Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Events

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Events

Student with printed aircraft at the printed aircraft competition.

3D Printed Aircraft Competition

The University of Texas at Arlington will host the 8th Annual 3D Printed Aircraft Competition July 13, 2024 at UTA Maverick Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Registration is now open!


Presenter at a Brown Bag Seminar

Brown Bag Seminar Series

Current UTA graduate students in MAE and beyond present their research to a broad audience. The Brown Bag Seminars take place on Wednesdays at 12pm in Woolf Hall 404 during the semester! Attendees will be asked to fill out a quick evaluation survey for each presenter. Please contact Dr. Michael Bozlar (bozlar@uta.edu) if you are interested in presenting or have any questions about the seminars.

 


Graduate Seminar Series

Renowned speakers from academia and industry speak on current topics of interest in mechanical and aerospace engineering every Friday during the semester both in person and via Microsoft Teams.  Please contact Dr. Ankur Jain (jaina@uta.edu) if you are interested!


Senior Design Presentations

The Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department Senior Design teams make their project presentations including innovative work in areas as diverse as automated aquaponics, battle robots, and composite pressure cylinders.

Current Dissertation and Thesis Defenses

All are welcome to attend dissertation and thesis defenses by our students. As they are scheduled, they will be listed on this page.

LONG-TERM SIMULATION OF STEM CELL MECHANOBIOLOGY

Manoochehr Rabiei
Thursday, May 9  9:00am  WH 413
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Recent Dissertation and Thesis Defenses

Non-Intrusive Reduced Order Model Formulation for Inverse Shape Design including Deforming Meshes and Multiphysics Problems

Kapil Aryal - PhD Dissertation Defense
Friday, October 13  2:00pm  WH 413
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TURBULENT SHOCKWAVE/BOUNDARY-LAYER INTERACTIONS GENERATED BY SHARP SWEPT FINS

Dustin Otten - PhD Dissertation Defense
Friday, November 3  10:00am  NH 604
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A Rigid Body Framework for Modeling and Simulation of Formations of Autonomous Agents

Suguru Sato - Master's Thesis Defense
Thursday, November 9  1:00pm  WH 200
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Multiple Dipole Source Position and Orientation Estimation Using Non-Invasive EEG-like Signals

Saina Namazifard - PhD Dissertation Defense
Monday, November 13 11:00am  WH 211F
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Cooperative Rendezvous in Multi-Vehicle Systems

Rajeev Shobhit Voleti - PhD Dissertation Defense
Monday, November 13  3:00pm  WH 413
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THERMO-MECHANICAL ANALYSIS OF HETEROGENOUS INTEGRATED PACKAGES AND IMMERSION COOLING OF DATA CENTER SERVERS

KRISHNA BHAVANA SIVARAJU - PhD Dissertation Defense
Tuesday, November 14  2:00pm  WH 413
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ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SENSING SYSTEM METHODOLOGY TO EVALUATE THE VISCOELASTIC PROPERTIES OF SOFT TISSUES AS A MEANS OF DISEASE PROGNOSIS

Shashank Sanjay Kumat - PhD Dissertation Defense
Monday, November 20  10:30am  WH 200
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(This defense is open only to UTA faculty, staff, and students due to intellectual property)

DESIGN AND DEMONSTRATION OF AN INERTIAL-STABILIZED SINGLE-AXIS HEADLAMP FOR MOBILE SYSTEMS

Thomas Avery Allsup - PhD Dissertation Defense
Thursday, November 30  2:30pm  WH 413
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MICROSTRUCTURALLY TAILORED COMPOSITE MATERIALS IMPROVING VERTICAL LIFT STRUCTURAL PERFORMANCE

QUY TUNG LINH VU - PhD Dissertation Defense
Friday, December 1  9:00am  WH 211F
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Cooperative Manipulation and Formation Control using Multiple Aerial Vehicles

Uluhan Cem Kaya - PhD Dissertation Defense
Monday, December 4  2:45pm  WH 200
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OPTIMIZING ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND PERFORMANCE IN HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING THROUGH ADVANCED DIRECT-TO-CHIP LIQUID COOLING AND LABVIEW-BASED MONITORING AND ANALYSIS

Chandraprakash Ashok Hinge - PhD Dissertation Defense
Friday, December 8  2:00pm  WH 413
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METHOD-OF-CHARACTERISTICS MODELS FOR FLOWFIELD EVALUATION OF HYPERVELOCITY TEST FACILITIES

ANANTHKUMAR JAYAMANI - PhD Dissertation Defense
Tuesday, December 12 10:30am  WH 200
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TOWARDS THE DEVELOPMENT OF A UNIFIED SYNTHESIS SYSTEM FRAMEWORK: ADVANCEMENT OF AVDS TOWARDS A GENERIC, MULTI-DISCIPLINARY, AND MULTI-FIDELITY AEROSPACE VEHICLE DESIGN ENVIRONMENT

Ian Maynard - PhD Dissertation Defense
Wednesday, December 13  8:00am  WH 413
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ANALYSIS OF A NANOPARTICLE’S MOTION IN AN OPTICAL TWEEZER

Vatsal Asitkumar Joshi - PhD Dissertation Defense
Wednesday, December 13 10:00am  WH 413
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EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON THERMAL PERFORMANCE OF METAL FOAM HEAT SINKS IN SINGLE-PHASE LIQUID IMMERSION COOLING

Manish Kumawat - Master's Thesis Defense
Thursday, December 14  10:00am  WH 413
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DEVELOPMENT OF ADVANCED INSTRUMENTATION FOR HIGH-ENTHALPY FLOW CHARACTERIZATION FOR THE ONR-UTA ARC-JET ”LESTE” FACILITY

Ian Raybon
Wednesday, February 21  3:00pm  WH 413
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Analytical and simulation modelling of the thermal runaway phenomenon in MOSFET semiconductors

Arun Narasimhan
Thursday, April 18  9:00am  WH 200
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Past Dissertations and Theses