The Norman Hackerman Advanced Research Program (ARP) received $16.7M from the 80th Texas Legislature and granted almost 20% of it to engineering projects at The University of Texas at Austin. Projects funded at UT-ECE are:

• Antenna Design for Non-Radiative Wireless Power Transfer
  Prof. Hao Ling
• Energy-conserved On-chip Nano-scale Opto-Electronic Interconnects for Silicon High Performance VLSI
  Profs. David Pan and Ray Chen
• Smart Active Context-based Surveillance System
  Profs. J.K. Aggarwal and Kristen Grauman, UT-CS
• High-Mobility Channel MOSFETs
  Prof. Jack Lee