The UT Austin Villa team won 3rd prize at the RoboCup@Home 2017 competition in Nagoya, in the category of Domestic Standard Platform League.

This bill is the first step in a broader strategy to improve the acquisition of IT capabilities across all state agencies. This will allow the state to become more efficient, effective, transparent, accountable, less wasteful and continue to provide excellent services to the citizens of Texas. 

The University of Texas Solar Vehicles Team is competing 3 days of racing in the Formula Sun Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas. Listen to the feature by KUT Austin.

Dr. Francesco Monticone was awarded the inaugural Margarida Jacome Dissertation Prize for his dissertation “Scattering Engineering at the Extreme with Metamaterials, Metasurfaces, and Nanostructures." 

For the second consecutive year, Prof. Andrea Alù of Texas ECE is a finalist for the Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists and will now compete for the largest unrestricted award of its kind for early career scientists and engineers.

Prof. Alex Dimakis of Texas ECE will be one of the three keynote speakers at the 15th Canadian Workshop on Information theory to be held in Quebec City, Canada, June 11-14th. 

Two of Prof. Al Bovik’s research publications have been recognized as 2017 Google Scholar Classic Papers. Google Scholar Classic Papers are highly-cited papers that have stood the test of time, and are among the ten most-cited articles in their area of research published ten years earlier.

Jiaojiao Ou has received the 2017 BACUS Scholarship, one of the premier Optics and Photonics Education Scholarships offered by SPIE. The award is presented to students who demonstrate prospect for long-term contribution to the field of optics, photonics or a related field. The mission of the SPIE society is to advance emerging technologies through interdisciplinary information exchange, continuing education, publications, patent precedent, and career and professional growth.

Texas ECE held a banquet Monday. May 8, 2017 at the Connally Ballroom in the Alumni Center to recognize graduating students, exceptional students and faculty, and present awards. The keynote address was delivered by Texas ECE alumna Duy-Loan Le who will be inducted into the Asian Hall of Fame this weekend.

View this photo gallery of the event and award winners

Qualcomm encourages partnerships among engineers from hardware, software, and systems maintain close relationships with key universities to keep track of their latest discoveries and facilitate new collaborations. The Qualcomm Faculty Award (QFA) is one of the programs that the company uses to support key professors and their research at leading universities identified by the company.