Texas A&M University Tops Nation in Engineering Research Expenditures (houstonchronicle.com) 30
An anonymous reader shares a report: Texas A&M University held the largest engineering research portfolio of any academic institution in the country last year, nearing half a billion dollars and surpassing Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the top spot, according to U.S. News & World Report. The state flagship's College of Engineering recorded $444.7 million in research expenditures in the 2023 fiscal year, university officials said.
A mix of federal, state and private grants funds those efforts, so more expenditures means more partnerships and a larger engineering footprint than ever, Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp said. "An awful lot of people in Washington, a lot of people in Austin, a lot of people in the private sector now rely on Texas A&M to do their engineering research," Sharp said. "Of all the places in the country now, the No. 1 place people go to research engineering problems is Texas A&M University."
A mix of federal, state and private grants funds those efforts, so more expenditures means more partnerships and a larger engineering footprint than ever, Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp said. "An awful lot of people in Washington, a lot of people in Austin, a lot of people in the private sector now rely on Texas A&M to do their engineering research," Sharp said. "Of all the places in the country now, the No. 1 place people go to research engineering problems is Texas A&M University."
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If you're paying full fare, $30K/year is a bargain compared to MIT, Caltech, Stanford, or the Ivies.
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Expect the US to pull the military from Texas as it goes. Are you ready for razor wire around Texas? Border crossers shot on sight? Tariffs against Texas?
Yeah, go ahead and leave. Can't wait to see how that works out.
You seem confused about the policy stances -- why would all the same people who don't want those things on the Texas-Mexico border suddenly want them at the Texas-Oklahoma border? Once Texas left, the remaining USA would be numerically dominated by the Democratic Party and therefore we would have every expectation of seeing the Federal government finally enact the fully open migrant-encouraging no-human-being-is-illegal borders they have always wanted. Any citizen of a Texas Republic would also be able to h
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Last we checked, the birth rate of native born Americans was declining and in in 2017 is was 1.76 children per woman, and it has decreased since. For a fuller picture see https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/r... [pewtrusts.org].
So if you intended to bask in the warm glow of SS when you retire, think again. Without immigration, legal or illegal, the U.S. is going to be in world of hurt. But that should not bother you, eh? Grandma can come and live with you; start saving your pennies, her meds are expensive.
Re your comments about D
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Last we checked, the birth rate of native born Americans was declining and in in 2017 is was 1.76 children per woman, and it has decreased since. For a fuller picture see https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/r... [pewtrusts.org].
So if you intended to bask in the warm glow of SS when you retire, think again. Without immigration, legal or illegal, the U.S. is going to be in world of hurt. But that should not bother you, eh? Grandma can come and live with you; start saving your pennies, her meds are expensive.
What a bizarre non-sequitur. Nowhere did I say immigration was a bad thing, that "native born Americans" were inherently superior or more worthy of being American than those who were not born here. The argument you think you're having, you're having with someone else in your head, not me.
Re your comments about Democrats, you might as well advertise that your "side" has nothing to offer America or you'd have promoted that instead of ranting about Democrats.
Another unconnected argument for some other conversation you're wanting to have with someone somewhere. I have no "side". Everything I said is a completely logical syllogism from known facts:
FACT 1: Things like "razor wire"
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Texas can take its electoral college votes and go. Don’t forget to return all US government property like military bases and fighter planes.
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Texas can take its electoral college votes and go
As I said, Texas is funding the rest of ya'll. So, the other states will just lose money, this becomes especially pronounced as more cutting edge and important businesses relocate to Texas, which has been happening and is increasing.
All that'd happen is Texas would have an extreme economic boom and a flowering of Freedom and Justice as Texas would get the chance to re-factor it's laws outside of the extremely corrupt and volumous US Code and completely disregarded US Constitution. They wouldn't give a rat
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All that'd happen is Texas would have an extreme economic boom and a flowering of Freedom and Justice as Texas would get the chance to re-factor it's laws outside of the extremely corrupt and volumous US Code and completely disregarded US Constitution. They wouldn't give a rats ass about their old "electoral votes" if given the chance to make their own way. The Lone Star would simply shine brighter, leaving the USA poorer.
That would last until all the boomers ask why they haven't received their social security checks. You really haven't thought this through. Texas now has to make international trade agreements with other countries including the USA. In fact nothing says the USA is required to trade with the new nation of Texas. So enjoy your new business partners, Mexico and Cuba.
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NY sends far more to the feds than they get back. More than TX even.
BTW it's laughable what they think Dems actually want. Its not like hyper-partisans don't distort the crap out of everything when viewed through their tiny little lenses. Which is why I left the GQP and went independent decades ago, back when Clinton was in office.
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As I said, Texas is funding the rest of ya'll.
y'all would be the right term since that doesn't genreally include the blue states, and especially not California.
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especially not California.
Is California your model for a well-run state?
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They can't have Texas. Texas is ours. It's for hard working Americans (many of which come from Mexico) who actually work, pay taxes, and believe in the American dream.
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How to build a camp fire.
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How to build a camp fire.
I suspect very few on ./ will get the "joke".
I guess we'll know for sure if someone (correctly) mods it as Flamebait.
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The only thing that matters is having the right professor and your professor having sufficient funding for you.
It doesn't help if the guy in the next lab has unlimited funds if you can't afford a pencil in your lab.