the final five teams presented virtually and the three winning innovations were announced.
Texas A&M University and the Army Research Laboratory have created a whole family of 3D printable synthetic materials whose stiffness spans a 1,000-fold range. Not just that, these materials can self-heal, have shape memory and are recyclable.
Dr. Abhishek Jain's team, through collaboration with the Departments of Gynecologic Oncology and Cancer Biology at MD Anderson Cancer Center, are gaining a better understanding on how ovarian cancer tumors work, which could lead to novel treatment options.
Using pairs of electron microscopic images, Texas A&M University researchers have developed a new image processing technique that can enhance low-resolution images and reveal new details that were otherwise not discernable.
Dr. Gerard Coté received the Walston Chubb Award for Innovation from Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Honor Society. Coté was recognized for his leadership in the development of biomedical optical systems for an array of medical applications with clinical impact.
Dr. Jeyavijayan “JV” Rajendran has been selected to participate in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Automatic Implementation of Secure Silicon program. The four-year, $75 million project aims to automate the process of incorporating security and defense mechanisms into digital integrated circuit designs.
Chemical processes add carbon nanotubes to carbon-fiber composites, but they do so unevenly, limiting the overall benefit of using nanoparticles. Using a compound that can be made from plant cellulose, researchers at Texas A&M University can now uniformly distribute carbon nanotubes on composites.
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought changes to higher education and Texas A&M University has been no exception. As the J. Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering prepares to return for the fall semester, students are ready for an atypical semester.
Dr. Vergil Eugene Stover, who served on the faculty of the Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Texas A&M University and was a researcher at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), passed away on Wednesday, July 29, 2020.
Researchers in the Wm Michael Barnes ’64 Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University are working to determine which elements of built environments affect veterans with PTSD the most, and how they can be altered to help veterans thrive.
Dr. Bimal Nepal has been elected fellow of the American Society for Engineering Management (ASEM). The ASEM Fellow is the highest membership level with the society and the honor is maintained for life.
Dr. Siddarth Misra received a grant from the Department of Energy to develop intelligent software that filters acoustic, electromagnetic and pressure measurement data, creates 3D imaging of hidden cracks and classifies crack damage within solid materials.
Dr. Roderic Pettigrew has written an essay dedicated to the memory of U.S. Congressman John Lewis to be included in the fall edition of The Bridge, the flagship quarterly publication of the National Academy of Engineering.
Jeffrey D. Moeller ‘94 has generously contributed to the Lowery Scholars Program. Distributions from this endowment will be used to provide one or more scholarships to full-time upper-level students in good standing pursuing an undergraduate degree in civil engineering at Texas A&M University.
College of Engineering researchers will play a key role in a consortium sponsored by Natura Resources, LLC to build an advanced research reactor in Texas. The $30.5 million effort to design and license a research reactor is a collaboration with three other universities.
Dr. Gerard Coté and Dr. Bonnie J. Dunbar from the Texas A&M University College of Engineering have been recognized by Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Honor Society, for their exemplary achievements in science and engineering.
