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Friday, November 20, 2009
UTSA students win research awards from American Society for Microbiology
Ann Reyes, Tricia Van Laar, Steve Rodriguez are honored at conference
Thursday, November 19, 2009
UTSA achieves 91-percent participation in state charitable campaign
UTSA faculty and staff donate more than $266K to 2009 SECC
Thursday, November 19, 2009
UTSA undergrads compete for $100K in prizes at technology competition
Competition challenges UTSA students to form a viable technology start-up
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Institute of Texan Cultures presents range of holiday activities, exhibits
Institute offers first holiday ornament, Dec. 5 Family Day, vintage nativity display
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
International students develop English speaking skills with UTSA program
Intensive English program is housed in bicultural-bilingual studies department
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
UTSA choirs, orchestra perform American masterworks by Copland, Bernstein
Concert is 3 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 22 in Arts Building Recital Hall, Main Campus
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Institute of Texan Cultures shares family's tradition with nativity display
Czech family's 1890s nativity scenes will be on display Nov. 21-Jan. 3
Friday, November 13, 2009
Rep. Ciro Rodriguez conducts roundtable with vets who are students, staff
Congressman encourages veterans to apply for federal education benefits
Friday, November 13, 2009
UTSA faculty endowments are the gifts that keep on giving
Gifts ranging from $250K to $2 million help recruit, retain researchers, artists
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Possible exposure to tuberculosis determined at UTSA Downtown Campus
UTSA students and staff needing testing have been notified
Monday, November 09, 2009
Director hired for new UTSA alternative and renewable energy institute
Les Shephard is energy expert recruited from Sandia National Laboratories
Friday, November 06, 2009
UTSA College of Business ranked nationally by BusinessWeek magazine
For second consecutive year, UTSA's part-time M.B.A. program is ranked
Thursday, November 05, 2009
Climbing to tier one: UTSA reports 34 percent increase in research spending
University increased research spending 97 percent over five years
Thursday, November 05, 2009
Pair of UTSA basketball games to be televised by Southland TV Network
UTSA men's Feb. 6 game and women's Feb. 13 game to be televised
Monday, November 02, 2009
Institute for Economic Development celebrates 30 years of growing business
Network of business expertise contributes to UTSA's community engagement mission
Monday, November 02, 2009
San Antonio Water System joins Energy Research Alliance of San Antonio
Alliance promotes conventional, alternative and renewable energy solutions
UTSA engineering professor Mo Jamshidi addresses European Union conference
In Belgium, Professor Mo Jamshidi (right) with Jose Cotta, director general of the European Commission Systems and Control Division
Share this StoryBy Christi Fish
Public Affairs Specialist
(Oct. 28, 2009)--Internationally recognized engineering professor Mo Jamshidi, holder of the UTSA Lutcher Brown Endowed Chair of Electrical Engineering, served as keynote speaker at a European Union World Program Consultation on system of systems engineering Oct. 6 in Brussels, Belgium.
System of systems engineering (SoSE) combines simple systems to form "super systems" that are capable of completing tasks more complex than the sum of their smaller components. The discipline has applications in the defense, energy, environmental and health-care industries.
Jamshidi addressed 50 scientists at the headquarters of the European Commission of the European Union on the second day of a two-day conference focusing on the monitoring and control of large-scale systems. The European Commission, which serves 27 European nations, is the European equivalent of the U.S. National Science Foundation and National Institute of Standards and Technology. The commission's annual budget is approximately 52 billion Euros ($76 billion).
With a career spanning more than four decades, Jamshidi is known internationally as a leader in system of systems engineering. He has conducted research for the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Department of Energy, NASA, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories. He worked on the first generation of adaptive optics for the Hubble Telescope, the engineering of nuclear breeder reactors, the Mars Pathfinder Project and the applications of robotics for energy efficiency. His current research, conducted in UTSA's Autonomous Control Engineering (ACE) laboratory, focuses on the applications of system of systems engineering to land, sea and air robots, and solar-wind energy systems.
In addition to his academic duties at UTSA, Jamshidi is organizing a network of system of systems engineers in the United States. Already, he has received commitments from partners at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Purdue University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Old Dominion University, Stevens Institute of Technology, George Mason University, Naval Postgraduate School, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, International Council on Systems Engineering and UTSA. The European Commission plans to create a similar network of engineers in Europe.
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