March 24, 2026

Dr. Layton was awarded A&M’s College of Engineering Research Excellence Award! The Engineering Research Excellence Award recognizes excellence in research, scholarly activity, and/or creative work by outstanding faculty members at 2 distinct career stages: early-career awards (within 1 year following a first-level promotion) and regular awards. Nominees must have an active, funded research project and are evaluated for their faculty research effectiveness and excellence over the past 5 years. These awards highlight outstanding research contributions by promising early-career faculty and celebrate long-term outstanding research performance by experienced faculty members.

Other Mechanical Engineering faculty were also honored at the College of Engineering Faculty Awards Banquet for their new professorships and chair appointments.