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Prof. Alan Bovik and Team Win Emmy Award for Video Quality Tool

The Television Academy announced today that Alan Bovik and his team of former students and collaborators will be honored with a 2015 Primetime Engineering Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Development.


Prof. Ross Baldick explains why America’s power grid needs natural gas now more than ever

In Fortune Insider, Prof. Ross Baldick and David Spence explain that "As more renewable energy comes online, the reliability and environmental benefits of gas-fired power become more important."


Prof. Andrea Alù Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society

Prof. Andrea Alù has been elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society for “seminal contributions to electromagnetic theory and applications, nano optics, plasmonics, and metamaterials.” 


Xiaoqing Xu receives Best in Session Award at SRC TECHCON

Texas ECE graduate student Xiaoqing Xu has received the Best in Session Award at the 2015 SRC TECHCON Conference held in Austin, Texas on September 21-22.


NSF funds Texas Nanofabrication Facility

The National Science Foundation (NSF) will provide $81 million over five years to support 16 sites and a coordinating office as part of a new National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI).


ECE Alum Muhammad Mustafa Hussain awarded Outstanding Young Texas Ex Award

The Texas Exes have named Muhammad Mustafa Hussain as a recipient of the Outstanding Young Texas Ex Award. Hussain received his MS in 2004 and his PhD in 2005.


Student Hema Movva Receives DRC Best Student Poster Award

Texas ECE graduate student Hema C. P. Movva has received a Best Student Poster Award at the 2015 Device Research Conference (DRC) for his poster titled ‘Top-gated WSe2 field-effect transistors with Pt contacts’.


Texas ECE’s Compass Center offers students educational resources to ensure academic success

 The Center devotes its resources to increase the academic preparedness and ensure success for all Texas ECE students.


Texas ECE Students receive Halliburton Bridge Scholars Awards

Four students in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering have been recognized with the Halliburton Foundation’s 2015 ECE Bridge Scholars Award. The award winners are Alexander Ma, Crystal McDuffie, Matthew Musgrove, and Edilio Vera.

The Halliburton Foundation provided a merit based award of $500 to four ECE Bridge Scholars who earned the highest GPA during the UT Austin 2015 Summer Bridge Program – their first semester in college.


Prof. Al Bovik receives $450,000 grant from the National Science Foundation

Prof. Al Bovik has received a $450,000 grant over three years from the National Science Foundation (NSF) entitled “Tasking on Natural Image Statistics: 2D and 3D Object and Category Detection in the Wild.”