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Dr. Clifford Moses, Senior lecturer of the Department, has his own share of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize! He is one of the co-authors of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) the international team that shared the Nobel Peace Prize of 2007 with former Vice-President Gore. Dr. Moses recently received his Nobel award certificate from the Chairman of the IPCC, Dr. R.K. Pachauri. Dr. Moses is an expert in hydrocarbon fuels and was the lead author of the section of the IPCC report that deals with aviation fuels. |
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Welcome to the Department of Mechanical Engineering
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A post-modern society, such as ours, continually needs better materials, more energy and better and safer manufactured goods. Mechanical Engineers produce all of these. Actually, Mechanical Engineers make everything, from Airplanes to Zippers. The Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at San Antonio offers quality degree programs that enable our students to obtain an excellent education and to excel in a demanding but also rewarding engineering profession. The Department currently offers the degrees: • Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering (BSME), and
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The Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) degree is expected to be offered in the near future (2008).
The BSME program is fully accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (EAC/ABET). Our programs teach students the fundamentals of engineering as well as modern applications. Students enrolled in our degree programs develop a strong background in engineering science and acquire the analytical and synthetic skills and tools that are necessary to enable them to function as practicing engineers or to continue their studies and research with advanced degrees.
The department of Mechanical Engineering is one of the newest departments in Texas. It is housed in a modern Engineering Building, has excellent faculty and modern laboratory facilities where students receive hands-on instruction. Computer-Aided Design/Engineering (CAD/CAE) facilities, including state-of-the-art workstations, are routinely used in all programs. Most of the undergraduate classes are taught by tenured or tenure-track faculty of the Department who hold the doctoral degree and are also excellent researchers. A few classes are taught by qualified adjunct faculty, also holders of doctoral degrees, whose main employment is the local industry and research institutes. They offer students the opportunity to interact with engineering professionals engaged in traditional and emerging engineering practice and technology.
At UTSA we have created an excellent Department of Mechanical Engineering that will educate and train Mechanical Engineers with a deep technological knowledge and good understanding of the challenges our society is facing. Using innovative teaching methods, we will educate the modern Mechanical Engineer with a deep foundation of factual knowledge and strong experience in engineering methods and research. We intend to educate and train the engineer of the twenty-first Century, who will “think outside the box” and will provide solutions to the technological challenges our society and the world are facing.
Stathis Michaelides, Ph.D., P.E.
Department Chair