College of Engineering welcomes key new faculty
Tuesday, 11 February 2020
by BMEngineer
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 strong record of research accomplishments
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Researchers’ nanodisk could restore function for Lou Gehrig’s disease patients
Thursday, 05 December 2019
by BMEngineer
Dec. 5, 2019 — For decades the renowned English physicist Stephen Hawking lived with a motor neuron disease until his death last year. People who suffer from this condition lose functionality of brain cells that control essential muscle activity, such as speaking, walking, breathing and swallowing. To help individuals afflicted by MNDs, UTSA has embarked on
UTSA ranks among nation’s top minority-serving institutions for federal science and engineering expenditures
Thursday, 17 August 2017
by BMEngineer
The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) ranks No. 7 among the minority-serving institutions in the nation that received the most federal research obligations (expenditures) for science and engineering, according to updated data released by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for fiscal year 2015. In FY 2015, UTSA expended $23.3 million in federal funding
- Published in COE Announcements
Foundation work underway for Science and Engineering Building
Thursday, 17 August 2017
by BMEngineer
June, The University of Texas at San Antonio broke ground on its $95 million Science and Engineering Building (SEB), the largest construction project in university history. The building is slated to open in June 2020. The 153,000 square foot building, which will be located on the Main Campus adjacent to the Biotechnology, Sciences and Engineering
- Published in COE Announcements
Mikayla Rahman has spirit for biomedical engineering
Thursday, 17 August 2017
by BMEngineer
Meet Mikayla Rahman. This UTSA Honors College student is balancing life as a biomedical engineering major and UTSA cheerleader. Rahman was born in China and was adopted when she was 13 months old. That’s when she moved to Colorado Springs to live with her new family. Rahman lived in Colorado for most of her life, but she
- Published in COE Announcements
NIST Funds twelve projects to make communities more resilient to disasters
Wednesday, 16 August 2017
by BMEngineer
Using biological materials as flame retardants, defining the characteristics of soil liquefaction during earthquakes and collecting disaster data with aerial drones are among the twelve disaster resilience research projects awarded just over $6 million by the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology(NIST). The University of Texas at San Antonio received $798,892 for research
- Published in COE Announcements
ELSS Conference poster competition
Tuesday, 15 August 2017
by BMEngineer
This year’s Engineering Lean Six Sigma (ELSS) conference is being held in Orlando, FL, and participants are invited to compete in the poster competition at the conference. The conference is taking place September 25-27, 2017, in Orlando, FL, and is hosted by the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE). The 2017 ELSS Poster Session
- Published in COE Announcements