The University of Texas at Austin Cockrell School of Engineering

Texas Atomic Film Festival (TAFF)

May 7, 2009 ACES

The first Texas Atomic Film Festival (TAFF) was held on Thursday May 7, 2009 in ACES. Ten short films produced by students from the The University of Texas at Austin as well as distance learning students from Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa were shown and judged. The TAFF films are the products of students enrolled in ME 361E Nuclear Reactor Engineering and ME 388C Nuclear Power Engineering.  Dr. Steven Biegalski is the professor for these courses and will be moderating the TAFF.

Juan Garcia from the Faculty Innovation Center has assisted with the organization of this project and he played a significant role in providing the infrastructure for students to complete this project. The goal of the TAFF is to have students communicate technical subjects to their peers utilizing digital movie content.

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