As our graduate program has grown in national visibility, it also has grown in size, with an increase in student enrollment from 231 in the fall of 1995 to over 450 in the fall of 2009. The quality of our graduate student body has also improved significantly. In 2009, our graduate program ranked 10th among mechanical engineering graduate programs at public institutions according to U.S. News & World Report. Approximately 35% of our students are U.S. citizens or permanent residents, with the others being outstanding international students from universities around the world. From 2005 to 2008, the number of females in Texas A&’s mechanical engineering graduate program rose by 53 students. This was the largest growth among the Top 15 public programs. Nearly 75% of the students are supported as either graduate research or teaching assistants with monthly stipends ranging from $1,400 to $1,800 per month. Graduate research and teaching assistants also receive full health insurance benefits, and their tuition is paid for them. Additional competitive fellowships and scholarships are available for qualified students. University, college and departmental fellowships are awarded to our graduate students each year. During the past twenty years, as Texas has sought to diversify its economical base from oil and agriculture to high technology and manufacturing, our department has been able to provide highly educated engineers with post-graduate degrees to support this economic development. Many of our former graduate students are well placed in industry, research laboratories, and academia around the world. The presence of engineering colleges with strong graduate/research programs in the state is also a critical factor in persuading major national and international corporations to locate in Texas.
Graduate Program
2009/2010 Graduate Fellowship Awards Bowen Fellowship
Jacob McFarland
Crawford Fellowship
Balakrishna Ayyagari Mariana Ceballos Thomas Chirathadam Thien Chi Duong Michael Glier Mark Hardy Madelyne Harris Sung Huh Phani Neehar Kapila Bala
Harmeet Kaur Habtamu Kefeni Kyungeun Kim Hyun-Eun Kwak Kevin Laux Gang Li Daniel Midura Derrick Morgan Nick Nudo
Vu Huy Nguyen Cheryl Osterman Richa Paliwal Amrish Ravidas Raja Selvamani Gagan Singh Galina Sukhonosova Vishal Wadhvani
Fletcher Fellowship
Jianxi Fu Siresha Gogineni Byoungsoo Ham Wonjoong Hwang Chunliu Mao Brent Nelson Chan Hyun Park Wonchang Park
John Pemelton Wiliam Pollard Nolan Polley Zalak Purohit Rahul Rangaraj Sankaranarayana Ravi Ramnath Sekar Yishu Song
Jose Silva-Rivas Vijay Surdaram Hossain Tanvir Brandon Travis Venkata Vasiraju
Fowler Fellowship
Brandon Rotavera
Kozik/Hervey Fellowship
Robert Parker
Reed Tool Fellowship
Ravishankar Arun Enas Aziz Chien-Fan Chen
Nishitha Jetta Mong-Cheng Ko Kuo-An Li
Lichao Ma Peng Yin Huisung Yun
Thompson Fellowship
Josh Camp Surya Chaturvedla Rohit Chintala Josh Davis Dustin Eseltine
Akshay Gandhir Travis Gaskill Yue Liu Sreekar Parimi Fatima Roma
Ying-Yu Su Siva Sankar Thanapal Shraddha Waikar
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