July 10, 2008
The Secretary of the U.S. Army has appointed Delbert Tesar, mechanical engineering professor at The University of Texas at Austin, to a three-year term as a member of the U.S. Army Science Board. This U.S. Army senior scientific advisory body is comprised of individuals from the private sector, academia, retired flag officer ranks, and non-U.S. Department of Defense government agencies. The board conducts multiple level meetings to enable members to review U.S. Army science development, become better educated on U.S. Army issues and advise U.S. Army managers on relevant scientific and technological matters.
Tesar directs the Robotic Research Group at the university, where he develops advanced component and system technology for intelligent machines and robotics. He holds the Carol Cockrell Curran Chair in Engineering.
About UT's Cockrell School of Engineering:
The University of Texas at Austin's Cockrell School of Engineering ranks among the top six public engineering schools in the United States. With the nation's fourth highest number of faculty elected members of the National Academy of Engineering, the School's more than 7,000 students gain exposure to the nation's finest engineering practitioners. Appropriately, the School's logo, an embellished checkmark used by the first UT engineering dean to denote high quality student work, is the nation's oldest quality symbol. The School maintains a Web site at http://www.engr.utexas.edu