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This year, due to the ongoing global pandemic, students on the UT Design, Build, Fly (DBF) team were forced to make adaptations for the 2021 annual AIAA Design, Build, Fly competition which was held virtually for the first time ever.
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Professor Emeritus John C. Westkaemper, a longtime faculty member of the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, passed away in San Antonio, TX on April 18, 2021.
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Eight Texas Engineering alumni of the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics have been elected to the 2021 class of the ASE/EM Academy of Distinguished Alumni.
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This March, some Texas Engineering students chose to spend their spring break week participating in the first ever CADathon hosted by LUNAR Council.
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Professor Clint Dawson is part of a research team at the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences that used statistical modeling techniques to examine the impact of toxic waste sites across the country.
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Four students and one alumna from the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics have received the National Science Foundation highly competitive Graduate Research Fellowship Program award for 2021.
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The aerospace engineering graduate program in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin rose to No. 8 according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2022 graduate school rankings.
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Professor Emeritus Ivo Babuška and his wife Renata have established the Ivo & Renata Babuška Endowed Excellence Fund to support computational engineering students.
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NI, formerly National Instruments Corporation, is supporting the Texas Rocket Engineering Lab (TREL) with equipment, software and guidance in TREL's mission to launch a 28-foot-liquid bipropellant rocket into space by the end of 2021.
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Catherine Dominic, a sophomore aerospace engineering major from Sugarland, TX, was selected to receive a Brooke Owens Fellowship for 2021.
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For the first time at UT, student organizations and programs focused on women in STEM fields are coming together in a formal group led by the Cockrell School of Engineering’s Women in Engineering Program (WEP).
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Joshua Kennedy Davis, a first-year aerospace engineering major from Dallas, TX, is one of 43 Black undergraduate students across the nation selected for the inaugural Class of 2021 Patti Grace Smith Fellows.
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Manuel Rausch was selected to receive a 2021 National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award to study the mechanics of blood clots.
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Tan Bui-Thanh has been elected as the secretary for the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
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NASA is funding a major project on the future of autonomous air cargo transportation, and The University of Texas at Austin will be playing a lead role.