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	<title>13th Annual ME Tailgate Party, UT vs Kansas, Nov. 21</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2009/1109tailgate_party.php</link>
	<description>On Saturday, November 21th, 2009, the Department of Mechanical Engineering will 
	be hosting its 13th Annual Mechanical Engineering Alumni Tailgate gathering. We will have BBQ 
	and music, under the tent in Parking Lot #56, directly east of the Mechanical Engineering Building 
	three hours before kick-off of the UT vs. Kansas football game. 
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	<pubDate>Thursday, 12 November 2009 10:21 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>UT ME Graduate student Shilpa Gulati Returns to Antarctica</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2009/1109_antarctica_gulati2.php</link>
	<description>Shilpa Gulati left in mid-October for Antarctica to complete the underwater characterization 
	of the chemical properties of the water in a perennially ice-covered lake,  West Lake Bonney, with a team of 
	researchers and a cook/camp manager. 
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	<pubDate>Tuesday, 10 November 2009 2:25 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>UT ME Researchers Study Climate Change and Alternative Energy in Arctic</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2009/1009_arctic_expedition.php</link>
	<description>Associate Professor Preston Wilson and ME graduate student Chad Green spent two weeks onboard a U.S. Coast Guard ship studying methane hydrate, an organic material found on and beneath the ocean floor. 
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	<pubDate>Monday, 2 November 2009 2:59 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Mechanical Engineering is Recruiting an Assistant Professor</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2009/1009_faculty_position.php</link>
	<description>Faculty candidates should have an interest and expertise in the general area of energy, 
	with specific interest in solar energy, biofuels, or energy storage.
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	<pubDate>Monday, 12 October 2009 2:01 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Professor John Goodenough honored with Presidential Enrico Fermi Award</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2009/1009_goodenough_fermi_award.php</link>
	<description>Professor John B. Goodenough, holder of the Virginia H. Cockrell Centennial Chair in Engineering, 
	received the 2009 Presidential Enrico Fermi Award with Stanford University's Siegfried S. Hecker. 
	</description>
	<pubDate>Thursday, 15 October 2009 2:32 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Mechanical Engineering graduate student and professor receive ASME Best Paper Award for product research</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2009/0909_saunders_seepersad_award.php</link>
	<description>Matt Saunders, Mechanical Engineering Master's student, and Assistant Professor 
	Carolyn Seepersad received the Best Paper Award from ASME's Design Theory and Methodology Conference 
	for their research entitled "The Characteristics of Innovative, Mechanical Products." 
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	<pubDate>Thursday, 24 September 2009 4:35:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Dr. Philip S. Schmidt is honored with the Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2009/0909_schmidt_award.php</link>
	<description>Professor Philip S. Schmidt of the Department of Mechanical Engineering has been honored with the 
	Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award, awarded by The University of Texas Board of Regents.
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	<pubDate>Monday, 21 September 2009 3:46:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>New ME graduate students are examples of achievement</title>
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	<description>Aaron Townsend, June Si and Julia O'Rourke joined the Mechanical Engineering graduate program in 2009.
