February 2012
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OSTP Student Volunteer Program — Summer 2012
The Office of Science and Technology Policy is currently accepting applications for its Summer 2012 Student Volunteer Program. The application deadline is February 27, 2012. Students who are U.S. citizens and who will be actively enrolled during the Summer 2012 semester, or anticipate returning to undergraduate or graduate programs in Fall 2012, are welcome to apply.
More information and...
January 2012
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UTSA to host Technology Entrepreneurship Boot Camp...
Entrepreneurs will learn how to build tech companies from the ground up
(San Antonio) … To help solo entrepreneurs and established companies commercialize new technologies, the UTSA Center for Innovation and Technology Entrepreneurship and Jackson Walker LLP are partnering to host the Jackson Walker Technology Entrepreneurship Boot Camp from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 28 in the...
Faculty Position In Energy
The College of Engineering at The University of Texas San Antonio (UTSA) is seeking to fill one tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor or Associate Professor. We are looking for an outstanding individual who can augment the college’s teaching and research programs in the area of Energy. For more information follow this...
NASA SCHOLARSHIPS, INTERNSHIPS and MORE
NASA has deployed a single, Agency system for recruitment, application, selection and career development of undergraduate and graduate students in science, technology, engineering, mathematic, education and business disciplines. Students access information about scholarship, internship and fellowship opportunities for each summer, fall, spring or year-long session across NASA to engage in...
December 2011
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Juan Ocampo receives award from FAA
Mechanical Engineering Student, Juan Ocampo recently received an award from the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) for Outstanding Student and Graduate Research.
October 2011
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The Naval Research Enterprise Intern Program
The Naval Research Enterprise Intern Program (NREIP)
Administered by The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
2012 Update!!!Sophomores now accepted!!!!!!
Program Information
Ten week summer research opportunities at a Naval Research Laboratory or a Naval System Command Laboratory
Stipend - $5, 250.00 sophomore/$7,880.00 junior and senior undergrad/ $10,500.00 grad
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NACME Scholarship Grant Program
NACME
Scholars Block Grant Program
Scholarships Available for Spring 2012
Deadline to apply October 28
Award: Up to $2,500 annually for up to 5 years
(total of funds awarded from any form of state, federal,
institutional and private scholarships, loans and grants may not
exceed the cost of attendance to UTSA)
Eligibility Requirements:
1) Undergraduate students pursuing an engineering...
WTS Scholarship Application
WTS Scholarship 2011-2012
Application Deadline November 7, 2011
Applications will be accepted by mail or email:
Cynthia Hernandez Whitehead
WTS-SAR Scholarship Chair
c/o HDR Engineering
1020 NE Loop 410, Suite 400
San Antonio, TX 78209
Cynthia.whitehead@hdrinc.com
To encourage women pursuing careers in transportation-related fields in the San Antonio region, our Chapter offers...
September 2011
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Graduate and Professional School Fair 2011
Graduate and Professional School Fair 2011
Location
UTSA 1604 Campus McKinney Humanities Building
Date / Time
October 5, 9:30am-1:30pm
Admission
Open, Please register below.
Description
The graduate and professional school fair is a great event to attend for anyone interested in pursuing a graduate degree.
Graduate School Representatives from across the nation will provide information on:
...
Pape-Dawson Engineers, Inc. Endowed Scholarship...
Estimated value of award: $1,200
QUALIFICATIONS:
1. Full-time undergraduate student (12 semester credit hours) majoring in Civil or Environmental Engineering at UTSA.
2. Minimum 2.75 cumulative GPA and must have completed 30 semester credit hours prior to the fall 2011 semester.
3. Applicants must demonstrate leadership and community service by participation in student activities in the...
June 2011
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GRE General Test to Change
New test is expected to be friendlier, more flexible
By: Lisa Palacios Director of Graduate Recruiting
Beginning in August 2011, Educational Testing Services (ETS) will replace the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) General Test with the GRE Revised General Test, which is expected to be a friendlier and more flexible exam that is better focused on the skills needed to succeed in graduate and...
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UTSA invests $200,000 on new research projects
By: Christi Fish Public Affairs Specialist
The Office of the Vice President for Research has awarded $200,000 to UTSA researchers and their collaborators through its Collaborative Research Seed Grant Program (CRSGP) and its Tenure-track Research Award Competition (TRAC) program. The funding programs help UTSA faculty establish new, innovative, collaborative and multidisciplinary research programs...
