Texas Engineer Magazine

For parents and students alike, going to college is one of the more stressful and also exciting parts of life. We sat down with one of our students’ favorite advisors — Mckinlaye Harkavy, assistant director of advising at Engineering Student Services — to learn more about the advice she gives to students, the trends she’s seeing (the ’90s are back!) and the challenges today’s students face.

Artificial intelligence could be the defining technology of our time. Texas Engineers are hard at work refining and improving the technology, imagining new ways to deploy AI to solve important problems and putting up guardrails to protect users — and the technology itself.

New partnerships, major accolades and exciting research breakthroughs were part of a litany of highlights for our Texas Engineers.

Alumnus takes on sustainable non-dairy dessert one pint at a time

Art and engineering may seem like two vastly different fields, but they are more closely connected than one might think.

Started last fall, Launch Texas aims to give students the entrepreneurial education needed to create their own space tech companies and serve as a hub for Texas space innovation, bringing together the aerospace community, academia and VCs.

Thomas Connolly’s quest to make engineering more accessible through teaching, engineering and international studies

Biomedical engineering associate professor Jeanne Stachowiak received the 2023 Michael and Kate Bárány Award for her paradigm-shifting discovery in the field of membrane biophysics.

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

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.