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‘Lab-on-a-Chip’ Can Tell the Difference Between COVID and the Flu

Three years into the COVID-19 pandemic, accurate testing remains a challenge, even more so as the virus has mutated over time, becoming more contagious with symptoms that are hard to tell apart from other illnesses. A new diagnostic device that can differentiate between COVID-19 and the flu, developed by researchers at The University of Texas at

Neeley Pate

Neeley Pate Receives Cockrell School Outstanding Scholar-Leader Award

Neeley Pate, 2023 graduate of the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been awarded the Outstanding Scholar-Leader Award from the Cockrell School of Engineering.
NSF CAREER Winner s 2023

Three Texas ECE Faculty Receive NSF CAREER Awards

Three Texas ECE faculty, Jon Tamir, Edison Thomaz, and Yaoyao Jia, have been selected to receive a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). 
Capstone

Celebrate ECE: Capstone Design Showcase Winners

Texas ECE announced the winning teams from the Spring 2022 Capstone Design Showcase at Celebrate ECE on Tuesday, April 25, 2023.
Celebrate ECE

Celebrate ECE: Honoring the Top Students in 2022-2023

Texas ECE hosted Celebrate ECE on Tuesday, April 25, 2023 to honor students for their valuable contributions to the Texas ECE community. 
Rudy D. Garza

Alumni Profile: Rudy D. Garza

Rudy D. Garza is the President & CEO at CPS Energy. He received his BSEE from Texas ECE in 1996. Currently he serves on the External Advisory Committee of Texas ECE. We sat down with Rudy to find out more about his time in Texas ECE and his successful career in industry.
Amazon Science Hub

Amazon Teams Up With UT To Establish New Science Hub

The University of Texas at Austin and Amazon are launching a science and engineering research partnership to enhance understanding in a variety of areas, including video streaming, search and information retrieval and robotics.
Linford Scholars

16 Texas ECE Students Named Inaugural Linford Scholars

The endowment will provide need-based scholarship support for high-potential students from low- and middle-income families and will support approximately 100 engineering students per year.
Deji Akinwande

Deji Akinwande Named 2023 MRS Fellow

Deji Akinwande, professor in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, has been named a 2023 Fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS Fellow) for “contributions to the development of wafer-scale monolayer graphene, and the realization of flexible nanosystems.”
GRFP Winners

Four Texas ECE Students Win Prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

Isha Chakraborty, Greg Holste, Hannah Lee, and John Ting of Texas ECE were selected for the program which recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees at accredited United States institutions.