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	<pubDate>Friday, 4 September 2009 11:14:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Carolyn Seepersad wins the International Outstanding Young Researcher in Freeform and Additive Manufacturing Award</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2009/0809_seepersad_lff_award.php</link>
	<description>Laboratory for Freeform Fabrication member Assistant Professor Carolyn Seepersad is the 2009 
	recipient of the International Outstanding Young Researcher in Freeform and Additive Manufacturing Award, 
	given annually to recognize an outstanding young researcher early in his/her career.</description>
	<pubDate>Monday, 31 August 2009 10:36:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Phil Schmidt wins Chancellor's Teaching Award</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2009/0509_schmidt_chancellors_award.php</link>
	<description>Professor Philip S. Schmidt, Department of Mechanical Engineering, received the Chancellor's 
	Council outstanding Teaching Award, which recognizes a senior faculty member for a distinguished career 
	in teaching at the undergraduate level. </description>
	<pubDate>Friday, 29 May 2009 4:46:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>ME Senior Julia Dawson speeds past the boys in the classroom and on the track</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2009/0509_dawson_racer.php</link>
	<description>During the past two years in Legends car racing, Julia Dawson was the top-ranked female driver in the world, won a 2007-08 winter series, 
	and was the Texas state road course champion for the semi-pro class.</description>
	<pubDate>Wednesday, 27 May 2009 11:31:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Faster Computers, Electronic Devices Possible After Scientists Create Large-Area Graphene on Copper</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2009/0509_ruoff_circuits.php</link>
	<description>The creation of large-area graphene using copper may enable the manufacture of new graphene-based 
	devices that meet the scaling requirements of the semiconductor industry.</description>
	<pubDate>Thursday, 14 May 2009 4:48:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Professors Janet Ellzey and Gretchen Ritter Appointed Vice Provosts at The University of Texas at Austin</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2009/0509_ellzey_vice_provost.php</link>
	<description>Dr. Gretchen Ritter, a professor of government and a fellow of the Alma Madden Professorship at The 
	University of Texas at Austin, and Dr. Janet Ellzey, professor of Mechanical Engineering and Assistant Dean for 
	international Engineering Education, have been appointed vice provosts at The University of Texas at Austin, 
	Provost Steven Leslie said Tuesday.</description>
	<pubDate>Wednesday, 6 May 2009 5:26:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Charles Beaman Named Finalist for the George Mitchell Award</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2009/0509_charles_beaman.php</link>
	<description>Charles Beaman, a graduating senior double major in Mechanical Engineering and Pre-Med, with a minor in Spanish, was the recipient of one of the $2,000 finalist awards in the Tenth Annual University Co-op George H. Mitchell Awards.</description>
	<pubDate>Wednesday, 6 May 2009 4:16:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Professor Ron Barr wins Best Paper Award</title>
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	<description>Dr. Ronald Barr received First-Place for the Best Paper Award presented at the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Meeting.</description>
	<pubDate>Tuesday, 5 May 2009 10:34:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Texas Atomic Film Festival, May 7</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2009/0509_texas_atomic_film_festival.php</link>
	<description>The first Texas Atomic Film Festival (TAFF) will be held on Thursday May 7, 2009 in ACES 2.404A from 12:30 to 2:00 p.m.</description>
	<pubDate>Monday, 4 May 2009 11:50:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Mechanical Engineering Staff honored for dedicated service</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2009/0409_staff_awards.php</link>
	<description>Staff members Tho Huynh, Donna O'Kelly, Sean O'Kelly, Becky Harrison-Ray, Curtis Johnson, Tom Kiehne and Cindy Raman were honored for 10 to 20 years of service at The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Mechanical Engineering.</description>
	<pubDate>Thursday, 30 April 2009 11:43:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Cub Scouts Visit the Mechanical Engineering Department</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2009/0409_cub_scout_visit.php</link>
	<description>The SPIE (formerly The International Society for Optical Engineering) has decided to honor Dr. Shaochen Chen by naming him an SPIE Fellow.</description>
	<pubDate>Monday, 27 April 2009 11:37:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Dr. Shaochen Chen honored as new SPIE Fellow</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2009/0409_chen_spie_fellow.php</link>
	<description>The SPIE (formerly The International Society for Optical Engineering) has decided to honor Dr. Shaochen Chen by naming him an SPIE Fellow.</description>
	<pubDate>Thursday, 16 April 2009 3:49:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Graphene Sheets in Organic Solvents</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2009/0309_graphene_sheets.php</link>
	<description>A team at The University of Texas at Austin has developed a general method for creating dispersed and chemically modified graphene sheets in a wide variety of organic solvents, opening the door for the widespread use of colloidal suspensions for a host of important applications.</description>
	<pubDate>Tuesday, 31 March 2009 10:03:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>"Cool as Ice" wins design portion of Alternative Energy Challenge</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2009/0309_cool_as_ice.php</link>
	<description>The first place design team received $1,000 in prize money in addition to the build budget and was composed of three Mechanical Engineering students, Nathan Putnam, Cassandra Telenko, and James Durand, as well as one Chemical Engineering student, Amanda Cuellar.</description>
	<pubDate>Friday, 27 March 2009 5:15:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>David Agu awarded Shell Research Prize</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2009/0309_david_agu.php</link>
