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i'm gonna sleep better tonite knowing this..
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releas...-urf012309.php
UTSA receives federal funding for fossil fuel research
San Antonio -- The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) has received another boost toward top tier status. UTSA's College of Engineering has been awarded a $199,884, 24-month grant by the U.S. Department of Energy to study energy combustion.
"This is one of the first grants we have received at UTSA to study clean combustion, gasification and energy efficiency," said Efstathios Michaelides, mechanical engineering professor, department chair and the study's principal investigator. "Our research will directly affect the U.S. Department of Energy, but we suspect utilities will also be interested in our findings because they will have implications for the design of future energy plants."
Currently, the U.S. Department of Energy and their contractors use a computer code called Multiphase Flow with Interphase eXchanges (MFIX) to describe the behavior of particles during combustion. MFIX calculations are general and all-inclusive, and they provide information about pressures, temperatures and reaction rates in boilers, gasifiers and Fluidized Bed Reactors (FBR), which represent the next generation of coal utilization equipment.
Using a Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) code developed previously by Michaelides and his students, researchers will simulate the flow and interactions of particles with gases in reactors, gasifiers, etc. Their findings will allow them to deliver "boundary conditions" to the Department of Energy, variables that will improve the ease of computations and accuracy of the MFIX code. The improved code will lead to the development of more efficient reactors, which are designed to trap pollutants and other products of combustion.
Energy has been a significant focus for UTSA in the past year. In April 2008, the university began foundational work to form the Ins ute for Conventional, Alternative and Renewable Energy (ICARE), a consortium of industry, government and academic leaders to explore new directions, policies and best practices for the energy industry. The new ins ute is expected to debut in the late spring of this year.
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The University of Texas at San Antonio is one of the fastest growing higher education ins utions in Texas and the second largest of nine academic universities and six health ins utions in the UT System. As a multicultural ins ution of access and excellence, UTSA aims to be a premier public research university providing access to educational excellence and preparing citizen leaders for the global environment.
UTSA serves more than 28,400 students in 64 bachelor's, 46 master's and 21 doctoral degree programs in the colleges of Architecture, Business, Education and Human Development, Engineering, Honors, Liberal and Fine Arts, Public Policy, Sciences and Graduate School. Founded in 1969, UTSA is an intellectual and creative resource center and a socioeconomic development catalyst for Texas and beyond.
i'm gonna sleep better tonite knowing this..
"They're still gonna suck at football"
-Steven
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OoOTSAH FUTBOL POR VIDA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this UTSA pride/irritation is the weirdest thing to hit spurstalk since I've been here. I seriously don't get it. In fact, every time i hear one of these disturbed posters overdoing the UTSA spirit thing, I'm tempeted to give them a referral to my psychiatrist friend.
You really just can't let this go, can you?
Seriously dude haha.
It's UTSA. You've already locked up the "UTSA wins big game, I was first on ST to give them love" card.
WTF is wrong with being proud of your school??? I don't get the ass-clowns in here that have to take a dump on UTSA every time a thread pops up. I graduated from Portland State University and I feel it's somewhat similar to UTSA given that it's an urban school and the sports program is in the background compared to Oregon and Oregon State. I'm still a huge PSU jock-rider though.
Could you link me to your last post about a $200K grant?
Is there a problem with posting an article related to a grant for their engineering program? The purpose is to establish legitimacy.
No, the purpose is to silently pick at the scab over the bull in the College Sports forum, because some people can't let go. Now people may lose their jobs and livelihoods over a couple of idiots who couldn't stand someone disagreeing with them over a football program that has yet to even field a team.
There is a big difference between 'establishing legitimacy' and trying to destroy the lives of those who disagree with you.
For as much as UTSA gets bashed I'm surprised any students attend at all.
gold jacket, green jacket, who gives a ?
I agree the way this was presented as flame bait but Texas does need more research schools. Texas has 3 to California's 9.
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Editorial: Texas needs to grow more research schools
06:57 AM CDT on Thursday, July 24, 2008
A handful of state senators heard an earful yesterday from Texas college executives about why the state needs more national research universities. Commonly called Tier One schools, these campuses with large research portfolios receive a significant share of money from out of state to do their work. In turn, that money attracts the investment capital that grows their states' economies.
