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What ECE Does for
Texas
- This department educates more electrical and computer
engineers than any other institution in Texas. 32% of
the BSEEs in the state of Texas graduated from
UT-ECE.
- Electrical and Computer Engineering is the third
most popular undergraduate major at UT-Austin.
- UT-ECE receives 22% of all UT-Austin's graduate
applications. Applications are increasing about 15% a
year. We project 3,000 graduate applicants this year. Only 15%
of applicants will be accepted.
- Both the graduate and the undergraduate programs are listed
in U.S. News and World Report's top 6 for
public institutions and in the top 11 for all
institutions.
 ENS Gets a
Face-Lift
The tiles are gone! Or at least some of them. The western
hallways of all six floors of the ENS were sheetrocked and painted
over the Winter Break. The halls seem much larger and cleaner than
before. The improvements to the fourth floor continue and the
exterior of both the ENS and the annex were cleaned, caulked, and
painted. Further improvements to the front entry are in the
planning stage. Miss the tile? Wallpaper...
Faculty on the
Move
There have been some changes in UT-ECE. The department welcomes
2 new faculty members, wishes one of our favorite adjunct faculty a
happy retirement, congratulates our 2 new IEEE Fellows, and bids
farewell to Willis Adcock, the developer silicon transistors and
one of our most eminent faculty.
 ECE is pleased to announce the election of two
faculty as IEEE Fellows.
Dr. Ray Chen was honored "for contributions to
polymer-based guided devices for optical interconnects." Dr.
Chen supervises 14 Ph.D. students and four postdoctoral students in
the Microelectronics Research Center's Optical
Interconnect Group. This research group has published over
three hundred fifty research papers and worked on over fifty
awarded research programs. Dr. Chen is currently teaching EE 383P,
Optoelectronic Interconnects.
 Dr. Vijay K.
Garg was honored "for contributions to
distributed computing systems and discrete event systems." Dr.
Garg, director of the Parallel and Distributed Systems
Laboratory, is a pioneer in the area of distributed computing.
His research group was the first to develop efficient algorithms
for detecting global predicates. These algorithms have wide
applications in distributed debugging and software fault-tolerance.
Dr. Garg is teaching EE 382N-11, Distributed Systems, and EE 360P,
Concurrent and Distributed Systems.
 Sriram
Vishwanath received his B.Tech. from the Indian
Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, M.S. from CalTech and his
Ph.D. from Stanford University, all in electrical engineering. His
research interests include information theory, wireless
communications and coding theory. His industry experience includes
work at the National Semiconductor Corporation, CA and at the
Lucent Bell labs, NJ.
 Sarfraz
Khurshid received his PhD in Computer Science at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received a BSc in
Mathematics and Computer Science from Imperial College London, and
read Part III of the Mathematical Tripos at Trinity College
Cambridge. His current research focuses on software testing,
specification languages, code conformance, model checking, and
applications of heuristics in program analysis.
 Ray Russell retires after 13 years
in the dual role of undergraduate advisor and instructor. His sense
of humor, kindness, and intimate knowledge of real-world
engineering will be missed.
 Dr. Willis Adcock, holder of the
Cockrell Family Regents Chair and member of UT-ECE's faculty
since 1986, died on December 16, 2003. Dr. Adcock was a IEEE fellow
and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He was not
only responsible for developing silicon transistors at Texas
Instruments, he also hired Jack Kilby, who invented the integrated
circuit as a member of Adcock's staff.
 ECE Lights the Tower
for 10,000th BSEE
The UT-Austin Tower lights honored the Department of Electrical
& Computer Engineering's centennial on Oct. 30, 2003. ECE also
celebrated the graduation of its 10,000th BSEE in December 2003.
Senior, Justin McKinnerney, won a blind drawing for the honor of
being named the 10,000th BSEE. More
pictures...
Upcoming Events
IEEE Spring Kick-off
Fri, Jan. 30, 11 AM - 3 PM, ENS
SAIC, TI, PolyCOM, Motorola,
Lockheed Martin and others will be accepting resumes. We will
have food and drinks for IEEE members.
Engineering Day at the Mall
Sat, Feb. 14, Barton Springs
Mall Austin, TX
Student organizations demo engineering projects at this annual
event.
ExploreUT
Sat, March
6, ENS
Parents and children can participate on a range of hands-on
activities which illustrate engineering concepts and
possibilities.
ECE Graduation Banquet
TBA
Graduating seniors are honored at the annual spring banquet. This
year the banquet will also feature the contributions of UT-ECE to
the Texas economy.
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