	<description>UTME graduate student David Ikechukwu Agu was awarded the Shell Research Prize for the best paper and presentation in the area of Energy/Environment/Transport Processes at the Graduate And Industry Networking (GAIN) 2009 conference.</description>
	<pubDate>Tuesday, 24 March 2009 12:27:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Faculty Recognized for Achievements</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2009/0209_faculty_awards.php</link>
	<description>This is a listing and description of all faculty awards and honors in the past academic year.</description>
	<pubDate>Monday, 16 March 2009 4:14:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Engineers Without Borders' Panama Water System Project </title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2009/0309_ewb_panama.php</link>
	<description>Engineers Without Borders Panama Team made first assessement trip in January 2009.</description>
	<pubDate>Thursday, 12 March 2009 4:28:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Dana Judson receives ME Staff Excellence Award</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2009/0209_staff_award.php</link>
	<description>Administrative Associate Dana Judson received the award in a ceremony held on 18 February 2009.</description>
	<pubDate>Monday, 9 March 2009 11:19:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Engineers Without Borders bringing computers to rural Mexico</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2009/0209_ewb_mexico_computers.php</link>
	<description>EWB is working with rural communities in Mexico to bring the Internet to schools</description>
	<pubDate>Thursday, 6 March 2009 10:30:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Alumna's model displayed in Mechanical Engineering building</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2009/0209_alexander_model.php</link>
	<description>A rolling ball sculpture, designed by ME alumna Kelly Alexander, is now in display in the Mechanical Engineering building</description>
	<pubDate>Thursday, 5 March 2009 13:25:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Professor Ruoff Recieves the 2009 Lee Hsun Award</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2009/0209_ruoff_lee_hsun_award.php</link>
	<description>University of Texas at Austin Mechanical Engineering  professor, Rodney Ruoff received the 2009 Lee Hsun Award from The Institute of Metal Research in Shenyang, China.</description>
	<pubDate>Friday, 27 February 2009 2:35:05 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Tyler Luce wins Rube Goldberg Local Contest</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2009/0209_rube_goldberg_results.php</link>
	<description>University of Texas at Austin Mechanical Engineering student, Tyler Luce, won the local Rube Goldberg competition and will represent the university at the national competition in April 2009 at Purdue University.</description>
	<pubDate>Friday, 20 February 2009 5:42:05 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>EWeek, February 13-21</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2009/0209_eweek.php</link>
	<description>EWeek at the University of Texas at Austin is the week when engineering student organizations host a plethora of fun-filled events.</description>
	<pubDate>Thursday, 19 February 2009 12:38:05 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Rube Goldberg Competition</title>
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	<description>The University of Texas at Austin ASME chapter holds its Rube Goldberg competition on Wednesday, February 18, 2009 in the T-Room of ETC at 6 p.m. Please join us!</description>
	
	<pubDate>Tuesday, 17 February 2009 11:09:05 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Dr. Steve Nichols receives award</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2009/0109_nichols_Joe_King_award.php</link>
	<description>Steven P. Nichols, a mechanical engineering professor at The University of Texas at Austin, received the 2008 Joe J. King Professional Engineering Achievement Award</description>
	<pubDate>Monday, 2 January 2009 3:43:05 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Two VC firms invest in UT clean technology</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2009/0109_ruoff_graphene_investment.php</link>
	<description>Two venture capital firms that specialize in clean technology have formed two Austin startups by licensing technology from the University of Texas at Austin.</description>
	<pubDate>Tuesday, 13 January 2009 03:03:57 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>$500,000 award to fight clandestine nuclear activity</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2009/0109_biegalski_deinert.php</link>
	<description>To eliminate the testing of nuclear weapons, engineers at The University of Texas at Austin were awarded $511,000 from the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration to research better methods for monitoring and detecting covert nuclear tests.</description>
	<pubDate>Tuesday, 13 January 2009 11:03:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Challenge X Results</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2008/0408challengex.php</link>
	<description>The GM Challenge X competition results are now available. Read a detailed account of the competition.</description>
	<pubDate>Thursday, 8 December 2008 11:29:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>ME Holiday Party
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	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2008/1208holiday_party.php</link>
	<description>The Mechanical Engineering Department hosted its annual holiday party at The Thompson Conference Center on December 5, 2008.</description>
	<pubDate>Tuesday, 9 December 2008 1:38:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Managing Demand for Short Life-Cycle Products Using Leading Indicators—November 21
</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2008/1108wu_david.php</link>
	<description>Professor David Wu of Lehigh University will be speaking on Friday, November 21 at 2 p.m. in ETC 5.148.</description>
	<pubDate>Monday, 17 November 2008 5:06:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>UT ME Graduate Student to spend two months working on a robotics project in Antarctica</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2008/1108gulati_antarctica.php</link>
	<description>Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. student Shilpa Gulati is about to embark on a two-month adventure to Antarctica to map the topography of a perennially ice-covered lake West Lake Bonney. </description>
