16 Texas ECE Students Named Inaugural Linford Scholars
The endowment will provide need-based scholarship support for high-potential students from low- and middle-income families and will support approximately 100 engineering students per year.
Four Texas ECE Students Win Prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Isha Chakraborty, Greg Holste, Hannah Lee, and John Ting of Texas ECE were selected for the program which recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees at accredited United States institutions.
Deji Akinwande Named 2023 MRS Fellow
Deji Akinwande, professor in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, has been named a 2023 Fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS Fellow) for “contributions to the development of wafer-scale monolayer graphene, and the realization of flexible nanosystems.”
Dynamic Events in Thick Tissue are Nearly Impossible to Image; Texas Engineers Aim to Change That
Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin received a $1 million grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to address exactly this challenge and improve high-resolution, 3D imaging capabilities in live tissue.
Bob Metcalfe Receives Industry’s Highest Honor for Ethernet Creation
Bob Metcalfe, professor emeritus in the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, was named the recipient of the 2022 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) A.M. Turing Award for the invention, standardization and commercialization of Ethernet.
The ACM A.M. Turing Award, often called the “Nobel Prize of computing,” includes a $1 million prize, with financial support provided by Google, Inc. The award is named for Alan M. Turing, the British mathematician who articulated the mathematical foundations of computing.
Ian Roberts Receives Andrea Goldsmith Young Scholars Award
The CTTC Andrea Goldsmith Young Scholars Award recognizes young scholars of the communication theory area who have shown a high level of research aptitude in the broadly defined topic of communication theory, as well as engagement in the professional community.
James J. Truchard
Named an Innovation Agent by Fast Company, James Truchard, president and CEO, cofounded National Instruments in 1976 and has pioneered the way scientists and engineers solve the world's grand engineering challenges.
As one of Forbes' America's Favorite Bosses, Dr. James Truchard, commonly known around NI as Dr. T, has led the company from a three-man team to a multinational organization recognized as a Fortune 100 Best Places to Work and one of the top 25 "World's Best Multinational Workplaces" by the Great Places to Work Institute.
Ben G. Streetman
Dr. Ben G. Streetman is Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, and held the Dula D. Cockrell Centennial Chair in Engineering prior to his retirement in 2010. His primary area of scholarship is semiconductor materials and devices. After receiving the Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin (1966) he was on the faculty (1966-1982) of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He returned to The University of Texas at Austin in 1982. Dr. Streetman was Dean of the Cockrell School of Engineering from 1996 to 2008.
