Prof. Mikhail Belkin of Texas ECE has been promoted to Fellow of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. Fellows are Members of distinction who have made significant scientific and technical contributions in the multidisciplinary fields of optics, photonics, and imaging. They are honored for their technical achievement, for their service to the general optics community, and to SPIE in particular. More than 1,300 SPIE members have become Fellows since the Society's inception in 1955.

Engineers worldwide have been developing alternative ways to provide greater memory storage capacity on even smaller computer chips. Previous research into two-dimensional atomic sheets for memory storage has failed to uncover their potential — until now.

Prof. Ali Yilmaz of Texas ECE has been named the recipient of the 2017 Intel Corporate Research Council (CRC) Outstanding Researcher in System Integration award.  Prof. Yilmaz was recognized for “Completing high-quality research on layered-medium integral-equation methods for full-wave electromagnetic analysis of electronic packages influencing the direction of the electronic design & analysis industry.”

Texas ECE PhD student Hyoyoung Jeong was awarded a distinguished Silver Prize in the Bio Engineering & Life Science Division at the 24th Annual Samsung HumanTech Paper Awards. Out of approximately 2,000 papers, only the top 2% are selected for the Silver Prize. The Silver Prize winners receive approximately $10,000 in total for the student and their supervisor in prize money. The topic of Hyoyoung's awarded paper is "Battery-Free, Wireless, Multimodal Stretchable Electronic Tattoos Exploring a Modular Concept." He is supervised by Prof.

Texas ECE alumnus Mike Krames, BSEE 1989, has been awarded the distinction of IEEE Fellow.

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin hosted its ECE Honors dinner on Monday, December 11 at the AT&T Conference Center to honor the inaugural inductees into the Distinguished Alumni Academy and Faculty honorees. 

Prof. David Soloveichik, along with Niranjan Srinivas, have successfully constructed a first-of-its-kind chemical oscillator that uses DNA components — and no proteins, enzymes or other cellular components — demonstrating that DNA alone is capable of complex behavior.

Prof. Robert Heath of Texas ECE has been named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).

Election to NAI Fellow status is the highest professional distinction accorded to academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society.

Two teams of Texas ECE students who participated in the Startup track of the Texas ECE Capstone Design Competition were recognized with awards at The Selig Entrepreneurship Prize Competition held by the Innovation Center in the Cockrell School of Engineering at UT Austin.

The award "Honors a person who, over a period of years, has made outstanding technical contributions to theory and/or practice in technical areas within the scope of the Society, as demonstrated by publications, patents, or recognized impact on the field."