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Two new faculty, Thinh Doan and Hannah Lu, are joining the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics for the 2024-25 academic year.

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We are seeking nominations for the 2025 Class of the ASE/EM Academy of Distinguished Alumni. Read more about the nomination process and the academy.

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Team Texas-Soton, led by Luis Sentis, is one of 29 teams selected from around the world to advance to the next round of the XPRIZE Wildfire Autonomous Wildfire Response track.

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Texas Engineers have developed the most efficient method yet to convert methane to methanol over the distributed scales where it is produced.

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The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has selected the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin as the nation’s Leadership-Class Computing Facility.

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Texas Engineers are participating in a groundbreaking U.S. Space Force operation that will propel innovative technologies for in-space operations.

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Learn more about Tom Underwood's research on sustained missions in low Earth orbit, protecting fast-moving spacecraft as they reenter the atmosphere, limiting emissions in semiconductor manufacturing and clean hydrogen production.

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Undergraduate computational engineering student Ira Narang was awarded UTRGV's Best Undergraduate Oral Presentation in Earth, Environmental, and Marine Sciences for her work on modeling dune erosion and storm surge.

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Matthew Nattier is the recipient of the 2024 Cockrell School of Engineering Outstanding Scholar-Leader award.

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Wenkai Qin, a Ph.D. aerospace engineering graduate student, is the recipient of the highly competitive National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship for 2024.

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Retired Maj. Gen. Jeannie Leavitt, the U.S. Air Force’s first female fighter pilot and a 1990 an UT aerospace engineering graduate, delivered the keynote address for the 141st University Commencement.

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A first-ever stretchy electronic skin could equip robots and other devices with the same softness and touch sensitivity as human skin, opening up new possibilities to perform tasks that require a great deal of precision and control of force.

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Karen Willcox, a professor of aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics and the director of the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin, has won the 2024 Theodore von Kármán Prize from the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).

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Retired Maj. Gen. Jeannie M. Leavitt, the U.S. Air Force’s first female fighter pilot and a 1990 aerospace engineering graduate of The University of Texas at Austin, will deliver the keynote address at UT’s 141st Spring Commencement on May 11.

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Ten Texas Engineering alumni of the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at The University of Texas at Austin have been elected to the 2024 class of the ASE/EM Academy of Distinguished Alumni.