Times Higher Education recognizes UTSA College of Engineering among world’s best

*Adapted from UTSA Today articled posted on November 29, 2018 UTSA’s College of Engineering was recognized as a world leader in engineering in technology in the newly released 2019 Times Higher Education World University Rankings by subject. Times Higher Education ranked UTSA’s engineering programs No. 88 in the U.S. and among the top 400 in
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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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2018 HENAAC Award Winner: Dr. Krystel Castillo

Dr. Krystel Castillo, Director of UTSA’s Texas Sustainable Energy Research Institute (TSERI), was counted among 27 outstanding scientists, engineers, and other STEM professionals as Great Minds in STEM 2018 Class of Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Conference (HENAAC) Award Winners at the 30th Anniversary HENAAC Conference, “Generation Xcellence” in Pasadena, CA October 17-21, 2018. Click
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Francisca Acosta: A Chance Encounter Led Me to Biomedical Engineering

Originally published on UT Health San Antonio’s The Pipette Gazette by Charlotte Anthony on September 13, 2018 Francisca Acosta didn’t always know Biomedical Engineering was for her. “Up until I went to college, I thought I would go into medicine and be a doctor. I grew up not knowing what a Ph.D. was and I
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Dr. Bing Dong presented IBPSA-USA Emerging/Young Contributor Award

Congratulations to Bing Dong, recipient of the very prestigious International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA)-USA Region Emerging/Young Contributor Award! This award is the highest recognition of building simulation society for junior faculties and recognizes. Presented every two years, it recognizes one individual at the beginning of their career who has demonstrated potential for significant contributions
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Dean’s Student Forum

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Three UTSA COE faculty earn tenure, promotion this fall

UTSA Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Kimberly Andrews Espy announced the promotion of 34 faculty members on August 31, 2018. The promotions were approved by the UT System Board of Regents earlier this month and are effective September 1, 2018. Adel Alaeddini, Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Arturo Montoya, Department of Civil and
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Dr. Kiran Bhaganagar Named AIAA Associate Fellow

Dr. Kiran Bhaganagar has been elected to the grade of Associate Fellow – Class of 2019 in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). AIAA Associate Fellows are individuals of distinction who have made notable and valuable contributions to the arts, sciences, or technology of aeronautics or astronautics. Each year, only one for every
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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 engineering students win ingenuity award in National Student Steel Bridge Competition

(June 21, 2018) — A team of 12 UTSA civil engineering students competed at the 2018 National Student Steel Bridge Competition recently after winning top honors at the 2018 Texas-Mexico Region Student Steel Bridge Competition in April. In addition to winning the competition’s first ever Frank J. Hatfield Ingenuity Award for the unique design of
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