	<pubDate>Thursday, 6 November 2008 11:26:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Energy Technology and Policy — December 16-17</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2008/1108webber_energy_conf.php</link>
	<description>Dr. Michael Webber will share his insights and views about the best and worst of U.S. energy policy, including brief snippets of its history, real-world examples, outlook going forward, and global implications.</description>
	<pubDate>Wednesday, 5 November 2008 8:15:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Doctoral student receives Robotics award</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2008/1008rabindran.php</link>
	<description>Dinesh Rabindran, a doctoral student working under the supervision of Prof. Delbert Tesar, has been selected to receive an honorable mention for the 2008 IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) Fellowship.</description>
	<pubDate>Monday, 27 October 2008 1:51:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Mechanical Engineering Academy of Distinguished Alumni Awards
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	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2008/1008alumni_awards.php</link>
	<description>This year's selections for the Mechanical Engineering Academy of Distinguished Alumni Awards have been made and will be presented on October 24, 2008.</description>
	<pubDate>Tuesday, 21 October 2008 11:48:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Team takes first atomic-scale compositional images of fuel-cell nanoparticles
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	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2008/1008ferreira_fuel_cells.php</link>
	<description>Dr. Paulo Ferreira (University of Texas at Austin, Department of Mechanical Engineering) and researchers at MIT have been able to take the first imaages of individual atoms near the surface of nanoparticles.</description>
	<pubDate>Thursday, 16 October 2008 2:22:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Twelfth Annual ME Tailgate Party on October 25, 2008
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	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2008/1008tailgate_party.php</link>
	<description>Alumni, faculty, students and staff are all invited to attend the ME Tailgate Party in Lot 56 (east side of building) three hours before kick-off before the Oklahoma State game.</description>
	<pubDate>Thursday, 9 October 2008 11:20:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Di Suvero sculpture Clock Knot installed in front of ME Building
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	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2008/0908di_suvero_sculpture.php</link>
	<description> A four-story tall sculpture by internationally renowned artist Mark di Suvero was dedicated Friday, Sept. 26, in front of the engineering buildings.</description>
	<pubDate>Monday, 6 October 2008 10:45:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Synthesis of carbon-13 labeled graphite leads to high profile article in the journal Science
</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2008/0908ruoff2_new_graphene.php</link>
	<description>A new "graphene-based" material that helps solve the structure of graphite oxide and could lead to other potential discoveries of the one-atom thick substance called graphene, which has applications in nanoelectronics, energy storage and production, and transportation such as airplanes and cars has been created by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin.</description>
	<pubDate>Monday, 29 September 2008 4:06:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Engineers Without Borders. A student organization that is making a difference.</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2008/0908me_ewb.php</link>
	<description>EWB is a student organization that partners with communities to provide basic needs like water, sanitation and education. Three of the project leads are Mechanical Engineering students.</description>
	<pubDate>Monday, 22 September 2008 10:43:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>New carbon material shows promise of storing large quantities of renewable electrical energy</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2008/0908ruoff_new_carbon.php</link>
	<description>Engineers and scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have achieved a breakthrough in the use of a one-atom thick structure called "graphene" as a new carbon-based material for storing electrical charge in ultracapacitor devices, perhaps paving the way for the massive installation of renewable energies such as wind and solar power.</description>
	<pubDate>Wednesday, 19 September 2008 11:39:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Visit the CAREER EXPO September 23-24 at the Erwin Center. </title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2008/0908career_expo.php</link>
	<description>261 companies will be there recruiting and 166 want to hire ME students, starting
	with internships for undergrads through the Ph.D. level.</description>
	<pubDate>Wednesday, 17 September 2008 4:55:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Join us for the ME Back to School Bash, Friday, August 29, 2008. </title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2008/0808back_to_school.php</link>
	<description>On Friday, August 29th, from 4:30 — 7:30 p.m. the Department of Mechanical Engineering will be hosting our 2008 Back to School Bash on the West Plaza. Look for the large tent.</description>
	<pubDate>Tuesday, 26 August 2008 11:10:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Dave Bourell and Kaushik Alayavalli won the best poster award </title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2008/0808bourell_best_poster_SFF.php</link>
	<description>Dave Bourell and his graduate student, Kaushik Alayavalli, won the best poster award at the Ninteenth Annual International Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium held in Austin, Texas the first week of August 2008.</description>
	<pubDate>Wednesday, 12 August 2008 8:38:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>UT researchers find new process to make lithium-ion batteries</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2008/0808manthiram_batteries.php</link>
	<description>UT researchers have found a more efficient and potentially less 
	expensive way to make lithium-ion batteries, which could be used in hybrid and electric vehicles.  
