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 […]
Bechtel Engineering Fellow shares the ‘Origins of the Turbojet Revolution’
Understanding the past can help formulate solutions in the future. This was one of the messages Cyrus Meher-Homji conveyed as he presented “The Origins of the Turbojet Revolution” for the fourth-annual Turbomachinery Distinguished Lecture at Texas A&M University last week. Meher-Homji, an Engineering Fellow and Turbomachinery Technology Manager at Bechtel Corporation, spoke to a room […]
Fourth-Annual Turbomachinery Distinguished Lecture set for Nov. 1
The Turbomachinery Laboratory at Texas A&M University will kick off the month of November with its fourth-annual Turbomachinery Distinguished Lecture. LECTURE DETAILS Cyrus Meher-Homji, technology manager at Bechtel Corporation, will deliver a lecture on “The Origins of the Turbojet Revolution,” on Wednesday, Nov. 1 at 4:10 p.m. in Room 202 of the Engineering Physics Building […]
MLE creates cross-cultural learning opportunities
About a dozen mechanical engineering students from Mexico recently got an inside look at what the Turbomachinery Laboratory at Texas A&M University has to offer. Students from the Universidad de Guanajuato visited as a part of the Mexico Leadership Exchange (MLE), a program supported by the Texas A&M University chapter of the American Society of […]
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 […]
Turbo Lab professor releases textbook on vibration theory
A professor of mechanical engineering in the Turbomachinery Laboratory at Texas A&M University recently unveiled a new textbook which serves as a useful guide for students and practicing engineers. Dr. Alan Palazzolo has released “Vibration Theory and Applications with Finite Elements and Active Vibration Control,” a textbook that has evolved out of his 31-year teaching […]
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TEXAS A&M ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION NAMES NEW TURBO LAB DIRECTOR
FEBRUARY 28, 2018 BY TURBOLAB 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 […]