An inter-institutional project involving thin films grown on single-crystal substrates by Materials Science & Engineering faculty and students was highlighted on the cover of the February issue of the journal Chemistry of Materials. The project’s participants included Drs. Stathis Meletis and Jiechao Jiang and doctoral student Ms. Jie He, all of UT Arlington; Drs. Jian Liu, Ming Liu, Gregory Collins, Chonglin Chen, Xuening Jiang and Wenquan Gong of UT San Antonio; and Allan J. Jacobson of the University of Houston. Their work is one of the NSF’s Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Team projects.
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Several College of Engineering faculty members were recently honored with the title of “Recognized Professor” by the UT Arlington chapter of Phi Kappa Phi. The honor recognizes faculty members who have made a lasting difference on students’ lives. They were: Civil Engineering's Dr. Jim Leininger, Computer Science & Engineering's Dr. Fillia Makedon, Electrical Engineering's Dr. Howard Russell, Industrial Engineering's Drs. Bonnie Boardman, Susan Ferreira and Don Liles, and Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering's Drs. Yaling Liu and Kamesh Subbarao. Phi Kappa Phi is the nation’s oldest, largest and most selective honor society for all academic disciplines. It has chapters on more than 300 campuses.
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Dr. Haiying Huang in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department has been awarded a Texas Ignition Fund grant to support the commercial adaptation of her revolutionary sensor concept that enables wireless transmission of ultrasound signals without needing a local power source.
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A process being developed by electrical engineering Professor Meng Tao could increase the efficiency of solar cells, opening their use in more applications and more locales while lowering the cost associated with solar energy. "It might be a more viable alternative energy for everyone to use," Tao said.
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Materials Science & Engineering's Dr. Seong Jin Koh is leading a team working on tiny sensors that can detect mutations of cancer-causing genes and battlefield biological agents, potentially aiding everything from diagnosing diseases, developing medicines and investigating crime scenes. The process is sensitive enough to detect even a few DNA molecules in a sample.
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Dr. Luca Maddalena, a postdoctoral researcher at the California Institute of Technology’s Graduate Aerospace Laboratory, has joined the Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department and will begin teaching a fluid dynamics course in the spring semester. Dr. Maddalena earned a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering at Virginia Tech in 2007. His research interests include hypersonic air-breathing propulsion, injection mixing and combustion in high speed flows, vortex and experimental fluid dynamics, instrumentation, and advanced propulsion configurations.
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The College of Engineering will be a major supporter of the 2010 Fort Worth Regional Science and Engineering Fair being held in late February. Students in the 6th through 12th grades in 10 north central Texas counties will be participating in the fair. Bioengineering Professor Liping Tang is the chairman for the 2010 fair.
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A paper by Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Assistant Professor Yaling Liu and Electrical Engineering Assistant Professor Samir Iqbal – “A Mesoscale Model of DNA Interaction with Functionalized Nanopores” – was featured on the cover of the November 30 issue of Applied Physics Letters. This is the second time in a few months that papers by College of Engineering faculty members has appeared on the cover of this publication. Both Dr. Liu and Iqbal were awarded NSF Early Career Development (CAREER) grants this year.
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Effective November 1, the College of Engineering’s Engineering Counseling and Advising Center officially became the Engineering Student Services Center. “The old name really didn’t describe what we did,” said Center Director Beth Isbell Tapley. “We also coordinate student recruiting, co-op and internship opportunities, engineering distance education and the Engineering Freshman Interest Group program.”
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Human Centered Computing Laboratory researchers have received a three-year, $774,000 grant to develop of a suite of visualization software forming a “command-center” that will help elderly individuals live safely and as long as possible in their homes. CSE Professor and Chair Fillia Makedon is leading a team from the College of Engineering and the School of Nursing, plus faculty at the University of California-Davis and Boston University.
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Representatives of the Fort Worth Branch of the American Society of Civil Engineers announced the creation of an endowment fund to provide scholarships for civil engineering students. The Branch has committed to raise $25,000 over the next five years, an amount that will be matched by the University through its Maverick Match program.
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The dramatic results of Quality Management System techniques recommended by the Texas Manufacturing Assistance Center to Applegate EDM, a provider of electrical discharge machining services, were reported in Southwest Manufacturing News, which is read by manufacturers, distributors and manufacturing engineers. Tom Beard, manager of TMAC’s Metroplex Region Quality Solutions Group, documented the firm’s daily requirements and recommended methods for production improvement and implementation. The improvements can be found in the November issue - http://www.virtualonlineeditions.com/publication/?i=25585. TMAC’s Quality Solutions Group has designed and implemented more than 160 Quality Management Systems since its founding in 1995.
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