UT ECE professor Jacob Abraham has been named the 2011 recipient of the Billy and Claude R. Hocott Distinguished Centennial Engineering Research Award from the Cockrell School of Engineering. The objective of the award is to recognize faculty members who have made significant contributions in furthering the profession of engineering through documented research conducted while associated with The University of Texas at Austin.

UT ECE professor Prof. Andrea Alù has been named as a recipient of a 2011 Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Young Investigator Award. DTRA is the U.S. Department of Defense’s official Combat Support Agency for countering weapons of mass destruction. Under DTRA, DoD resources, expertise and capabilities are combined to ensure the United States remains ready and able to address the present and future WMD threat through combat support, technology development, threat control and threat reduction.

UT ECE professor Dewayne Perry has been named as a recipient of a 2011 SIGSOFT Retrospective Impact Paper Award for his 1992 paper Foundations for the study of software architecture in recognition of the deep impact it has had on software engineering research.

UT ECE professors Al Bovik and Joydeep Ghosh have received a grant entitled “Intelligent Autonomous Video Quality Agents,” from the National Science Foundation to conduct interdisciplinary research into the theory and design of automatic “agents” that will be able to learn to identify and assess distortions on computer networks.

UT ECE professor Ted Rappaport has been named the recipient of the 2011 IET Sir Monty Finniston Award for Achievement in Engineering and Technology. The IET is one of the world’s leading professional societies for the engineering and technology community, with more than 150,000 members in 127 countries and offices in Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific.

UT ECE professor David Pan and students have received the IBM Research 2010 Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper Award. This award is selected among all published papers in CS, EE, and Math, (co-)authored by IBM researchers in 2010. Close to 120 papers in computer science, electrical engineering and mathematical sciences published in refereed conference proceedings and journals in 2010 were submitted by IBM Research authors worldwide for the 2010 Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper Awards in CS, EE and Math.

UT ECE professor Yale">http://www.ece.utexas.edu/directory/directory_details.cfm?id=132">Yale Patt has been named as the 2011 recipient of the B. Ramakrishna Rau Award from the IEEE Computer Society. The award is given for important work related to microarchitectural technology, including both hardware and compiler optimization. The award recognizes Prof.

Prof. Ted Rappaport Re-elected to Board of Governors of IEEE Vehicular Technology Society

UT ECE professor Andrea Alù and colleagues at the UT Applied Research Labs have successfully created a cloaking device capable of hiding a 3D object in free space from microwaves. To create the device, the team used a plasmonic metamaterial shell to cover the object being cloaked. The cloak, based on a plasmonic metamaterial, can hide a cigar-sized cylinder from microwaves – it currently only operates for one microwave polarization.

UT ECE professors Constantine Caramanis and Michael Orshansky have received a grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct interdisciplinary research into new techniques for robust automated design of analog integrated circuits.