May 2011
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UTSA’s Innovative Summer Science and Engineering...
Interactive Technology Experience Center to offer three dozen summer camps
By: Christi Fish Public Affairs Specialist
Kindergarteners through eighth graders from the greater San Antonio region are invited to enroll in one or more weeklong summer camps that will be offered by The University of Texas at San Antonio Interactive Technology Experience Center (iTEC) with the generous support of the...
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UTSA Opens Advanced Visualization Laboratory to...
Integration of sophisticated haptic device and visualization wall will allow researchers to precisely interact with digital simulations
By: Christi Fish Public Affairs Specialist
The University of Texas at San Antonio has demonstrated once again that it is a force to be reckoned with in the race to Tier One.
The emerging research institution, one of seven in Texas, unveiled its Advanced...
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UTSA Offers New Seed Funding Program to Support...
Phase I presentations are due by 4 p.m. on Monday, May 23
By: Christi Fish Public Affairs Specialist
The UTSA Office of the Vice President for Research (VPR) and Texas Sustainable Energy Research Institute (Institute) announced today the launch of its Energy Research Grant program, a new seed grant program to fund multidisciplinary energy research. Up to $100,000 in grants will be awarded through...
April 2011
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Team Seeking to Develop and Market Gastric Bypass...
Competition takes student entrepreneurship beyond the classroom
By: Christi Fish Public Affairs Specialist
UMDI, a team comprised of four engineering students and three business students who developed a prototype electrolytic gastric leak detector (eGLD) and wrote a business plan to market the technology, triumphed this weekend at the $100,000 Student Technology Venture Competition, presented by...
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UTSA Undergrads Vie for $100,000 in Cash & Prizes...
Winning team could launch its start-up before graduation
By: Christi Fish Public Affairs Specialist
Ten University of Texas at San Antonio teams comprised of business and engineering students will compete for $100,000 in cash and business-related services this Saturday at the $100,000 Student Technology Venture Competition, hosted by UTSA’s Center for Innovation and Technology Entrepreneurship...
UTSA Engineering Accepting Applications for...
The UTSA College of Engineering Ambassador Program is a leadership program for COE undergraduate and graduate students who have a desire to get involved with the college and interact with the COE alumni, development and public relations efforts.
Eligibility Requirements
Full-time College of Engineering undergraduate or graduate student
GPA of 2.7 or above
To apply, download the Application for...
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Nuclear Energy Post-Fukushima: Free Lecture April...
Sandia’s Andrew Orrell to deliver lecture at UTSA Downtown Campus
By: Christi Fish Public Affairs Specialist
The Texas Sustainable Energy Research Institute at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) and the San Antonio Clean Technology Forum invite the public to attend “A Quake Felt Round the World: Fukushima and the Future of Nuclear Energy, Globally and Locally,” a free lecture featuring...
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Live Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series Bridges...
One speaker, one audience, 10.5 hours apart
By: Christi Fish Public Affairs Specialist
In 2009, UTSA became a founding member of the Indo-U.S. Public-Private Joint Center on Biomaterials for Health Care, funded by the Indo-U.S. Science and Technology Forum. The center connects biomedical engineering researchers and students from top universities in the United States and India to improve public...
February 2011
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UTSA Biomedical Engineer Joseph C. Salamone...
Joseph C. Salamone, chief scientific officer at Rochal Industries LLP, UTSA adjunct professor of Biomedical Engineering and professor emeritus of Chemistry and Polymer Science at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell, Mass., has been elected by his peers to become a Fellow in the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). The NAE is a member of the National Academies, which includes the National...
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UTSA Now Accepting Applications for Spring Break...
Camps will leave adults wishing they were kids again
By: Christi Fish Public Affairs Specialist
Third through eighth graders from the greater San Antonio region are invited to enroll in one or more daylong science and engineering camps that will be offered next month by The University of Texas at San Antonio Interactive Technology Experience Center (iTEC) with the generous support of the AT&T...
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How can the U.S. promote cyber security?
UTSA cyber security expert addresses National Academies’ research roundtable, GUIRR
By: Christi Fish Public Affairs Specialist
Faculty and staff at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) lent their expertise last week to an elite group of government, academic and industry professionals at the winter meeting of the Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable (GUIRR), an elite...
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GenOsteo and SpineSmith Will Take UTSA’s First...
