By Joanna Carver/Public Affairs Specialist After weeks of what seemed like endless rainfall in San Antonio and other parts of Texas, it’s easy to wonder whether the drought much of the state has been experiencing since 2010 is finally over. UTSA civil engineering associate professor Hatim Sharif says that’s a complicated question, and part of

By Joanna Carver/Public Affairs Specialist UTSA biomedical engineering freshman Robert Trevino was a high school student working part-time at H-E-B when his grandfather began using a wheelchair. “My grandfather had just had back surgery,” Trevino said. “He really didn’t want anyone to help him with anything. He hated it.” As a result, Trevino was inspired

by Randy Atkins/NAE Senior Media and Public Relations Officer and Deborah Silliman Wolfe/College of Engineering Krystel Castillo, UTSA GreenStar Endowed Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, is one of eighty-nine of the nation’s brightest young engineers selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering’s 21st annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering (USFOE)

By Deborah Silliman Wolfe/College of Engineering In 2013, a team of UTSA College of Engineering students, led by Prof. Yusheng Feng, worked with the Roadrunner football team, to develop a football kicking simulator. The full-scale, indoor simulator (FKS 1.0) aimed to improve a kickers performance by providing real-time data while the ball is kicked a

By Deborah Silliman Wolfe/College of Engineering Chad Furl, a post-doc in the College of Engineering’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, was recently awarded National Science Foundation Rapid Response Research (RAPID) funding to study the massive flooding that took place along the Blanco River earlier this year. Numerous homes were swept away in Wimberley, Tx,

By Joanna Carver/Public Affairs Specialist Say you fall and crack your head open, an ambulance takes you to the hospital and a group of doctors fill that hole in your skull with speaker foam? Well, soon that might be possible. Teja Guda, an assistant professor of biomechanical engineering, and Joo L. Ong, chair and professor