Today's environmental challenges, such as access to clean water and energy, climate change, and treatment of pollution and waste, have an acute sense of urgency. There is broad recognition that solutions to these complex challenges will require environmental engineers to integrate concepts from engi ...

This project will revolutionize the culture of a traditional large mechanical engineering department at Texas A&M University. It will be focused on creating a bottom-up participatory culture where faculty and students are engaged in continuously building, testing, and sharing sequential innovations ...

This project will develop, implement, evaluate, and disseminate an approach to engage students early and on a continuing basis in Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) programs. It will build the project team's professional formation of engineers (PFE) approach around multiple strategies based u ...

The typical engineering department operates on the basis of the traditional pillars of (1) Research, (2) Teaching, and (3) Service. With research focusing mostly on graduate students, and service comprising primarily of research-related activities, the professional formation of engineering students ...

Today's world faces emerging economic and environmental challenges. From a historical perspective one of the most effective ways the nation has addressed such challenges is through investing in the development of new technologies. Such investment is not just in machines and methods, but also include ...