Undergrad Advising, Mechanical Engineering, UT Austin

09/17/2014

Assistant Professor Yuebing Zheng, winner of the $750,000 Beckman Award, will use it to build a handheld touchscreen medical device.
http://www.engr.utexas.edu/news/7842-zheng-beckman-award

09/16/2014

The Nuclear Engineering Teaching Lab (NETL), in the Mechanical Engineering Department at The University of Texas, has received a three-year $1.2 million grant to lead a four university consortium to increase STEM undergraduate students for the Navy.
http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2014/0914-netl-stem-grant.php

The Nuclear Engineering Teaching Lab (NETL) , in the Mechanical Engineering Department at The University of Texas (UT), has received a three-year $1.2 million grant to lead a four university consortium entitled .

08/22/2014

http://www.engr.utexas.edu/news/7837-yu-mit-innovator-under35

08/17/2014

Ranking of World Universities by the Center for World-Class Universities at Shanghai Jiao Tong U ranks UT Engr 5th! http://bit.ly/VxrzCo

New 2014 Top 100 University ranking in Natural Sciences and Mathematics.

08/14/2014

Dr. Don Berry is Named Fellow of the Aeroballistic Range Association
http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2014/0814-berry-ara-fellow.php

Dr. Don Berry, an adjunct Lecturer in the department, has recently been elected a Fellow of the Aeroballistic Range Association.

07/23/2014

Congratulations to alum Albert Swantner!

It’s no surprise that our engineers make things that help people.

Last month, mechanical engineering alum Albert Swantner (on right) won a Webby Award for the app Charity Miles, which he helped develop. The app donates to charities for each mile a user walks, runs or bikes.

Congrats Albert! Read more at charitymiles.org.

07/17/2014

The BBC selected UTME's Donglei Fan's work on tiny nanomotors the #3 discovery to shape the future in Focus Magazine. http://bit.ly/bbc-fan

06/30/2014

UT Researchers Murat Yildirim and Dr. Adela Ben-Yakar Team with Harvard Doctors to Develop Laser Tools for Vocal Cord Repair.
https://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2014/0614_yildirim_vocal-folds.php

06/25/2014

ME students Kevin Chen and Hannah Jones were featured in this article for their work with Projects for Under-served Communities (PUC).
http://www.engr.utexas.edu/features/puc2014

The Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin offers nationally top ranked undergraduate and graduate degrees in aerospace, architectural, biomedical chemical, civil, computer, electrical, environmental, geosystems, mechanical, and petroleum engineering. With the nation's f…

06/16/2014

https://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2014/0614_benedek_powe_award.php
Assistant Professor Nicole Benedek receives Powe Award to study lower temperatures in solid oxide fuel cells using inexpensive perovskite.

06/06/2014

Billy Wood, the professor leading the Maymester in Germany, sent these photos of the group hiking in the Black Forest near Freiburg, eating at a restaurant in Himmelreich (Heaven) and a visit to Grohe Designs, a company that manufactures top-of-the-line faucets. They also saw the manufacturing plant, but weren't allowed to take pictures. Prof. Wood said that was the best part.

05/28/2014

Dr. Donglei Fan's Ph.D. students in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, Kwanoh Kim, Jianhe Guo and Xiaobin Xu, have designed smaller, faster more durable nanomotors which may someday be used in medicine at the cellular level for drug delivery and powering nanorobots.
http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2014/0514_fan-lab-news-b.php