SPAC-2013

March 1 2013:
SPAC-2013 features 3 speakers:
Ravi Prakash - Entry, Descent, and Landing Systems Engineer for NASA
Tom Donahue - Director of Global Network Design and Deployment for Google
Candy Robinson - F35/JSF ALGS Data Quality and Integration Management
There will be door prizes and catering by Smiling Moose Deli!
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UTA Project Gives Robots Sensitive Skin

December 11 2012:
Dr. Dan Popa is the principal investigator of a collaborative effort to advance robots and robotic devices, improve prosthetics and enable those devices to perform tasks that people can no longer do themselves. We really believe this technology will make an impact and the application of robots in everybody’s lives in the future. A video of the working is shown in this link here. ...more

Research Team Wins NSF Grant to Develop Smart Skin

December 07 2012:
Dr. Dan Popa is the principal investigator of a collaborative effort to advance robots and robotic devices, improve prosthetics and enable those devices to perform tasks that people can no longer do themselves. Co-principal investigators are Dr. Zeynep Celik-Butler, Dr. Donald Butler and Dr. Frank Lewis. ...more

Frank Lewis Received a 2013 IEEE Award

July 05 2012:
Frank Lewis has been chosen to receive the 2013 IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Neural Networks Pioneer award. The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Neural Networks Pioneer award recognizes significant contributions to early concepts and sustained developments in the field of neural networks. This award recognizes two types of pioneering contributions: Fundamental understanding and engineering application. ...more

Dr. Iqbal Featured on the Cover of Lab On a Chip Journal

June 07 2012:
The research of Samir Iqbal, an electrical engineer specializing in nanotechnology, and his colleagues was featured on the cover of Lab On a Chip journal. The research focuses on building solid-state micropores and using them to get direct information about cell populations. Cancer cells are detected from their distinct behavior using this system. ...more

UTA Researchers Presented with Grants from NTCRF

June 01 2012:
JC Chiao is a professor in the Electrical Engineering Department. His project is to develop a microfluidic device to predict cancer metastasis risk. Using prostate cancer patients’ own blood, the device can find out the risk of cancer becoming metastatic. This can help doctors to adjust patients’ therapy strategy to make sure the patients receive the most appropriate chemotherapy without having to suffer from the unnecessary side effects. ...more