Maritime Transportation & Engineering

With a flotilla of Aggie Mom's leading the way and the Texas A&M Galveston research vessel Trident playing the Aggie War Hymn, the California State University Maritime Academy - Cal Maritime training ship Golden Bear arrived at port in Galveston Monday. The Texas A&M Maritime Academy has had a long time relationship with our brother academy, Cal. Maritime in Vallejo, California.

Trying to fix some loose bearings on an engine that’s the size of a school bus is a daunting task, but some Texas A&M University at Galveston students are learning engine repair that may come in handy one day when they are engineers aboard a ship on the high seas, thanks to a generous donation from a Finnish company.

Texas A&M University at Galveston has just taken delivery of a new $2.5 million dollar research vessel: the R/V Trident. The new research vessel was recently featured in several television news stories.

The Texas A&M Maritime Academy’s TS General Rudder flagship training vessel recently departed for the first of two training cruises in the Gulf of Mexico.

At Texas A&M at Galveston, when student leaders offer advice, the campus community listens.

Captains, officers and students of the Texas Maritime Academy, part of Texas A&M University at Galveston, recently departed for the first of two training cruises in the Gulf of Mexico this summer.

Texas leads the U.S. in energy production with a combination of oil, wind, natural gas, solar and biofuel power. The state also produces the most wind power of any state in the nation, but with a growing population, there is a demand for more resources of alternative energy.

Tracy Murrell, a graduate of Texas A&M University at Galveston, and former resident of Plano, has just been appointed as director of the National Transportation Safety Board’s Office of Marine Safety.

Ryan Carden, a junior Marine Transportation major -- and member of the sailing team -- at Texas A&M University at Galveston, is one of nine students in the nation that the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) has selected for its 2010 First Team All Academic Sailing Team.

On Friday, April 30, 2010, family, friends, colleagues, and classmates of Thomas W. Powell '62 gathered to watch as he christened the Powell Marine Engineering Complex of the Mitchell Campus of Texas A&M University at Galveston.