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BiSSL MS student Varuneswara Panyam was accepted to and will attend the National Science Foundation’s summer school on Decision Making in Engineering Systems at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, June 23-29, 2018. The six-day summer school will introduce graduate students to the foundations of decision-making in large systems and is hosted by Dr.
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Congratulations to our students Varuneswara Panyam and Tirth Dave for their paper titled “Understanding Ecological Efficiency and Robustness for Network Design Using Thermodynamic Power Cycles” getting accepted into the International Design Engineering Technology Conferences, Design Theory and Methodology. The conference will be held in Quebec City, Canada from August 26-29, 2018. Ecology has acted as a source
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“Bio-Inspired Design of Complex Energy Systems to Achieve Robust, Efficient, and Sustainable Networks” Proposals were assessed based on the following criteria: (a) innovative and transformative potential of proposed research work in energy; (b) quality of interdisciplinary research group; (c) potential for developing a successful proposal for government funding; and (d) potential for securing external government
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WASHINGTON, D.C. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced that the Texas A&M Energy Institute is joining the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Energy Initiative (MITEI) and the Stanford Precourt Institute for Energy to support implementation of the DOE-led U.S. Clean Energy Education & Empowerment (C3E) program to advance women’s participation and leadership in clean energy. read more…
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April 25, 2018, 11:30-12:30pm Come hear the perspective of five new female assistant professors in Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, and Computer Science & Engineering, about applying for faculty positions, transitioning from graduate school to faculty, faculty candidate interviews and offer letters, and more! Dr. Astrid Layton (myself), Dr. Stephanie Paal, Dr. Maria Koliou, Dr. Dorrin Jarrahbashi, and Dr. Theodora Chaspari will all
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The Sustainable Development Goals are the blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. They address the global challenges we face, including those related to poverty, inequality, climate, environmental degradation, prosperity, and peace and justice. The Goals interconnect and in order to leave no one behind, it ís important that we achieve
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Collaborative work on “Matrix Trays: From Waste To Opportunities” between Dr. Astrid Layton, Dr. Ahmed Ali from Architecture, and Dr. Ankit Srivastava from Material Science and Engineering has resulted in tae T3 award from Texas A&M’s Presidents Excellence Fund. T3: Texas A&M Triads for Transformation is a multidisciplinary seed-grant program that is part of the President’s Excellence Fund designed to further
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Congratulations to three of our BiSSL graduate students, Varun Panyam, Tirth Dave, and Colton Brehm, for being awarded travel grants to present their first author conference papers at the 26th CIRP Life Cycle Engineering Conference on Advancing Industrial Sustainability, at Purdue University May 2019.
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Congratulations to two of our BiSSL graduate research students Varuneswara Panyam and Colton Brehm, for winning the J. Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering Graduate Excellence Fellowship for continuing students for the Spring 2019 semester! The highly competitive graduate scholarship awards graduate students doing excellent research in the department.