Interesting Engineering
SourceA team of Texas A&M University aerospace engineering students has built a 50-pound drone capable of carrying 110 pounds over four nautical miles, demonstrating a lightweight design at the first Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Lift Challenge.
US unlocks graphene oxide and hydrogen from natural gas for batteries and electronics
Interesting Engineering • Jul 6, 2026David Staack, PhD, an associate professor at the university, said the hydrogen was the team’s original target, while carbon was considered a secondary product. “As we continued the research, we realized the carbon material we were producing was actually one of the most valuable outcomes,” Staack noted.
US engineers build hybrid race car to prove speed and sustainability can coexist
Interesting Engineering • Jul 11, 2025A group of 14 engineering students from Texas A&M University developed the system with the support of the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA), the largest active motorsports membership organization in the world.
Self-healing concrete uses synthetic lichen to repair cracks with air and sunlight
Interesting Engineering • May 8, 2025Led by Congrui Grace Jin, PhD, an assistant professor at Texas A&M University, the team designed the innovative system that mimics the natural symbiosis found in lichens by using filamentous fungi and cyanobacteria, one of the oldest photosynthetic prokaryotes on the planet also known as blue-green algae.