Engineering

KINGSVILLE (May 6, 2025) — A team of mechanical engineering students from Texas A&M University-Kingsville calling themselves Interstellar Corporation recently received several awards at the NASA-sponsored Design Challenge Showcase in Houston. The group received awards for their NASA-based research project including first for best model and display; fifth for best poster; sixth for top peer review and eighth for top design team. The...

KINGSVILLE (February 19, 2025) — As part of the Engineers Week 2025 (E-Week), The Frank H. Dotterweich College of Engineering at Texas A&M University-Kingsville (TAMUK) hosted more than 400 high school and middle school students and chaperones during its Explore Engineering Day event Wednesday morning at Kingsville’s J.K. Northway Exposition Center. Explore Engineering Day is an event designed to inspire young students while showcasing what the world of engineering and...

KINGSVILLE (January 24, 2025) — U.S. News and World Report has released their rankings for online MBA programs and the College of Business Administration at Texas A&M University-Kingsville (TAMUK) gained ground coming in tied for 150. This is an improvement over the 2024 ranking of 155. “We are pleased to see our MBA program included in the U.S. News and World Report rankings. This acknowledgment reinforces our commitment to continuous improvement...

KINGSVILLE (August 26, 2024) — Two electrical engineering professors from Texas A&M University-Kingsville are making waves with tiny things and ultra-low temperatures. Drs. Reza Nekovei and Amit Verma, professors in the electrical engineering and computer science department in the Frank H. Dotterweich College of Engineering, recently had a paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, a renowned journal in the field. Their paper Low-temperature Behavior...

KINGSVILLE (May 15, 2024) — The Texas A&M University Kingsville (TAMUK) Baja Racing Team competed in the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) International Baja California event from April 25-28 at the Quail Canyon Special Events Arena in Lebec, California. It was the first time that TAMUK competed in an SAE Baja event since May 28, 2013 at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington. The TAMUK Baja Team is comprised of Zane Strickland, Eric Perez,...

KINGSVILLE (May 10, 2024) — Graduates from Texas A&M University-Kingsville walked the stage Friday, May 10, in three commencement ceremonies held in the Steinke Physical Education Center. Prospective undergraduates from the College of Business Administration, the College of Education and Human Performance and the Frank H. Dotterweich College of Engineering crossed the stage at 10 a.m. Students with the Dick and Mary Lewis Kleberg College of Agriculture and...

KINGSVILLE (April 29, 2024) — Texas A&M University-Kingsville (TAMUK) associate professor of environmental engineering Dr. Lucy Mar Camacho was issued a United States Patent in March for a method that recovers rare earth elements (REE) by utilizing electrodialysis metathesis (EDM). The patent is titled Recovery of Rare Earth Metals and Other Metals from Natural Liquid Sources by Electrodialysis Metathesis and was invented by Camacho and TAMUK PhD student Mohammad U....

KINGSVILLE (April 23, 2024) — The Frank H. Dotterweich College of Engineering at Texas A&M University-Kingsville (TAMUK) is featured in 2023-24 U.S. News & World Report’s Best Grad School Rankings as one of the best graduate engineering schools in Texas. The TAMUK College of Engineering is ranked No.15 among all Texas universities and No. 12 among public schools. “Being recognized among Texas's Top 15 engineering colleges for graduate education...

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...