Prof. Bill Bard and his senior design team have been named a Top Finalist in the Texas Instruments Analog Design Contest 2012. The senior design team consisting of Lauren Guckert, Ali Nabi, Sujith Pottem, Jeff Wang, Bryan Huffaker won the award for their work developing an autopilot for an autonomous airborne vehicle.

The Analog Design Contest is designed to encourage engineering students to submit senior design projects that utilize TI technology.

UT ECE graduate student Chao Jia and his advisor, Prof. Brian Evans, have received a Top 10% Paper Award at the the 14th IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing Workshop held in September 2012. Their paper was entitled “Probabilistic 3D Motion Estimation for Rolling Shutter Video Rectification from Visual and Inertial Measurements.”

UT ECE graduate student Pai-Yen Chen was awarded a 2012 Donald D. Harrington Dissertation Fellowship, the highest award that can be made to a continuing student at The University of Texas at Austin. Pai-Yen is currently studying under Dr. Andrea Alù in the Metamaterials and Plasmonics Research Group in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin.

Three UT ECE graduate students have won Best in Session Awards at the 2012 SRC TECHCON Conference held in Austin on Sept. 10 and 11. Jiwoo Pak, Ian Williamson, Michael Ramon, and Jiwon Chang all won Best in Session Awards for their submissions. TECHCON 2012 highlights the best of SRC-sponsored research, while showcasing the students performing the research. All SRC research programs are represented. TECHCON 2012 presents research from GRC, FCRP, NRI, and ERI in integrated sessions.

U.S. News and World Report has just published their annual rankings of the Best Engineering Undergraduate Programs in the country and the Computer Engineering program at UT ECE climbed to #8. The Electrical Engineering Undergraduate Program rose to #8. This continues a long streak of UT ECE being ranked among the Top 10 programs in the country, and a significant jump from previous rankings.

The University of Texas at Austin has been selected to receive an $18.5 million grant over the next five years from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to create and lead a nanosystems engineering research center.

The Nanomanufacturing Systems for Mobile Computing and Mobile Energy Technologies (NASCENT) will develop innovative nanomanufacturing, nanosculpting and nanometrology systems that could lead to versatile mobile computing devices such as wearable sensors, foldable laptops and rollable batteries.

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at The University of Texas at Austin Is Open For Business!

UT ECE, a top ranked department and the largest department in the Cockrell School of Engineering with almost 2000 students, has established an Industrial Relations office to facilitate industry needs and interests. For technology recruiting, research, or program interests, UT ECE is Open for Business!

Renowned French mathematician and engineer Francois Baccelli joins The University of Texas at Austin this fall as the first Simons Chair in Mathematics and Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Dr. Baccelli is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and a cutting edge researcher at the intersection of mathematics, telecommunications, and information theory. As part of the appointment, he will develop a new Center in Information and Network Science.

UT ECE professor Vijay Janapa Reddi has been awarded a competitive Google Research Award with the initiative of achieving High Performance and Energy Efficient Mobile Web Browsing.

UT ECE graduate student Chris Slaughter and his five-person engineering team are developing software for a 3-D modeling camera that can capture and help accurately render all the 3-D surfaces in a room. Chris has participated in the Austin Technology Incubator Student Entrepreneur Acceleration and Launch (SEAL) program to help turn his ideas into a company, Lynx Laboratories.

Chris has worked with UT ECE professor Sriram Vishwanath, who teaches and encourages business-minded young engineers.