Current Students

Of the seven global teams, H2Grow from Swansea University placed first.

Val McNeill, a sophomore industrial engineering student, and her team won the honorable mention award at the 2022 Raymond Ideas Challenge held by Texas A&M University’s McFerrin Center for Entrepreneurship.

Six teams have advanced to the finals of the Invent for the Planet competition, where they will pitch their innovative designs to solve some of the world’s most pressing issues.

Jeremiah Demehin is pursuing a master’s degree in subsea engineering after a 10-year break from school, focusing on combining renewable and nonrenewable energy to lower the cost of energy production worldwide.

Materials science and engineering graduate student Alan Martinez has been selected to participate in the Association for Materials Protection and Performance’s Leadership Development Program.

The McFerrin Center for Entrepreneurship hosted its fifth annual Aggie PITCH competition where nine students from Engineering Inc. pitched their business ideas.

The 24-hour invention marathon serves as a creative space for student programmers to connect, network and develop innovative software and hardware solutions to solve real-world problems.

Suchitaa Sawhney, a junior biomedical engineering student, placed fifth in the Raymond Ideas Challenge for her development of Melasure, an app that scans the skin for melanomas.

Jordan Hillis and Dr. Craig Marianno collaborated with the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa to use nuclear science in a novel method to deter rhino poaching and help restore South Africa’s dwindling rhino population.

Dillon Caldwell, a sophomore in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Texas A&M University, won third place in the 2022 Raymond Ideas Challenge hosted by the McFerrin Center for Entrepreneurship.