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Margaret Baguio was selected to receive the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) for 2022.

Learn how John-Paul Clarke’s rules of life led him to become an aviation expert, entrepreneur, and track and field official.

Professor Karen Willcox and alumnus Michael Watkins have been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for 2022

Learn how a former student of Professor Mary Wheeler is working at the Oden Institute to advance energy production by developing computational simulations for acid etching of carbonate reservoirs.

Maruthi Akella has been elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the world's largest aerospace engineering society.

Two aerospace engineering undergraduate students at The University of Texas at Austin –Shreya Bhattacharjee and Azzurra Demarie – have been selected to receive Brooke Owens Fellowships for 2022.

Former computational engineering students Jennifer Zvonek and Robert Stephany discuss their experiences in the Moncrief Undergraduate Summer Internship Program which provides research opportunities for undergraduate students of engineering, mathematics and science.

The University of Texas at Austin is ranked No. 1 among U.S. universities in research financed by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in fiscal year 2020, according to the annual Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) Survey. 

J. Tinsley Oden was named Emeritus Editor-in-Chief of Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (CMAME), effective January 1, 2022, after nearly 50 years of tirelessly serving the journal and the computational science and engineering (CSE) community. 

Professor Maruthi Akella is featured in this UT Austin story about supporting drone defense experiments sponsored by the Army Futures Command.

Professor Emeritus Hans Mark, a world-renowned aerospace engineer who was in Mission Control during the first moon landing and who served as a professor in department, died on Saturday, Dec. 18 at the age of 92.

Alumnus Tyler Summers, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at The University of Texas at Dallas, was selected to receive an NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award to support his research to develop control systems and networks for autonomous vehicles.

Noel Clemens has been selected to receive the 2022 AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) Aerodynamic Measurement Technology Award.

Nanshu Lu has been selected to receive the 2022 Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award by the Applied Mechanics Division of the ASME.

Maruthi Akella has been elevated to the grade of fellow for the class of 2022 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).