All members of the Legislature should remember that point when they get down to business next year. Investments in research now will yield enormous dividends for the state later. As Bill Powers, president of the University of Texas at Austin, told the Senate higher education subcommittee, 25 years from now the leading states will have serious, robust research universities. Will Texas be in that game?
Currently, UT-Austin, Texas A&M and Rice are the only Texas universities that meet the common definitions of a national research university. Those parameters include how much research money a school spends, how many of its faculty members are recognized in their fields and how many graduate degrees the school awards in a range of subjects.
California has nine Tier One universities. Its list includes mostly public ins utions. Thanks to those schools, California hauls in billions of dollars more in federal research money than Texas does.
The question: How does Texas produce more national research universities?
The Legislature needs to start the process by rewarding only those schools that are close to qualifying. Treating all universities equally will mean that we won't get any more schools into the Tier One category.
David Daniel, president of the University of Texas at Dallas, presented a plan to the senators yesterday that would target the state's seven "emerging research universities." He would have legislators reward them when they take the steps to get into the top rung of research schools.
For example, if one of the campuses raises money for a new research facility, the state would match some of the university's expense. That way, the seven schools and their alumni could compete to see which becomes a research powerhouse. (Those seven are UT-Dallas, UT-Arlington, the University of Houston, the University of North Texas, Texas Tech University, UT-San Antonio and UT-El Paso.)
UT-Dallas certainly is close to becoming a Tier One school, and we think that Dallas-Fort Worth, the nation's largest metropolitan area without such a research university, could support one.
As Dr. Daniel explained, his school is fourth among Texas' public universities with faculty members who have earned membership in the National Academies of Science. It also has the third-ranked graduate engineering program among our state's public universities.
Legislators are probably looking at close to $70 million a year to grow the next Tier One schools. As Dr. Daniel points out, that money would be one of the best investments the state could make. Until we push more universities to the top tier, we leave federal research dollars on the table – and shortchange our economy in the bargain. Economic impact on Texas
•Texas has 8 percent of the U.S. population but only:
–5 percent of federal research and
development dollars.
–5 percent of venture capital investment
in 2007.
•If Texas had its proportional share of federal research and development and venture capital investment, it would gain $3.7 billion per year.
•In 2007, Austin had more venture capital investment than Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston and San Antonio combined.
SOURCE: David Daniel's testimony to the state Senate, July 23
so now this utsa crap has moved in to the club great.
From what I've seen recently, if UTSA wants to become a national research university, it's going to have to increase the quality of its students by a couple of orders of magnitude.
I disagree. I don't think that's what it's about at all. I could be wrong though. Also from what I read it was one of the UTSA critics that posted the phone number of a UTSA alum/student and that is what started the BS.
I mean, I really love JMU, but even on the JMU boards, I don't make a new thread every time something new happens here.
he got the phone number because the idiot called him at work. serves him right
Then why arent you OVER at the JMU boards? Why comment? in an area you arent interested in? Unless you really are interested.... If the le of a thread does not interest me, I avoid it. Its real easy.
i started this thread, just like i started the i will not stop thread. that was more of not letting it go. this is more kinda big important news. getting funding to do fossil fuel research is a big deal and another step toward UTSA becoming a top research university...this is good news
what the are you talking about? like i've posted before, i don't really care if anyone gets hired, fired, promoted, demoted, or jerked off during their lunch hour.
Great, be proud of PSU. However, if every thread you ever started was about PSU and how they are better than every other school, I would call you a loon too. btw, this is the first I ever heard you went to PSU, but if it makes you feel any better, you're still an ass in my book.
Noooo .
The sad thing is that I know some really smart people that went there, but they are so outnumbered by idiots that it devalues their degrees.
It would also help if my diploma didn't look like it was created on ing Printshop and run off on Romo's home ink-jet printer. It just LOOKS cheap.
The good news, though, is that if you want a cheaper place to do undergrad and plan on going to grad school later, the profs there really appreciate people that actually want to learn and possess a decent amount of ambition, and you can get some really great recs. There are a lot of awesome faculty members there in certain departments, you just have to do the research to find them.
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