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 […]
TRC provides students with career-enhancing opportunities
Since 1981, the Turbomachinery Research Consortium at Texas A&M University has connected students with major industry leaders through cutting-edge research initiatives.The TRC is a group of more than 40 companies that contribute annual grants of $25,000 to fund projects that are investigated by 15 to 20 Texas A&M graduate students and faculty in the Turbomachinery […]
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 directors, researcher win ASME Best Paper Award
The work of two directors of the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) Turbomachinery Laboratory (Turbo Lab) and a research engineer has been recognized with a Best Paper Award by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Structures and Dynamics Committee. The paper was presented at the ASME 2016 Turbo-Expo Turbomachinery Technical Conference & Exposition […]
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 […]