UT ECE graduate student Romain Fleury has been named the recipient of the Best Student Paper Award in Engineering Acoustics at at the 168th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Indianapolis for his work on "Non-Reciprocal Acoustic Devices Based on Spacio-Temporal Angular-Momentum Modulation.” Romain had already been named the recipient of the "Young Presenter Award in Noise" at ASA earlier last month.

UT.6.02x: Embedded Systems - Shape the World has been named as one of the top 10 most popular Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) based on registration numbers.

UT ECE graduate student Romain Fleury has been named the recipeint of the "Young Presenter Award in Noise" for his presentation at the 168th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Indianapolis.

The State of Texas flag outside the tower at The University of Texas at Austin was lowered to half-staff today in honor of UT ECE student Evan Michael Line who passed away on December 4, 2014. Evan was an ECE freshman who was just finishing his first semester at UT.

Evan graduated from hgh school in Cibolo, Texas last year, though he came from a military family who moved around a lot. He enjoyed playing in the high school band before beginning his studies at UT this past August. Evan was an active member of the Fall 2014 ECE First-year Interest Group "The Designers."

Six student teams in Prof. Nan Sun's EE 338L/382M Analog IC Design Course won TI Outstanding Student Designer Awards for their excellent performance in the final project.

The University of Texas at Austin Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering  (UT ECE) hosted the Fall 2014 Senior Design Open House on Monday, November 24, 2014. UT ECE undergraduate seniors presented demonstrations of their projects spanning two semesters of work.

UT ECE professors Michael Orshansky and Surya Santoso have been elevated to IEEE Fellows. IEEE Fellow is the highest grade of membership and is recognized by the technical community as a prestigious honor and an important career achievement.

UT ECE graduate student Scott Maddox has been named the recipient of the Best Student paper Award from the 2014 MRS Electronic Materials Conference for his talk "Effects of Growth Rate, Substrate Temperature, and a Bi Surfactant on Doping Limits in InAs: Si Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy.” Scott was selected to receive the award from a field of nearly 170 student talks. The Electronic Materials Conference is hosted by the Materials Research Society and bills itself as "the premier annual forum on the preparation and characterization of electronic materials."

UT ECE PhD student Ms. Debarati Kundu has been selected as one of the winners of the 2014 Roberto Padovani Scholarship for being one of the best performing interns at Qualcomm. Named after Dr. Roberto Padovani, one of the leading innovators of the company, the scholarship, first created in 2008, is awarded each year to about seven Qualcomm Corporate Research and Development interns out of hundreds of interns. The winners receive a cash award of $5,000.

20 UT ECE students were named recipients of awards in the form of scholarships and fellowships from Texas Instruments in a ceremony at The University of Texas at Austin on November 7, 2014.