Mechanical Engineering faculty member, Dr. Vinayak Krishnamurthy was invited to the ASME Rising Stars of Mechanical Engineering Celebration and Showcase at IMECE 2024 this Fall. This event will be an excellent opportunity for Dr. Krishnamurthy to highlight his research! More about the ASME Rising Stars of Mechanical Engineering Celebration and Showcase: "This prestigious event is designed to honor early-career researchers who have received recognition through NSF CAREER, ONR

"From Salty to Sip-Worthy: Desalination Breakthroughs Seed Funding: Banerjee and Dhir Scaling Desalination for Disaster and Rural Applications To address critical water shortages in Texas, Dr. Debjyoti Banerjee, Mechanical Engineering Professor at Texas A&M University, James J. Cain '51 Faculty Fellow, and Texas A&M Energy Institute Faculty Affiliate; along with Dr. Vijay Dhir, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, former Dean of the University of California, Los Angeles Henry Sa

Drs. Shoufeng Lan (PI, MEEN) and Qingsheng Wang (co-PI, CHEN) have been awarded over $500k for their project, Collaborative Research: Additive Manufacturing of Optical Hybrid Materials under Extreme Gradients. The project is a collaboration between Texas A&M University and Texas Tech University. “This NSF project will use a combinatorial printing technique to understand how compositional doping influences OHM hybrid structures and develop a spatially resolved optical analysis

Dr. Kiju Lee's latest work, titled “Terrain-Aware Path Planning via Semantic Segmentation and Uncertainty Rejection Filter with Adversarial Noise for Mobile Robots,” by Kangneoung Lee and Kiju Lee has been published in the Journal of Field Robotics! "This paper introduces the concept of an uncertainty rejection filter, which masks uncertain regions in classified images, reducing the risk of false terrain classifications during the field operations of mobile robots. This wor

The NIH Common Fund wants input about challenges and opportunities in biomedical/behavioral research that may be of interest, including: A) a challenge/opportunity in biomedical/behavioral research; B) Resources, tools, or knowledge needed to address it; and C) Scientific advancements or other factors that make addressing it timely. Responses must be received by 11:59:59 pm (ET) on August 10, 2024. Request for Information: NIH Common Fund is Soliciting Ideas for NIH-wide Chal

Robert Ambrose , Swaminathan Gopalswamy , and Lucas Krakow , The College of Engineering, were awarded a $1.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense for a project titled “TA 4 TO# 3: extreme terrain operation and recovery (extor) with physically cooperating robotic vehicles.”

Several patents were issued to the Texas A&M University System during the month of January. Below are the ones involving a member of the MEEN faculty! Congratulations to the inventors of these patents! Deployment methods and mechanisms for minimally invasive implantation of heard contacting cardiac devises European Patent No. 2768548 Inventors: John Criscione, Lewis Harrison, Michael Moreno , Christina Bolch, Dennis Robbins, Saurabh Biswas Minimally invasive implantation of h

Dr. Alexander Leonessa is a Program Director at the National Science Foundation. Dr. Leonessa manages the Dynamics, Control, and Cognition cluster within the Directorate for Engineering's Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI). Additionally, he is responsible for overseeing the CMMI’s involvement with the Major Research Instrumentation program. Dr. Leonessa served as a professor at Virginia Tech in the Mechanical Engineering Department. During his

Research @ Texas A&M University recently published this article mentioning the work of Mechanical Engineering Associate Professor, Dr. Zheng O’Neill. The research team is working to better manage and withstand future challenges using technology and distributed energy resources like rooftop solar panels in Puerto Rico. Link to origional article - Research @ Texas A&M Dr. Zheng O'Neill has been with the J. Mike Walker '66 Department of Mechanical Engineering since 2020. Her res

Congratulations to Dr. Enrique Lavernia on his recent selection to receive The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society 2024 Bruce Chalmers Award in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the science and/or technology of materials processing! The Bruce Chalmers Award (TMS) recognizes an individual who has made outstanding contributions to the science and/or technology of materials processing and includes a life-membership to TMS. Dr. Enrique Lavernia very recently joined