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

Developing a nano-satellite prototype for studying gravitational fields, creating software for gathering better data on manufacturing, designing satellite constellations for monitoring climate change, and improving cutting tools for airline and automotive components – these are the innovative research projects our ASE/EM faculty are involved with as part of the UT Austin Portugal program, backed by a major technology initiative through the Portuguese government. 

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.

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.