Tricia Berry to serve on Corporate Advisory Council for Women in Engineering ProActive Network
June 24, 2009
Tricia Berry, director of the Women in Engineering Program at The University of Texas at Austin, has been named to the Corporate Advisory Council of the Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN).
Three aerospace engineering professors earn SIAM fellowships
June 23, 2009
Aerospace engineering professors Ivo Babuska, Thomas J.R. Hughes and J. Tinsley Oden have been elected into the inaugural class of fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
Computational mechanics association honors aerospace engineering professor
June 18, 2009
Leszek Demkowicz, aerospace engineering professor at The University of Texas at Austin, was named the recipient of the 2009 Computational and Applied Sciences Award by the United States Association for Computational Mechanics(USACM).
Philip Varghese named chair of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
June 18, 2009
Philip Varghese has been appointed chair of the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at The University of Texas at Austin, Dean Gregory L. Fenves recently announced.
Civil engineering professor receives ASCE award
June 18, 2009
Professor John Breen, holder of the Nasser I Al-Rashid Chair in Civil Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, received the 2009 T. Y. Lin Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
Aerospace engineering professor receives international medal
June 16, 2009
Leszek Demkowicz, aerospace engineering professor at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded the Olgierd Cecil Zienkiewicz Medal by the Polish Association for Computational Mechanics(PACM).
Three engineering professors win Grand Challenge Faculty Awards
June 15, 2009
James Chelikowsky, Mary Wheeler and Muhammad Zaman, three engineering professors at The University of Texas at Austin, have been selected as winners of the 2009-2010 W.A. "Tex" Moncrief, Jr. Simulation-Based Engineering and Sciences(SBES) Grand Challenge Faculty Awards.
University of Texas at Austin 'picosatellite' to be launched from Space Shuttle to begin milestone small-satellite mission
June 9, 2009
In an initial step toward the first successful rendezvous and docking of very small satellites without human control, a pair of miniature "picosatellites" built by University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University engineering students will be launched into orbit this month from Space Shuttle Endeavour.
Biomedical engineer to attend National Academy of Engineering's 'Frontiers’ program
June 4, 2009
Muhammad Zaman, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, has been selected to participate in the National Academy of Engineering's 2009 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium.
NSF Graduate Research Fellowships awarded to 10 current, former Cockrell School students
June 3, 2009
Ten former and current University of Texas at Austin engineering students received the coveted 2009 National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship, which grants each student more than $40,000 annually for three years. About 1,000 fellowships were awarded nationally.
