NEWS

  • Two BiSSL Ph.D. students – Hadear Hassan and Emily Payne – have been awarded 2023 J. Mike Walker ’66 Impact Awards. The award is given to two male and two female graduate students who have demonstrated academic/scholarly achievements, as well as have leadership and/or entrepreneurial focus/experience and innovative excellence. The winners each receive a $5,000…

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  • Another excellent ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) IDETC-CIE conference is in the books! BiSSL Ph.D. students Hadear Hassan and Emily Payne from the J. Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University each presented their first-authored papers, sharing their research that will help us achieve a more sustainable and resilient world. Hadear’s (in collaboration with Emily) was on “Quantifying the Sustainability and Robustness…

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  • Following the ASEE 2023 workshop on our makerspace modeling/analysis GUI use, Dr. Layton was invited to come give a research seminar at University of Pittsburgh to share the NSF funded makerspace work her and Dr. Julie Linsey at Georgia Tech have been doing. Her talk was titled: “From Makerspaces to Industries: How Bio-Inspired Network Models…

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  • The BiSSL group had a great time at this year’s ASEE Conference! Our NSF sponsored workshop and presentations by both Luis Rodriguez and Hadear Hassan were a success!

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  • Dr. Layton is a guest editor for an upcoming special issue on sustainability in design and manufacturing being published jointly between ASME’s journals of Mechanical Design and Manufacturing Science and Engineering. Drafts are due July 31, 2023. This special issue is a joint effort between the ASME Manufacturing Engineering Division (MED) and the Design Engineering Division (DED) as part of…

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  • Ph.D. student Emily Payne and Dr. Astrid Layton joined collaborators Dr. Kate Davis and her Ph.D. students Leen and Akram for a visit to Sandia National Lab in Albuquerque, NM. The trip was part of an ongoing collaborative LDRD grant with Sandia looking at cyber-physical power systems for resilience. The trip even evolved some exploring…

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  • BiSSL director Dr. Astrid Layton was invited to give a research seminar to the INCOSE Natural Systems Working Group. Abstract: Inspiration from nature has produced some fascinating, novel, and life-changing solutions for the human world. Most of these bio-inspired designs however have been product based. Taking a systems perspective when we look to nature taps…

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  • Texas Entrepreneurship Exchange for Energy (TEX-E) is a first-of-a-kind collaboration among The University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M University, University of Houston, Rice University, and Prairie View A&M University—powered by Greentown Labs and MIT’s Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship—to create a powerful student-driven entrepreneurship ecosystem in Texas. More information can be found here: https://greentownlabs.com/tex-e/

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  • BiSSL director Dr. Astrid Layton will be presenting BiSSL work as part of the Fitchburg State Visionaries in Engineering & Technology speaker series. Her talk is titled “Learning from Nature’s Systems to Achieve Waste Equals Food.”

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  • “Fashioning an engineering education via discipline and design” by Grace Dalton.

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