General Motors Engineering Diversity Graduate Fellowship

Award: $7,500 Qualifications: Must be COE full-time students with clear admission. Must be U.S. citizen or permanent residents who have disadvantaged backgrounds. Must be in good academic standing (cumulative grade point average on or above 3.0 on a 4.0 scale) Awardees must maintain at least a 3.0 grade point average each semester during the award period. Students
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Competitive Alvarez Matching Fund for GM Engineering Diversity Graduate Fellowship

Award: $7,500.00 Qualifications: Must be COE full-time students with clear admission. Must be in good academic standing (cumulative grade point average on or above 3.0 on a 4.0 scale) Awardees must maintain at least a 3.0 grade point average each semester during the award period. Students graduating in the semester of application need to registers for at
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UTSA researcher to play key role in $7.5 million project

KC Gonzalez Public Affairs Specialist (Aug. 19, 2013) –University of Texas at San Antonio researcher and assistant professor of mechanical engineering John Foster will play an important part in a $7.5 million Department of Defense contract to advance the understanding and use of a relatively new mathematical modeling theory called peridynamics, which allows scientists to more accurately
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Graduate Research Opportunity in Renewable Energy

Project Electrical Load Forecasting – A New Paradigm to Forecast Building Energy Demand from Solar Irradiance. Starting in Fall 2013 UTSA has been developing intelligent computer codes and sky and cloud imaging technology that could potentially revolutionize the renewable energy industry. The investigators plan to use these technologies to better predict the amount of energy consumed in buildings in a wide
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