This Year So Far
It never stops at the Cockrell School. This year was chock-full of amazing discoveries, prestigious honors, historic moments and a lot of fun. Read on to relive it all. 🎉 Our engineering education pedigree is from young and sweet, but we celebrated…
Tales from the Tunnels
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. The key to both is Xavier…
Life Hacks
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. Every day, hacks are all around us,…
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…
Cockrell Book Club
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.…
Chips Ahoy
In a small lab, surrounded by fellow students, Young He equips a second layer of protective equipment. A blue plastic smock and a face shield cover his clean suit and booties. Standing over a large sink, He grabs a large plastic bottle and begins…
Engineering Entrepreneurs
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. The Cockrell School has graduated thousands of students who…
WTF is Quantum?
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, and enabled the…
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…
Making a Moon Mission
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. Just hours away from landing on the moon, Odie experienced a cabling issue on one…