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Chest E-Tattoo Boasts Major Improvements in Heart Monitoring
A new flexible, wearable medical device could provide a major boost in the fight against heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States.
A team led by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin has developed an ultrathin, lightweight electronic tattoo, or e-tattoo, that attaches to the chest for continuous, mobile heart
Alumni Profile: Rudy D. Garza
Rudy D. Garza is the President & CEO at CPS Energy. He received his BSEE from Texas ECE in 1996. Currently he serves on the External Advisory Committee of Texas ECE. We sat down with Rudy to find out more about his time in Texas ECE and his successful career in industry.
Amazon Teams Up With UT To Establish New Science Hub
The University of Texas at Austin and Amazon are launching a science and engineering research partnership to enhance understanding in a variety of areas, including video streaming, search and information retrieval and robotics.
16 Texas ECE Students Named Inaugural Linford Scholars
The endowment will provide need-based scholarship support for high-potential students from low- and middle-income families and will support approximately 100 engineering students per year.
Deji Akinwande Named 2023 MRS Fellow
Deji Akinwande, professor in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, has been named a 2023 Fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS Fellow) for “contributions to the development of wafer-scale monolayer graphene, and the realization of flexible nanosystems.”
Four Texas ECE Students Win Prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Isha Chakraborty, Greg Holste, Hannah Lee, and John Ting of Texas ECE were selected for the program which recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees at accredited United States institutions.
WHM: The Women Who Inspired the Women of Texas ECE
In celebration of Women's History Month, we asked the women of Texas ECE to tell us about the women who inspired, mentored, or supported them in their lives and careers.
Dynamic Events in Thick Tissue are Nearly Impossible to Image; Texas Engineers Aim to Change That
Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin received a $1 million grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to address exactly this challenge and improve high-resolution, 3D imaging capabilities in live tissue.
Bob Metcalfe Receives Industry’s Highest Honor for Ethernet Creation
Bob Metcalfe, professor emeritus in the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, was named the recipient of the 2022 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) A.M. Turing Award for the invention, standardization and commercialization of Ethernet.
The ACM A.M. Turing Award, often called
