UNT's Hispanic Engineers Receive Chapter Award at National Conference

December 2012

The UNT Chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE UNT) was recently named “Outstanding Small Chapter of the Year” by the national SHPE for the growing chapter’s goals and activities. This honor was announced on Nov. 16 at the SHPE Conference in Fort Worth, Texas, during a...

A Day in the Park

December 2012

Each day the University of North Texas bus ferries students four miles north of main campus to a sprawling 300-acre park. Students make the daily trek not for outdoor adventure but for new knowledge and innovation in subjects such as materials science, computer science, electrical, mechanical and...

UNT Engineering Student Wins PepsiCo Scholarship

December 2012

UNT Computer Science junior Lisa Reynolds is the recipient of a $1,000 scholarship provided by PepsiCo for fall 2012. A committee chaired by Dr. Robert Renka, professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), selected Reynolds for the scholarship. Reynolds both attended and...

UNT College of Engineering awarded Verizon Foundation Grant

November 2012

The Verizon Foundation has awarded the UNT College of Engineering a grant of $25,000 to support engineering student Capstone projects in sustainability areas. Photo provided by UNT/URCM Photography   Verizon’s gift to support the Mechanical and Energy Engineering (MEE) Senior Design Project...