THIS YEAR SO FAR
Brimming with breakthrough research, awards and honors, student innovations and tons more, every year in the Cockrell School of Engineering is one to remember. And — even as the coronavirus pandemic turned the world on its head — 2020 has certainly been no different.
BEFORE COVID hit the U.S.
Our Girl Day event yet again drew thousands of young kids and their families to learn all about engineering and other STEM disciplines
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New Department Chairs Named
The entire Cockrell School community swiftly shifted to a new normal — from pivoting research projects to COVID-related solutions to transitioning courses entirely online. Read in this issue:
Michael Webber launches his newest energy-focused PBS series, “Power Trip: The Story of Energy”
Aerospace engineering students design a rover that can write your name on the moon
Cockrell School publishes 2020 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Plan
Texas Engineers Honored by National Academy of Engineering
New Academy Members
- Bob Gilbert, professor and chair of the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
- Robert O. Ambrose, alumnus, Ph.D. ME 1991
- Sara Ortwein, alumna, B.S. CE 1980
- Amarpreet Singh Sawhney, alumnus, M.S. ChE 1989, Ph.D. ChE 1992
Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering
- Grant Willson, chemical engineering professor, for his pioneering work enabling the extreme miniaturization of microelectronic devices
2020 Commencement Celebration goes virtual, featuring congratulatory messages from people throughout the Texas Engineering community
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Computational engineering student Henry Rossiter builds UT’s Protect Texas Together app for Longhorns to track COVID-19 symptoms and record results, find resources and aid in the safe return to campus this fall
New and continuing research endeavors highlight Texas Engineering expertise
- National Science Foundation AI Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning
- National Science Foundation National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure program
- National Science Foundation Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure project
- U.S. Department of Energy Multidisciplinary Simulation Center
- Selected for NASA’s Small Spacecraft Technology Program
- UT Portugal Program
- Nuclear Energy eXperimental Testing Research Alliance
David Allen’s Project Astra
kicks off and will establish a sensor network for monitoring emissions across an oil and gas production region
The Cockrell School and Texas Engineering Executive Education start new graduate certificate programs in Mechanical Engineering Controls and Petroleum Engineering Data Analytics
Faculty Research Makes Major Headlines
→ Read more of our stories and headlines from this year so far
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