Luca Tomescu, Texas ECE student, and his high school team won the 2016 National Merit Award for Innovation at The Real World Design Challenge. After winning the Texas State Governor’s Challenge, Tomescu and his teammates were flown to Washington, D.C. to attend the annual national level competition. The purpose of the RWDC is to provide high school students the opportunity to work within a team on real-world engineering challenges, with a current focus on the aerospace industry.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a four-year, $2 million grant to Andrea Alù of the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin to break the conventional ways in which light and acoustic waves propagate.

The app, which has over 1000 users already, has been rapidly gaining popularity amongst UT students.

The Wallenberg Scholarship program promotes scientific and technical research and education in the field of Telecommunications.

 Prof. Gerstlauer received the grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for his research project titled, “Resilient hardware design using controlled fault acceptance."

 “The three MURI grants show not only that Andrea, Ray and Li are top researchers in their fields, but that they are also exceptional collaborators and team leaders.”

Together, Prof. Alù and Monticone have established quantitative physical limitations on the performance of cloaking devices, a technology that allows objects to become invisible or undetectable for electromagnetic waves, such as radio waves, microwaves, infrared and visible light.

Casen Hunger, Ph.D student at Texas ECE along with Prof. Mohit Tiwari, Assistant Professor at ECE department at The University of Texas at Austin (UT) recently co-founded Privasera, an Austin based company. The startup provides privacy and security services to app creators and users.

Patt’s talk, titled, ‘If Moore's Law Does in Fact End, Whose Job Is It to Pick Up the Slack?... And How?’ was in line with the theme of the conference, ‘Connected World: New Challenges for Data, Systems, and Applications’.  IEEE CS was celebrating the 40th anniversary of this conference this year.

Prof. Alù received the Mathematics and Physical Sciences-Simons Investigators in Physics award. His work on the manipulation of light in artificial materials and metamaterials has shown how clever designs may surpass what had previously been thought to be limitations on wave propagation in materials.