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STIAC at UTRGV: Student assessments help save more than $1M for area businesses
By Maria Elena Hernandez
RIO GRANDE VALLEY, TEXAS - MARCH 16, 2018 – While just starting its second year, a program at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley already has helped local businesses save more than a million dollars.
The South Texas Industrial Assessment Center, housed in the UTRGV College of Engineering and Computer Science, sends undergraduate and graduate students to local manufacturers to assess operations and find ways the businesses can save energy and streamline processes.
“We try to reduce their energy consumption, their waste, in order for them to increase profits,” said Raul Barbosa, a UTRGV senior majoring in mechanical engineering and accounting.
The center is funded by a $1.25 million, five-year grant from the U.S. Department of Energy.
UTRGV students attend Brownsville Public Utilities Board training
By Omar Flores
BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS - SEPTEMBER 1, 2017
The UTRGV Industrial Assessment Center, in coordination with the senior key account representatives Danny Marez and Joey Garcia, as well as the business development key account manager Eddie Campirano Jr. from the Brownsville Public Utilities Board, held an energy bills training for UTRGV graduate and undergraduate students participating in the IAC program.
This training helped faculty and students from the department of Manufacturing & Industrial Engineering as well as the department of Electrical Engineering to better understand the energy bills that manufacturers receive; this allows the IAC team to be better prepared to perform efficient assessments to companies and manufacturers.
Brownsville Public Utilities Board Website
UTRGV kicks off Earth Fest celebration in Brownsville
By Vicky Brito
BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS – APRIL 19, 2017
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley presented its annual Earth Fest, which kicked off at the UTRGV Brownsville Campus Wednesday, April 19. Earth Fest will also be held on the Edinburg Campus on Thursday, April 20. Pictured are students from Brownsville’s Incarnate Word Academy that presented their yearly Trashion Show where they created clothes from recycled materials. Two seventh graders from the private Catholic school displayed their costumes based off Star
Grad, undergrad students present at first UTRGV Industrial Assessment Center Symposium
By Deborah Fitzwater-Dewey
RIO GRANDE VALLEY, TEXAS – MAY 12, 2017
Members of the Industrial Assessment Center (IAC), guests and students gathered at UTRGV on the Brownsville and Edinburg campuses for the first student assessment presentations to invited company representatives.
The IAC Symposium this year was held in conjunction with UTRGV Earth Fest 2017. Dr. Matthew Garcia, executive director of CEMG Consulting & Research, and Abraham Quiroga, division manager of Magic Valley Electric Coop, addressed the audience on “The Future of Energy and Advanced Manufacturing in the United States.”