College of Engineering students (from left) David Woodward, Juan Ruiz and Tim Stern are gaining out-of-this-world learning opportunities! The trio engineered a way to install an augmented reality program into space helmets and participated in the NASA Spacesuit User Interface Technologies for Students (SUITS) competition this month at Johnson Space Center.

Dear alumni and friends,

At UNT, we strive to give students opportunities to achieve their dreams and soar higher. College of Engineering students Juan Ruiz, David Woodward and Tim Stern self-taught themselves about augmented reality and engineered a way to install an AR program into space helmets to better help astronauts receive real-time information while on spacewalks. They traveled to Houston's Johnson Space Center to present its design and compete against 15 other teams from universities, including Harvard, Texas A&M and Virginia Tech. T

Student success — and ensuring that all of our students have opportunities to create and experiment like Juan, David and Tim — has long been UNT's top priority. This will continue to be our focus as we look for ways to better serve and retain students as part of our yearlong strategic planning process. We are developing our strategic plan for 2020-2025 and want to hear from you about what should be included and funded.

UNT Proud,
Neal Smatresk
President