My office, TEES Research Services, is pre-award and functions under the
Deputy Vice Chancellor and Associate Dean for Engineering.  We handle
everything up to the receipt of the actual award document.

TRS is comprised of a Director (me), an Assistant Director, Funding
Opportunities Coordinator, Proposal Administration Coordinator, 2 Proposal
Administrators, staff assistant, secretary, and numerous student employees.

We handle all pre-award aspects from conception of ideas, locating funding
ops, budget preparation, completion of all sponsor forms, putting the
proposal document together, obtaining signatures, duplication, mailing,
status calls, etc.  We also post all imaginable data (for statistics and
post award management purposes) into the grants management section of the
TEES Information System (financial database - Banner system from Oracle,
significantly tailored for our needs by our Computer Services dept.).

Post-award is handled by various other TEES offices who work for the
Assistant Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration.  They include
Contracts & Grants, Project Administration, Fiscal, etc.

Since we are located at the College Station Campus of The Texas A&M system
we utilize the A&M Campus committees for IRB, ULACC, IAACUC, Biosafety,
etc.

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Jean N. Humphries
Director, Research Services
Texas Engineering Experiment Station
Texas A&M University System

006 Wisenbaker Engineering Research Center - MS 3406
College Station TX 77843-3406

Phone:  (409) 845-1264
Fax:    (409) 845-9643
Email:  xxxxxx@tamu.edu