UNT engineering student receives the Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship award. May 2009, Denton, TX
Jeff Helstad, an undergraduate student in the Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) Department, was awarded the Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship from the more
Dr. Du receives NSF grant to study bioactive materials – May 5, 2009, Denton, TX
Bioactive glasses have wide biomedical applications in bone restoration and repair, and as coatings for hip and teeth implants.The National Science Foundation more
Are you really who you say you are? – Apr. 10, 2009, Denton, TX
Should Alice be allowed to enter the country? Is Bob entitled to access the database? Has John been convicted before? Is Charlie the real owner of the credit card? Every day, a variety of organizations pose questions such as these about the identity of individuals.more
Habitat for Humanity Storage Building – Mar. 3, 2009, Denton, TX
The Student Chapters for NAHB, and AGC combined their efforts to build a Habitat for Humanity storage building. This building was built at the UNT Discovery Park by student volunteers over the last year and delivered to the home site on Saturday, February 28.more
National Housing Endowment Award to Engineering Student – Mar. 2, 2009, Denton, TX
Joel Bolz, a Junior student in Construction Engineering Technology, has received a $5,000 Lee S. Evens Scholarship award through the National Housing Endowment.more
First Engineering Systems program in Texas - Feb. 20, 2009, Denton, TX
The University of North Texas offers the first Engineering-Systems program in Texas. The MS degree program, housed in the Department of Engineering Technology at the College of Engineering, is an emerging Engineering field.more
Weber Aircraft Executive Talks to UNT Engineering Students - Feb. 5, 2009, Denton, TX
At a time when airline travel is commonplace for most people, few give much thought to passenger seats on an airliner, until it’s time to sit on one of them. A leader in commercial aircraft seating, Weber Aircraft LLC is one of the world’s top manufacturers of commercial aircraft seats for airlines and one of the major aircraft manufacturers in the United States and abroad.more
UNT hosts the Texas BEST 2008 robotics competition
On November 14 and 15, 2008 the University of North Texas (UNT) hosted Texas BEST, the regional robotics championship for high schools and middle schools more
College of Engineering
The College of Engineering invites all incoming freshman to download The Mathematics Bridge Program's brochure here: Math Camp Brochure
Computer Science and Engineering
A $30,000 one-year Innovation Generation grant from the Motorola Foundation will establish a Robocamp Mobile Unit and give UNT a new way to attract women to the engineering field. In addition, a 2-year $102,000 grant from the Texas Workforce Commission will extend these camps to young men from under-represented groups, and train secondary school teachers and counselors how to mentor and support student interested in Engineering Careers.more
Computer Science and Engineering
UNT took two teams to the ACM South Central Regional Programming Competition at Texas A&M on Saturday, November 3rd. After 5 hours of continuous programming, Team 1 solved 8 out of 9 problems (the only team to solve 8 problems). The problem set included guiding a laser beam through a maze of objects with reflectors and splitters. UNT teams placed first and eleventh out of 76 teams throughout the Southcentral United States. This is the first time a UNT team has advanced to the World Finals in the ACM Programming Contest sponsored by IBM. The World Finals will be held in April 2008 in Banff Springs, Alberta, CA.
Team coach Ryan Garlick said, "We were very pleased with the results, in terms of the first team qualifying for the finals and for future events, as our second team did very well also and was composed of all first-time competitors"
Through a haze of caffeine, first team captain John Rizzo said, "The problem set was diverse and challenging but we had a good day." Rizzo added the he and his teammates had been practicing individually and as a team every week for the past few months.
The first place team was composed of:
John Rizzo,Hector Cuellar,Robbie Mitchell Burke
Team 2:
Joey Parrish,Angel Fox,Matt Bishop
The National Science Foundation has issued an award to the proposal by Dr. Yan Huang (Computer Science), Dr. Miguel Acevedo (Biological and Environmental Engineering), Dr. Xinrong Li and Dr. Shengli Fu (Electrical Engineering), and Dr. Ruthanne Thompson (Biology). This three-year project will develop a publicly available environmental monitoring computing research testbed that incorporates an open sensor network system and tools with intertwined wired and wireless sensors. The immediate research and education projects enabled include energy efficient map interpolation, robust localization models, code designs for cooperative communication in wireless sensor networks, simulation models for near real time environmental monitoring and modeling, and modeling for K-12 teachers/students. The project team also includes researchers and personnel from Biology (Dr. Tom Waller), Computing Support and Service, the City of Denton, Texas, National Park Service and the National Weather Service of Texas.
Hai Deng received a grant. Title: An innovative distributed sensor networking system for urban operations
2007 US Air Force SBIR Program Phase I (contracted through Signal Labs)
UNT to expand software development partnership with National Science Foundation grant
DENTON (UNT), Texas ¾ A National Science Foundation planning grant will allow the University
of North Texas, to expand its current partnerships in a Net Centric Software
Consortium that also involves UTD, UTA and SMU. UTD and SMU also received
$10,000 from NSF to collaborate with UNT as well as Arizona State University,
University of California in Irvine and Southern Illinois to form an
Industry/University Collaborative Research Center (I/UCRC). more
Dr. Shuping Wang of the Engineering Technology Department received a Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) - Research Initiation Grant on “Highly Simplified and Flexible Microfabrication of a Polymer Sensor Array”. In this research, a maskless and cost-effective manufacturing system for microfabrication of a polymer waveguide sensor array will be investigated. Laser direct writing combined with inkjet microstructure printing technology will be explored for simultaneous fabrication of multiple sensing arms and immense simplification of fabrication of waveguide sensor arrays. The methodology is especially useful for custom design and rapid and inexpensive prototype fabrication. The research can also serve as a step toward the development of a maskless manufacturing system of polymer optical integrated circuits (OICs), such as optical modulators, couplers, and switches.
