Schmidt to receive Chancellor's Council Outstanding Teaching Award for 2009
May 27, 2009
Dr. Philip S. Schmidt, the Donald J. Douglass Centennial Professor in Engineering, has been selected to receive the Chancellor's Council Outstanding Teaching Award for 2009.
Cockrell School receives $220,000-plus to recruit, retain engineering students
May 21, 2009
In a state-wide effort to support job-growth opportunities in technology areas, the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin has received a $221,841 grant from the Texas Workforce Commission to recruit and graduate students in engineering.
2009 graduate John Bridgman copes with dyslexia, inspires others
May 19, 2009
John Bridgman didn't learn to read until the fourth grade. In the first grade he was diagnosed with dyslexia, a brain-based type of learning disability that impairs a person's ability to read. According to the International Dyslexia Association, as many as 15 percent of the population have some symptoms of the disability.
Electrical and computer engineering staffer receives advising award
May 14, 2009
Sharon Bressette, senior program coordinator and academic advisor for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, was awarded a 2009 Outstanding Advising Award by the National Academic Advising Association.
ConocoPhillips gives $1 million in departmental grants to The University of Texas at Austin
May 14, 2009
ConocoPhillips has contributed $1 million to support academic programs at The University of Texas at Austin. The grant benefits undergraduates and graduate students in the university's McCombs School of Business, Cockrell School of Engineering, Jackson School of Geosciences and College of Natural Sciences.
Chemical engineering and chemistry professor wins Electrochemical Society medal
May 14, 2009
Grant Willson, a professor of chemical engineering and chemistry at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded the 2009 Gordon E. Moore Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Solid State Science and Technology by the Electrochemical Society (ECS).
Mechanical engineering student receives academic achievement award
May 12, 2009
Charles Beaman, a mechanical engineering honors senior at The University of Texas at Austin, has received a 2009 University Co-op George H. Mitchell Student Award for Academic Excellence.
Aerospace engineering professor receives American Society of Mechanical Engineers medal
May 12, 2009
Stelios Kyriakides, professor in the department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at The University of Texas at Austin, has been selected as the 2009 Warner T. Koiter Medalist by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
Aerospace engineering undergraduate selected as Fulbright scholar
May 12, 2009
Daniel Torczynski, an aerospace engineering senior at The University of Texas at Austin, has been chosen as a Fulbright scholar.
Aerospace engineering professor honored in special issue of Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
May 12, 2009
A special edition of Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering was dedicated to J. Tinsley Oden, aerospace engineering professor at The University of Texas at Austin, in honor of his 70th birthday.
Mechanical engineering professor receives ASEE Best Paper Award
May 12, 2009
Ronald Barr, mechanical engineering professor at The University of Texas at Austin, was awarded first place for the Best Paper Award by the Gulf Southwest section of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) during its annual meeting in March at Baylor University.
Aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics professor awarded two SIAM prizes
May 12, 2009
Mary F. Wheeler, aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics professor at The University of Texas at Austin, has won the prestigious 2009 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Theodore von Kármán Prize and the SIAM Activity Group on Geosciences Career Prize.
Bonnecaze reappointed chair of Department of Chemical Engineering
May 12, 2009
Roger Bonnecaze has been reappointed as the chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin.
Faster computers, electronic devices possible after scientists create large-area graphene on copper
May 7, 2009
The creation of large-area graphene using copper may enable the manufacture of new graphene-based devices that meet the scaling requirements of the semiconductor industry, leading to faster computers and electronics, according to a team of scientists and engineers at The University of Texas at Austin.
Biomedical engineering student receives national SPIE scholarship
May 6, 2009
Brandon Nichols, a biomedical engineering senior at The University of Texas at Austin, was awarded a 2009 International Society for Optics and Photonics Scholarship in Optical Science and Engineering for his research on noninvasive skin cancer detection using optical spectroscopy.
Aerospace engineering professor receives SIAM Prize for Distinguished Service to the Profession
May 6, 2009
J. Tinsley Oden,aerospace engineering professor at The University of Texas at Austin, earned the 2009 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Prize for Distinguished Service to the Profession.
University of Texas at Austin biologists, engineers in $25 million project to develop jet fuel from algal oil
May 5, 2009
Biologists and engineers at The University of Texas at Austin have been selected to be a part of a $25 million project that would transform algal oil to jet fuel.
