{"id":1226746,"date":"2023-05-16T18:31:14","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T23:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1226746"},"modified":"2023-05-18T04:19:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T09:19:22","slug":"ut-tyler-engineering-team-takes-second-place-in-nasa-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1226746","title":{"rendered":"UT Tyler engineering team takes second place in NASA challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1226748\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/05\/ut-tyler-logo-175x98.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"98\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/05\/ut-tyler-logo-175x98.webp 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/05\/ut-tyler-logo-550x310.webp 550w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/05\/ut-tyler-logo-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/05\/ut-tyler-logo.webp 876w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The University of Texas at Tyler Houston Engineering Center placed second overall in a NASA design challenge. According to our news partner KETK, they competed against 16 other teams from around Texas including teams from UT Austin and Texas A&amp;M University. They placed first in model\/display and peer evaluation, and placed second in oral presentation and design. The team was awarded scholarships in the amount of $750 each. The annual Texas Space Grant Consortium\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s NASA Design Challenge attracts collegiate teams from across Texas to propose, design and fabricate a solution towards solving NASA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s research objectives. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The UT Tyler HEC team developed an enhanced compliant end effector for a robotic arm to be used aboard NASA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s International Space Station. Competitors worked alongside NASA engineers at the Johnson Space Center for the yearlong project. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It was a tremendous experience for the team members to work with NASA engineers,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said faculty adviser Dr. Hussain Rizvi, UT Tyler HEC mechanical engineering lecturer. UT Tyler HEC members include: Charles Canales of Sugarland, Andrea Fabila of Missouri City, Tanya Padilla of Spring, Samuel Thompson of Huffman, Jesus Enriquez of Houston and Robert Meeker of Houston. Rizvi said that most team members have space-related careers lined up for when they graduate from companies like Boeing, Lockheed Martin and NASA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The University of Texas at Tyler Houston Engineering Center placed second overall in a NASA design challenge. According to our news partner KETK, they competed against 16 other teams from around Texas including teams from UT Austin and Texas A&amp;M University. They placed first in model\/display and peer evaluation, and placed second in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1226746\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UT Tyler engineering team takes second place in NASA challenge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1226751,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/05\/ut-tyler-logo-175x98.webp","fifu_image_alt":"UT Tyler engineering team takes second place in NASA challenge","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1226746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 09:25:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/05\/ut-tyler-logo-175x98.webp","fifu_image_alt":"UT Tyler engineering team takes second place in NASA challenge","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1226746"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1226797,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226746\/revisions\/1226797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1226751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1226746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1226746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1226746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}