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KINGSVILLE (March 8, 2024) — The Texas A&M University-Kingsville Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science is receiving grant funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), which announced a $45 million total investment to 16 different projects that will help protect Americans from cyber threats and improve cybersecurity in America’s Energy Sector. Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering Dr. Taesic Kim and his partners were one of the...

KINGSVILLE (February 28, 2024) — John-Ryan Lawrence is a junior electrical engineering major at Texas A&M University-Kingsville. He recently was selected to represent the university and the Student Ambassador Program at the American Physical Society (APS) Annual Leadership Meeting. The Student Ambassador Program is a group of about 80 top physics and engineering students from over 20 countries who serve as leaders in their universities, countries or...

KINGSVILLE (February 23, 2024) — Competition and collaboration was the theme as the Frank H. Dotterweich College of Engineering at Texas A&M University-Kingsville concluded its annual Engineers Week celebration with a design competition featuring high school and middle school students Friday at the Memorial Student Union Building ballrooms. More than 170 students from various regional schools were tasked with creating a small car and a launching station using only the...

KINGSVILLE (February 22, 2024) — More than 150 high school and middle school students visited the Texas A&M University-Kingsville as the Frank H. Dotterweich College of Engineering hosted its annual Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day event Thursday, February 22, 2024, at the Memorial Student Union Building ballrooms. The event is known as Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day or “Girl Day” since it is a longstanding day celebrated internationally as part of...

KINGSVILLE (February 16, 2024) — The Frank H. Dotterweich College of Engineering at Texas A&M University-Kingsville will celebrate the annual Engineers Week, with a five-day series of events beginning Monday, Feb. 19. The week celebrates engineers' impact, and engages students in the world of engineering to promote engineering awareness and honor the accomplishments of all engineers. College of Engineering assistant director of student recruitment and outreach Jesus A. Reina...

KINGSVILLE (December 8, 2023) — Texas A&M University-Kingsville students walked the stage Friday, Dec. 8, during Winter Commencement at the Steinke Physical Education Center. There were 523 prospective graduates that received degrees in two ceremonies. Students from the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Education and Human Performance received their degrees at the 10 a.m. ceremony, followed by the Dick and Mary Lewis Kleberg College of Agriculture and...

KINGSVILLE (December 5, 2023) — More wind turbines and solar panels may soon pop up on South Texas farms and ranches as part of a grant received by Dr. Hua Li, professor and graduate coordinator for industrial engineering in the Frank H. Dotterweich College of Engineering at Texas A&M University-Kingsville. He is the principal investigator for a $250,000 grant received from the United States Department of Agriculture Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) entitled Solar and...

KINGSVILLE (September 11, 2023) — Dr. Jianhong Jennifer Ren, professor of environmental engineering in the Frank H. Dotterweich College of Engineering at Texas A&M University-Kingsville was recently awarded $2 million from the National Science Foundation for Graduate STEM Education for Air and Water Resources Solutions in Coastal Communities. This research traineeship award will develop a new graduate training model to educate the next generation of environmental...

KINGSVILLE (August 17, 2023) — Dr. Mais Nijim, professor in the electrical engineering and computer science department at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, will be busy after two of her grants netted her about $1.5 million from the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The goal of both grants is to increase the number of students in the cyber intelligence program within the department of electrical engineering and computer science in the Frank...

KINGSVILLE (August 4, 2023) — Texas A&M University-Kingsville students walked the stage Friday, Aug. 4, during Summer Commencement at the Steinke Physical Education Center. There were 248 prospective graduates that received degrees at the 10 a.m. ceremony. Of the graduates, 125 received bachelor’s degrees, 115 received master’s degrees and eight received doctoral degrees. The student commencement speaker was Ella McMahan from Kingsville,...

KINGSVILLE (June 23, 2023) — The online master’s degree in industrial engineering in the Frank H. Dotterweich College of Engineering at Texas A&M University-Kingsville has been ranked 10th most affordable in the nation by OnlineU. A&M-Kingsville is the only university in Texas to be listed in the top 10. “By offering online master’s degrees in engineering and making these programs affordable, we unlock a world of...

KINGSVILLE (May 22, 2023) — Faculty at Texas A&M University-Kingsville have received another grant designed to bring kindergarten through eighth grade science teachers to the university’s campus to do research alongside university faculty and students. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), through the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), awarded $500,000 for the project entitled Promote Sustainable Agriculture Concepts in...

KINGSVILLE (May 17, 2023) — Olubayo Olukayode Oginni, a doctoral student at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, recently received the $5,000 Dave Caldwell Scholarship from Brown and Caldwell through the American Water Works Association. He currently works in the research group of Dr. Lucy Mar Camacho, associate professor in the environmental engineering department, on the collaborative research entitled Dry-Wet Phase Inversion Pathway of Graphene Oxide...

KINGSVILLE (February 14, 2023) — Faculty at Texas A&M University-Kingsville are looking for a few good STEM teachers for three-years of summer research opportunities funded with $600,000 in grant money from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Dr. Mohammad Motaher Hossain, associate professor of mechanical and industrial engineering, is the principal investigator for the project entitled Research Experience for Teachers (RET) Site: Integrating data-driven Renewable...

KINGSVILLE (February 1, 2023) — A Texas A&M University-Kingsville electrical engineering major recently received a full scholarship from the United States Department of Defense (DOD). Joaquin Massa, a senior from Edinburg, received the Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation Scholarship (SMART Scholarship). The award provides full tuition for up to five years, mentorship, summer internships, a stipend and full-time employment with the DOD after...

KINGSVILLE — The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded six grants totaling $2,486,076 for Texas A&M University-Kingsville research projects, representing several of the engineering disciplines offered by the university. The awards were announced this fall and posted on the foundation’s website. The grants were awarded to faculty from the Frank H. Dotterweich College of Engineering. Dr. Heidi A. Taboada, Dean of the College of...

The Frank H. Dotterweich College of Engineering held its annual Senior Design Conference on Friday, April 29 at the University’s Engineering Complex. During the conference, senior engineering students showcased their student capstone projects with judges evaluating the presentations. Dr. Heidi A. Taboada, Dean of the College of Engineering, said 180 students worked for an entire year to complete the 44 projects presented during the event. “These capstones and design...

Dr. Adnan Rajib, an assistant professor of environmental engineering at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, will lead a NASA Earth Information System (EIS) initiative to predict water quality. Using satellite data and ground observations, Rajib’s team will develop a new generation computer model capable of predicting pollution levels in numerous rivers across the United States basins. Rajib’s team for this project includes undergraduate student...

KINGSVILLE (March 10, 2022) — Four students from Texas A&M University-Kingsville were winners at the 17th Annual TAMUS Pathways Research Symposium held Thursday and Friday, March 3-4, at Texas A&M University in College Station. Abcde Cirilo, a chemistry major from Kingsville, placed first in the undergraduate life sciences division with her poster The effect of snake venom CRiSPs on the production of cytokines in human dermal blood and lymphatic endothelial cells....

KINGSVILLE (February 25, 2022) — Students from local middle and high schools competed in an engineering competition at Texas A&M University-Kingsville on Friday, Feb. 25 as part of the university’s E-Week celebration. More than 120 students participated in this year’s competition which had the theme “Reimagining the Possible.” According to the rules of the competition, students were...

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