Dr. Swigger receives NSF grant to study global software development teams
In the modern global economy, employees increasingly find themselves working with colleagues in other places, other cultures. The National Science Foundation has awarded $499,252 to Kathleen Swigger, professor of computer science and engineering in the College of Engineering, to study the performance of global software development teams.
CSE Faculty Member - Dr. Saraju P. Mohanty receives NSF research grant
Dr. Saraju P. Mohanty received NSF research-grant to support his
research in nanoscale CMOS modeling and estimation. The project titled "A Comprehensive Methodology for Early Power-Performance Estimation of
Nano-CMOS Digital Systems" will span over three years, 2007-2010. The
primary goal of this project is to facilitate the estimation of power
and performance of digital systems described in MATLAB/Simulink when
constructed using nano-CMOS technology. The research will result in the
development of new building blocks, a new MATLAB toolbox, called Power
Box. Power Box will be fully parameterized for power and performance to
facilitate fast modeling and estimation of systems. The proposed
research involves the design and development of theory, algorithms,
implementations, and experiments, with sufficient scope for education
and training of undergraduate and graduate students in VLSI design and
system modeling. This project can effectively serve the large, complex,
digital system simulation community of researchers, in both academia and
industry to boost further research and to reduce design cycle time. Dr.
Elias Kougianos is the co-PI of the project.
Dr. Tae-Youl Choi, UNT assistant professor of mechanical and energy engineering, and Dr. Stephen Cooke, assistant professor of chemistry, were among 30 faculty members in the nation to receive this year’s Powe awards.
Choi joined the UNT engineering faculty in 2006. Choi received his doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley in 2002. He was previously an assistant researcher at the Turbomachinery Center in Seoul, Korea, a visiting postdoctoral researcher at the University of California at Berkeley and a lecturer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technologyin Zurich.
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MSE Faculty Member Receives ACS-PRF Young Investigator Award
Dr. Thomas W. Scharf of the Materials Science and Engineering Department received an American Chemical Society (ACS) - Petroleum Research Fund (PRF) grant on “In Situ Chemical Diagnostic Tribology of Dry and Lubricated Thin Film-Based Technologies.” In this research, Dr. Scharf will utilize in situ techniques where surfaces in dry and lubricated sliding contacts are examined in real time in order to explain the tribological (friction, wear and lubrication) events. These events often depend on tribochemisty (chemistry induced by sliding) arising from phase changes, atmospheric gases and/or intentionally lubricated counterfaces. The research is essential to the continued advancement of technologies that involve dry (solid lubricant films) and lubricated (additives to form surface films) contacts.
MSE Faculty Member Raj Banerjee Receives National Science Foundation Award
Title: Probing the Early Stages of Second Phase Nucleation and Phase Separation in Titanium Alloys
Titanium alloys have been applied in a number of product areas, including commercial aircraft and engines and, in contrast, bio-medical engineering, largely because of a combination of attractive properties and because they are relatively light in weight. However, the full exploitation of Ti alloys requires manipulation of nano- and micro-structure to effect a range of combinations of properties, and this in turn requires a detailed understanding of the processes involved in the evolution of these nano- and micro-structures. Due to many unanswered questions regarding the structure of these important alloys right from the atomistic length scales to the more macroscopic length scales, it is necessary to focus effort on developing a more thorough understanding of these structures and their development, and this is a central objective of this program. The unique and state-of-the-art characterization capabilities available in CART at UNT, including the trio of the dual-beam focused ion beam, the high-resolution TEM, and, the 3D atom probe microscope, will allow for these detailed studies to be successfully conducted at unprecedented resolutions.
Dr. Thomas W. Scharf of the Materials Science and Engineering Department received an unsolicited 3 year research grant for $210,000 on “Structure and Interface Evolution in Self-Lubricating Coatings and Nanocomposites for Moving Mechanical Assemblies ” from the National Science Foundation, Material Design and Surface Engineering (MDSE) program. In this research, Dr. Scharf will develop novel coating synthesis techniques utilizing atomic layer deposition (ALD), with the goal of depositing nanocomposite and nanolaminate solid lubricants, especially lubricious oxides and metal nitrides/sulphides, on fully assembled moving mechanical assembly (MMA) devices, such as miniature steel rolling element bearings and silicon MEMS. He is also collaborating with Timken Co., Canton OH, on their MMA coating processes for accurate characterization of complex microstructures and tribochemically-modified interfaces under shearing loads. Desired outcomes include correlations of film initial nanostructure and properties to macro-scale friction and wear performance, increasing scientific understanding of these phenomena and supporting the development of predictive models.
