2020-2021 Annual Report

The UTSA Mechanical Engineering 2020-2021 Report is now available: ME 2020-2021 Annual Report
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Prof. Frank Chen Received UTSA President’s Distinguish Achievement Award for Advancing Globalization

See the announcement at UTSA news.
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Graduate Student Vinicio Ynciarte Wins 3rd Place in NACE Conference Student Poster Competition

The Harvey Herro category is for applied corrosion technology. Harvey coauthored two books and holds patents for corrosion monitoring using chemical techniques. He authored numerous papers on corrosion and failure analysis and was a frequent lecturer. Harvey was an active member of the National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE) and the American Society of Metals (ASM).
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ME Undergraduate Student Trevor Tackett Received NACE Foundation Scholarship

The Gordon Rankin Corrosion Engineering Scholarship was established in 2011 by Farwest Corrosion Control Company to commemorate his over fifty years of service in the corrosion industry. These scholarships are established to help young students further their studies in corrosion, thus bringing forward a new generation into the field of corrosion control and cathodic protection, to
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Graduate Student Daniel Portillo Wins 2nd Place in UTSA’s 2021 3MT Competition

Congratulations to Daniel Portillo for placing 2nd at UTSA’s 2021 3MT Competition! This competition required competitors to present their thesis in less than 3 minutes using only one static image/slide.
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UTSA Students Win Poster Competition in TMS 2021 Virtual Meeting

Congratulations to our Ph.D. students Juan Sebastian Rincon Tabares (Lead Author), Juan Camilo Velasquez, and our undergraduate student Hayden Bilbo for winning the student poster competition at the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) 2021 virtual meeting with the work entitled: “A Novel Cardiac Patch for Treating Myocardial Infarction.” The students are working under the
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Gao and Jafari Receive NSF CAREER Awards

Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professors Wei Gao and Amir Jafari have been awarded National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER awards. CAREER award is “the NSF’s most prestigious award in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department
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Mechanical Engineering Student Daniel Portillo Wins 3 Minute Thesis Awards

Congratulations to Daniel Portillo for winning Second Place in the 2020 Three Minute Thesis Competition! His dissertation topic focuses on the development of a frugal tissue/organ transplant preservation system.
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Kiran Bhaganagar’s fundamental work on Buoyancy-driven plumes is published in the prestigious Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Kiran Bhaganagar and her graduate student Sudheer BhimiReddy from Laboratory of Turbulence, Sensing and Intelligence Systems publish a fundamental work on Plumes in the atmosphere in the prestigious  Journal of Fluid Mechanics.  https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2020.474. The team developed a state-of-art numerical model and solved an important problem in fundamental fluid dynamics. This work has important implications in predicting
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Dr. Xiaowei Zeng’s paper is featured on the cover of JOM

In “Computational Modeling of the Mechanical Behavior of 3D Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Nanocomposites,” Dr. Xiaowei Zeng and his co-workers describe a study in which a three-dimensional hybrid nanocomposite was analyzed using the cohesive finite element method. This model contained hard mineral nanograins bonded by a relatively soft and thin organic adhesive layer to mimic the ultrastructure
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