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Robots swim with the fishes

August 23, 2009

Borrowing from Mother Nature, a team of MIT researchers has built a school of swimming robo-fish that slip through the water just as gracefully as the real thing, if not quite as fast.

Mechanical engineers Kamal Youcef-Toumi and Pablo Valdivia Y Alvarado have designed the sleek robotic fish to mor


Wellborn to endow Texas A&M petroleum engineering scholarship

August 18, 2009

Joe Wellborn ’41

His summer jobs in the 1930s Texas oilfield were hot and dirty, but for Houston high schooler Joe Wellborn they fueled dreams of a future career.


Petroleum engineering’s Lee part of SEC award-winning team

August 3, 2009

Dr. John Lee

Dr. W. John Lee, Regents Professor and holder of the L.F. Peterson Endowed Chair in the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering, has been honored by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.


Holditch elected RPSEA Board of Directors chair

July 21, 2009

The Board of Directors of the Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America (RPSEA) elected Dr. Stephen A. Holditch, the head of the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University, as its new chair.

Dr. Stephen A. Holditch, P.E.


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