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Current Members

Principal Investigator
David Restrepo
Assistant Professor
Endowed Faculty Fellow in Mechanical Engineering Engineering
Postdoc. Northwestern University, 2018.
Postdoc. Purdue University, 2017.
PhD. Engineering, Purdue University, 2015
MSc. Engineering, Universidad EAFIT, Medellin, Colombia, 2012
BSc. Mechanical Engineering, Universidad EAFIT, Medellin, Colombia, 2010
Postdocs

Mauricio Aristizabal Cano
Mauricio.AristizabalCano@utsa.edu
PhD. Engineering, Universidad EAFIT, Colombia, 2020.
MSc. Engineering, Universidad EAFIT, Colombia, 2014.
BSc. Mechanical Engineering, Universidad EAFIT, Colombia, 2012.

Juan David Navarro
PhD. Engineering, The University of Texas at San Antonio, 2023
MSc. Engineering, Universidad EAFIT, Medellin, Colombia, 2019
BSc. Mechanical Engineering, Universidad EAFIT, Medellin, Colombia, 2015
Ph.D. Students

Juan Sebastián Rincón Tabares
juansebastian.rincontabares@my.utsa.edu
MSc. Engineering, Universidad Autónoma de Manizales, Manizales, Colombia, 2019
BSc. Mechanical Engineering, Universidad Autónoma de Manizales, Manizales, Colombia, 2015

Juan Camilo Velasquez
juancamilo.velasquezgonzalez@my.utsa.edu
Juan Camilo Velasquez completed his undergraduate in Mechanical Engineering at Universidad EAFIT (Medellin, Colombia) in December 2020. His main interests are Aerospace Engineering and Materials Science.

David Yamil Risk Mora
BSc. Mechanical Engineering, Universidad Autónoma de Manizales, Manizales, Colombia, 2021

Meggan Wolanin (co-advised: Prof. Brendy Rincon)
Meggan completed her undergraduate in Mechanical Engineering at UTSA in spring 2020.
Her research interests are materials and corrosion engineering and their applications to the aerospace field.

M.S. Students


William B. Beck
William got his Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University in July of 2019. His current research interests are anything in the field of solid mechanics, and numerical methods, such as Finite Element Analysis
Undergraduate Students



Visiting Students

Valentina Durango