UT ECE graduate student Xingyu Zhang recently received the Best Student Paper Award at the annual Conference of the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) Photonics West Conference, which was held in San Francisco from February 7-12, 2015.

Ray T. Chen, professor in the school’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and his team, developed a new method and demonstrated a flexible photonic crystal cavity which can be bent to a curvature of 5 mm radius without sacrificing the performance.

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.

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. 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.

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.