Students

Gabriela Nomura, this year's Cockrell Outstanding Scholar-Leader, is on her way to becoming a physician/engineer, with a goal of designing medical devices while also working with patients. 

Over the next year, several researchers from the Cockrell School of Engineering will perform hands-on housing research using units donated by ROKiT Homes.

Ella Small knows how to make a big impression, at the doctor’s office and on the balance beam.

We asked our Texas Engineering student and alumni communities how they met their bestie or significant other during their time at the Cockrell School. Grab some snacks, a bottle of wine and maybe even a few tissues as you read these stories.

Iman Salafian is driven to improve care for newborn babies, leading two collaborative startups that emerged from a medical devices course. 

The buzz of machines in project labs and the steady hum of conversation in study spaces returned along with our Texas Engineering community as Longhorns came back to campus for the first time in a year and a half.

We are creating an educational culture centered on student projects.

In their quest to build a better sling that doesn’t rely on trees, a group of entrepreneurial students invented a crowd-pleasing new product and launching a unique startup.

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.

Civil engineering senior Savanna Smith has a particular interest in biomimicry.

For first-generation students, the unwritten rules and expectations of higher education can present real challenges.

This year marked the Cockrell School’s first-ever study abroad Maymester course on the island of Ireland.

More so than any other generation, Gen Z students are eager to get out of the classroom and learn in the real world.

On March 13, 2020, the coronavirus pandemic sent UT students home packing. The remainder of the spring semester would be spent online, distanced from their peers and professors and faced with a new, unexpected challenge: social isolation.

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

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.

Summer is a time for rest, relaxation and growth. For Cockrell School of Engineering students, it’s also a time to get their feet wet working for large companies, government entities and other organizations. For these students, it’s internship season.

Ph.D. student Enrique Velasquez Morquecho leads SNaP, a student organization that aims to bring together other organizations for shared community.

Matthew Nattier just completed his aerospace engineering degree with a special honor – he was named the Cockrell School’s Outstanding Scholar-Leader for the class of 2024.

Another academic year is over, and more than 1,700 newly minted Cockrell School graduates are moving on to their next adventure.