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A team of Cockrell School of Engineering researchers led by Todd Humphreys has been awarded the Walter R. Fried Memorial Award for best overall paper at the 2020 IEEE/ION PLANSx conference.

Manuel Rausch was selected to receive an Oden Institute 2020 W. A. “Tex” Moncrief Grand Challenge Award for his proposal titled “A Machine-Learning Based Training Tool for Tricuspid Valve Repair: A Prototype.”

In response to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Texas, the Center for Space Research’s Mid-American Geospatial Information Center (MAGIC) team is providing crisis decision support to the Texas State Operations Center in Austin and to emergency managers around the state.

Computational engineering major Katharine Fisher is the winner of the 2020 Graham F. Carey Undergraduate Scholarship in Computational Science.

Nanhsu Lu has been named a Fellow member of the International Association of Advanced Materials and was selected in the first cohort of ACS Nano Rising Star lecturers in the iCANX series.

Professor Karen Willcox is part of a research team that is developing deep learning methods to dramatically reduce the cost and turnaround of conceptual design computations for complex energy systems.

A partnership between The University of Texas at Austin and NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston was one of nine university-led groups selected by NASA to advance these spacecraft, which can be as small as a shoebox or as large as a refrigerator.

Senior Aircraft Design students were determined to finish out the semester strong, even though their end-of-semester fly-off was canceled. Learn how they adapted this year's project.

Three teams of  seniors in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at are finalists in NASA’s RASC-AL (Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts Academic Linkage) annual design competition.

Graduating seniors offer their perspective and advice on coping with the COVID-19 pandemic as they prepare to leave the Forty Acres.