| 1883 | UT opens. There are 2 departments: Academic and Law. Tuition is free. |
| 1888 | Thomas Taylor begins teaching engineering at UT. The state capitol is dedicated. |
| 1895 | Houston gets 20 inches of snow. Moonlight towers make Austin the second city in the world to have electric light. Engineering is established as an independent department at UT. |
| 1903 | Steam turbine and electrocardiograph are invented. School of Electrical Engineering is established at UT under Taylor's leadership. The curriculum focuses on electrical power systems. |
| 1910 | Four year BSEE degree and the Engineers Loan Fund are established at UT. |
| 1936 | More than 18,000 miles of high-tension lines crisscross Texas. |
| 1945 | UT's Defense Research Laboratory (DRL) and Electrical Engineering Research Laboratory (EERL) are established. Research at the EERL produces radio telescopes, something the Associated Press views as one of the three most significant American accomplishments of that century. |
| 1947 | First female faculty member, Edith Clarke, joins as an associate professor after a long career with General Electric. |
| 1954 | First operating system is developed. |
| 1957 | Sputnik is launched. |
| 1958 | Integrated circuit is invented and the first external pacemaker is introduced. |
| 1961 | Silicon chips first appear. |
| 1962 | Frank McBee and some other researchers in the DRL found Tracor. |
| 1964 | Basic is introduced and Moore's Law is coined. The ENS building is completed and Applied Research Laboratory (ARL) is created. Research at the ARL contributes to the development of geodetic positioning systems, the underwater acoustics used in modern oceanography, and improved methods of data management, data analysis, and signal processing. |
| 1970 | First optical fiber is developed. |
| 1972 | Email is introduced. |
| 1976 | Dr. James Truchard, Bill Nowlin, and Jeff Kodosky—all researchers at ARL—launch National Instruments. |
| 1981 | The first PC is manufactured. The Department of Electrical Engineering becomes the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. |
| 1982 | First PC clone is manufactured. |
| 1992 | WWW is a reality. |
| 1994 | LRC computer labs are opened in the ENS. |
| 1996 | Tony Ambler joins ECE faculty. |
| 2002 | There are almost 40 million sites on the WWW. |
| 2003 | ECE celebrates 100 years of innovation and our contributions to the Texas economy and to the world of knowledge. |
