10th Annual Texas STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Conference 2022

The flyer of the conference

November 5, 2022

2022 10th STEM Conference Speaker

The keynote talk will be about "Solid-State Circuit Breakers - An Introduction to Their Technical, Operational and Application Benefits"

Dr. Nicholas Lanning

Dr. Jay Prigmore received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Lamar University and his M.S. degree and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Arizona State University. His research for all three degrees was Power Engineering.

He is presently employed at Google Inc. as an Electrical Field Reliability Technical Program Manager. Prior to his employment at Google Inc., he was employed by Exponent Inc. and performed numerous failure analysis and root cause investigations. Upon graduation he was employed at G&W Electric Company where he was responsible for short-circuit protection devices, their manufacture and applications.

Dr. Prigmore developed a peer-reviewed arc flash mitigation device which won the "product of the year" in electrical safety. He is a founding member of NFPA 78 and 1078 which provide guidance on performing electrical inspections and the qualifications of electrical inspectors, respectively. Dr. Prigmore has published more than 20 peer-reviewed articles and has written two book chapters. He is actively involved in IEEE standards meetings, NFPA committees, and CIGRE workgroups. Dr. Prigmore presently holds twelve professional engineering licenses and he is certified to climb wind turbines.

TX STEM Calendar 2022

Oct. 12 (Wed)– Workshop about participation to the TX STEM and HASBSEB conferences. Undergraduate and graduate students are invited to the Landes Auditorium of the Galloway Business building from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. We also plan to offer the workshop on Zoom ID 879-918-4160 and the password is 88888.

Oct. 24 (Mon) – Submission deadline to the 10th Texas STEM Conference

Oct. 24 (Mon) – Registration deadline

Oct. 25 (Tue) – Notification for acceptance of submissions

Oct. 25 - 28 – Organizational week for TX STEM Conference

Oct. 31 (Mon) – Panel Discussion about presentations to the 10th TX STEM conference. You are invited to attend from 2 - 3 p.m. in the Landes Auditorium of the Galloway Business building. Undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to attend. We also plan to offer the workshop on Zoom ID 879-918-4160 and the password is 88888.  

Nov. 5 (Sat) – The 10th Texas STEM Conference (whole day event starting at 8:30 a.m. at the Archer Building)

Nov. 29 (Mon.) – O.U.R. Awards Ceremony at the Landes Auditorium from noon - 3 p.m., followed by LURA Christmas Party 

Previous STEM Conference

Donna Fleming 2019 Texas STEM Winner
Donna Fleming, Chemistry major, presents at The 2019 Texas STEM Conference her poster titled “Theoretical Calculations of Epoxyketene to Lactone Thermal Rearrangement Transition States and Kinetics”, for which she was awarded 2nd place for the 'Best Poster Presentation'

8th Annual Texas STEM Conference

October 24th, 2020

Oct. 20, 12-2 pm | Panel Discussion: How to Present at the (virtual) STEM Conference (Meeting ID: 864 8738 3914)

  • Location: Zoom virtual meeting (ID: 864 8738 3914)

  • Time: 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM

  • Keynote Speaker: Dr. Benjamin Webb, Laser Scientist at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, NY. His talk is about "Next Generation Petawatt Laser Technology". Please see the abstract for his presentation. To learn more about Dr. Webb, please see his short bio.
  • Special Guest: Dr. Brian Craig, Dean of the Lamar University College of Engineering. Dr. Craig will introduce the SURF STEM winners
  • Featuring: presentations given by the Lamar University SURF 2020 Awardees
  • Student Invited Talk: Daniel Quispe, Lamar University Senior Mechanical Engineering Major and Northwestern University REU Fellow for Summer 2020 under the mentorship of Dr. Jian Cao, Principal Investigator of the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center. His talk is about "The Effects of Yarn Variations on Triaxial Braid Composite Fabrics"

Winners of the Best Oral and Poster Presentations at the 7th Texas STEM Conference

Anton Gribovskiy

Anton Gribovskiy, graduate student from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley, presenting his poster titled “RF Spectroscopy with Nonlinear Si Integrated Microring Resonators”  He won the 3rd place for the Best Poster Presentation at the 7th Annual Texas STEM Conference.  
Mentor: Dr.Malik Rakhmanov, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley, Brownsville  

2019 Texas STEM Group Photo

Last year, 48 oral and poster presentations were given by undergraduate and graduate students from Lamar, as well as from other schools, such as University of Houston, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley - Brownsville, and Louisiana Tech University. Please check the Abstracts for Student Ppresentations at the 2019 Texas STEM conference. 

2019 Texas STEM Awardees

7th Annual Texas STEM Conference 'Best Paper' awardees at the graduate and undergraduate levels