UTSA Students Win Poster Competition in TMS 2021 Virtual Meeting
Friday, 16 April 2021
by Gao
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
- Published in Mechanical Engineering
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Gao and Jafari Receive NSF CAREER Awards
Wednesday, 24 February 2021
by Gao
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
- Published in Mechanical Announcements
Mechanical Engineering Student Daniel Portillo Wins 3 Minute Thesis Awards
Friday, 16 October 2020
by Gao
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
Thursday, 13 August 2020
by Gao
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
Wednesday, 20 November 2019
by Gao
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
- Published in Mechanical Engineering
ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING FACULTY POSITION IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Tuesday, 10 September 2019
by Gao
The Department of Mechanical Engineering in the College of Engineering at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) invites applications for an assistant, associate, or full professor tenure-track/tenured position to be filled by August 2020. The Department is looking for outstanding individuals at the rank of Associate or full Professor with a strong research
- Published in Mechanical Announcements
OPEN-RANK HIGH-SPEED COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS FACULTY POSITION
Tuesday, 10 September 2019
by Gao
The Department of Mechanical Engineering in the College of Engineering at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) invites applications for an open-rank tenured/tenure-track position to be filled by August 2020. The Department seeks exceptional candidates with: (1) a record of high quality research and scholarship, (2) excellence in undergraduate and graduate education, (3)
- Published in Mechanical Announcements, Uncategorized
UTSA wins funding to develop new technology for earthquake resistant buildings
Thursday, 08 August 2019
by Gao
(August 7, 2019) — More than 80,000 aftershocks have been recorded in the aftermath of the two California earthquakes that occurred during the Fourth of July holiday. Californians, generally complacent about earthquakes, were caught by surprise with tremors that were the largest in magnitude in the last decade. Although there was no loss of human life,
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Kiran Bhaganagar joins the National Academy of Science (NAS) Committee
Thursday, 01 August 2019
by Gao
Associate Professor Dr. Kiran Bhaganagar has been appointed to the National Academy of Science Committee to review the Air Quality Modeling in the Gulf of Mexico study. The committee is a part of NAS Board on Atmospheric Science and Climate. The committee has experts in the area of Modeling of Atmospheric and Oceanic systems, policy
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UTSA receives 3 Million Dollar funding from NASA
Monday, 29 July 2019
by Gao
ME faculty members Kiran Bhaganagar, Associate Professor and Chris Combs, Assistant Professor team with Geosciences Faculty to receive a 3 million dollar funding from NASA to develop a new interdisciplinary Center for Advanced Measurements in Advanced Environments(NASA-CAMEE). The UTSA NASA CAMEE center will enhance NASA’s efforts to develop a diverse workforce in earth system sciences,
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