UT ECE alumna Dr. Kristen Parrish is working on autonomous vehicles as part of the Texas Instruments Kilby Labs team.

UT ECE Graduate Student Xingyu Zhang recently won a Best Student Paper Award at the Organic Photonics + Electronics Symposium, held at the SPIE Optics + Photonics Conference.

UT ECE professor Emanuel Tutuc and graduate student Kayoung Lee have developed a novel device structure that can measure the level of electrons in graphene bilayers.

UT ECE professor Dean P. Neikirk has been appointed associate dean of graduate studies at the Graduate School at The University of Texas at Austin.

Prof. Neal Hall has been named a recipient of the 2014 Regents Outstanding Teaching Award by The University of Texas System Baord of Regents.

The Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin will receive a $35 million gift to create an endowment aimed at bringing more of Texas’ best and brightest high school students to UT Austin.

UT Austin is adopting a homegrown two-factor authentication solution in Toopher, an Austin-based startup created by UT ECE alumnus Evan Grim and Josh Alexander, an adjunct professor in the McCombs School of Business.

Prof. Ray T. Chen  has been awarded a $1.1 Million grant from the US Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) and the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to work on 3D printing phased array antennas.

Prof. Michael Becker of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UT Austin (UT ECE) and Prof. Desiderio Kovar of UT Mechanical Engineering have received a National Science Foundation (NSF) award for work on "A Manufacturing Process for Producing Thick Films with Controlled Microstructures."

Prof. Neal Hall and his graduate students have developed a tiny, low-power device that mimics a fly’s hearing mechanism.