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TU students design, build and test device to support outer space exploration

NASA recently invited a team of mechanical engineering students and alumni to…

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A new way to measure nanostructured materials

Rising senior Grant Mayberry’s improvised method for determining the dielectric properties of…

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Engineering students design and build interactive space shuttle cockpit model

Capping off their senior year, four electrical and computer engineering students unveiled…

Computer science major awarded Department of Defense scholarship

The Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) scholarship provides Zachary Gaskins…

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Cybersecurity team headed to global finals

The new year will start off with a rush of adrenaline for…

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Externship program empowers future petroleum engineers

Since 2016, an innovative summer externship program has enabled petroleum engineering students…

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Outstanding Senior empowers others to excel

Now in her final year of mechanical engineering, first-generation student Candelaria Alayon…

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Educating consumers about maintaining lithium-ion batteries

Lithium-ion batteries are just about everywhere, but most people don’t know how…

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Military veteran and electrical engineering senior triumphs over adversity

U.S. Army veteran Benjamin Bozworth has been in the thick of military…

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MADE at TU 2021: A trike, a slide, surfin’ tubes and more!

Despite the challenges of a strange pandemic year, students involved in the…

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Sunlight, batteries and flying machines

The ingenuity and skill of students in TU’s electrical and computer engineering…

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Maria Paszkowiak honored with 2021 Marcy Lawless Service Award

A tireless, enthusiastic volunteer on campus and with community-focused organizations beyond, this…

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Cyber competition (and victory)

Teams from across Oklahoma competed in the fifth Oklahoma High-Performance Computing Competition…

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Of root causes and digital trade-offs

Each year, many TU students collaborate with their professors on research projects.…

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TU team scores big at regional International Collegiate Programming Competition

Five student teams, comprising three members each, represented the Tandy School of…

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TU junior named a 2021 Goldwater Scholar

Ann Marie Flusche has been named a 2021 Goldwater Scholar, one of…

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Public health through better sanitation: TU’s Engineers Without Borders USA improves lives in rural Bolivia

Operating remotely, TU’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders USA led the implementation…

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TU student awarded Society of Women Engineers scholarship

Chemical engineering senior Pamela Okaro was recently awarded the Bayer Scholarship from…

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Brain structures and mental disorders: What’s the connection?

Computer science Ph.D. candidate Bohan Xu and his fellow researchers are using…

Mechanical engineering graduate student Laura Waldman standing in a trench outdoors on top of a horizontally laid white pipe

Mechanical engineering research: The science of “smart pipes”

Ph.D. student Laura Waldman is installing antenna structures made from a conductive…