Mechanical Engineering Students Win Awards at Regional Conference

At the AIAA Southwestern Regional Student Conference held April 17th and 18th at UTSA, Carlos Acosta and Juan Ocampo won first place in the Team category for their paper, High Performance Computing Implementation in a Risk Assessment Problem. The students received a $500 prize and travel expenses for one author to present the work at the International Aerospace Sciences meeting in Orlando, Florida. Another UTSA Engineering student, Andy Voorhees, won third place in the Masters category for his paper, Complex Variable Methods for Fatigue Sensitivity Analysis.