About ECE

Biomedical Engineering

Technology at Face Value The human face does more than help us tell each other apart. Studies have suggested that our perceptions of attractiveness and personality traits — even...

Communications, Networks, and Systems (CommNetS)

UT ECE Grad Student Turning Idea into Company UT ECE graduate student Chris Slaughter and his five-person engineering team are developing software for a 3-D modeling camera that can capture and help accurately...

Computer Architecture & Embedded Processors

New Computer Architecture Dr. Mattan Erez's research focus is computer architecture. Specifically, he is interested in the critical aspects of locality, parallelism and bandwidth constraints...

Computer Engineering

Defect/Fault Tolerant Systems and Design for Testability Fault tolerance as a property finds application in a wide variety of scenarios ranging from satellites to modern microprocessors. With the increasing complexity...

Electromagnetics & Acoustics

Creating an Ultrathin Invisibility Cloak Until now, the invisibility cloaks put forward by scientists have been bulky devices - an obvious flaw for those interested in Harry Potter-style applications. However,...

Energy Systems

Disaster Forensics Prof. Alexis Kwasinski of UT ECE travels to the worst natural disaster sites around the world to assess the damage inflicted on communication networks and...

Integrated Circuits & Systems

Flexible graphene transistor breaks new records UT ECE professor Deji Akinwande and his research group have made a breakthrough with state-of-the-art flexible graphene field-effect transistors with record...

Manufacturing Systems Engineering

Waveform Reveals Damage Dr. Robert Flake has discovered the first non-sinusoid signal that doesn’t undergo dispersion on transmission lines that would normally distort a signal. The...

Plasma/Quantum Electronics & Optics

Creating an Ultrathin Invisibility Cloak Until now, the invisibility cloaks put forward by scientists have been bulky devices - an obvious flaw for those interested in Harry Potter-style applications. However,...

Software Engineering

Searching the Here and Now Two researchers at The University of Texas at Austin are making it possible for smart phone users on the Forty Acres to take a “Gander” at the digital space...

Solid-State Electronics

Flexible graphene transistor breaks new records UT ECE professor Deji Akinwande and his research group have made a breakthrough with state-of-the-art flexible graphene field-effect transistors with record...