Dozens of UT Arlington inventors will be inducted at a National Academy of Inventors ceremony and reception at 4:45 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 30, at College Park Center, 600 S. Center St.

Earlier in the day, from 1 to 4 p.m. a few of those inventors will present their research to attendees of an innovation symposium.

Both the ceremony/reception and the symposium are free. Register here.

About 100 UT Arlington professors possess patents on various devices, processes or technologies. Dreams are getting done at UT Arlington.

Six UT Arlington professors are being nominated to be fellows of the academy.

Eight UT Arlington educators already have been named NAI fellows. They are:

• President Vistasp M. Karbhari
• Ron Elsenbaumer, provost and vice president for academic affairs
• Carolyn Cason, vice president for research
• Frank Lewis, electrical engineering professor and a University Distinguished Scholar Professor
• Khosrow Behbehani, College of Engineering Dean and bioengineering professor
• Nai Yuen Chen, a distinguished research professor in Materials Science & Engineering and a member of the National Academy of Engineers
• George Kondraske, electrical engineering professor
• Robert Magnusson, the Texas Instruments Distinguished University Chair in Nanoelectronics and electrical engineering professor.

Election to the National Academy of Inventors' Fellow status is awarded to academic inventors who have demonstrated a highly prolific spirit of innovation in creating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society.

Elsenbaumer said UT Arlington is honored to host a chapter event of this magnitude.

"Any time we can display our research, we have the opportunity to showcase how that research can change the world," Elsenbaumer said. "The large number of faculty who are patent holders provide more proof of our top-level research status."

Presenters at the innovation symposium include: Magnusson, Kondraske, Frank Lu, professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and director of the Aerodynamics Research Center; J.-C. Chiao, electrical engineering professor, Janet and Mike Greene Professor and Jenkins Garrett Professor; Jamie Rhodes of the Central Texas Angel Network, Jorge Varela of TechFW; and Alfonso Chan, an attorney with Shore Chan DePumpo.

Mickey McCabe, executive director of the UT Arlington Research Institute, will deliver the keynote address.

McCabe joined UT Arlington this month after spending the last several years as the vice president for research at the University of Dayton in Ohio and executive director of the University of Dayton Research Institute.

McCabe is credited with forging innovative partnerships with business and industry and leveraging state and federal funds to more than double annual sponsored research activity at the nationally ranked, private university.

This summer, University of Dayton announced a $20 million Innovation Center in partnership with Emerson Climate Technologies. The previous year, UD announced a $51 million partnership with GE Aviation to create EPISCenter, or the Electrical Power Integrated Systems Center, where researchers simulate and test complete electrical power systems in airplanes. Both companies have located their research centers on the University of Dayton campus.

McCabe also is the sole inventor on U.S. Patent No. 4,661,336 concerning the production of carbon fibers.