On August 17th, 2010, Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE), a provider of innovative life science solutions, announced a definitive agreement to acquire Ion Torrent for $375 million in cash and stock and an additional $350 million upon the meeting time-based milestones through 2012. Ion Torrent has been building the next generation of fully-electronic and CMOS-based DNA sequencing platforms, a technology which was co-invented by Professor Arjang Hassibi while at Stanford University (US Patent 7,223,540), now an Assistant Professor at The University of Texas at Austin.

U.S. News and World Report has just published their annual rankings of the Best Engineering Undergraduate Programs in the country and the UT ECE Department is ranked #7 in Computer Engineering. The Electrical Engineering Undergraduate Program was ranked #11. This continues a long streak of UT ECE being ranked among the Top 10 programs in the country.

UT ECE faculty are tackling a big-picture wireless initiative, Network of Systems Vision, combining communication and computation in never-before-imagined ways.

Prof. Joydeep Ghosh Awarded Grant From NSF for Work on Small: Simultaneous Decomposition and Predictive Modeling on Large Multi-Modal Data

Prof. Mattan Erez and NVIDIA Team Awarded DARPA Grant

UT ECE Prof. Jake Aggarwal was recently awarded a grant from the Science and Technology Foundation of Portugal (FCT) to expand the presence of advanced digital media through educational and research exchange.

The University of Texas at Austin Solar Vehicles Team camped, pulled all-nighters and ran into some unique mechanical issues on their seven-day, solar-powered road trip adventure. Unlike other road warriors, these travelers spent the previous four years building their solar car together. And for the first time in 15 years, a UT car completed the 1,100 mile American Solar Challenge cross-country race.

Prof. Andrea Alù and Awarded ONR MURI from the Department of Defense

UT ECE Student Jyotirmoy Deshmukh Named 2010 Computing Innovation Fellow

Jyotirmoy Vinay Deshmukh, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has been named a 2010 Computing Innovation Fellow by the Computing Research Association (CRA) and the Computing Community Consortium (CCC).