Courageous Engineers

Peyton Yates helped make the EERC spiral staircase a reality.

Gabe Muoneke never lost sight of his dream to live and work in Nigeria, where he felt he could make the biggest difference.

Texas Engineering alumni lead industries, launch companies and help develop solutions that improve lives around the world.

We sat down with John Shebat, a mechanical engineering junior, backstroker on the Texas Men's Swimming and Diving team and 2020 Olympic Games contender.

For over a decade, Moriba Jah has been on a crusade to inform the public about the growth and consequences of free-floating space debris.

Alumnus Sam Dawson began his career at Pape-Dawson Engineers.

After graduating from the Cockrell School in 2007 with a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering, Adrianne Rosales knew that research was her passion.

Texas Engineering alumni lead industries, launch companies and help develop solutions that improve lives around the world.

Texas Engineering alumni lead industries, launch companies and help develop solutions that improve lives around the world.

Alumnus Gary Thomas has spent the past 40 years assembling one of the largest-known private collections of Ford automobiles.

Self-quantification is making major strides in the consumer and commercial health care industries, and alumna Jackie Leverett Wasson has her finger on the pulse of this technological breakthrough.

As the principal investigator on NASA’s New Horizons mission, UT alumnus Alan Stern led a team of more than 2,500 scientists and engineers in a history-making effort to explore the Pluto system and the Kuiper Belt.

John Goodenough was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering development of the lithium-ion battery.

Driven by a passion for helping others, Mamadou Balde has developed a motivational speaking project aimed at benefitting our most underrepresented communities.

We sat down with Mark Papermaster to get his thoughts on leadership, taking risks and the importance of investing in future generations.

How two ‘anti‑establishment’ alumni entrepreneurs are reshaping the probiotic beverage market

For UT alumnus and Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith, the company’s mission represents a full-circle opportunity to provide a new generation with the same inspiration he received from earlier aerospace accomplishments.

The world learned on October 9, 2019, that John Goodenough had won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his contributions to the development of the lithium-ion battery.

A conversation with Chewy CEO Sumit Singh (M.S.E. 2003)

I’ve grown from a girl who created a makeshift vulpine friend by attaching legs to a stuffed sock and coloring it with red Sharpie to an engineer with valuable skills from my first passion. Perhaps I am crafty like a fox. I am also crafty like an engineer.