	</description>
	<pubDate>Wednesday, 6 August 2008 11:37:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>ME Student Vignesh Prakash passed away 6/29/08</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2008/0708vignesh_prakash.php</link>
	<description>Vignesh Prakash, a 22 year old senior majoring in mechanical 
	engineering and mathematics, passed away on June 29, 2008. Vignesh was 
	from Hyderabad, India.  
	</description>
	<pubDate>Thursday, 31 July 2008 2:12:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Professor Delbert Tesar Appointed to U.S. Army Science Board</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2008/0708tesar_army_science_bd.php</link>
	<description>The Secretary of the U.S. Army has appointed Prof. Delbert Tesar 
	to a three-year term as a Member of its senior scientific advisory body which 
	advises the Army on scientific and technological matters.  
	</description>
	<pubDate>Friday, 24 July 2008 4:44:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Buckling of Nanostructures</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2008/0708ho_nanostructures.php</link>
	<description>Dr. Paul Ho and Rhi Huang received a $159,138 NFF grant to study the buckling of nanostructures. 
	</description>
	<pubDate>Friday, 24 July 2008 4:44:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Prestigious NSF Graduate Fellowships offered to Three Mechanical Engineering students and one Alumnus</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2008/0708nsf_grants.php</link>
	<description>Each year the National Science Foundation offers about 1,000 fellowships 
	nationwide to provide graduate students with up to $40,000 annual support for three years. 
	Jessica Allen, Rachel Gerver and Cassandra Telenko, all ME first year Ph.D. students, 
	received National Science Foundation research grants, as did UTME alumnus, Michael Mueller. 
	</description>
	<pubDate>Friday, 18 July 2008 4:23:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>2000th Student is Certified by ME Machine Shop</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2008/0708-2000th_student.php</link>
	<description>Philip Morrow, a senior in Mechanical Engineering, recently became the 2000th student certified by the Machine Shop since 1994, when Don R. Artieschoufsky became the shop's supervisor. 
	</description>
	<pubDate>Wwednesday, 17 July 2008 1:55:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Dr. Karen Nyberg is the 50th Woman in Space and First Person to Operate Three Robotic Arms</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2008/0708nyberg_astronaut.php</link>
	<description>The Department of Mechanical Engineering would like to congratulate 
	Dr. Karen L. Nyberg (MSME 1996, PhD 1996), who returned safely and successfully 
	from space June 14th. Dr. Nyberg has just made history as the 50th woman in space 
	and the first person to operate three different robot arms in space. 
