Competition takes student entrepreneurship beyond the classroom By: Christi Fish PUBLIC AFFAIRS SPECIALIST UMDI, a team comprised of four engineering students and three business students who developed a prototype electrolytic gastric leak detector (eGLD) and wrote a business plan to market the technology, triumphed this weekend at the $100,000 Student Technology Venture Competition, presented by the UTSA Center

Winning team could launch its start-up before graduation By: Christi Fish PUBLIC AFFAIRS SPECIALIST Ten University of Texas at San Antonio teams comprised of business and engineering students will compete for $100,000 in cash and business-related services this Saturday at the $100,000 Student Technology Venture Competition, hosted by UTSA’s Center for Innovation and Technology Entrepreneurship (CITE). Competitors will be

One speaker, one audience, 10.5 hours apart By: Christi Fish PUBLIC AFFAIRS SPECIALIST In 2009, UTSA became a founding member of the Indo-U.S. Public-Private Joint Center on Biomaterials for Health Care, funded by the Indo-U.S. Science and Technology Forum. The center connects biomedical engineering researchers and students from top universities in the United States and India to improve

Sandia’s Andrew Orrell to deliver lecture at UTSA Downtown Campus By: Christi Fish PUBLIC AFFAIRS SPECIALIST The Texas Sustainable Energy Research Institute at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) and the San Antonio Clean Technology Forum invite the public to attend “A Quake Felt Round the World: Fukushima and the Future of Nuclear Energy,

The UTSA College of Engineering Ambassador Program is a leadership program for COE undergraduate and graduate students who have a desire to get involved with the college and interact with the COE alumni, development and public relations efforts. Eligibility Requirements Full-time College of Engineering undergraduate or graduate student GPA of 2.7 or above To apply,