The Cockrell School's Fall 2011 enrollment totaled 5,548 undergraduate and 2,189 graduate students.
Forty-seven faculty members at The University of Texas at Austin have been inducted into the National Academy of Engineers, 42 of who are Cockrell School faculty.
At the Cockrell School, 70 percent of undergraduate classes are taught by tenured and tenured-track faculty.
The Cockrell School awards a larger percentage of undergraduate degrees to Hispanics and African Americans than other top-ranked public university engineering programs.
The Cockrell School of Engineering has 137 named endowed chairs and professorships for faculty members.
Last year, more than $150 million in expenditures were provided from external funding resources for research conducted by Cockrell School faculty members and students.

Gregory L. Fenves is the dean of the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He holds the Jack and Beverly Randall Dean's Chair for Excellence in Engineering. With 270 faculty, more than 7,500 students, and research expenditures exceeding $150 million a year, the Cockrell School is a top-10 ranked engineering school. Dean Fenves is actively involved in strengthening the technology commercialization process at UT Austin and leads a $350 million capital campaign for the Cockrell School.
Prior to his appointment in September 2008 as the eighth dean of the Cockrell School, Dean Fenves served as chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley from 2002 to 2007. He was on the faculty of UC Berkeley for more than 20 years and during his tenure he was a key contributor and member of the research committee for the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, a multi-disciplinary center funded by the National Science Foundation.
Learn more about the Cockrell School of Engineering's leadership team, including associate and assistant deans, and department chairs. 
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