Family with graduate.

Former doctoral students Zhuo Li ’05 and wife Nancy Zhou ’07 establish scholarship to encourage multidisciplinary education in engineering.

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Moustafa Ali ’18, ’24 shares his journey to achieving engineering excellence in the energy sector through an interdisciplinary Ph.D. from Texas A&M.

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Awards

A prolific career in patents

July 23, 2024 • 3 min. read

Dr. Mark Benden has been named a Fellow by the National Academy of Inventors for his 25 patents and commercialized inventions, resulting in over $1 billion in sales.

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Connor Roddy is a recent graduate of the multidisciplinary EnLaw program which combines a Bachelor of Science in Interdisciplinary Engineering and a Juris Doctorate degree.

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Texas A&M researchers have developed a neural network which predicts wind speed and solar power density on a daily and hourly basis for renewable energy processes.

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Multidisciplinary engineering doctoral student Abdullah Al-Aboosi is researching how to convert untapped, stranded natural gas reserves into a clean and renewable energy source.

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Texas A&M architectural engineering graduate participates in Sydney Opera House Project.

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New fund created by two professors will help support the Department of Multidisciplinary Engineering.

Connor McLaren ’23

Graduate student Connor McLaren actively contributes to incident response as a senior triage analyst in the Texas A&M University System Office of Cybersecurity.

Sai Kapalayam.

Full-time energy analyst and part-time Doctor of Engineering student Sai Kapalayam shares how her career and a break between degrees have shaped her graduate school experience.