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Community Outreach

at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

Trent Thigpen

Trent Thigpen

Trent Thigpen is Program Manager for the Pollution Prevention Partnership and AutoCheck program. His focus is to help our community decrease single source mobile emissions by offering vehicle testing for both public and private vehicles.  Fleet testing is done at no cost and is available by request.  Public testing is done throughout the year at events held here on campus and other community locations.

Prior to joining Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, he was an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Victoria College. Trent has a Master of Fine Arts degree in Painting from TAMU-CC, a Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies degree in Computer Science, Bioinformatics and Communications from The University of Houston-Victoria, and a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Marketing from Texas State University.


Phone: 361-825-3070 Fax: 361-825-2384