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."

Mattan Erez, an associate professor in the Cockrell School's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is one of three faculty members from The University of Texas at Austin to be selected to receive Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers.

The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) will bestow John B. Goodenough of The University of Texas at Austin with the highest honor in the engineering profession for the groundbreaking creation of the lithium-ion battery.

The research of two professors in the Wireless and Networking Communications Group (WNCG) has been recognized as some of the most interesting scientific discoveries coming out of Texas in 2013.

UT ECE professor Dr. Al Bovik has been named the recipient of the IEEE Signal Processing Society 2013 Society Award for "fundamental contributions to digital image processing theory, technology, leadership and education."

UT ECE professors Dr. Robert Heath and Dr. Alan Bovik have each received a Best Paper Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society for 2013.