Lee Smith receives teaching award

February 2020 - The University of North Texas recognizes outstanding teachers who make a difference for students every month. One such award recipient is the Mechanical & Energy Engineering Department’s Lee...

Sujata Mandal wins 2nd place in the Toulouse Graduate School’s Three Minute Thesis Competition

February 2020 - The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) was first held at The University of Queensland in 2008, and since then has been implemented internationally across many universities. The University of North Texas’s...

Tonoy Awards: Chowdhury receives awards from both Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) for Research

February 2020 - Department of Mechanical & Energy Engineering doctoral candidate Tonoy Chowdhury’s research is being recognized by both the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) and the American Society of...

Powering up: Seeking new ways to harvest energy for wearable devices

November 2019 - Ifana Mahbub, assistant professor of electrical engineering, is developing a new, self-powered wearable sensor that could be used to track motion activities like walking, running, or biking and...

J.N. Reddy delivers first Distinguished Engineering Lecture Series

November 2019 - J.N. Reddy, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, presented the first Distinguished Engineering Lecture Series on Nov. 8, 2019, at UNT Discovery Park. Reddy’s lecture on “...

Zhang to develop advanced sensors for nuclear power plants

September 2019 - Haifeng Zhang, an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, is part of a $1 million Department of Energy grant to develop and integrate a new sensor that will detect...