Bone scaffolding technology will advance spinal fusion and treatment of bone injuries and defects
By: Christi Fish Public Affairs Specialist
San Antonio-based GenOsteo Inc. and Austin-based SpineSmith Partners jointly announced today that they have inked an agreement to commercialize a synthetic scaffold that can be used with Adult Stem Cells (ASCs) to produce a new and highly effective bone...
UTSA Reveals Game for 2011 G.E.A.R. Robotics...
By: Christi Fish Public Affairs Specialist
Third through eighth graders from the greater San Antonio region and as far away as Odessa flocked to The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) Main Campus on Saturday, February 12 to get their first glimpse of the 2011 Getting Excited About Robotics (G.E.A.R.) competition game. Jointly presented by the Interactive Technology Experience Center (iTEC)...
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Agrawal re-appointed to ETF Advisory Board
By: Christi Fish Public Affairs Specialist
The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) today announced that C. Mauli Agrawal, David and Jennifer Spencer Distinguished Chair for the Dean of Engineering and Peter Flawn Professor in Biomedical Engineering, has been re-appointed to serve a second two-year term on the advisory board of the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (ETF). Agrawal’s new term...
UTSA Engineering Adds Two New Academic Programs
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board recently approved two new programs in the UTSA College of Engineering. The Ph.D. program in Mechanical Engineering and the Bachelor of Science program for Biomedical Engineering will be offered beginning Fall 2011.
The addition of these programs brings the total number of degrees offered by the UTSA College of Engineering to 15.
Degree programs...
January 2011
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UTSA Receives $1.25 Million from National Science...
By: Christi Fish Public Affairs Specialist
The University of Texas at San Antonio has been selected to receive a four-year, $1.25 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF)’s Federal Cyber Service: Scholarship for Service program to support UTSA undergraduate, master’s and doctoral students committed to pursuing careers in computer and information security.
UTSA students selected...
December 2010
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NASA Internship, Fellowship and Scholarship...
Undergraduate and graduate students interested in science, technology, engineering or mathematics can apply to NASA internship, fellowship and scholarship opportunities through NASA’s Student On-Line Application for Recruiting (SOLAR) system.
To be eligible to apply through SOLAR, students must fulfill the following requirements:
Be a U.S. citizen
At the time the opportunity begins,...
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Dr. Amita Shah: Operating with a New Perspective
By: Christi Fish Public Affairs Specialist
Talk about busy …
Early on Tuesday, June 1, Dr. Amita Shah, already a medical doctor, dropped off her doctoral thesis at the UTSA Department of Biomedical Engineering. Later that evening, she gave birth to her first child, a son. A week later, she defended her dissertation.
“I can’t believe I did that,” she recalls incredulously.
But she did,...
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UTSA Invention Will Quicken Research Results
University of Texas at San Antonio professors Anand Ramasubramanian in the College of Engineering’s Department of Biomedical Engineering and Jose Lopez-Ribot in the College of Sciences’ Department of Biology and South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases (STCEID) have developed a prototype nanochip that can be used to accelerate testing in drug delivery and diagnostics. The chip uses...
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AET Library Hiring Undergrad Student Assistant for...
The AET Library is hiring an undergraduate student to work as a library assistant for the spring 2011 semester. If you’re interested, please follow the application instructions listed on the AET Library Undergraduate Student Assistant Position Announcement.
November 2010
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Internship, Postgraduate, and Faculty Research...
For more information about these opportunities, please visit the Oak Ridge Associated Universities’ National Energy Technology Laboratory website.
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Engineering Teaching Assistants Needed for Spring...
The UTSA College of Engineering is in need of teaching assistants to lecture two hours per week on Tuesday and Thursday mornings.
Qualifications
Graduate student in the College of Engineering with a GPA > 3.5
Good background in engineering mathematics
Excellent communications skills required
The teaching assistant position includes competitive compensation and requires travel, as the...
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UTSA Advanced/Lean Manufacturing Center Invites...
By: Christi Fish Public Affairs Specialist
The Center for Advanced Manufacturing and Lean Systems (CAMLS) at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) invites the business community to attend its third Annual Meeting and Industry Advisory Council event from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Friday, November 12 at the UTSA Main Campus. Registration is required to attend this free event, which will allow...
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UTSA Dazzles Budding Scientists and Engineers at...
