The University of Texas at Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering rose to the top 10 in the U.S. News & World Report 2015 graduate program rankings, strengthening the school’s position as one of the nation’s elite engineering schools.

Prof. Sriram Vishwanath has received the Longhorn Entrepreneurship Agency 2014  Entrepreneur of the Year award. Sriram has served as an advisor to Lynx Labs, a startup launched by UT students. The company makes a camera and software that can capture environments in 3-D. Vishwanath also advises M87, a company run by engineering graduate students. It has developed patented technology to boost the performance of wireless networks.

Profs. Robert Heath and Jeff Andrews and their co-authors Jun Zhang, and Marios Kountouris have received the 2014 EURASIP Best Paper Award for the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing.

Prof. Andrea Alù has been named the recipient of the IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Optics, from the International Commission of Optics. The awards recognizes Andrea's “ground breaking work in metamaterials and plasmonics, and for the introduction of the concept of scattering-cancellation-based metamaterial cloaking.”

Prof. Andrea Alù has been named the recipient of the the 2014 Outstanding Young Engineer award from the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society.  The Outstanding Young Engineer Award of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) recognizes an outstanding young MTT-S member who has distinguished himself/herself through a sequence of achievements which may be technical (within the MTT-S Field of Interest), may constitute exemplary service to the MTT-S, or may be a combination of both.

The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced today that Yale Patt, professor and Ernest Cockrell, Jr. Chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, is one of four professors from the Cockrell School of Engineering to be elected to the prestigious academy this year.

A team of researchers led by Prof. Andrea Alù has built the first-ever circulator for sound. The team’s experiments successfully prove that the fundamental symmetry with which acoustic waves travel through air between two points in space (“if you can hear, you can also be heard”) can be broken by a compact and simple device.

A paper by Prof. Yale Patt and former students Tse-Yu Yeah and Debbie Marr on "Increasing the instruction fetch rate via multiple branch prediction and a branch address cache" has been selected for inclusion in the "25 Years of International Conference on Supercomputing" volume. The selection committee considered 100 most cited papers out of approximately 1800 papers published in the ICS  proceedings between 1987 and 2011, and Prof. Patt's paper was one of 35 selected for inclusion in the volume.

Researchers in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin (UT ECE) have demonstrated the ability to perform nanoscale chemical analysis of molecular films with unprecedented sensitivity by detecting molecular photoexpansion.

Janice Williams, Senior Academic Advisor for UT ECE undergraduates, has been recognized by the University of Texas at Austin Office of Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) with a 2013 SSD Appreciation Award for positively contributing to the academic endeavors of our UT Austin students by "going above and beyond the call of duty to create an inclusive environment for all students at the university."