Energy Institute Faculty Affiliates Honored with Awards and Fellowships
Three Texas A&M Energy Institute faculty affiliates were recently honored with significant awards from Texas A&M University.
Elbashir Named Distinguished Inventor of the Year
Dr. Nimir Elbashir, a Professor of Petroleum Engineering and Chemical Engineering, the Director of the TEES Gas & Fuels Research Center, and the Chair of ORYX GTL Gas-to-Liquid Excellence Program, has been named a Distinguished Inventor of the Year by the Qatar Foundation.
Professor Le Xie and Research Team Receive Best Paper Award at IEEE PES Conference
Professor Le Xie, the Energy Institute’s Assistant Director of Energy Digitization and a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and a team of researchers was awarded best paper at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Power and Energy Society (PES) General Meeting.
Energy Institute Celebrates Prestigious Faculty Awards for Contributions to Multi-Scale Systems Engineering
Professor Mahmoud El-Halwagi, the Deputy Chair of the Texas A&M Energy Institute’s Interdisciplinary Academic Council, a Professor of Chemical Engineering, the Bryan Research and Engineering Chair in Chemical Engineering, and the Managing Director of TEES Gas and Fuels Research Center; along with Professor Efstratios N. Pistikopoulos, the Director of the Texas A&M Energy Institute and a TEES Eminent Professor; have each been selected to receive prestigious international awards for their research and scholarship in multi-scale systems engineering.
Spyridon Tsolas Wins Best Poster Award at International Conference
Spyridon Tsolas, a chemical engineering Ph.D. student, won a best poster award at the 2019 Foundations of Computer-Aided Process Design (FOCAPD) conference.