Texas Engineer Magazine

It’s harder than you’d think to access a network of forbidden tunnels on the Forty Acres that reside just beneath our feet. And it’s easier than you’d imagine to access one of the largest microgrids in the United States.

Every day, hacks are all around us, just waiting to be taken advantage of. Our Texas Engineers use their skills to change the world, but it turns out engineering principles come in handy in daily life as well.

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

The Cockrell School of Engineering is a place of innovation, dedicated research and discovery. While the allure of the latest scientific journal or research report definitely calls to us, nothing scratches the reading itch quite like a good book.

Texas is the capital of the U.S. semiconductor revolution and UT the engine behind it.

At the Cockrell School, our engineers tackle the world’s most pressing challenges, and that means turning research into real-world products and building companies to disrupt industries.

Quantum mechanics won’t help you shrink like Ant-Man, but physics really does get weird at the quantum level. For centuries, a set of physical rules governed the behavior of atoms, the building blocks for all matter in the universe...

The refugee camp stood at the foot of the wooded Greek hills. Just inside the gate, along one of the high concrete walls, lay a long, narrow strip of gravel that Thomas Eichelberger and other Cockrell School students had traveled more than 6,000…

For the first time in over 50 years, an American spacecraft has landed on the Moon. Overnight, the lunar lander Odysseus—called Odie for short—became a household name.

In the high-altitude villages of Peru, where the air is thin and the mountains stand as silent sentinels, a quiet battle is underway. It’s a fight not for land or resources but for the survival of a language...