UT Tyler LSAMP Delegation Participates at World Science Forum

Lauren Thomas of Tyler, a junior biology major at The University of Texas at Tyler, participated in the World Science Forum held earlier this month in Budapest, Hungary as a member of the University of Texas System Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Undergraduate Research Academy more...

Civil Engineering Students Compete in National Concrete Canoe Competition

This April, in their second year of eligibility, the UT Tyler civil engineering student chapter of ASCE competed in the Texas Section Annual 2009 Concrete Canoe Competition. The team traveled to South Padre Island, Texas and represented the University with distinction. With the canoe "THE KREWE OF REX", the team took 1st place overall out of 10 teams, besting universities such as Texas Tech, UT Austin, The University of Houston, UT El Paso and Texas A&M. The team placed 1st in the Design Report portion of the competition.

Winning the Texas-Mexico Regional qualified the team to travel to Tuscaloosa, Alabama to compete in the 2009 National Concrete Canoe Competition on June 11-13, 2009. The canoe weighed in at 428 pounds, the heaviest at this year’s national competition. It took 13 people to sink the canoe.

The team competed in 3 person men’s and women’s endurance races, two person men’s and women’s sprint races, and a co-ed sprint race with two men and two women paddlers. On the second day of competition, the team delivered their oral presentation first and finished 21st out of 22 teams.

The group earned the ASCE Spirit of the Competition Award, recognizing their good spirit, camaraderie and instances of aiding other competitors.  They received a standing ovation at the awards ceremony that night when the award was announced. UT Tyler finished 19th out of all of the concrete canoe teams in the nation in 2009.

Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson visits CECS

U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) poses for a photo opportunity with students in a UT Tyler Ratliff Building South lab. The senator made a visit to UT Tyler Jan. 16 to hear a briefing on the university’s Sciences, Technology, Education and Mathematics Center.