Prof. Frank Chen Received UTSA President’s Distinguish Achievement Award for Advancing Globalization

See the announcement at UTSA news.
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Graduate Student Vinicio Ynciarte Wins 3rd Place in NACE Conference Student Poster Competition

The Harvey Herro category is for applied corrosion technology. Harvey coauthored two books and holds patents for corrosion monitoring using chemical techniques. He authored numerous papers on corrosion and failure analysis and was a frequent lecturer. Harvey was an active member of the National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE) and the American Society of Metals (ASM).
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ME Undergraduate Student Trevor Tackett Received NACE Foundation Scholarship

The Gordon Rankin Corrosion Engineering Scholarship was established in 2011 by Farwest Corrosion Control Company to commemorate his over fifty years of service in the corrosion industry. These scholarships are established to help young students further their studies in corrosion, thus bringing forward a new generation into the field of corrosion control and cathodic protection, to
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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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Graduate Student Daniel Portillo Wins 2nd Place in UTSA’s 2021 3MT Competition

Congratulations to Daniel Portillo for placing 2nd at UTSA’s 2021 3MT Competition! This competition required competitors to present their thesis in less than 3 minutes using only one static image/slide.
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UTSA Students Win Poster Competition in TMS 2021 Virtual Meeting

Congratulations to our Ph.D. students Juan Sebastian Rincon Tabares (Lead Author), Juan Camilo Velasquez, and our undergraduate student Hayden Bilbo for winning the student poster competition at the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) 2021 virtual meeting with the work entitled: “A Novel Cardiac Patch for Treating Myocardial Infarction.” The students are working under the
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UTSA Mechanical Engineering 2019-2020 Report

The UTSA Mechanical Engineering 2019-2020 Report is now available: ME 2019-2020 Annual Report
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Kiran Bhaganagar’s fundamental work on Buoyancy-driven plumes is published in the prestigious Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Kiran Bhaganagar and her graduate student Sudheer BhimiReddy from Laboratory of Turbulence, Sensing and Intelligence Systems publish a fundamental work on Plumes in the atmosphere in the prestigious  Journal of Fluid Mechanics.  https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2020.474. The team developed a state-of-art numerical model and solved an important problem in fundamental fluid dynamics. This work has important implications in predicting
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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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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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