UTRGV Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

Good news! Congratulations to Dr. Islam and his team. Please find more information below

PI: Dr. Nazmul Islam
Co PI: Dr. Mataz Alcoutlabi

Award Notification : NSF REU proposal titled, REU SITE: Interdisciplinary Research Experience for Undergraduates in Materials Science and Engineering at UTRGV;
$464, 480;
3 year;
NSF/EEC division.

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campuses will be closed Thursday, July 4th.

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Dr. Shakila Yasmin
Professor & Coordinator, Management Development Program
Institute of Business Administration
University of Dhaka

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Summer Sessions 2024

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Record breaking heat today!

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Senior Design Teams in Brownsville

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It's amazing to see great projects come to life, and it's all thanks to the hard work and commitment of the team. Great job, everyone!

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Exciting senior design projects that provide students with the opportunity to work on complex and engaging problems, preparing them for their future careers.

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The seminar for graduate students aims to enhance their research skills and knowledge by providing a space for discussion and collaboration.

Research Presented by ECE students

Moon to Mars eXploration Systems and Habitation (M2M X-Hab) 2025 Academic Innovation Challenge
Announcement and Request for Distribution
https://spacegrant.org/xhab/
Proposals Due Date: April 26, 2024

Description
Moon to Mars eXploration Systems and Habitation (M2M X-Hab) 2021 Academic Innovation Challenge LogoThe Moon to Mars eXploration Systems and Habitation (M2M X-Hab) 2025 Academic Innovation Challenge is a university-level challenge designed to develop strategic partnerships and collaborations with universities. It has been organized to help bridge strategic knowledge gaps and increase knowledge in capabilities and technology risk reduction related to NASA’s vision and missions. The competition is intended to link with senior- and graduate-level design curricula that emphasize hands-on design, research, development, and manufacturing of functional prototypical subsystems that enable functionality for space habitats and deep space exploration missions. NASA will directly benefit from the challenge by sponsoring the development of innovative concepts and technologies from universities, which will result in novel ideas and solutions that could be applied to exploration.

NASA’s Exploration Capabilities (EC) Program will offer multiple awards of $13k - $50k each to design and produce studies or functional products of interest to NASA (see Section 3.2, M2M X-Hab Proposal Topic List) as proposed by university teams according to their interests and expertise. The prototypes produced by the university teams may be integrated into existing NASA-built operational prototypes. Universities interested in participating will submit M2M X-Hab proposals, which will be reviewed by technical experts; subsequent down-selection will determine which projects will be funded. M2M X-Hab university teams will be required to complete their products for evaluation by NASA EC mentors in May 2025. Universities may form collaborations to perform as a single distributed project team.

Due to organizational restructuring of NASA's Exploration Capabilities Program office, the 2025 cycle of M2M X-Hab program is a transitional program with a limited number of projects. Over the course of the next few months the program will undergo a reorganization with the goal of expanding the ways that universities can participate and expanding the number of opportunities to partner with NASA to contribute to space habitats and deep space exploration missions.

Students in the Critical Path
The M2M X-Hab Academic Innovation Challenge has a unique approach to student involvement, in that the student team is placed in the NASA mission critical path for the product or technology that they develop alongside NASA researchers. Teams are required to go through a series of NASA-standard assessments as other NASA engineering products, including a System Definition Review (SDR), a Preliminary Design Review (PDR), and a Critical Design Review (CDR). With this approach, NASA is putting a great deal of responsibility on the students. This in turn gives the students a bigger stake in the development of space technologies that likely will form the basis for future systems and technologies that will be flown in space. It is expected that students will perform the majority of the work and the Principal Investigators are there to guide and direct.

Proposal Topic List

Autonomous Robotic Assembly and Construction of Artemis Base Camp 2040. What would that look like?
Crew Mobility Modalities Inside Moon/Mars Habitats
Rack and Stack: Design of Payload Racks to Support Future Habitation Platforms and Exploration Missions
Eligibility
Proposals will be accepted from faculty who are U.S. citizens and currently teach an Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)-accredited engineering senior or graduate design, industrial design, or architecture curriculum teaming course at a university affiliated with the National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program, or other US accredited university. Multidisciplinary, multi-departmental, and/or multi-institutional teaming collaborations are highly encouraged.

Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Tribal Colleges, and other minority-serving educational institutions are particularly encouraged to apply. Proposals from women, members of underrepresented minorities groups, and persons with disabilities are highly encouraged.

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Mark Fischer
National Space Grant Foundation
512-869-3343
202-536-3089 (fax)
https://spacegrant.org/

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Boost Your Future: UTRGV introduces Summer 2024 Grad Incentive The new Summer 2024 Grad Incentive will grant up to $2,000 toward the education of new students entering any academic program within the UTRGV Graduate College. This award, provided through grants or scholarships, is available on a first-come, first-serve basis until funds are exhausted.