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Ken Atkins

March 22, 2019 By Turbolab

Trinity University students get insight on turbo industry from Turbo Lab director and adviser

Undergraduate engineering students at Trinity University have a new perspective on working in the turbomachinery industry, thanks to two seasoned professionals from Texas A&M’s Turbomachinery Laboratory. Dr. Eric Petersen, Turbomachinery Laboratory director, and Ken Atkins, a Trinity alum and adviser of the Turbomachinery Symposium hosted annually by the Turbo lab, recently visited the San Antonio […]

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Lesley Wright

October 23, 2018 By Turbolab

Turbo Lab welcomes former student to faculty

Turbo Lab welcomes former student to faculty The Turbomachinery Laboratory has welcomed a familiar face to its faculty. Dr. Lesley Wright joined the Turbo Lab team in August after teaching at Baylor for ten years. She was encouraged by the head of the J. Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dr. Andreas A. Polycarpou […]

Filed Under: Faculty, News Tagged With: Faculty, gas turbine, Turbomachinery

February 28, 2018 By Turbolab

Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station names new Turbo Lab director

From left: Dr. Narasimha Reddy, Dr. Dara W. Childs, Dr. Eric Petersen, Dr. Dimitris Lagoudas The Turbomachinery Laboratory, a center of the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) and part of The Texas A&M University System, has a new director: Dr. Eric Petersen. Petersen, the Nelson-Jackson Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas […]

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November 13, 2017 By Turbolab

Industry giant to retire after 55 years teaching, researching turbomachinery, pumps

Dr. Dara W. Childs to step down as chair of Turbomachinery & Pump Advisory Committees following 46th Turbomachinery & 33rd Pump Symposia Not many people can say they owe their lifelong career success and worldwide professional reputation to instability. Such is the case for Dr. Dara W. Childs, director of the Turbomachinery Laboratory at Texas […]

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August 4, 2017 By Turbolab

Turbo Lab professor who helped build program retires after 40 years

The Turbomachinery Laboratory at Texas A&M boasts one of the nation’s top degree programs and research facilities. But, when Dr. Gerald Morrison arrived in College Station to teach in 1977, the Turbo Lab was housed in an old World War II airplane hangar with a leaky roof and no heating at what is now A&M’s […]

Filed Under: Faculty, News Tagged With: Faculty, Gerald Morrison, Texas A&M, Turbomachinery

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