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Mechanical Engineering Slide Show Long Description


Last modified on October 16th, 2009

This is a slide show with photos and captions as described below.

  1. This is a picture of graduate student, Dinesh Rabindran and Professr Delbert Tesar with a robot in the robotics lab. Rabindran has been selected to receive an honorable mention for the 2008 IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) Fellowship. Read more.
  2. This is a collage of the eight recipients of the Mechanical Engineering Academy of Distinguished Alumni Awards which will be awarded on October 24, 2008.
  3. This is a photo of Dr. Paulo Ferreira, (University of Texas at Austin, Department of Mechanical Engineering) in front of an electron microscope in one of the UT microscopy labs. Dr. Ferreira is working with researchers at MIT. Read more.
  4. This is a group photo from a past ME Tailgate Party. Alumni, faculty, students and staff and invited to attend the party on October 25, 2008 three hours prior to kick-off at the Oklahoma State game. Read more.
  5. This is a photo of sculptor Mark di Suvero and his recently installed 40 tall red, metal sculpture Clock Knot that was installed in front of the engineering buildings on September 26, 2008. Read more.
  6. In this photo, Professor Rodney Ruoff (center) is flanked by post-docs Weiwei Cai (left, a physicist) and Sungjin Park (right, a chemist)in front of the reactor where they are producing carbon-13 labeled graphite, that allows for studies of carbon-13 labeled graphene, a single-atom thick layer of carbon atoms. Read more.
  7. This is a photo of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) project leads, Kathryn Alexander, Katherine Zimmerman and Courtney Grosvenor meeting with Dr. Janet Ellzey, Associate Chair. The students are all Mechanical Engineering Majors and Dr. Ellzey teaches a class on the Cameroon Project. Read more.
  8. This is a photo of Professor Rodney Ruoff and graduate student Meryl Stoller in the lab they are producing graphene (a single-atom thick layer of carbon atoms) materials in contact with electrolyte ions, such as happens during charging of an electrochemical double layer capacitor. Read more.
  9. This ia photo of people in attendance at the 2007 CAREER EXPO held at the Frank Erwin Center. Mechanical Engineering students are encouraged to attend as 166 companies will be there recruiting ME students at all education levels. The event will be held September 23-24, 2008. Read more.
  10. Photo of Kendrick and Aleka Neptune, children of Dr. Richard Neptune, signing Hook-em Horns at the 2004 Back to School Bash, a BBQ dinner. This links to a story inviting people to the annual picnic to be held August 29, 2008 outside the ETC on the West Plaza. Read more.
  11. Professor David Bourell and his doctoral graduate student, Kaushik Alayavalli, are shown standing in front of a sinterstation machine. This machine was used to manufacture novel graphite bipolar plates for fuel cell applications. The researchers won a best poster award for this work at the 19th International SFF Symposium. Read more.
  12. This is a photo of Arumugam Manthiram, Vadivel Murugan and Theivanayagam Muraliganth in their lab. The three researchers have discovered a process to make lithium-ion batteries faster, more efficiently and less expensively. Read more.
  13. This is a photo collage in memory of undergraduate Vignesh Prakash who died June 29, 2008. The collage shows the Texas flag at half-mast flown on July 28, 2008 on campus, the plaque commemorating him, a photo of Vignesh driving a car, and his lifespan, 12/19/85 to 6/29/08. Read more.
  14. This is a photo of Dr. Cretan Kapoor— Associate Director, Robotics Research Group, Professor Delbert Tesar—Director Robotics Research Group, and Amit Kulkarni, doctoral candidate, in the Robotics Lab at Pickle Research Center. Dr. Tesar was appointed to the U.S. Army Science Board. Read more.
  15. This is a photo of Dr. Paul Ho, with a machine called a nanoindenter, which is capable of characterizing mechanical properties and behaviors of nanometer-scale structures. He was awarded a $159,138 NSF grant to study the buckling of nanostructures. Read more.
