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Battery Fabrication and Testing Facility

Big Texas Energy

Twenty-five years from now, nearly 10 billion humans will populate the earth. Their houses, offices, factories, cars, trains, planes and other modern-day infrastructure and transportation will require as much as 57 percent more energy than today…

Collage of alumni photos

We Met

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 filled…

Portrait of Luz Vargas

Luz in Translation

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 — one that has echoed through the region…

Ella Small in poses with her gymnastics competition video in background

Engineering a Better Athlete

Ella Small knows how to make a big impression, at the doctor’s office and on the balance beam. She won a national championship for UT’s gymnastics team for that event in 2023. She came close to a repeat win in 2024, just a few months before she…

Texas Engineers smiling in a group with Kenya local residents

Engineering Around the World

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…

Past Issues

Texas Engineer 2023-24 magazine cover

2023-2024
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Guiding AI, Engineering of the Big, Captain Cockrell

Texas Engineer 2022-23 magazine cover

2022-2023
Texas Engineer

Battery U, New Era in ECE, Internship SZN


Texas Engineer 2021-22 magazine cover

2021-2022
Texas Engineer

Surgineering, Rise of Hydrogen, Celebrating John W. Hargis


Texas Engineer 2020-21 magazine cover

2020-2021
Texas Engineer

Game On, Relentlessly Curious, Texas Engineers in Alaska

Texas Engineer 2019-20 magazine cover

2019-2020
Texas Engineer

The Futures Command, Inventing the Rechargeable World, Creativity + Coursework

Texas Engineer 2019-20 magazine cover

2018-2019
Texas Engineer

The New Generation, Our Hidden Gem, Balancing Bots


Texas Engineer 2018-19 magazine cover

2017-2018
Texas Engineer

Welcome to the Future, UT and Mexico, How Do Great Companies Sustain Success?

Texas Engineer 2016-17 magazine cover

2016-2017
Texas Engineer

The Making of the Energy University, Engineering and the Brain, Designed for Learning