News Archive

Thursday 01/10/2013

Hanspeter Schaub, a graduate of the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University, and Dr. John Junkins, Distinguished Professor of Aerospace Engineering, were named recipients of the AIAA Martin Summerfield Book Award for their textbook “Analytical Mechanics of Space Systems, 2nd Edition.”

Monday 12/17/2012

Shamik Basu, a PhD graduate student working under Dr. Amine Benzerga in Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University, was awarded the Best Poster award at the ASME-IMECE 2012 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition held in Houston on November 9-15, 2012. Basu’s area of research is to experimentally study the effect of strain history, stress states and anisotrophy on ductile fracture in various structural metals and alloys.

Wednesday 11/21/2012

Two Aerospace Engineering faculty at Texas A&M University are part of a team led by The Boeing Company that was recently awarded $1.2M from NASA. Drs. Edward White and Rodney Bowersox will receive $590k to use the Oran W. Nicks Low-Speed Wind Tunnel for experiments on how active flow control can mitigate dynamic stall on helicopter blades. 

Friday 11/09/2012

Dr. Kristi Shryock, Assistant Department Head for Undergraduate Programs and Outreach and Senior Lecturer in Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University, Dr. Arun Srinivasa, a professor in Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, and Dr. Jeffrey Froyd, a Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station research professor in Engineering Student Services and Academic Programs at Texas A&M University won the Benjamin Dasher Best Paper Award that was submitted at the 2011 Frontiers in Education Conference.

Friday 11/02/2012

Aerospace Engineering professor Dr. William Saric and the Texas A&M University Flight Reserach Lab are featured in an article in October 2012’s “Aerospace America” magazine. The story, “Green Engineering: Fighting Friction, Smoothing Flow” highlights the research being conducted on wing laminar flow control.

Tuesday 10/30/2012

A recent research article coauthored by Dimitris Lagoudas and Darren Hartl was recently featured as the cover article in the journal "Smart Materials and Structures," which is the leading journal for the active materials and adaptive structures community. Lagoudas holds the John and Bea Slattery Chair in Aerospace Engineering, while Hartl is a TEES Assistant Research Professor with the department. Together they lead the Texas Institute for Intelligent Materials and Structures (TiiMs), a TEES research center. Stephen Oehler, a recent masters graduate and current structures analyst for Boeing Research and Technology, was lead author.

Tuesday 10/23/2012

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has selected a team of universities to lead a new Air Transportation Center of Excellence (COE) for general aviation,with Texas A&M University being one of the core team members. The COE will focus research and testing efforts on safety, accessibility and sustainability to enhance the future of general aviation. Texas A&M’s effort is being led by Drs. Jonathan Rogers, William Saric and John Valasek from the Department of Aerospace Engineering.

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