  16. This is a photo of Jessica Allen, Rachel Gerver and Cassandra Telenko, all ME first year Ph.D. students, who received National Science Foundation research grants as well as Michael Mueller, a UTME alumnus, now a Ph.D. student at Stanford. Read more.
  17. Philip Morrow, a senior in Mechanical Engineering, recently became the 2000th student certified by the Machine Shop since 1994. He is pictured standing beside a vertical milling machine with instructor, Danny Jares. Read more.
  18. The Department of Mechanical Engineering would like to congratulate Dr. Karen L. Nyberg (MSME 1996, PhD 1996), who returned safely and successfully from space on the Shuttle Discovery on June 14th, 2008. Dr. Nyberg, a Mission Specialist, was the 50th woman in space the only person to operate three robotic arms. In the photo, she is seen floating in the shuttle wearing UT socks. Read more.
  19. Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Adela Ben-Yakar has developed a laser "microscalpel" that destroys a single cell while leaving nearby cells intact, which could improve the precision of surgeries for cancer, epilepsy and other diseases. Read more.
  20. It's time to select the 2008 Distinguished Alumni. Pictured are the 2007 award winners— left to right): Dr. B. Elliott Short, Jr., Robert C. Olsen, Terrell A. "Bear" Poth, Marcel Gres, Andrew J. Mawer, Susan L. Allen, Richard L. Walton and David Leigh. Read more.
  21. Graduate student Nicholas Fey (center) and his family celebrated at the ME Party prior to Commencement. Family members pictured (left to right) are: Natalie Fey, Timothy Fey, Nicholas Fey, Sharlene Fey and Clifton Fey.
  22. Undergrad honors student Gede Bhawa (right) celebrated graduation with his father Made Sulitra, of Indonesia, and Assistant Professor Michael Webber.
  23. The Mechanical Engineering's Challenge X team poses with their Chevy Equinox™ (SUV) with General Motors Mentor Chris Graham before shipping it to New York for the Challenge X competition. Read more.
  24. ME Alumni Donors pose at the entrance to the newly-renovated T-Room, which their generous gifts and those of Ford Motor Company, made possible. Read more.
  25. ME Chairman Joseph Beaman hosted a casual dinner for students in ME Mentor Program, where they discussed course scheduling, electives and opportunities in industry.
  26. Jay Patel and Associate Professor Matt Campbell explain their research to prospective graduate students at the Graduate Open House.
  27. Keys Curry (L) and family pose in front of the Keys and Joan Curry Atrium plaque at Grand Opening. Read more.
  28. Dr. Carlos Hidrovo received a Young Faculty Award and $150,000 research grant from DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Agency. Read more.
  29. Engineering students from Tec de Monterrey in Mexico hear a talk by Dr. Fernandez while visiting the Department of Mechanical Engineering to learn about our Mechatronics Research and our graduate program.
  30. Dr. Elmira Popova has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture and do research at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences during the 2008-2009 academic year. Read more.
  31. Elliott Short (center) celebrates with his family in front of the new Byron Short Entryway display in the Mechanical Engineering Building. Read more.
  32. Steve Lewis (center) is surrounded by ME Longhorns on site to dedicate the new Ford Motor Company Academic and Student Life Center. Read more.
  33. Graduate student Ted Argo explains his acoustics research to prospective graduate students at Open House.
  34. Mechanical Engineering staff members (l-r) Rosalie Foster, Danny Jares, Fred Rothhauser and Kathryn Samec were presented with 15 -25 year service awards at a staff luncheon in April 2008.
  35. 1958 Alumni celebrated their 50th Year Reunion with a luncheon and department tour. Read more.
  36. The Mechanical Engineering team prepares for Challenge X in mid-April. This is a photo of the student team members and Professor Ron Matthews and GM Mentor Chris Graham. The students designed a more fuel-efficient engine for the Chevrolet Equinox, an SUV. The team heads out on a road trip from New York City to Washington D.C. as part of the competition. Read more.

The following story was not in the slide show, but was posted in 2008.

  1. Industry supported AMC Project is Shaping the Next Generation Maintenance Models for Semiconductor Manufacturing. Read more.