UT ECE graduate student Megan Ruthven has been named as a a KPCB Engineering Fellow. Megan was selected as one of 50 fellows from over 2,500 applicants. She will also serve an internship at one of their portfolio companies, MyFitnessPal. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) is a venture capital firm with over 40 years of experience helping entrepreneurs deliver world changing ideas to market.

UT ECE assistant professor and Kilby Endowed Faculty Fellow Deji Akinwande has been named the 2015 recipient of the IEEE Nanotechnology Early Career Award.

The Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin has received a $3.5 million gift from Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) to develop state-of-the-art teaching and project labs for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Prof. Deji Akinwande has created the first transistors out of silicene, the world’s thinnest silicon material. This new “wonder material” could make computers and other electronics more efficient.

Dr. Bei Yu (Ph.D. 2014) has been selected to receive the 2014 Outstanding Dissertation Award in the area of "New directions in physical design, design for manufacturing and CAD for analogue circuits and MEMS" from the European Design and Automation Association (EDAA) for his dissertation "Design for Manufacturing with Advanced Lithography". As one of the most prestigious Ph.D. dissertation awards in the field of Electronic Design Automation (EDA), this award will be presented in March at the DATE 2015 conference in Grenoble, France.

Prof. David Pan received the Frequently Cited Author Award at the 2015 ACM/IEEE Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference  (ASP-DAC), held on Jan. 19-22, in Chiba/Tokyo, Japan. This is a special award given to mark the 20th anniversary of ASP-DAC. 

UT ECE graduate student Romain Fleury has been named the recipient of the Best Student Paper Award in Engineering Acoustics at at the 168th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Indianapolis for his work on "Non-Reciprocal Acoustic Devices Based on Spacio-Temporal Angular-Momentum Modulation.” Romain had already been named the recipient of the "Young Presenter Award in Noise" at ASA earlier last month.

UT.6.02x: Embedded Systems - Shape the World has been named as one of the top 10 most popular Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) based on registration numbers.

UT ECE graduate student Romain Fleury has been named the recipeint of the "Young Presenter Award in Noise" for his presentation at the 168th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Indianapolis.

The State of Texas flag outside the tower at The University of Texas at Austin was lowered to half-staff today in honor of UT ECE student Evan Michael Line who passed away on December 4, 2014. Evan was an ECE freshman who was just finishing his first semester at UT.

Evan graduated from hgh school in Cibolo, Texas last year, though he came from a military family who moved around a lot. He enjoyed playing in the high school band before beginning his studies at UT this past August. Evan was an active member of the Fall 2014 ECE First-year Interest Group "The Designers."