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Awards

• National-level 'Dow Chemical Educator of the Year 2009' by Composites Division of Society of Plastics Engineers.http://www.engineering.txstate.edu/news/tate-dow-chem-educ-award.html
• College of Science 2009 Dean Nominee for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching, Texas State University-San Marcos

Courses taught

TECH 5384: Special Topics in Polymer Nanocomposites

TECH 5384: Special Topics in Reinforced Composites

TECH 5311: Computer Aided Engineering

MFGE 4399: Polymer Nanocomposites

MFGE 4397: Special Topics in Advanced Polymeric Materials

TECH 4390: Internship

MFGE 4367: Polymer Properties and Processing

ENGR 3311: Mechanics of Materials                              

MFGE 2332: Material Selection and Manufacturing Processes

ENGR 2300: Materials Engineering

ENGR 1413: Engineering Design Graphics                      

Professional Certification

Academic Program Administrator, Certified Composites (CCT) offered by 'American Composites Manufacturers Association-ACMA’.

‘Texas State University-San Marcos' has signed Academic Partnership agreement with ‘American Composites Manufacturers Association-ACMA’.

Students and   local industry people can take ‘CCT-Certified Composite’ exam at Texas State campus.

http://www.engineering.txstate.edu/news/CCT.html

Ten students from the Ingram School of Engineering's Manufacturing Engineering program successfully passed the CCT exam in the 2008-09 academic year.

SAMPE 'Ultralight Weight Composite Bridge Building Contest' 2008, 2009, and 2010

SAMPE, Long Beach, 2008 (L to R, Dr. Tate and Erik Larson)

• Mr. Erik Larson won 3rd price in 'Natural Composites' Category

SAMPE, Baltimore, 2009 (L to R, Dr. Tate, Travis Hilbig, Ben Olson, Ben Butler, and Edward Mendez)

o Natural Composites Category, 5^th place, (Stephen Jones, Kinev Pavel, Benjamin Olson, and Edward Mendez) $100

o Natural Composites Category, 7^th place, (Travis Hilbig, Alex Herrera, Reid Horak, Eduardo Gonzalez, Hayden Beauchamp) $75

o Glass Kit Category, 6^th place, (Thomas Wilson, Nicholas Ondrusek, Dustin Schaefer, Colby Thomas, Shawn Youngblood) $75

http://www.engineering.txstate.edu/news/SAMPE-Bridge2009.html

SAMPE, Seattle, 2010

Alex Herrera - Natural Fibers – 2nd place (closed section)

Kelly Kincaid, Andre Hartfield – Natural Fibers – 3rd place

Robert Fisher, Charles Jacobs, Emerson Dawson – Natural Fibers – 6th place

Dmitri Kabakov – Fiberglass kit – 3rd place (closed section)

Justin Henry, Aaron Sosa, Aaron Adams – Fiberglass kit – 5th place

Ryan Kemmy, Jon Lightfield, Tony Le – Carbon kit – 2nd place for poster

http://www.engineering.txstate.edu/news/sampe-bridge-contest.html