UTSA hosts manufacturing engineering workshop, May 29th

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UTSA Public Affairs specialist

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The University of Texas at San Antonio’s Center for Advanced Manufacturing & Lean Systems (CAMLS) and the San Antonio Manufacturers Association will host a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Workshop from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday, May 29th in the Biotechnology, Sciences and Engineering Building Room 2.102 on the 1604 Campus.

“Our center is unique to the country in that we try to look at the big picture and show how systems need to be integrated using a systems engineering perspective, said Can Saygin, associate professor of mechanical engineering. “We look at the methodologies and the kinds of technologies we can bundle together for technology transfer in this industry that generates $14.6 billion dollars for the San Antonio economy.”

Established in Aug. 2006, CAMLS has received more than $1.2 million in funding from the Department of Defense, National Science Foundation and private industry to support three manufacturing engineering laboratories and 37 employees in the center.

The workshop is cosponsored by the UTSA Center for Advanced Manufacturing & Lean Systems, San Antonio Manufacturers Association, System ID, the Manufacturing Systems and Automation Laboratory, Omnitrol Networks and Motorola.

The College of Engineering is one of the fastest growing colleges at UTSA, experiencing a 101 percent increase in student enrollment in the past seven years in addition to being one of the nation’s leading producers of Hispanic engineers.

Please visit http://engineering.utsa.edu to see how the UTSA College of Engineering is Shaping the Technology of Tomorrow.