Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station - State Headquarters history

Cotton Fiber Testing Lab (1937) - Began to aid the Rural Electrification Administration (REA) to help bring electricity to rural and farm areas.

TEES research projects were curtailed until the end of the war in 1945 because a number of researchers served in the war.

In fact, the success of its school architecture project led to the design of a multimedia package in 1948 that included a 16-millimeter color film entitled Building for Learning.

In 1949 TEES, along with the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, began developing a crop dusting, spraying, seeding and fertilizing aircraft which later went into production and is still used for crop dusting planes.

Fueled by the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union, TEES expanded its space research to aid the United States progress and established the Space Technology Division in 1962.

Remote Sensing Center (1968) - established for the development of microwave equipment for information gathering tasks by satellites.

TEES’ research contributed to the technological success of Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin’s walk on the moon in 1969.

Texas Occupational Health and Safety Institute (1971) Turbo Machinery Lab (1971) - The creation of the Turbo Machinery Lab improved performance and life of power equipment to help industry save on energy costs.

In 1973, TEES researchers developed a voice and breath-controlled wheelchair.

In 1988, Texas A&M University and the University of Texas at Austin partnered to create the NSF Engineering Research Center (ERC) for Offshore Technology.

During this decade, TEES celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2014 and renewed its focus on mission-focused applied research.