The Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin will receive a $35 million gift to create an endowment aimed at bringing more of Texas’ best and brightest high school students to UT Austin.

UT Austin is adopting a homegrown two-factor authentication solution in Toopher, an Austin-based startup created by UT ECE alumnus Evan Grim and Josh Alexander, an adjunct professor in the McCombs School of Business.

Prof. Ray T. Chen  has been awarded a $1.1 Million grant from the US Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) and the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to work on 3D printing phased array antennas.

Prof. Michael Becker of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UT Austin (UT ECE) and Prof. Desiderio Kovar of UT Mechanical Engineering have received a National Science Foundation (NSF) award for work on "A Manufacturing Process for Producing Thick Films with Controlled Microstructures."

Prof. Neal Hall and his graduate students have developed a tiny, low-power device that mimics a fly’s hearing mechanism.

The University of Texas at Austin Solar Vehicle Team (UTSVT) began their weeklong 1,700 mile quest from Austin to Minnesota in the American Solar Challenge Monday morning from the UT Austin campus.

Beginning Monday, July 14, the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin will host the nation’s two biggest collegiate solar car races — the Formula Sun Grand Prix and American Solar Challenge.

UT ECE professors Andrea Alù and Mikhail Belkin  have created a new nonlinear metasurface, or meta mirror, that could one day enable the miniaturization of laser systems.

Profs. Jeffrey Andrews, Alan Bovik, Robert Heath, and Sriram Vishwanath have been included in the Thomson Reuters list of Highly Cited Researchers for 2014. The researchers listed earned this distinction by writing the greatest numbers of reports officially designated by Essential Science Indicators℠ as Highly Cited Papers — ranking among the top 1 percent most cited for their subject field and year of publication.

Ping-Chun Li, a graduate student researcher in Prof. Edward Yu’s group was recently selected as a recipient of a Material Research Society (MRS) Graduate Student Silver Award at the 2014 MRS Spring Meeting in San Francisco, CA. Ping-Chun Li received his award for his presentation titled "Large-Area, Flexible, Wavelength-Selective Three-Dimensional Optical Metasurface."