Large numbered 17 balloons floating on UT campus

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…

CHP building in UT skyline

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,…

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…

Mix of logos from companies founded by Cockrell engineers

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…

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…

Polaroids of Longhorns from early days

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…

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.…