Awards

The team’s award-winning project featured detailed 2D and 3D models of a realistic industrial plant, demonstrating both technical excellence and innovative design.

The Fluid Mechanics team excelled at the 2026 Fluid Power Vehicle Challenge with their Harley-inspired design and innovative engineering choices.

Cassie Duclos received the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, one of the most prestigious honors for graduate researchers.

Dr. Kaiwen Hsiao received the National Science Foundation’s highest honor for early-career faculty through her pioneering mission to print structures smaller than the wavelength of light itself.

Junior high teacher Michelle Beineman won the Texas Science and Engineering Fair’s 2026 Truman T. Bell Award for dedication to fostering STEM education.

Dr. Niki Ritchey’s efforts as a Texas A&M honors professor in the College of Engineering led her to be recognized with the Wells Fargo Honors Faculty Mentor Award.

Dr. Xin Chen in Texas A&M’s electrical and computer engineering department earned the prestigious NSF CAREER Award and funding for his work on AI-based control for power grids.

Ph.D. candidate Cafer Acemi has earned an Acta Student Award for student-led research accelerating the discovery of high-temperature alloys.

Dr. Faisal Khan has been recognized with the Ayyub-Wiechel Risk Analysis Award for his impactful contributions to risk, reliability and engineering safety through research, teaching and leadership.

A Texas A&M Engineering team’s latest work enables swarms of autonomous robots to perform reliably in harsh and adversarial environments and earned students the top prize in their major at the College of Engineering Project Showcase.