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We are located in the Wisenbaker Engineering Research Center (WERC). A map is here.
For deliveries and interviews please go to 053 and check in with the Administrator or our Manager.
Visiting professionals and vendors may temporarily park on the south side of the building and come in for a temporary parking pass for the lot across the street. Please give us 24 hrs notice to ensure we have a pass ready for your use.
If you choose the Campus Bus to reach us - there is at least one stop adjacent to Wisenbaker Engineering Center (WERC).
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Don R. Gilman, P.E.
TEES Assistant Research Engineer and Manager, SE Group
Mr. Gilman holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University. He has been active in all aspects of software development since the early 1980's. His portfolio includes nine published computer games with over 1.5 million units sold, the Harpoon air/naval computer wargame, a Microsoft Case Study, and dozens of custom applications for customers including: the US EPA, US DOE, US Navy, Canadian Department of National Defense, Australian Department of Defense, Northrop Grumman, Aon Insurance and Exxon Oil. He was one of the first to receive his license as a Professional Engineer in Software Engineering in 2000. |
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Programming Team:
Graduates from Electrical Engineering, Environmental Design, and Computer Science. Students from the Colleges of Engineering: (Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Enginering) and Architecture (VizLab), and Business School (Management).
The SE Group works closely with the Building Modeling Group and the Building Codes Group. They comprise of Mechanical Engineers and Architects, aided by graduate students in Architecture and Mechanical Engineering. |
The Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) is a partnership of communities, industry and institutions across the state that work together to solve problems and promote the economic development of Texas. TEES is the engineering research agency of the State of Texas and a member of The Texas A&M University System.
Today, with approximately 2,000 students, the College of Architecture at Texas A&M University is one of the largest of its kind in the United States,. The three departments in the college - architecture, construction science, and landscape architecture and urban planning - are each fully accredited at the highest possible level and together offer 12 degree programs including doctorates in Architecture and Urban and Regional Sciences. Additionally the college sustains seven formally organized research centers and laboratories dedicated to improving the knowledge base of the professions it serves and supporting four graduate certification programs.
Texas A&M Engineering ranks among the finest and jost comprehensive engineering programs in the nation. Our Dwight Look College of Engineering is an integral parts of Texas A&M University. More than 9,000 engineering majors are enrolled in our 12 departments. Our faculty are dedicated to teaching, research and discovery in all of the major engineering fields.
Texas A&M University
Dedicated Oct. 4, 1876 as Texas’ first public institute of higher learning, Texas A&M University is the nation’s seventh-largest university by enrollment – 44,435 students in fall 2004. Consistently in the top 20 in enrollment of National Merit Scholars, there were about 600 during the 2004-05 academic year. One of the largest in the nation, Texas A&M consists of a 5,200-acre main campus and includes a 434-acre Research Park, branch campuses in Galveston and the Persian Gulf state of Qatar, and university centers in Mexico City and Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy. |
This system takes building and community data (19 models presently) and calculates weather normalized energy savings estimates. Then it allocates power plant pollution reductions to those projects.
The currently deployed version was an “Engineering” flavored deliverable that is in need of a UI tune up. It is built with 3 tiers, with the simulation occurring in a VB.NET layer wrapped around legacy compiled simulations hosted on AMD64 “Calc Engines” Presently we are adding six new models to the existing code and have a parallel project to rework the UI to make it more attractive, stateful (i.e. user can save their work), and helpful.
 A Power Point presentation is here.
Version 1 was approximately 3700 student hours (design to deployment) and over 3000 additional staff hours. It has been roughly calculated that the engineering models required up to 6 staff years of effort to configure and script before the SEG put them into the calculator.
A future version is intended to feature GIS based output showing single and summarized county emissions data.
Other projects include the analysis of utility and building data in an effort to optimize control settings to provide the best comfort at the lowest cost to the building occupants.
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We follow a hybrid approach where we do Agile (Test Driven) Development, SCRUM tasking in the actual shop. Since we are also TEES and Engineers, we also follow a lighter weight Software Engineering methodology that includes: requirements, specification, design. estimations, scheduling, and risk management.
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