TEES Blog – Research Services

Growing up in the Texas Panhandle, Dr. Emily Hunt never envisioned she would one day conduct research that could blow things ups or cure cancer. Today, as an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at West Texas A&M University (WTAMU), Canyon, she is recipient of an NSF Small Grant for Exploratory Research, Combustion Synthesis of Nanostructured Metallic Foams: Reactant (more…)

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…)

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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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…)