Kenneth Reifsnider, Presidential Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering along with Duane Dimos, UTA vice president for research and David Nygren, Presidential Distinguished Professor of Physics are named as NAI 2015 Fellows.
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Dasgupta one of two from UTA on Analytical Scientist Power List
Dasgupta is widely known for his work in discovering an environmentally friendly analysis of arsenic in drinking water.
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Dr. Lewis Receives 2016 Intelligent Systems Award
AIAA will honor Frank Lewis for several of his contributions including intelligent neural-adaptive controls that mimic the neural networks in the brain, incorporating feedback mechanisms that improve the capacity of autopilots and ensure that autonomous aircraft follow prescribed trajectories.
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PR-2 Demonstrates Assistive Living
Division head Mike McNair and research scientist Cody Lundberg talk to KTVT Channel 11 about the role robots will play in assistive living in the future.
Mike McNair talks Automated Convoys in Unmanned Systems
U.S. ground forces are working with industry and academic partners to develop robotic convoys. Mike McNair, Automation and Intelligent Systems division head at UTARI adds to the discussion of who and how automated convoys are being used in the military.
STEM Student Training and UTARI Autonomous Systems Lab
A National Science Foundation grant led by Frank Lewis, Ph.D. and A. Davoudi, Ph.D. is coming to a close but the effects of the study are far-reaching. The Adaptive Dynamic Programming for Real-Time Cooperative Multi-Player Games and Graphical Games was funded from the years 2011-2015. This grant particularly developed a new class of feedback Control Systems that allow reinforcement learning, usually described in which natural biological species and organisms adapt to their environments, but now used in technological mechanism, instead. Research results that were developed under this grant were applied to develop new and improved controllers for renewable energy micro grids, allowing a faster response to power load changes, wind and energy fluctuations.
This grant also allowed for an international collaboration of students and colleagues from Europe, China, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Channel 11 Reports on Hand Healing Prototypes
KTVT CBS 11 runs segment on UTARI REHEAL and ReHab gloves, stressing how technology breakthroughs could assist humankind.
Dr. Reifsnider Speaks to UTA Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Dr. Kenneth Reifsnider
Presidential Distinguished Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, UTA
Director, Institute for Predictive Performance Methodologies, UTARI
Member: National Academy of Engineering
Composite materials are not just the sum of their parts, they are often engineered systems that function with properties and behavior that results from the interaction of the constituents. That interaction may depend on location, size, shape, orientation, morphology, interfaces, and even active fluxes that result from applied fields and potentials. These “epigenetic” features represent a great opportunity for design and development of composite systems for many applications, but they are also a great challenge to our understanding and to our ability to anticipate them with rigorous models. We will examine a few examples of behavior that “doesn’t add up” the simple contributions of the constituents, and suggest that these internal interactions can be useful for various engineering purposes, including predicting as-manufactured strength, estimating remaining life, designing ceramic membranes for nuclear containment and chemical refinement, and converting and storing energy. We will also comment on some elements of multi-physics, multiscale analysis that can help us to represent some of the multifunctional behavior of some example systems.
When: Friday, October 16, 2:00PM
Where: Woolf Hall, room 402
Dr. Abhyankar to Present at UTA Bioengineering Dept.
Biological Microsystems Division:Microscale Tissue Engineering
Dr. Vinay Abhyankar, Principal Research Scientist
Biological Microsystems Division
The University of Texas at Arlington Research Institute
Topic: “Toward Microscale Tissue Engineered Models of Human Disease”
Abstract: The physical phenomena that we are familiar with at the macroscale are often quite different than those that dominate as length scales are reduced. Microscale tissue engineering approaches leverage these favorable scaling effects and have demonstrated great potential in advancing basic science and helping to improve human health. In this seminar, I will present a microengineered platform to explore the invasion of tumor cells into a 3D matrix, and describe a miniaturized 3D human tissue interface to explore drug and pathogen interactions using combined cellular and gene-level readouts.
When: Wednesday, October 14, at 1:00PM
Where: UTA’s Nedderman Hall room 203
UTARI and University of Washington Develop REHEAL Glove
UTARI in collaboration with the University of Washington design, develop and test a REHEAL glove that delivers medicine to patients, which speeds up healing to extremities.
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