UTSA engineering students partner with local organizations to solve challenges
Tuesday, 19 April 2022
by rorydew
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
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New leadership champions new vision for UTSA Prefreshman Engineering Program
Monday, 18 April 2022
by rorydew
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
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How a UTSA grad went from flunking out to designing a lower-cost robotic prosthetic hand
Friday, 15 April 2022
by rorydew
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
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UTSA researchers develop models designed to improve success of water rescues
Monday, 11 April 2022
by rorydew
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
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UTSA’s Engineers Without Borders chapter developing a water distribution system for Guatemalan town
Wednesday, 06 April 2022
by rorydew
April 6, 2022 – After transferring to UTSA in the fall of 2019, Giselle Contreras-Velarde came across an organization called Engineers Without Borders (EWB) at an engineering club event. She says, “The whole reason why I joined EWB, to start with, is because even though engineering is a desirable career due to it being a
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UTSA’s PREP prepares to welcome local students for engineering programming
Tuesday, 05 April 2022
by rorydew
APRIL 5, 2022 – UTSA’s Prefreshman Engineering Program (PREP) is hard at work preparing for its summer sessions. Demand for participation is at an all-time high, with more than 500 future engineers having already expressed interest for this year’s programming. Led by UTSA’s engineering education team which is joint appointed between UTSA’s Margie and Bill
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UTSA sharpens research focus on space exploration, seeks out SpaceX
Monday, 04 April 2022
by rorydew
APRIL 4, 2022 – Aaron Morrison wants to know if moon settlers in the near future can use rocks that litter the lunar surface to build a base camp, roads, and landing and launch pads. The postdoctoral fellow in earth and planetary sciences at the University of Texas at San Antonio is studying gray, volcanic
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Hypersonics lab at UTSA preparing students for in-demand jobs in aerospace industry
Monday, 04 April 2022
by rorydew
APRIL 4, 2022— Part of what makes the UTSA Hypersonics Lab unique is the 50-foot-long, 7,000-pound Mach 7 Ludwieg Tube Wind Tunnel it houses. What makes it especially unique, however, are the students who are running the facility and are gaining invaluable experiential learning opportunities in the process. Students’ capability to take control while in
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Mechanical engineering research team identifies methods to predict future cyberattacks
Wednesday, 30 March 2022
by rorydew
MARCH 30, 2022 — Malicious software activities, commonly known as “malware,” represent a big threat against modern society. A UTSA-led research team is investigating ways to accurately predict these attacks. Mechanical Engineering Professor Yusheng Feng and doctoral student Van Trieu-Do in the Margie and Bill Klesse College of Engineering and Integrated Design, in collaboration with
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Greg Griffin discusses proposed airport tunnel with San Antonio Express-News
Friday, 25 March 2022
by rorydew
MARCH 25, 2022 – Greg Griffin is intrigued by the Boring Co.’s proposal to build an underground transportation loop between San Antonio International Airport and downtown — and by the Alamo Regional Mobility Authority’s interest in the project. Intrigued, but not necessarily in a good way. Griffin, an assistant professor of urban and regional planning
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