TEES Blog – Research Services

Del Mar College and its project partners have received a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to establish the National Geospatial Technology Center of Excellence (GeoTech Center) at Del Mar. (more…)

TRS received word today that the number of CAREER awards for 2008 for TEES has now risen to 6.

Computer Science

Andruid Kerne: “A Multimodal Mixed-Initiative Research Notebook for Information Discovery”

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Texas A&M International University, in cooperation with the Texas Engineering Experiment Station’s (TEES) Energy Systems Laboratory (ESL), celebrated receiving nearly $500,000 in federal funding for its “Energy-Efficient Green Campus Research Initiative” March 24 at an on-campus ceremony in Laredo.

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Every year the Office of Naval Research (ONR) has a proposal competition for young investigators which “aims to attract to naval research those outstanding new faculty members at institutions of higher education.” Out of 208 proposals, ONR funded only 27 awards. One of the awards is to Haiyan Wang from Electrical Engineering.

Dr. Haiyan Wang “Nanoscale Microstructural Characterizations of Multifunctional Ceramic Nanocomposites”

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TRS would like to congratulate this year’s recipients of NSFs CARRER award, and encourage other junior faculty to apply for next year.

This year’s recipients are:

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If you take the time to sit down and speak with a student enrolled in Foundations of Engineering I, the freshman introductory course to engineering, you would get a very different picture of the engineering program at Texas A&M University than five years ago.  

This phenomenon is occurring in math, science and engineering courses across the state. (more…)

Prairie View A&M University has been awarded a $1 million three-year education research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to identify and evaluate the factors that contribute to the success of academically gifted black students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), who are enrolled at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). (more…)

TEES has collaborated with an environmental research center based in the Frank H. Dotterweich College of Engineering at Texas A&M University-Kingsville to garner the center’s second five-year, $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST) program. (more…)

TEES researcher Dr. Kalyan Annamalai has received Sun Grant Initiative grants for research into developing and enhancing new sources of energy based on agricultural products. The Sun Grant Initiative will make available approximately $2.5 million during the next three years to area scientists and engineers. The initiative is a national program established to create new solutions for America’s energy needs and to revitalize rural communities by working with land-grant universities and their federal and state laboratory partners on research, education and extension programs. (more…)