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From left: Suku Nair, SMU vice provost for research and chief innovation officer; Chuck Wright, corporate R&D manager at NOV; Dinesh Rajan, associate dean for faculty affairs and curriculum innovation in the Lyle School of Engineering; and Saeed Salehi, principal investigator and Herman Brown Chair in Mechanical Engineering at Lyle. [Photo: SMU]
SMU Gets $19.3M from DOE to Adapt Oil-and-Gas Tech for Critical Minerals Mining
by Sandra Engelland | Sep 16, 2026
The U.S. Department of Energy awarded the money to SMU researcher Saeed Salehi for development of what is thought to be the world’s first synthetic mine inside an advanced drilling and sensing test facility.
