Meet a Roadrunner: Laurel Village resident assistant enjoys helping students transform

Meet Michael Pinnell. The 24-year-old computer engineering major from Austin is responsible for supervising about 40 students as a resident assistant (RA) in Laurel Village. Pinnell initially moved to San Antonio to follow his high school sweetheart, but after that relationship ended, he stayed and fell in love with the campus community and the Alamo
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Welcome Dr. JoAnn Browning, COE’s new dean!

Browning brings experience in growth management to UTSA College of Engineering JoAnn Browning, associate dean of administration and professor of civil engineering in the School of Engineering at the University of Kansas (KU), has been named dean and David and Jennifer Spencer Distinguished Chair of The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) College of
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UTSA engineering and business colleges rank in top 10 for Hispanics

UTSA programs consistently rank high for Hispanic graduate students by HispanicBusiness The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) College of Engineering and College of Business are ranked the No. 5 and No. 10 graduate schools in the nation for Hispanics, respectively, according to HispanicBusiness’ 2014 Annual Diversity Report. This is the fifth consecutive year
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CE graduate students place first at national conference competition

by Deborah Silliman Wolfe/College of Engineering Two UTSA graduate students and their team won first place in a student design competition held at the Pipelines 2014 Conference in  Portland, Oregon, August 6, 2014. Sepehr Rezaeimalek and Abdolreza Nasour are both pursuing graduate degrees from the College of Engineering’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. “Abdolreza
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$500k to study cloud computing goes to the College of Engineering’s Ram Krishnan

by Deborah Silliman Wolfe/College of Engineering Ram Krishnan, assistant professor in the UTSA College of Engineering Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Ravi Sandhu, professor in the College of Science and director of the UTSA Institute for Cyber Security, have been awarded $500,000 from the National Science Foundation to improve the security of cloud-based
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Eugene John honored with Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award

Four UTSA faculty members are among 96 educators from the 15 academic and health institutions in the UT System to be named recipients of the Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Awards for 2014. The UTSA award recipients are: Dennis Davis, assistant professor, Department of Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching Eugene John, professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Biomedical engineer Bizios receives highest honors in her field

By K.C. Gonzalez/Public Affairs Specialist Rena Bizios, a Peter T. Flawn Professor in the UTSA Department of Biomedical Engineering, recently received two prestigious awards for her life-long contributions to the biomaterials field and to biomedical engineering education. The first, the 2014 Founders Award of the Society for Biomaterials, is the highest recognition for life contributions
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Pei receives 290K from NSF for algal bloom research, education

Story by Deborah Silliman Wolfe/College of Engineering Dr. Ruoting Pei, assistant professor in the College of Engineering’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), has been awarded a grant of $$290,468 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support her project entitled, “The Role of Cell-to-Cell Communication in Microcystis Aeruginosa Blooms.” “I was first interested
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Successful San Antonio Prefreshman Engineering Program is replicated across nation

By Kris Rodriguez/Public Affairs Specialist For the last 36 years, the San Antonio Prefreshman Engineering Program (SA-PREP) has compiled an impressive track record preparing more than 16,000 middle and high school students to pursue degrees in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. A survey of student responses found that 90 percent who had
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Declining Nigerian universities motivate family to move to Texas for better life

By Christi Fish/Director of Communications Nigerian schools follow the British system, so Jide Ogunbanjo graduated from high school and matriculated into a well-known Nigerian university at age 15. But, the quality of the university’s computer science program was disappointing at best and to stay was a gamble his parents would not take. Guided by the
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