Program prepares students for future careers in nuclear security

Nov. 20, 2019 — UTSA is educating and preparing the next generation of scientists and engineers to provide innovative solutions to the grand challenges in nuclear security.  A cross-disciplinary team of researchers led by faculty members in the College of Sciences and the College of Engineering have been awarded nearly $3 million in grant funding
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Engineering students to display innovations at Tech Symposium

Nov. 11, 2019 — Seniors in UTSA’s College of Engineering will present their innovative student projects and research at the Tech Symposium in November. The event showcases engineering senior design projects, which are the culmination of engineering undergraduate studies.  The projects enable all engineering students in their senior year to apply the knowledge and skills
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CPS Energy supports clean energy and grid cybersecurity research at UTSA

(Sept. 18, 2019) — Beginning in the Fall of 2019, faculty members at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) will conduct research to enhance green power generation and smart grid security. Through the strategic alliance between the Texas Sustainable Energy Research Institute (TSERI) at UTSA and CPS Energy, three new projects totaling approximately
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UTSA researchers to share their innovations at Think Science and Discovery Day

(Aug. 2, 2019) – This month, the San Antonio community will get an up-close and hands-on look at some of the innovative research underway at UTSA at Think Science and Discovery Day. Presented by Texas Public Radio, the interactive exhibit will showcase some of the exciting scientific work and discoveries happening in San Antonio, from
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UTSA develops systems to construct power islands and live off the grid

(June 13, 2019) – More than 3400 lightning strikes and damaging winds interrupted power to approximately 57,000 residents in San Antonio, TX on June 6, 2019. On the same weekend, California’s largest utility warned tens of thousands of people that they should prepare for extended blackouts due to extreme fire risk. Researchers at The University
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Electrical and Computer Engineering students place 2nd in ARTBA Student Transportation Video Contest

Congratulations to Electrical Engineering students Zachary Balcar (M.S.) and Ayetullah Biten (Ph.D.), who recently placed second in the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA)’s 2018 Student Transportation Video Contest in the safety category. Under the direction of Dr. Samer Dessouky, Civil Engineering, and Dr. Sara Ahmed, Electrical Engineering, Zachary and Ayetullah produced the video
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Dr. Lide Duan and team selected as candidates for Best Paper Award at IEEE IPCCC Conference

Congratulations to Dr. Lide Duan, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and two PhD students in his research group, Hao Yan and Armin Haj Aboutalebi! Their work was recently published in the 37th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), and was selected as a candidate for the Best Paper Award. The IPCCC is
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Dean’s Student Forum

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UTSA enters Guinness World Records with smallest medical robot

(Aug. 27, 2018) — It can’t be seen with a human eye. It doesn’t look anything like C-3PO or R2-D2, or even BB-8. But, nevertheless, it is a robot (all 120nm of it) and its creators from The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) are now world record holders in the Guinness World Records
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UTSA Open Cloud Institute Celebrates the First Cloud Computing Certificate Graduate

(July 25, 2018) – UTSA is celebrating the graduation of the first students who have completed the inaugural cloud computing certificate program. Under the direction of Jeff Prevost, co-founder and co-director of the UTSA Open Cloud Institute and assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, UTSA launched the graduate certificate program in fall 2017. Azmeena A.
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