Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering News
MAE's Maddalena Earns Grants to Enhance Unique Hypersonic Wind Tunnel
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Luca Maddalena won a pair of Office of Naval Research grants totaling more than $1.5 million to enhance the U.S.' only university-based, arc-heated hypersonic wind tunnel.
MAE's Agonafer Elected to National Academy of Engineering
Friday, February 8, 2019
Dereje Agonafer, a long-time mechanical engineering professor, is the first active UTA engineering faculty member to be elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
AE Students Craft Winning Missile-Defense Design
Thursday, February 7, 2019
A UTA student team crafted a winning design for a conceptual missile system to deploy against inbound hypersonic missile threats that led to a mention in a recent issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology.
Alumna to Receive Most Promising Engineer in Government Award
Wednesday, February 6, 2019
Wendy Okolo (Ph.D. A.E. '15, B.S.A.E. '10), an aerospace research engineer at NASA, will receive the award from U.S. Black Engineer Magazine.
Engineering Researchers Helping With Grant to Blend Data with Agriculture
Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Four UTA engineering faculty are working on a U.S. Department of Agriculture grant to prepare gstudents for data-based careers in agriculture-related fields.
Robokind Wins Mechanical Engineering Magazine Emerging Technology Award
Friday, December 21, 2018
Mechanical Engineering alumnus Richard Margolin and his Dallas-based company, Robokind, have won an Emerging Technology Award from Mechanical Engineering magazine.
Lim, Mestha Elected to National Academy of Inventors
Friday, December 14, 2018
Two Engineering faculty, Provost Teik C. Lim and L.K. Mestha, have been named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors, bringing the total number of UTA fellows to 14, the most at a Texas university.
MAE's Woods Featured in Southern Automotive Magazine
Thursday, November 15, 2018
Longtime mechanical engineering professor and Formula SAE team adviser Bob Woods was featured in the October/November 2018 issue of Southern Automotive magazine.
MAE's Woods Named Inaugural Dr. Bob Woods Distinguished Chair
Friday, November 2, 2018
rst recipient of an endowed chair established in his honor in 2017 through a gift from Paul E. Andrews Jr., an entrepreneur and businessman.
MAE's Iarve Leads Composite Testing for Aeronautical Industry
Thursday, November 1, 2018
Endel Iarve is part of a $1 million U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory grant looking at establishing fatigue and durability standards for materials used in aircraft.
MAE's Shah is 2018 ASME EPPD Student Engineer of the Year
Sunday, September 30, 2018
Jimil Shah, a recent mechanical engineering doctoral graduate, is the recipient of the 2018 ASME EPPD Student Engineer of The Year Award.
Texas Autocross Rescheduled to September 29-30 Due to Weather
Monday, September 10, 2018
The 18th annual Texas Autocross Weekend, featuring collegiate auto racing teams from across the country, has been rescheduled to Sept. 29-30 due to forecast poor weather.
MAE Student Completes Disney Internship
Thursday, July 19, 2018
Justin Hawthorne isn’t your average engineering student. A rising senior, he is a motivational speaker and spent the 2017-18 academic year as a professional intern with engineering teams at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida.
FSAE Team Travels to London for Competition
Friday, July 6, 2018
Former and current UTA students are in the United Kingdom to participate in the 20th anniversary of the inaugural Formula Student United Kingdom event held at Silverstone Circuit, United Kingdom.
327 Undergraduates Earn Spring 2018 Dean's List Honors
Monday, June 11, 2018
Eighty-nine undergraduate engineering students earned perfect 4.0 grade-point averages and 327 were named to the dean’s list for the recently completed spring semester.
Engineers Among Startups Participating in TechFW Impact Showcase
Friday, June 8, 2018
Four startups developed by UTA faculty and students, including several from the College of Engineering, participated in TECH Fort Worth’s fifth annual Impact Showcase of inspirational client startups.
MAE's Chudoba Developing Parameters to Identify Space-Related S&T Gaps
Thursday, May 24, 2018
Bernd Chudoba is workin to develop parameters for a forecasting methodology that will allow strategic planners to identify science and technology gaps related to space transportation issues.
MAE's Hullender Named 2018 Minnie Stevens Piper Professor
Tuesday, May 1, 2018
David Hullender, a longtime professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, has been named a 2018 Piper Professor by the San Antonio-based Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation.
Advanced Materials and Structures Lab Earns ONR Grants Worth $1.4 Million
Tuesday, May 1, 2018
The Office of Naval Research has awarded two grants worth nearly $1.5 million that will further enhance the Advanced Materials and Structures Lab’s national standing and capabilities.
College Hosts Inaugural Innovation Day
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
The College’s inaugural Innovation Day brought together students, faculty, alumni and industry representatives to showcase and celebrate the transformative research being performed in UTA’s engineering laboratories.
MAE Researcher Investigating Metrics to Guarantee UAV Performance in Groups
Thursday, April 5, 2018
Kamesh Subbarao is using a $795,427 Office of Naval Research grant to create metrics to evaluate the performance of multiple UAVs that operators will be able to use to predict vehicle behavior under mission-specific conditions.
College Honors Faculty, Staff Excellence
Friday, March 30, 2018
Dean Peter Crouch and the College of Engineering honored faculty and staff excellence at an awards luncheon April 29.
Burning Desire
Friday, March 9, 2018
Alumnus Andrew Feghali became an entrepreneur at a young age – in middle school, he started a lawn service and hired neighborhood children to work for him – and since graduating he has built a successful fire testing company, Aeroblaze.
UTA Remembers Kalpana Chawla, Columbia Crew 15 Years Later
Thursday, February 1, 2018
Fifteen years ago, seven astronauts, including Kalpana Chawla, one of UTA’s most celebrated graduates and the first Indian-born woman to fly in space, perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia broke apart during re-entry.
Alumna Hew Works With German Space Agency on Edema Research
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Monica Hew (BSAE '13) recently spent six months at the German Space Center (DLR) in Cologne studying how tissue swelling, or edema, develops in an oxygen-deprived environment.
249 Undergraduates Earn Fall Dean's List Honors
Thursday, January 18, 2018
Sixty-nine undergraduate engineering students earned perfect 4.0 grade-point averages and 249 were named to the dean's list for the recently completed fall semester.