Professor Vijay Janapa Reddi has been invited to participate in the National Academy of Engineering's (NAE) 2014 Indo-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (IAFOE). The IAFOE program brings together outstanding, early-career Indian and American engineers from industry, universities, and other research institutions to introduce their areas of engineering research and technical work to facilitate an interdisciplinary transfer of knowledge and methodology that could lead to collaborative networks of engineers from the two countries.

Prof. Seth Bank has been awarded a Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) Award for his work on "Optical characterization of semiconductors and metal-semiconductor nanocomposites."

UT ECE alumnus Brett Paulson has been named the recipient of the Cockrell School of Engineering Outstanding Young Engineering Graduate Award for 2014. Established in 1991, the Outstanding Young Engineering Graduate Award (OYEG) recognizes rising stars of Cockrell School alumni under the age of 40. Honorees are selected for their early outstanding professional achievements, dedication to public service and support of higher education. Including this year’s honoree, 27 alumni have received this award.

A message to engineering students graduating across the country this month: If you’re in the market for a mentor, or you just need some career inspiration, have a talk with Cockrell School alumnus Bob Mansfield.

The University of Texas at Austin Engineering Student Council presneted Prof. Yale Patt the award for Outstanding ECE Professor 2014 at the Cockrell School of Engineering Awards Banquet in April. This is the third time Prof. Patt has been recognized. He was also named Outstanding ECE Professor in 2007 and 2009. Winners were determined by student voting.

Prof. Ranjit Gharpurey, along with a colleague, Prof. J. C. Rudell from the University of Washington, has received a 3-year grant from the National Science Foundation.

UT ECE students in the Real-Time Operating Systems course held their autonomous robot race final on Friday, May 2. The students design and implement a distributed RTOS and implement autonomous driving with up to 8 sensors and two motors.

Prof. Gustavo de Veciana and his PhD student Virag Shah have received a 2014 INFOCOM Best Paper Award for their paper "Performance Evaluation and Asymptotics for Content Delivery Networks."

The University of Texas at Austin Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (UT ECE) hosted the Spring 2014 Senior Design Open House on Monday, April 21, 2014. UT ECE undergraduate seniors presented demonstrations of their projects spanning two semesters of work.