Prof. Joydeep Ghosh has been named the 2015 recipient of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award for “foundational contributions to multi-learner systems.” 

The Cockrell School of Engineering awarded Dr. Alan Bovik, the Joe J. King Professional Engineering Achievement Award for the academic year 2014 – 2015 for his outstanding achievements in the field of image and video quality engineering.

UT ECE alumnus, Chris Chuter recently announced the launch of Peeple, a Wi-Fi enabled smart camera that can be attached to the peephole of the main door to monitor and secure the main entrance of the house

ChemSense was one of seven engineering projects highlighted by Smithsonian.com as looking "particularly promising for changing people’s lives."

Prof. Jeff Andrews has been named the 2015 recipient of the Frederick Emmons Terman Award from the American Society for Engineering Education and the Hewlett-Packard Company. 

Prof. Vijay Janapa Reddi has been named the 2015 recipient of the Most Influential Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI) Paper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN).

The University of Texas at Austin's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Cockrell School of Engineering (Texas ECE) announced the winners of the Spring 2015 Senior Design program while celebrating graduates at the 2015 Graduate Reception on Monday, May 11, 2015 in the Texas Union Ballroom.

Texas ECE graduate student Yao-Feng Chang and Prof. Jack Lee have received the 2015 Best Student Paper Award from the IEEE International Symposium on Next-Generation Electronics (ISNE) Conference.

Prof. Jeff Andrews of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin wrote a piece for the IEEE Communications Society on whether or not densification will be the death of 5G.

Prof. Robert Heath is collaborating with Prof. Todd Humphreys and graduate students on the development of a centimeter-accurate GPS-based positioning system that could revolutionize geolocation on virtual reality headsets, cellphones and other technologies, making global positioning and orientation far more precise than what is currently available on a mobile device.