Engineering team takes first in steel bridge competition

MARCH 11, 2020 — UTSA civil engineering students showed great success as they put classroom knowledge learned to practical use at the American Institute of Steel Construction’s Regional Steel Bridge Competition on March 8 in Arlington. The UTSA Steel Bridge Team placed first overall and took first in the following categories: construction economy, structural efficiency,
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Bizios elected to the prestigious Academy of Athens

MARCH 5, 2020 – Rena Bizios, the Lutcher Brown Chair Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at UTSA, was elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Athens, Greece on Feb. 20. In ancient Greece the academy was established by Plato, the student of Socrates. In modern Greece the Academy of Athens was established
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2020 EWeek Lab Exhibit Winner

Congratulations to Dr. Benavides and his team in the ACE Lab, who were crowned the winning E-Week Lab Exhibit on Friday, February 28, 2020! Students from Brandeis, Construction Careers, Highlands, Lutheran and Memorial High Schools visited five College of Engineering labs to learn more about the different research opportunities at UTSA. After a vote, they
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New Employee: Henry Griffith

Henry Griffith, Ph.D., is the new Research Program Coordinator for the UTSA AI Consortium. Within this role, Henry will manage the financial and administrative operations of the Consortium. He was most recently at Texas State University, where he led various machine learning and hardware design projects for eye movement sensor technology within virtual and augmented reality applications.
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Staff Spotlight: Maria Alvarez

Maria Alvarez is a Business Service Center Specialist II in the College of Engineering Business Service Center. Please tell us about yourself. I have proudly served UTSA for 21 years. My first 11 years of service were in Business Affairs. I started in the Disbursements Office, then promoted several times while working in the Budget
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Faculty Spotlight: Christopher Rathbone

Christopher Rathbone, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering. Please tell us about yourself. I am originally from Iowa, the youngest of three siblings, the husband of an extremely supportive wife, and the proud father of two amazing kids. What is your job title and what do you
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UTSA civil engineering ranks among nation’s most affordable programs

FEBRUARY 10, 2020 — An undergraduate program at UTSA is being recognized for its affordability. The civil engineering bachelor’s degree program landed at the 42nd spot of Affordable Schools’ 50 Best Affordable Civil Engineering Degree Programs list for 2020. Affordable Schools is an online higher education resource that helps students find “high-quality education while avoiding
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National Academy member Sergio Alcocer joins College of Engineering

FEBRUARY 6, 2020 — Sergio Alcocer, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, has joined the faculty of the UTSA College of Engineering as a professor of civil engineering. He is a fellow of the American Concrete Institute, former president of the of the Academy of Engineering of Mexico, and was elected to the
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College of Engineering welcomes key new faculty

FEBRUARY 6, 2020 — The UTSA College of Engineering welcomes new faculty Mario Flores and Karina Vielma for the spring 2020 semester. Flores joins the college as an assistant professor and is the first joint appointment between the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering. Flores has a
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Engineering to host NASA expert to shed light on Mars

FEBRUARY 4, 2020 — UTSA will welcome Firouz Naderi, former director of solar system exploration at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to present NASA’s Exploration of Mars; Past, Present and Future, a College of Engineering Distinguished Speaker Seminar, on Feb. 7. Mars exploration creates many questions. Was Mars ever habitable 4.5 billion years ago? If so,
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