By: Christi Fish Public Affairs Specialist
The University of Texas at San Antonio was out in full force at the Austin Convention Center October 23-24 for the Austin Science and Engineering Festival, a regional celebration designed to entice young minds into considering careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The festival, which was free and open to the public, was...
October 2010
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Nominate Engineering Faculty for Excellence in...
Students are invited to nominate engineering faculty for an award recognizing outstanding classroom teaching.
To nominate a faculty member for the award, please:
Download the College of Engineering Excellence in Teaching Award Nomination Form
Base your nomination on courses(s) taught in Spring ‘10 and Fall ‘10
Nominations should include:
Name of faculty
Course name and...
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Army Research Laboratory Awards UTSA $2.4 Million...
By: Christi Fish Public Affairs Specialist
Imagine the daily work environment of Army soldiers. Seated in windowless tanks and restricted from visual cues, they travel over bumpy roads, bouncing wildly up and down over rugged terrain. Their tanks’ audio and video monitors are their only connection to the outside world, but they know their environment is dangerous. As the situation becomes more...
September 2010
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UTSA Joins Hispanic Chamber on Renewable Energy...
UTSA College of Business Associate Professor William Flannery, director of the Management of Technology program, and Center for Innovation and Technology Entrepreneurship Director Cory Hallam joined a delegation of top business leaders on a five-day trade mission to Italy and Spain Sep. 4-9. The delegation focused on renewable energy projects.
“Renewable energy is good business for San Antonio’s...
UTSA College of Engineering ranked 7th Best...
The HispanicBusiness magazine has released its annual list of the nation’s Top 10 Graduate Schools for Diversity, and the UTSA College of Engineering was ranked 7th Best Engineering School.
High percentages of Hispanic student enrollment and faculty, and “progressive programs aimed at increasing enrollment of Hispanic students” helped place UTSA Engineering in the top ten...
UTSA opens nation's first bookless library on a...
By: Christi Fish Public Affairs Specialist
UTSA officials announced Thursday the opening of the Applied Engineering and Technology (AET) Library, the nation’s first completely bookless library on a college or university campus. The 80-person capacity library, which caters to College of Sciences and College of Engineering students, is a satellite of the larger John Peace Library on the Main...
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Dean Agrawal to be honored by BioMed SA
C. Mauli Agrawal, dean of The University of Texas at San Antonio’s (UTSA) College of Engineering, will be honored later this month with the 2010 Julio Palmaz Award for Innovation in Healthcare and the Biosciences at BioMed SA’s Annual Award Dinner. The award recognizes Dean Agrawal’s outstanding educational leadership, triumphs in professional research and inspiring...
August 2010
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Les Shephard to speak at Smart Grid Forum
Les Shephard, director of UTSA’s new Texas Sustainable Energy Research Institute, is set to speak at San Antonio Clean Technology’s Smart Grid Forum on the morning of Thursday, September 16th.
For more information about the Smart Grid Forum and to register to attend, please visit the event webpage at sacleantech.org.
July 2010
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UTSA Robotics Camp Welcomes Science Students from...
By: Christi Fish Public Affairs Specialist
On Wednesday, July 7, UTSA’s Interactive Technology Experience Center will extend a Texas-sized welcome to five winners of the Czech Republic’s national science fair. The stop is part of an eight-day tour across the Alamo City to engage the Czech students in a program of scientific and cultural exchange.
“When we were approached with the possibility of...
June 2010
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Spring 2010 Dean's List Announced
The Dean and faculty of the College of Engineering congratulate the undergraduate students on the Dean’s List for their outstanding scholarship. To attain this honor, these students achieved a 3.75 or higher grade point average for the semester.
To see who earned the distinction for the Spring 2010 semester, download the Dean’s List Spring 2010.
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UTSA to Receive $1.6 Million as Founding Member of...
By: Christi Fish Public Affairs Specialist
The University of Texas at San Antonio has joined 14 universities from across the nation to form the Naval Engineering Education Consortium (NEEC), an initiative to develop and train a pipeline of diverse and highly-qualified students at all levels to meet the Navy’s future workforce needs. Over the next six years, UTSA is slated to receive $1.6 million...
Space Still Available for UTSA's Middle School and...
By: Christi Fish Public Affairs Specialist
Generously supported by a grant from the AT&T Foundation, The University of Texas at San Antonio’s Interactive Technology Experience Center is pleased to offer openings in summer robotics camps for middle and high school students.
The hands-on camps teach kids about science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) in an engaging environment,...