UT ECE professor Ross Baldick recently addressed the historic failure of electric generators and recent rolling blackouts associated with ERCOT.

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Janet Preuss, Senior Administrative Associate for the Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG) in UT ECE has been named a recipient of the 2011 University of Texas at Austin Outstanding Staff Award. Janet is one of only thirty staff member across all of UT Austin to be recognized for 2011.

UT ECE Professor Constantine Caramanis Receives NSF CAREER Award

UT ECE Professor Emeritus Dr. Elmer Hixson Passes Away

On Wednesday, February 2, 2011, ERCOT found it necessary to initiate rolling blackouts to cope with increased demand due to extremely cold temperatures and numerous unexpected power plant trips. Here on the UT campus the blackouts went unnoticed, as the UT Austin campus is powered by its own power station, but UT ECE Professor Mack Grady was hard at work analyzing real time grid data. On February 7th, Prof.

UT ECE Professor Deji Akinwande and Stanford Professor Wong have co-authored a new book called Carbon Nanotube and Graphene Device Physics. This is the first introductory textbook covering the properties and performance of practical nanotube devices and related applications. All the fundamental concepts are introduced, so that readers without an advanced scientific background can follow all the major ideas and results. Additional topics covered include nanotube transistors and interconnects, and the basic physics of graphene.

UT ECE undergraduates Jackie Leverett and Zach Wasson recently received attention from Popular Science Online for their entry in the Texas Instruments Beagle Board Open Source Design Challenge. Their project, called Project Smart Pill Box, is a visual verification system that utilizes face detection and primitive hand tracking to ensure that patients with memory pathologies, such as Alzheimer’s, successfully take their medications.

The Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG), a research center within the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin's Cockrell School of Engineering, has been awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry/University Collaborative Research Center.

UT ECE Prof. Al Bovik has been named the IS&T/SPIE Imaging Scientist of the Year. Prof. Bovik was given the award for "his seminal contributions to the computational aspects of biological visual perception, specifically in the areas of image and video quality."

A message from Dean Gregory L. Fenves:

With the new year underway I want to reflect on what the Cockrell School of Engineering accomplished in 2010 and some of the challenges ahead. The accompanying video presents a sample of the amazing work by our students and faculty over the past year. I am proud of their achievements and am grateful to our alumni and friends for your support of the Cockrell School.