APRIL 29, 2022 – Joseph G. Hernandez-McCloskey, a Ph.D. student in UTSA’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, was recently announced as a recipient of a 2022 NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunity (NSTGRO) Award. Hernandez-McCloskey, who conducts research in UTSA’s UTSA Laser Spectroscopy and Chemical Propulsion Laboratory–supervised by assistant professor Daniel I. Pineda–was one of approximately

APRIL 28, 2022 — UTSA student team Remedium won first place at the $100K Student Technology Venture Competition for its product, The Hermes. The team includes UTSA biomedical engineering students Jaime Benavides, Felipe Morales, Rich Yi and Isaiah Arredondo. The Hermes is a muscle fatigue monitoring system built into compression shorts. When an athlete wears

APRIL 27, 2022 – The UTSA Corrosion Research Laboratory founded in 2016 by Brendy Rincon Troconis, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, integrates experimental approaches with accelerated degradation through harsh environments (salts, temperature, humidity) and extensive materials characterization with computational modelling to better understand corrosion and assist industrial partners in mitigating its effects. Throughout 2021, Rincon

APRIL 27, 2022 — The UTSA Office of Commercialization and Innovation (OCI) today presented its annual UTSA Innovation Awards to recognize excellence in discovery and impact within the university research community. These annual awards are presented in five categories, the lead indicators of UTSA’s success at commercializing innovations. This year’s event celebrated 40 researchers for

APRIL 25, 2022 — Students in the Margie and Bill Klesse College of Engineering and Integrated Design at UTSA are designing a tiny home to help homeless veterans—and gaining valuable career experience while they do it. Civil engineering students Trinity Schaefer and Elizabeth De Leon established the UTSA Big Heroes Tiny Homes project to apply

APRIL 22, 2022 — Ingenuity was on display in the UTSA Convocation Center yesterday as more than 400 undergraduate engineering students presented their work at the Spring 2022 Tech Symposium. Hosted by the Margie and Bill Klesse College of Engineering and Integrated Design at UTSA, the Tech Symposium highlighted a culmination of engineering curricula, with

APRIL 19, 2022 — The Margie and Bill Klesse College of Engineering and Integrated Design (Klesse College) at UTSA will host the Spring 2022 Tech Symposium from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 21. Students will gather in the Convocation Center on the UTSA Main Campus to showcase their ingenuity, as teams from

APRIL 18, 2022 — UTSA Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Kimberly Andrews Espy today announced the appointment of Araceli Martinez Ortiz as director of the Prefreshman Engineering Program (PREP), effective June 1. Ortiz is the Microsoft President’s Endowed Professor and a professor of engineering education in the Department of Biomedical and Chemical

April 15, 2022 – Three years ago it was nothing more than a school project and proof of concept — the second-place winner at a university showcase contest — but it grabbed headlines as far away as the United Kingdom. For their senior project at UTSA, Ryan Saavedra and two classmates had built a robotic

APRIL 11, 2022 — Mechanical engineering professors Adel Alaeddini and Kiran Bhaganagar in UTSA’s Margie and Bill Klesse College of Engineering and Integrated Design are partnering with the U.S. Air Force and Coast Guard to study object interactions in open water. Their research, funded by a three-year, $350,000 grant, allows the team to examine the