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 9th Annual 3D Printed Aircraft Competition July 12, 2025 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.


Recent Dissertation and Thesis Defenses

Richie Ranaisa Daru
Thursday, October 10  8:00am  Microsoft Teams
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Mathematical Modeling of Heat and Mass Transfer in Multilayer Systems

Girish Krishnan
Thursday, November 7  2:30pm  WH 413
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Operational architecture for human-robot interaction utilizing vibrotactile feedback for bidirectional communication with a robotic system

Sudip Hazra
Tuesday, November 12  3:00pm  WH 413
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THERMAL DAMAGE AND MECHANICAL FAILURE ANALYSIS OF POLYMERS

Tina Ko
Thursday, November 14  3:00pm  WH 413
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Image-Based Thermal and Mechanical Analysis of Polymers

Yukti Shinglot
Thursday, November 14  4:00pm  WH 413
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Design and Development of Supersonic Free Jet Facility

Gowtham Sai Somaroutu
Friday, December 6  9:30am  WH 200
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Advanced Thermal Management Solutions for High-Powered Chips: A Comprehensive Study on Immersion Cooling and Electrochemical Additive Manufacturing-Based Cold Plates

Gautam Gupta
Monday, December 9  10:00am  Microsoft Teams
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Numerical Simulation and Optimization of Fin Configurations for Enhanced Heat Sink Performance in Aluminum and Copper Materials

Rimpy Singh
Monday, December 9  9:00am  Microsoft Teams
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Introduce Ultrasound Fabry-Pérot Resonator for Attenuation Characterization and Sensitization Detection of Aluminum-Magnesium Alloys

Songwei Wang
Monday, December 9  2:00pm  WH 200
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IN-SITU LOCALIZED REINFORCEMENT PROCESSING THROUGH LASER POWDER BED FUSION ON TI6Al4V ALLOY

Aditya Ganesh Ram
Thursday, December 12  1:00pm  WH 413
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Electrophoretic Deposition for Novel Nano-decorated electrodes towards Thermally Self-Charging Supercapacitors

Ashish Thakur
Friday, December 13  10:00am  WH 200
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ON THE LAYER-BY-LAYER IN-SITU DETECTION AND ANALYSIS OF FEATURES AND DEFECTS IN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING

TUSHAR SAINI
Thursday, December 19  2:00pm  WH 413
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Past Dissertations and Theses