State legislators and University of Texas leadership joined Cockrell School Dean Sharon L. Wood and hundreds of alumni, friends, corporate supporters and members of the Texas Engineering community to celebrate the groundbreaking of the Engineering Education and Research Center (EERC), future home to UT ECE.

Prof. Andrea Alù has been named as one of two recipients of a Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Grants awarded to attendees of the 2014 US Frontiers of Engineering symposium.

Part of a STEM program geared towards middle school and high school students, the Edison Lecture Series celebrates fun over fundamentals and enables kids to have fun with engineering.

Prof. Jon Valvano has received the Best Session Award at the American Society for Engineering Eductaion (ASEE) Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration (CIEC) that took place from February 4-6, 2015 in Palm Springs.

UT ECE graduate student Megan Ruthven has been named as a a KPCB Engineering Fellow. Megan was selected as one of 50 fellows from over 2,500 applicants. She will also serve an internship at one of their portfolio companies, MyFitnessPal. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) is a venture capital firm with over 40 years of experience helping entrepreneurs deliver world changing ideas to market.

UT ECE assistant professor and Kilby Endowed Faculty Fellow Deji Akinwande has been named the 2015 recipient of the IEEE Nanotechnology Early Career Award.

The Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin has received a $3.5 million gift from Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) to develop state-of-the-art teaching and project labs for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Prof. Deji Akinwande has created the first transistors out of silicene, the world’s thinnest silicon material. This new “wonder material” could make computers and other electronics more efficient.

Dr. Bei Yu (Ph.D. 2014) has been selected to receive the 2014 Outstanding Dissertation Award in the area of "New directions in physical design, design for manufacturing and CAD for analogue circuits and MEMS" from the European Design and Automation Association (EDAA) for his dissertation "Design for Manufacturing with Advanced Lithography". As one of the most prestigious Ph.D. dissertation awards in the field of Electronic Design Automation (EDA), this award will be presented in March at the DATE 2015 conference in Grenoble, France.

Prof. David Pan received the Frequently Cited Author Award at the 2015 ACM/IEEE Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference  (ASP-DAC), held on Jan. 19-22, in Chiba/Tokyo, Japan. This is a special award given to mark the 20th anniversary of ASP-DAC.