FEATURES Just in Time Math........................................... 10
Eye on the Prize............................................18
Changes in curriculum improve student retention, grades and graduation rate After a five-year pilot project, The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) College of Engineering has seen measurable improvements in the retention rate and grade point average of students...
Reilly and team explore traumatic eye injuries In 2012, Dr. Matthew Reilly, assistant professor in the Biomedical Engineering Department, was named as a co-primary investigator with Walter Gray on an award from The Army Medical Research and Material Command for...
Flipped Classroom........................................12
COE Researcher Tapped to Lead International Energy Project.............................................. 24
Foster flips his teaching method, sees positive results This innovative professor is using a ‘flipped classroom’ teaching method that maximizes Foster’s, and his students’, time...
COE undergrad lands prestigious internship with NASA Meet Ricco Aceves. He is one of only 150 students from 70 universities in the country who has been accepted into the prestigious NASA Pathways Intern Employment Program...
Fighting for Fido...........................................16 Ph.D. students launch mobile stem care company In this day and age, pets are no longer just animals used for practical purposes like herding sheep or guarding a home...
Making Innovation Possible: Steve Griffin.... 30 An alumni of Mechanical Engineering, Griffin and Tami, his wife, recently gave COE a gift to help improve a thermal and fluid science lab Steven Griffin believes in the power of hard work. A graduate of The University of Texas at San Antonio Mechanical Engineering program, who by his own admission, basically lived in the lab while he was pursuing his degree...
College of Engineering’s Innovations |
Reaching for the Stars..................................14
Bing Dong will advance international research in building occupancy behavior For the first time in its history, The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) has been invited to participate in an International Energy Agency (IEA) project along with many of the world’s top research universities...
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