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

Design and Development of Supersonic Free Jet Facility

Gowtham Sai Somaroutu
Friday, December 6  9:30am  Woolf Hall 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  Woolf Hall 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  Woolf Hall 413
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Electrophoretic Deposition for Novel Nano-decorated electrodes towards Thermally Self-Charging Supercapacitors

Ashish Thakur
Friday, December 13  10:00am  Woolf Hall 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  Woolf Hall 413
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DEEP NEURAL NETWORK MODELS FOR HEATSINK PERFORMANCE PREDICTION AND OPTIMIZATION IN SINGLE PHASE IMMERSION COOLING: Framework for Future Design Tools and Digital Twin Integration

Braxton J. Smith
Wednesday, April 2  9:00am  Woolf Hall 413
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Multi-Agent Differential Games Under an Altruistic Equilibrium

Craig Alan Lovell
Tuesday, April 22  1:30pm  Microsoft Teams
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Stress Analysis of Anisotropic Inclusion Problems Using Complex Variables

Liming Chen
Monday, April 28  9:00am  Woolf Hall 200
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DEEP LEARNING-ENHANCED X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY FOR DEFECT DETECTION IN COMPOSITE STRUCTURES

Abdullah Metiner
Monday, May 5  9:00am  Woolf Hall 200
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Multi-Agent Differential Games Under an Altruistic Equilibrium

Brandon Ayala
Wednesday, May 7  1:00pm  Woolf Hall 413
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COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF CANARD WING TO UNDERSTAND BETTER SPAN SIZE & POSITION FOR CANARD AT TRANSONIC SPEEDS

Venkata Sai Bhanudeep Gandla
Monday, May 19  10:00am  Woolf Hall 200
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Past Dissertations and Theses