April 2013
Monday, 29 April 2013
Six faculty members from the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have been selected to receive Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards totaling $2.1 million from the National Science Foundation.
Friday, 26 April 2013
Three Cockrell School of Engineering seniors will be recognized on April 26 by Texas Exes for their leadership at The University of Texas at Austin.
The Cockrell School recipients are civil engineering major Rosaura Estrada, chemical engineering major Julie Fogarty and biomedical engineering and computational biology major James Salazar. These three seniors are mentors, researchers and leaders in the Cockrell School.
Thursday, 18 April 2013
The McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering boasted more National Science Foundation (NSF) Fellowship recipients than any other chemical engineering department nationwide for 2013. Twelve McKetta students recently received NSF Fellowships to support their graduate studies, nearly 42 percent more than runner-up University of California, Berkeley.
Tuesday, 16 April 2013
Sai P. Gourisankar, a chemical engineering sophomore, has received the Goldwater Scholarship, the premier undergraduate award of its type in mathematics, natural sciences and engineering.
Wednesday, 03 April 2013
A multidisciplinary team from The University of Texas at Austin, including a Cockrell School of Engineering Ph.D. student, recently won first place and a $10,000 award in the Power Across Texas Energy Innovation Challenge. As part of the competition, teams developed proposals to bring power to colonias, unincorporated neighborhoods with inadequate infrastructure and substandard housing across Texas’ border with Mexico.
March 2013
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
Circuit of the Americas Chairman Bobby Epstein (center) talks with UT Solar Car team members and faculty sponsor Dr. Gary Hallock about the immense planning and experimentation that goes into building the UT solar car that will compete in the Formula Sun race in Austin in June at the COTA track.
Circuit of The Americas will sponsor of The University of Texas at Austin Solar Vehicles Team (UTSVT) participating in the Formula Sun Grand Prix June 24-29. The Circuit’s $50,000 sponsorship will cover costs associated with the production of the university team’s solar cars, including the photovoltaic cells that cover the body of the car and convert sunlight into electricity that powers the car’s motor.
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
Until now, the invisibility cloaks put forward by scientists have been fairly bulky devices – an obvious flaw for those interested in Harry Potter-style applications.
However, researchers from The University of Texas at Austin have now developed a cloak that is just micrometers thick and can hide three-dimensional objects from microwaves in their natural environment, in all directions and from all of the observers’ positions.
Monday, 18 March 2013
From the gushing geysers of “Giant,” to the plutonium-powered time machine of “Back to the Future,” Hollywood has entertained us with unforgettable, often iconic images of energy. “Energy at the Movies” is an hour-long educational special that illustrates the history of energy using Hollywood films as a road map. The show promises to enlighten audiences about the ways films influence how we think about energy, and in turn, how we influence energy policy.
Tuesday, 05 March 2013
Every March, a slew of innovators, educators, entrepreneurs, media, entertainers and others descend on Austin for nearly two weeks of South by Southwest action. Again this year, the Cockrell School of Engineering is sharing ideas and driving conversations in multiple ways at SXSW 2013.
February 2013
Thursday, 28 February 2013
“We want our entrepreneurs to be as celebrated as our athletes,” said University of Texas at Austin professor of innovation Bob Metcalfe, Ph.D., at a recent meeting of The University of Texas Board of Regents.
Metcalfe gave a brief overview of the “Longhorn Startup Program,” a nine-member consortium operated out of the Cockrell School of Engineering’s Innovation Center and created to stimulate an entrepreneurial culture among UT faculty and students. Its most recent success is M87, Inc. “Our bright new star,” said Metcalfe, the Center’s director.
Friday, 22 February 2013
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has selected Zheng Wang of the Cockrell School of Engineering as a 2013 Sloan Research Fellow.
Monday, 18 February 2013
Rebekah Scheuerle, a chemical engineering senior at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship to fund graduate research focused on developing affordable, efficient and novel therapeutics to fight diseases such as cancer.
Monday, 11 February 2013
Starting this fall, students around the globe will have the opportunity to participate in nine dynamic massive open online courses (MOOCs) to be offered by The University of Texas at Austin.
The Cockrell School of Engineering will offer two of the nine courses. These courses, titled “Introduction to Embedded Systems” and “Energy, Technology & Policy,” will give students access to the school’s world-class faculty and engineering curriculum.
Thursday, 07 February 2013
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced today that two professors and two alumni from the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have been elected to the prestigious academy.
Wednesday, 06 February 2013
Professor Thomas F. Edgar, a chemical engineer with extensive teaching, administrative, research and industry experience, has been named interim director of the Energy Institute at The University of Texas at Austin.
Wednesday, 06 February 2013
The University of Texas at Austin Solar Vehicles Team will serve as the local university host for the Formula Sun Grand Prix event June 24-29 and will organize a variety of activities for the participating teams.
Tuesday, 29 January 2013
C. Grant Willson, professor of chemical engineering and chemistry at The University of Texas at Austin, has won the Japan Prize, an international award similar to the Nobel Prize, for his development of a process that is now used to manufacture nearly all of the microprocessors and memory chips in the world.
Tuesday, 29 January 2013
The Cockrell School of Engineering Faculty Excellence Awards were presented to four distinguished faculty members in recognition of exemplary teaching and professional leadership.
