Text reads Department of Aerospace Engineering Faculty Awards 2022-23

Faculty from the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University were recognized for their achievements throughout the 2022-23 academic year.

On the left side of the photo, a knife scraps a thin layer of gray metal. On the right side, the same photo shows the metal now covered in a filter that shows blues and greens of how the metal is being deformed.

Researchers are using metal cutting, a traditional manufacturing tool, to study material properties, introducing a more accessible method for understanding the behavior of metals under extreme conditions.

From left to right, president of the Texas A&M chapter of AIChE Mikayla Canter, regional conference chair Jennifer Ha, Chem-E-Car Competition chair Nathaniel Thomas and vice president external Andrea Afonso.

For the first time in 14 years, Texas A&M University hosted the 2023 American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Southwest Student Regional Conference. The competition provided an opportunity for students to showcase the research they had conducted at their respective universities.

Karrin and Tim Loser with their children.

Karrin Loser ’91 and the Loser family have established the Tim Loser ’92 Petroleum Engineering Memorial Endowed Scholarship to inspire Aggie petroleum engineering students to carry on Tim’s legacy of passion, excellence and unselfish commitment to the industry.

Team HitchHawk with their first-place jumbo check for $1,000.

Texas A&M University's College of Engineering and the U.S. Army's III Armored Corps hosted Phantom Invents from June 12-16, 2023.

Five students stand in behind a poster board.

A team composed of freshmen from the College of Engineering recently won first place at the Texas Space Grant Consortium Design Challenge for creating a wearable device to track crew member location and orientation while in space.

Dr. Nima Kalantari

Dr. Nima Kalantari was awarded a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program grant to research ways to improve the efficiency of computer-generated image rendering.

close-up of power transmission tower

Dr. Le Xie is working to bring more awareness to the importance of data science integration as it relates to the power grid.

A test tube with water and a light shining on it.

A new National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award will help Dr. Garrett McKay study the chemical composition of chromophores in dissolved organic matter, which is found in all bodies of water on Earth.

Carlo Fiorina

Dr. Carlo Fiorina was recently awarded the Early Career Reactor Physicist Award by the Reactor Physics Division of the American Nuclear Society.