The Texas Legislative Budget Board (LBB) visited UTARI as part of a tour of UTA and UTD. UTARI’s focus was on automation and unmanned systems. The Automation and Intelligent Systems Division gave demonstrations of unmanned aerial systems, unmanned ground vehicles, as well as AR/VR. UTARI’s research in these areas serves the department of defense, first…

Dr. Muthu Wijesundara, Principal Research Scientist and Head of the Biomedical Technologies Division was inducted into the NAI as a senior member on June 14, 2022, at the Academy’s annual meeting in Phoenix. Welcome remarks were delivered by UTA’s new President, Dr. Jennifer Cowley, and the awards presentation was delivered by Paul Rosenthal with the…

UTRAI is pleased to announce Dr. Muthu Ram Prabhu Elenchezhian (an alumnus of MAE and IPPM-UTARI) as a finalist award winner in the SAMPE 2022 Young Professionals Emerging Leadership Award. The award recognizes the achievements of young professionals (who have graduated from university and are also under the age of 35) by sending application finalists…

Dr. Frank Lewis has been ranked 19 in the world for top electronics and electrical engineering scientists. This 8th edition of top scientists ranking for electronics and electrical engineering was published by Research.com, one of the major websites for electrical engineering research offering credible data on scientific contributions since 2014. The top scientists ranking is…

On Thursday, April 21, UTARI hosted UTA’s Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE) Student Chapter and SAMPE DFW seminar on new innovations for composite repairs. Speakers included Louis Dorworth from Abaris Training Resources and Ray Cornell from Henkle. The discussion was on composite repair best practices, latest trends, developments, and challenges…

Dr. Xin Liu’s, Assistant Professor, Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering Department, team won first place in Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) at Innovation Day 2022. The winning project is “Design and Manufacturing of Ultralight Lattice Metamaterials Inspired by Nature”. Dr. Liu’s team includes UTARI research assistants, Noor Alyasiri, Clay Gifford, and Abhimanyu P Patel. The…

Army Major General Darren Werner met with researchers from the Autonomous & Intelligent Systems Division, the Institute for Predictive Performance Methodologies, and faculty from UTA main campus. MG Werner received demonstrations of UTARI projects and technologies, many which are Department of Defense related. MG Werner is the Commanding General, U.S. Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command,…

The University of Texas at Arlington is a gold-level sponsor for the newly opened Biolabs at Pegasus Park, a state-of-the-art co-working facility for biotech startups. The entire story here….

NBC 5 interviewed Dr. Muthu Wijesundara regarding his show insole that assists with preventing diabetic foot ulcers. Watch the interview here….

Leadership from the U.S. Army Aviation & Missile Command in Huntsville, Alabama visited UTARI on March 2. The tour focused on UTARI’s research in the predictive performance analysis of composite materials. Dr. Rassel Raihan (pictured) led a presentation and lab tour of UTARI’s Institute for Predictive Performance Methodologies. Army officials included Major General Todd Royar,…