Texas Engineer Magazine

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.

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% more energy than today...

It never stops at the Cockrell School. This year was chock-full of amazing discoveries, prestigious honors, historic moments and a lot of fun.

By the time Edith Clarke joined The University of Texas at Austin, becoming the first female electrical engineering professor in the U.S., she had already achieved legendary status among her peers.

Fariborz Maseeh’s transformational investment sets the stage for Texas Engineers to confront the world’s most critical problems.

It's been a busy year of research innovation in our Texas Engineering community. In the Cockrell School, researchers identify the biggest problems facing our society and take unique approaches to solve them.

In 15 years as an associate dean, John Ekerdt helped build a collaborative research culture and served as a catalyst for the transforming skyline of the engineering campus.

Ph.D. student Siva Saket Sripada persevered through the pandemic to find friendship and research collaboration on the Forty Acres.

This fall, UT hosted several robotics events, with experts from around the world converging on the Forty Acres to discuss the future of the field.

It's been 40 years since I walked into my first civil engineering class at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The curriculum I studied back then is largely the same as what our students at The University of Texas at Austin experience today.