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January 31, 2023

SMARTTrack Plans for the Next Generation of Vehicle Travel

Transportation has always been a dynamic and fast-paced industry where regulation frequently plays catch up with innovation. A new Texan partnership between academia, industry and state and local governments aims to get one step ahead of the next transportation ... Read the story

January 30, 2023

Student Rocket Lab’s Launch Quest Gets a Boost from Lockheed Martin

Lockheed Martin is supporting the Texas Rocket Engineering Lab (TREL) at the Cockrell School of Engineering in its years-long endeavor to become the first student-led university team to launch a single-stage, bipropellant rocket to the edge ... Read the story

January 24, 2023

Report: Geothermal Energy Poised for Global Growth

A new multi-disciplinary report that includes several Texas Engineers lays out the case for geothermal energy as the next big source of clean energy in Texas, with the ability to scale globally over the next few ... Read the story

January 23, 2023

Radu Marculescu Named ACM Fellow

Radu Marculescu, professor in the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, has been named a Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) for 2022 for "contributions to ... Read the story

January 20, 2023

Texas Engineers Elected to National Academy of Inventors

Two faculty members from the Cockrell School of Engineering’s Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering have been elected Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). 

Professors Ray Chen and Al Bovik were chosen for "demonstrating a highly prolific ... Read the story

January 13, 2023

Hydrogen's Place in an Increasingly Connected Energy Web Shows Need for Regulatory Change

Capturing the potential profits and jobs offered by a growing hydrogen industry may need as much innovation in regulatory agencies as it does in the research laboratories, according to new research from The University of Texas at Austin. The ... Read the story