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UT ECE Student Seunghyun Chun Wins Best Presentation Award at APEC 2011
UT ECE Student Seunghyun Chun Wins Best Presentation Award at APEC 2011
U.S. News and World Report Ranks UT ECE in Top 10 Programs for 2012
U.S. News and World Report has just published their annual rankings of the Best Engineering Graduate Programs in the country for 2012, and the UT ECE Department is ranked #9 in Electrical Engineering and #10 in Computer Engineering. This continues a long streak of UT ECE being ranked among the Top 10 programs in the country. U.S. News surveyed 198 programs to get the information used in the ranking of top engineering schools. The UT Cockrell School of Engineering was ranked #8 for its overall excellence in Graduate Engineering programs.
Leverett and Wasson Win Texas Instruments Beagle Board Design Challenge
Texas Instruments hosted an awards ceremony for the inaugural 2010 Beagle Board Open Source Design Challenge. The challenge was to create the best design around TI’s Beagle Board using open source embedded Linux. Teams of up to four students competed, posting their design on the TI wiki and submitting a team video introducing their project. UT Engineering undergraduates Jackie Leverett (BME) and Zach Wasson (ECE) won first place.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Creates Robots for Heddatron
Several UT ECE and CS undergrads from The University of Texas at Austin chapter of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (IEEE RAS) broke into show business recently. They were brought on to build controllable bases and lights for four robots in the local production of Heddatron, the 2006 comedy by Elizabeth Meriwether currently running at the Salvage Vanguard Theater in Austin. IEEE RAS started working on the project with director Dustin Wills in early November 2010 to create a remote controlled drivable and lighted system. Wills designed the top part of the robot.
Janet Preuss Receives 2011 UT Austin Outstanding Staff Award
Janet Preuss, Senior Administrative Associate for the Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG) in UT ECE has been named a recipient of the 2011 University of Texas at Austin Outstanding Staff Award. Janet is one of only thirty staff member across all of UT Austin to be recognized for 2011.
The Historic Failure of Electric Generators
UT ECE professor Ross Baldick recently addressed the historic failure of electric generators and recent rolling blackouts associated with ERCOT.
UT ECE Professor Constantine Caramanis Receives NSF CAREER Award
UT ECE Professor Constantine Caramanis Receives NSF CAREER Award
UT ECE Professor Emeritus Dr. Elmer Hixson Passes Away
UT ECE Professor Emeritus Dr. Elmer Hixson Passes Away
Analyzing Rolling Blackouts in Real Time
On Wednesday, February 2, 2011, ERCOT found it necessary to initiate rolling blackouts to cope with increased demand due to extremely cold temperatures and numerous unexpected power plant trips. Here on the UT campus the blackouts went unnoticed, as the UT Austin campus is powered by its own power station, but UT ECE Professor Mack Grady was hard at work analyzing real time grid data. On February 7th, Prof.
