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Professor David Z. Pan and Kun Yuan Receive Best Paper Award at 2011 ACM International Symposium on Physical Design

Professor David Z. Pan and Kun Yuan Receive Best Paper Award at 2011 ACM International Symposium on Physical Design UT ECE Professor David Z. Pan and former graduate student Kun Yuan received the Best Paper Award from the 2011 ACM International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD), for their paper "E-Beam Lithography Stencil Planning and Optimization with Overlapped Characters".

U.S. News and World Report Ranks UT ECE in Top 10 Programs for 2012

U.S. News and World Report has just published their annual rankings of the Best Engineering Graduate Programs in the country for 2012, and the UT ECE Department is ranked #9 in Electrical Engineering and #10 in Computer Engineering. This continues a long streak of UT ECE being ranked among the Top 10 programs in the country. U.S. News surveyed 198 programs to get the information used in the ranking of top engineering schools. The UT Cockrell School of Engineering was ranked #8 for its overall excellence in Graduate Engineering programs.

Leverett and Wasson Win Texas Instruments Beagle Board Design Challenge

Texas Instruments hosted an awards ceremony for the inaugural 2010 Beagle Board Open Source Design Challenge. The challenge was to create the best design around TI’s Beagle Board using open source embedded Linux. Teams of up to four students competed, posting their design on the TI wiki and submitting a team video introducing their project. UT Engineering undergraduates Jackie Leverett (BME) and Zach Wasson (ECE) won first place.

IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Creates Robots for Heddatron

Several UT ECE and CS undergrads from The University of Texas at Austin chapter of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (IEEE RAS) broke into show business recently. They were brought on to build controllable bases and lights for four robots in the local production of Heddatron, the 2006 comedy by Elizabeth Meriwether currently running at the Salvage Vanguard Theater in Austin. IEEE RAS started working on the project with director Dustin Wills in early November 2010 to create a remote controlled drivable and lighted system. Wills designed the top part of the robot.

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