Prof. Andrea Alù has been elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society for “seminal contributions to electromagnetic theory and applications, nano optics, plasmonics, and metamaterials.” 

Texas ECE graduate student Xiaoqing Xu has received the Best in Session Award at the 2015 SRC TECHCON Conference held in Austin, Texas on September 21-22.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) will provide $81 million over five years to support 16 sites and a coordinating office as part of a new National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI).

The Texas Exes have named Muhammad Mustafa Hussain as a recipient of the Outstanding Young Texas Ex Award. Hussain received his MS in 2004 and his PhD in 2005.

Texas ECE graduate student Hema C. P. Movva has received a Best Student Poster Award at the 2015 Device Research Conference (DRC) for his poster titled ‘Top-gated WSe2 field-effect transistors with Pt contacts’.

 The Center devotes its resources to increase the academic preparedness and ensure success for all Texas ECE students.

Four students in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering have been recognized with the Halliburton Foundation’s 2015 ECE Bridge Scholars Award. The award winners are Alexander Ma, Crystal McDuffie, Matthew Musgrove, and Edilio Vera.

The Halliburton Foundation provided a merit based award of $500 to four ECE Bridge Scholars who earned the highest GPA during the UT Austin 2015 Summer Bridge Program – their first semester in college.

Prof. Al Bovik has received a $450,000 grant over three years from the National Science Foundation (NSF) entitled “Tasking on Natural Image Statistics: 2D and 3D Object and Category Detection in the Wild.”

Prof. Al Bovik has received a grant to develop methodologies for testing the perceptual quality of images delivered by microwave, submillimeter wave, millimeter-wave, x-ray, infra-red, and optical imaging devices commonly deployed in security applications.

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering extends a warm welcome to Dr. David Soloveichik and Dr. Milos Gligoric, who join the department beginning Fall 2015.