Engineering Students Place Second in Bridge Construction Competition

UTSA's Steel Bridge Construction Team
A team of UTSA engineering students recently placed second in the Texas Region of the American Institute of Steel Construction’s (AISC) Student Steel Bridge Competition. Eight Roadrunners competed, including Trinity Schaefer (Civil Engineering), Elizabeth De Leon (Civil Engineering), Evan Batton (Civil Engineering), Alexandra Sanabria (Civil Engineering), America Martinez (Civil Engineering) Daniel Vogel (Civil Engineering), Dinesh
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Save the Date: UTSA Tech Symposium 2021, Virtual Showcase on Friday, April 30

Join UTSA’s College of Engineering this Friday, April 30, for the 2021 Virtual Tech Symposium. At the event, 50 teams of Roadrunners will present their senior design projects across Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Civil Engineering disciplines. The Tech Symposium represents the culmination of our Roadrunners’ undergraduate studies and
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Tuesday, April 20, 2021: Join the Virtual Awards Ceremony for The Dee Howard Foundation and UTSA Art Contest!

DHF and UTSA are pleased to announce that the Virtual Awards Ceremony for the DHF/UTSA Art Contest – Mission to Mars (visit the event page here) will be held at 6 pm CDT on Tuesday, 20 April 2021, via Zoom. Opening remarks will be delivered by numerous distinguished guests, including Dr. Adriana Rocha Garcia, San Antonio City Council
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Open Position at UTSA: Assistant/Associate Professor in Data Science and Human Performance

View this announcement in PDF format The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) has recently embarked on a focused cluster hiring plan in the area of Human Performance with hires in multiple areas (Biomedical Engineering, Kinesiology, Mechanical Engineering, Nutrition, Psychology, Public Health). The Human Performance initiative focuses on applied and fundamental research for the
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Endowed scholarship memorializes UTSA alumna, civil engineer Susan Landreth

Family, employer come together to memorialize a trailblazer’s memory When Susan Landreth (’89) passed away in the summer of 2018, her family and friends wanted to honor her memory. Susan, a professional engineer with 30 years of civil engineering experience, served as a mentor and trailblazer for women in the field. With that in mind,
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NASA looks to UTSA to help expand field of STEM researchers

NASA has tapped UTSA to explore creating a strategy to develop its next generation workforce. The space agency wants to create early awareness opportunities for K–12 students, in particular more females and minorities, to become interested in classes in science, technology, engineering and math, known as STEM fields. This area of study is the foundation
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Roadrunners You Should Know: Student demonstrating leadership during first year at UTSA

JUNE 11, 2020 — First-year Top Scholar and Honors College student at UTSA Tristan Pepper has been named a participant in the Fulbright United Kingdom Summer Institute. The prestigious award recognizes promising first- and second-year students for their academic potential and ability to serve as a cultural ambassador to the United States. The award will
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UTSA mechanical engineers adapt labs for a new world

MAY 29, 2020 — A fluid is both a gas and liquid, such as air, water, steam and oil. Ordinarily, engineering students in the Griffin Thermal and Fluids Laboratory at UTSA experiment with wind tunnels, tapered ducts, valves, pipe fittings and hydraulics to observe the forces fluids produce under various conditions. With the sudden onset
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Five Roadrunner scholars honored with NSF fellowships

MAY 27, 2020 – Two current UTSA students and three recent graduates have received the National Science Foundation’s prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship. This fellowship program nurtures innovation and leadership in the United States, according to the NSF, by recruiting and supporting outstanding students with high potential. The distinguished fellowship is awarded to outstanding graduate students
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For COVID-19 patients, engineering researchers develop a better way to vent

MAY 21, 2020 — UTSA mechanical engineering researchers have developed a new breathing tube designed to solve the problem of instability and tissue damage from the long-term ventilation of COVID-19 patients and emergency medicine. COVID-19 can spread swiftly in the population and progress rapidly in individual patients. In turn, according to news reports, a patient
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