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Two computational engineering majors, Katharine Fisher and Marcos Botto Tornielli, were selected to participate in the Moncrief Summer Internship Program offered by the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences.

Two aerospace engineering graduate students are recipients of 2020 Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science Technology awards to support their research using Interferometric Synthetic Radar (InSAR) data.

Professor Emeritus Byron Tapley was selected to receive the 2020 John Leland Atwood award presented jointly by the American Society of Engineering Education Aerospace Division and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Chloe Johnson pivoted between three computer monitors alongside fellow graduate student, Patrick Mortimer, as she powered the rotor testing rig, tucked away in a non-descript hangar on UT Austin’s J.J. Pickle Research Campus.

Moriba Jah, an expert in astrodynamics and space environmentalism, introduced his new opinion editorial column, Jahniverse, in AIAA's Aerospace America this week. Read the first piece which discusses NASA's Artemis Accords. 

Luis Sentis and a team of researchers received the IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics best paper award for their innovative approach to actuator design.

Four undergraduate students in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics have received scholarships through the Unrestricted Endowed Presidential Scholarship program.

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.