Harry Millwater, PhD

Samuel G. Dawson College of Engineering Endowed Professorship

Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Millwater joined the faculty of the UT San Antonio Department of Mechanical Engineering in 2001. He served as chair of the department from 2011 to 2014 and subsequently served as associate dean of research and graduate studies in the College of Engineering from 2014 to 2017.

In his role as associate dean, he worked to increase research grant funding for engineering faculty by starting a formal mentoring program for professors, focused on sharing best practices for research productivity and success. 

Millwater’s areas of research interests include computational methods for reliability modeling, material modeling, and sensitivity methods of airframe and nuclear structures. 

He earned his PhD in Engineering Mechanics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1997. Prior to joining UT San Antonio, he served as a research engineer at the Southwest Research Institute. 

Millwater is the inaugural holder of the Samuel G. Dawson College of Engineering Endowed Professorship.