Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering Phone: 979-458-3132, Email: adelgado@tamu.edu Google Scholar Profile Dr. Delgado’s research focuses on rotordynamics, structural vibration, energy dissipation mechanisms, thin film lubrication and fluid-structure interaction applied to the design, modeling and improvement of rotating machinery systems and components. Prior to joining Texas A&M University, Dr. Delgado was a Lead Research Engineer at […]
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Burak Ayyildiz
Howdy! I am Burak and I have been working with the Reliability and Performance Group at the Turbomachinery Laboratory since fall 2016 as a Ph.D. student. I received my bachelor’s degree from Cukurova University (Turkey) and a Master of Science degree from Texas A&M University in mechanical engineering, respectively. I worked at several projects such […]
Topics: Bearings, Pumps
Oreana Camera
Howdy! My name is Oreana Camera. I recently began working at the Turbo Lab during the Fall 2020 semester. I am currently a sophomore Honors Mechanical Engineering student at Texas A&M & plan on graduating in Spring 2023! The thing that intrigues me the most about Turbomachinery is the fascinating, continual transfer of energy between […]
Anthony Dudlo
Howdy! I started working at the Turbomachinery Laboratory in August of 2020 while pursuing a master’s degree in mechanical engineering here at Texas A&M University. I hold a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago, where I worked with the UIC ARL Collaborative and the UIC Robotics and […]
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Travis Greenstreet
Howdy, I began my time in the Turbomachinery laboratory in Spring 2020, which was my last semester of my undergrad in Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M and have since continued into a Masters of Science. Turbomachinery has infatuated me by being a field that truly encompasses all the aspects of Mechanical Engineering that I touched […]
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Seung-hyeop Hyun
Howdy! I began to work at the Turbomachinery Lab in Summer of 2020 as a Ph.D. student. Before coming here, I worked at the Biomimetics and Precision Device Lab in Sogang University where I obtained my Masters of Science and Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. During the masters degree, I conducted a research related […]
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Marie Kasprzyk
Howdy, I started working at the turbomachinery lab in the fall of 2017 as a PhD student. The previous four years I worked in the chemical industry as a Maintenance/Reliability engineer working with equipment in HDPE (high density polyethylene) and elastomer polyethylene plants. During my engineering career I obtained my Masters of Science in Mechanical […]
Topics: Pumps, Rotordynamics
Sean McClean
Howdy! My name is Sean McClean, and I am currently pursuing my Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering at the turbomachinery laboratory. I began working at the lab as an undergraduate assistant in Spring 2017 in the Reliability and Performance group, and shortly thereafter received an internship opportunity at Sulzer Turbo Services in La […]
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William B Moore
Howdy! I started working in the Turbomachinery lab in the Fall of 2020 as an undergraduate student. I will be graduating with my Bachelors of Science in mechanical engineering in the Spring of 2021. I then plan to continue working in the Turbomachinery lab as a graduate student. I am currently taking part in the […]
Topics: Seals
Wenjie Yin
Howdy, I am Wenjie Yin, a PhD student in the Reliability and Performance Group. I started as a MSc student at the Turbolab in 2014. Before that, I obtained my BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China. My first project in Turbo lab was the CFD simulation study […]
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Surya Balaji
Howdy! My name is Surya Balaji and I started working at the Turbomachinery Lab in Fall 2020. I completed my undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M, and am currently pursuing a Masters of Science. Taking the MEEN 668 Rotordynamics course with Dr. Delgado helped confirm this decision, and further cultivate my interest in […]
Topics: Bearings, Rotordynamics
Robert Hure
Originally from California, I’ve been in Texas for 6 years now. I completed my undergraduate at Trinity University in San Antonio, and I’ve been at Texas A&M for my Masters since the Fall of 2017. I completed my thesis in the R&P group related to wear and dynamic performance of interstage seals for ESPs, and […]
Topics: Bearings, Rotordynamics
Thomas Kerr
Thomas is a former Ph.D. student who has received both his bachelors and masters degree at Texas A&M University in mechanical engineering. He has been at the lab for five years and plans to graduate within a year. He works primarily on the thrust collar test rig, but has been a part of several other […]
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Jonathan Thiele
Texas native from Boerne, Jonathan has lived a life working on his interests in the broad field of engineering by starting with models at a young age, building potato guns at adolescent, and continued in learning more on versatile tools used in today’s world. With a bachelors in mechanical engineering at Texas A&M University, he […]
Topics: Rotordynamics
Joshua Vandervort
Howdy! I am Joshua Vandervort, a M.S. student working with the Reliability and Performance Group at the Turbolab. I began working with the group in the Spring of 2017 as an undergraduate assistant. As an undergraduate, I was able to work on projects and use a wide variety of the concepts I had learned in […]
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