Engineering
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...
More than 100 girls from local middle and high schools visited Texas A&M University-Kingsville on Thursday, Feb. 24 to learn more about engineering from a woman’s perspective. The “Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day” or “Girl Day,” is a worldwide initiative to engage girls in engineering. The event is part of the university’s celebration of Engineers Week. Participating schools included Tuloso-Midway Middle...
Texas A&M University-Kingsville will host a week of celebration during National Engineers Week, Feb. 21 through Feb. 25. Events will kick off on Monday, Feb. 21 from 1 to 3 p.m.. in the Engineering Complex. On Tuesday, Feb. 22, student organizations will have a showcase from 1 p.m.. to 2:30 p.m.. in the Engineering Complex. The community is invited to an open house event on Wednesday, Feb. 23, from 5:30 to 7 p.m.. on the first floor of the Engineering Complex. The community will have an...
KINGSVILLE (June 2, 2021) — Victoria College (VC) and Texas A&M University-Kingsville signed a five-year memorandum of agreement on May 17 to establish a proactive educational partnership by offering students pursuing an engineering degree joint admission and reverse transfer opportunities. Officials from both institutions finalized details on a collaborative effort to provide Victoria College students an opportunity to obtain degrees in mechanical, chemical and...
Dr. Adnan Rajib, an assistant professor of environmental engineering at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, has received a new $59,681 grant to fund his research on flood hazard predictions. In less than a year, Rajib has secured more than $300,000 of federal and state research grants as the Principal Investigator.With the additional funding, Rajib’s research team will develop new-generation, highly robust computer simulation models capable of predicting flood hazards in one of...
KINGSVILLE (April 23, 2021) — Drs. Amit Verma and Reza Nekovei, professors in the electrical engineering and computer science department at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, are listening. In a new paper, recently published in the Nature journal, Scientific Reports, Verma and Nekovei say it is now possible to hear electrons as they travel through a device. In their paper, On the feasibility of hearing electrons in a 1D device through emitted phonons, they claim that...
The annual Senior Design Conference of the Frank H. Dotterweich College of Engineering at Texas A&M University-Kingsville will be available online for a second year. The conference will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, April 23, through Blackboard Collaborate. The Senior Design Conference showcases student capstone projects in architectural, chemical, civil, environmental, electrical, mechanical and natural gas engineering. Computer science projects also are...
Local high schools had the opportunity to compete virtually in Texas A&M University-Kingsville’s annual Engineers Week competition. This year’s competition had the theme “Imagining Tomorrow.” Two teams were selected as winners including Collegiate High School’s Droid Rage 2 team and Miller Metro Prep School of Design’s Metro Bucs team. Dr. Larry Peel, a professor in the mechanical and industrial engineering...
A new minor program at Texas A&M University-Kingsville will help prepare STEM students for careers in Cyber Intelligence. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) awarded $466,324 to the university to develop a multidisciplinary minor and certificate program at the College of Engineering’s Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. The minor will begin in Fall 2021 and will provide Texas A&M-Kingsville students with cyber intelligence and security...
Dr. Adnan Rajib, a first-year assistant professor of environmental engineering at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, has received a $249,968 federal grant from the United States Army Engineer Research and Development Center to fund his research. Rajib will study how natural infrastructures mediate flood hazards and water quality in America’s heart ⎼ the Mississippi River Basin.“The United States like many other parts of the world is under increasing flood...
A team of five Texas A&M University-Kingsville students received awards and placed second at the Association for Preservation Technology International (APTI) Student Design-Build Competition. The Institute of Architectural Engineering Heritage team included Jacquelyne Garcia Torres, Architectural Engineering sophomore; John Ruiz, Mechanical Engineering junior; Maria Garcia Torres, Architectural Engineering senior, Richard J. Rowland IV, Architectural Engineering senior and the team...
A planning grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) could result in a new research center at Texas A&M University-Kingsville. The $40,000 grant will plan for the creation of an Advanced Extra-Planetary Remote Sensing Center, a collaborative center to implement an innovative vertical integration of research and education to create pathways for minority students from high school to graduate school and beyond. According to the NASA website, the project will support...