	</description>
	<pubDate>Monday, 7 July 2008 1:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Laser Surgery Probe Targets Individual Cancer Cells</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2008/0608laser_surgery.php</link>
	<description>Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Adela Ben-Yakar 
	at The University of Texas at Austin 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.</description>
	<pubDate>Wednesday, 25 June 2008 3:15:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Call for Entries, University of Texas at Austin Distinguished 
	Alumni 2008 Awards</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2008/0608dist_alumni.php</link>
	<description>It is time to nominate individuals for the 2008 Mechanical 
	Engineering Academy of Distinguished Alumni Awards.</description>
	<pubDate>Friday, 6 June 2008 1:19:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Nanosurgery on a Specially Designed Microchip Reveals Anesthetics 
	Interfere with Nerve Regeneration Process</title>
	<link>http://www.utexas.edu/news/2008/05/06/engineering_nanosurgery/</link>
	<description>A hair strand-thin worm is providing substantial clues on how 
	nerves regenerate, offering insight and hope to finding genes that affect nerve 
	generation and ultimately new drugs and therapies for human neurodegenerative 
	diseases such as Parkinson's or Alzheimer's.</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 6 May 2008 3:21:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>UT student survives car wreck, graduates on time</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2008/0508greg_power.php</link>
	<description> For Greg Power, the challenge was to stay on track and graduate in four years despite a near-fatal car wreck.</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 2 May 2008 5:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>University of Texas at Austin Mechanical Engineering Class of 1958 Fifty Year Reunion</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2008/0408class_of_1958.php</link>
	<description> The Texas Exes, Cockrell School of Engineering and Department of Mechanical Engineering are preparing to greet the attendees of the Class of 1958 50th Class Reunion on Thursday, May 1, 2008.</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 4:44:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Industry supported AMC Project is Shaping the Next Generation Maintenance Models for Semiconductor Manufacturing</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2008/0408amc-amd.php</link>
	<description>AMC project set to change semi-conductor modeling</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:54:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Carlos Hidrovo, Assistant Professor at The University of Texas at Austin, Receives DARPA Award</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2008/0408hidrovo.php</link>
	<description>Professor Hidrovo is one of 39 to receive the DARPA Award and will receive a grant of approximately $150,000</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:18:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Mechanical Engineering Team Prepares for Challenge X</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2008/0408challengex.php</link>
	<description>The University of Texas at Austin's Mechanical Engineering Department was selected as 
	one of seventeen intercollegiate teams to design and produce a hybrid SUV for a GM sponsored 
	competition named Challenge X. </description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 4:25:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>The T-Room Lives On</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2008/0408t-room.php</link>
	<description> Friday, April 11, 2008, engineering administrators and students dedicated a 
	new T-Room.  This T-Room, also a six-year renovation effort, was led by the vision and 
	generosity of Ford Motor Company and hundreds of Mechanical Engineering Alumni. </description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 4:44:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Elmira Popova, Associate Professor at The University of Texas at Austin, Receives Fulbright Award</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/2008/0408popova.php</link>
	<description>Popova has received a Fulbright grant to lecture and do research at St.Kliment Ohridski University. She will carry out research with colleagues there to link ideas and methods from the fields of Operations Research and Statistics to solve forecasting and decision-making problems.</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:39:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Eight New Members Inducted into the ME Department Academy of Distinguished Alumni</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/1005ada.php</link>
	<description>	The Mechanical Engineering Department Academy of Distinguished Alumni welcomes eight new members:  David K. Leigh, 
	Andrew J. Mawer, Susan L. Allen, Robert C. Olsen, Terrell A. "Bear" Poth, B. Elliott Short, Jr., Marcel E. Gres, and Richard L. Walton.
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	<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2007 14:56:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Card readers to be installed in ETC</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/0921cards.php</link>
	<description>	The ETC Building will soon have card readers installed. Card Readers will allow us to provide access to the building after normal business hours.  
	The card reader system uses a special UT ID Card called a proximity card.
	</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2007 14:56:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>T-Room TV is Back</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/0920tv.php</link>
	<description>	The ME Large Screen TV is now up and running in the T-Room!  Faculty, Staff, or Student Organizations who have slides you want published on 
	the television bulletin board, please send a request and a copy of  the slides to the Multimedia Help Desk.
	</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 20 Sep 2007 11:29:00 CDT</pubDate>
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	<title>Dr. Janet Ellzey Discusses International Engineering Education Program in PRISM Magazine</title>
	<link>http://www.me.utexas.edu/news/0919ellzey.php</link>
	<description>Janet Ellzey, Professor in Mechanical Engineering and director of the Cockrell School of Engineering's International Engineering Education program, 
	talks about the growing number of engineering students deciding to study abroad in the Summer 2007 issue of PRISM magazine.</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:28:00 CDT</pubDate>
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