Dr. Constantine Caramanis, an electrical engineering assistant professor, and Moss Shimek, a mechanical engineering teaching assistant, were elected to receive Texas Exes Teaching Awards.
The Texas Exes have honored a faculty member and graduate instructor in each school and college annually since 1982. After accepting nominations from all university students, a committee from each school selects the award recipients.
Caramanis joined the faculty of The University of Texas at Austin in 2006. He is a member of the Wireless Communications and Networking Group and has worked on applications in telecommunications, the Internet and air traffic management. He has developed algorithms for dynamic and autonomous reconfiguration of various aspects of air space to account forthe impact of weather uncertainty.
Moss Shimek, a mechanical engineering graduate student, was part of a team that won first place in the university's Idea to Product™ (I2P™) competition with an idea for a human-powered battery charger. He enrolled as a freshman in 1995 and is now pursuing his doctorate.
