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Alum Catsulis Designs Space Robots  Daily Iberian 
Alum Vizina Appointed Head of Engineering for ENGlobal  MarketWatch.com 

Alum du Treil Receives Broadcasters' National Achievement Award

Submitted Article on Wed, 03/23/2011 - 14:38

Washington, DC -- The National Association of Broadcasters announced today that UL alumnus and radio engineering expert L. Robert du Treil of du Treil, Lundin & Rackley, Inc. (DLR), and Thomas B. Keller, renowned television technology innovator, have been named the 2011 recipients of the NAB Engineering Achievement Award. They will be honored with the award at the NAB Show Technology Luncheon on Wednesday, April 13 in the Las Vegas Hilton.

Engineering Launches Crawsat III Experiments

Submitted Article on Thu, 03/17/2011 - 16:45

On Saturday, February 5, 2011, a team students and their mentor gathered in the Cajun Advanced Picosatellite Experiment (CAPE) Lab in the William Hansen Hall Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in UL's Madison Hall to launch the CrawSat III High Altitude Weather Balloon Project. The mission was to launch a multi-payload flight with equipment from UL, NP Moss Middle and Northside High.

UL Engineering Selected by NASA as Satellite Provider

Submitted Article on Fri, 03/04/2011 - 17:44

UL Engineering’s Cajun Advanced Picosatellite Experiment (CAPE) project has been selected by NASA as provider of one of 20 small satellites which will fly as auxiliary cargo aboard rockets planned to launch in 2011 and 2012.

4 Graduate 4.0

Louisiana.edu on Sun, 12/19/2010 - 21:30

Samantha Christine Debevec, Yancey Herve Nakeu Mbolda, Tami Thomas Richard and Jason Paul Thibodeaux were honored for perfect 4.0 grade point averages during Fall commencement exercises on Dec 18.

Computer Engineering to Launch CrawSat III

Submitted Article on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 18:25

UL’s Cajun Advanced Picosatellite Experiment (CAPE) team is pleased to announce the launch of CrawSat III weather balloon on December 18th, 2010.

UL Students Work on 2nd Satellite

Submitted Article on Tue, 11/30/2010 - 14:48

Watch the video: CAPE-2, the second phase of the Cajun Advanced Picosatellite Experiment is now in development. The first phase culminated in the launch of CAPE‐1, a small communications satellite built to the CubeSat standard (10 cm cube with a mass of 1 kg), on a DNEPR rocket from Baikonur, Kazakhstan on April 17, 2007. With the successful flight, UL became the first school in Louisiana to launch its own satellite.

Robotics Team Places Third

Submitted Article on Thu, 04/22/2010 - 20:37

Students from UL’s William Hansen Hall Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering recently placed third out of 27 teams in the IEEE Region 5 Robotics Competition held in Dallas, Texas on Saturday, April 17th.

Engineering's Misra and Jindal Recognized

Submitted Article on Fri, 01/15/2010 - 11:50

UL Distinguished Professor Dr. Devesh Misra has been appointed the editor of the prominent international journal Materials Technology: Advanced Performance Materials, and Dr. Renuka "Ray" Jindal has been chosen to serve as the 2010-2011 President of the IEEE Electron Devices Society.

UL Researches Virtual Reality

La Louisiane on Tue, 07/14/2009 - 09:15

Virtual Advantage: High-tech tools link university, military training centers.
It looks like a war zone in the University of Louisiana's Abdalla Hall. Actually, special 3-D glasses are needed to see the battle because it’s a virtual war zone.

IEEE Virtual Reality 2009 World Conference this Weekend

Submitted Article on Wed, 03/11/2009 - 09:34

IEEE Virtual Reality is the world’s premier international technical conference on all aspects of virtual, augmented, and mixed reality, and will take March 14-18, 2009 at UL in the Cajundome Convention Center.