UTSA professor engineers material to prevent landslides

By Joanna Carver/Public Affairs Specialist Who knew a few plants could save a life? Jie Huang, a UTSA civil engineering assistant professor, certainly did and he is letting others know how in a new paper on preventing landslides with plants, to be published this month in the scientific journal Landslides. “When you have rainfall, soil
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UTSA students form robotics competition team to create friendlier drones

By Joanna Carver/Public Affairs Specialist Drones don’t have the best reputation these days. That’s one of the reasons UTSA computer engineering senior Patrick Stockton decided to establish Texas’s only team in the International Aerial Robotics Competition. “Since UTSA is one of the leading drone research facilities in Texas, we have the resources to go for
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UTSA researcher explores the now and future of solar energy

By Joanna Carver/Public Affairs Specialist For many, solar energy is a solution to the problem of finding clean, renewable energy, as well as a sign of a growing American industry. UTSA Electrical and Computer Engineering assistant professor Hariharan Krishnaswami has some insight into the future of solar energy and how it might soon have coal
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San Antonio Pipeliners Association scholarship established

  by Deborah Silliman Wolfe/College of Engineering The San Antonio Pipeliners Association recently gave $25,000 to The University of Texas at San Antonio College of Engineering to set up a scholarship fund for students in the college. “We are so grateful to the San Antonio Pipeliners Association for supporting our students through this scholarship program,”
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