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 7th Annual 3D Printed Aircraft Competition July 8, 2023 at UTA Maverick Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Registration is now open!

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.

DEVELOPMENT OF FEMTOSECOND LASER ELECTRONIC EXCIATION TAGGING (FLEET) AND FEMTOSECOND TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTION LASER INDUCED FLUORESCENCE (FS-TALIF) DIAGNOSTICS FOR SPECIES NUMBER DENSITY AND VELOCITY MEASUREMENTS IN ARC-JET FLOWS

Daniel Palmquist - PhD Dissertation Defense
Wednesday, March 1  9:00am  WH 413
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Recent Dissertation and Thesis Defenses

AN INTEGRATED DESIGN TOOL FOR TOW-STEERED COMPOSITE LAMINATE IN ABAQUS

Twinkle Kothari - Master's Thesis Defense
Monday, December 5  11:00am  WH 200
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EFFECT OF CENTRIFUGAL INERTIA ON THE LOAD CAPACITY OF THRUST GAS BEARING

Rakan Mohammed Tawfiq Haidari - Master's Thesis Defense
Monday, December 5  4:00pm  Microsoft Teams
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CONCEPTUAL GAS TURBINE HYBRID ENGINE DESIGN FOR HIGH SPEED RAIL LOCOMOTIVE PROPULSION

Frank Roger Tennyson - Master's Thesis Defense
Tuesday, December 6  2:30pm  Microsoft Teams
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ROBUST SYNTHESIS METHODS FOR COOPERATIVE SYSTEMS

Baris Taner - PhD Dissertation Defense
Wednesday, December 7  12:00pm  WH 413
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NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF HYBRID SERVER IMMERSED IN SYNTHETIC DIELECTRIC FLUID

Bhavana Reddy Mandadi - Master's Thesis Defense
Thursday, December 8  11:00am  Microsoft Teams
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ENERGY ANALYSIS OF REAR DOOR HEAT EXCHANGERS IN EDGE AND COLOCATION DATA CENTERS WITH DYNAMIC WORKLOAD DISTRIBUTION

Sai Abhideep Pundla - Master's Thesis Defense
Thursday, December 8  12:00pm  Microsoft Teams
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Thermally charging capacitor: A new protocol to accurately measure thermovoltage

Amit Phalak - Master's Thesis Defense
Monday, December 12  10:00am  WH 413
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3D BIOPRINTING OF FUNCTIONAL HYDROGELS WITH THE FUGITIVE CARRIER METHOD

Hakan Arslan - PhD Dissertation Defense
Tuesday, December 13  4:00pm  Microsoft Teams
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Conceptual Design Level Airframe/Propulsion Integration Using the Generic Synthesis Framework AVDS - Application to Supersonic and Hypersonic Aerospace Vehicles

Harinkumar Patel- PhD Dissertation Defense
Thursday, December 15  9:30am  Microsoft Teams
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DEVELOPMENT OF VORTEX BOX (VBOX) AND VORTEX TIP (VTIP) FILAMENT FREE WAKE ROTOR MODELS

Casey Matsler - Master's Thesis Defense
Friday, February 10 10:00am  WH 211F
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TOWARD MICROSTRUCTURE AND COMPOSITION HOMOGENEITY IN LASER POWDER BED FUSED METALLIC ALLOYS: DESIGN, FABRICATION, AND EVALUATION

Behzad Farhang - PhD Dissertation Defense
Friday, February 27 12:00pm  WH 211F
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Past Dissertations and Theses