CORPORATE NEWS

Stress Engineering Services named to the 5th Annual AGGIE 100 Honoring
the Fastest Growing Aggie Owned or Managed Companies Worldwide

COLLEGE STATION, TX. (Friday, Nov. 6, 2009) – Stress Engineering Services of Houston is among the top 100 companies named to the 5th Annual Aggie 100 honoring the fastest-growing companies in the world owned or operated by Texas A & M University former students. The Aggie 100 honors graduates from across disciplines and is a program of the Center for New Ventures and Entrepreneurship in Texas A & M University’s Mays Business School.

Stress Engineering Services is an independent, employee-owned consulting engineering firm headquartered in Houston with offices in Cincinnati and New Orleans. Stress performs full-scale testing, mechanical design, product development, subsea engineering, project management and other engineering services for the oil and gas, offshore drilling and production and consumer products industries.

Stress Engineering’s president, Dr. Joe R. Fowler is a 1968 graduate of Texas A & M. Five of the company’s six vice-presidents are also Texas A & M graduates.

The 100 Aggie-owned or managed companies with the highest compound annual revenue growth from 2006 to 2008 were recognized at a formal luncheon at Texas A & M University on Friday, Nov. 6, 2009.

"Texas A & M University and the Mays Business School’s Center for New Ventures and Entrepreneurship have built a tradition of pride among former students who have been named to the 2009 Aggie 100, as well as those who have made it any point in our history," said Dr. Richard H. Lester, Executive Director of the Mays Business School’s Center for New Ventures and Entrepreneurship. "We are extremely proud to honor such fine businesses honored and even more proud that they speak to the legacy of the values Texas A & M instills in all of our students."

The Aggie 100 list in its entirety may be viewed at www.aggie100.com.