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.

UT ECE professor Vijay Janapa Reddi has been awarded awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to investigate Cross-Layer Solutions for Sustainable and Reliable Computing Systems with Co-PI Dr. Lizy John.

Zheng Wang, assistant professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, has been named to MIT Technology Review’s list of the world’s top 35 innovators under the age of 35 (TR35) for his health-related discoveries.

A panel of experts and Technology Review editorial staffers chose Wang from a pool of 250 nominees for the global list, which highlights young innovators who are changing the world. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg was a winner in 2007.

UT ECE professor Deji Akwinwande has been awarded the first Geim and Novoselov Graphene Prize during the gala dinner at the IEEE nano conference in Birmingham, UK. The award recognizes Deji’s work on flexible multifinger graphene device technology and in particular his invention of graphene transistors for high speed high frequency flexible nano electronics. Graphene transistors on flexible substrates could enable future flexible smart systems. The prize is named in honor of the 2010 Nobel laureates for graphene discovery.