Texas ECE PhD student Jack Kramer has received the Best Student Paper Award from the IEEE International Conference on Microwave Acoustics & Mechanics (IC-MAM) 2022 for his work on "Acoustic Wave Focusing Lens at Radio Frequencies in Thin-Film Lithium Niobate." Kramer is supervised by Prof.

The student branch of The University of Texas at Austin Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) group has been recognized as the Outstanding Student Branch of branches with 50 people or more in Region 5.

The UT Austin IEEE branch is the largest student organization in Texas ECE and is composed of 188 student members. Their aim is to "bring ECE students of all years together to learn from each other and build a community within the department."