From Building with LEGOs to Building High-Performing Teams
Melissa Evers (B.S. Civil Engineering 1998) has always been building. In her childhood, that meant building with LEGOs, dreaming of architectural plans, conceptualizing structures and spaces, and designing homes. Now, as the VP of Software and…
‘None of Us Are as Smart as All of Us’
Roger Bonnecaze took the helm as Interim Dean of the Cockrell School of Engineering in July 2021 following Sharon L. Wood’s appointment to UT Austin’s Executive Vice President and Provost. Born into a family of chemical engineers – his dad worked…
Know the Questions—and Help Find the Answers
Growing up, the dinner table talk in Mark Papermaster’s (B.S. ECE 1982) family gravitated toward science – what seems like an unconventional topic of conversation until you find out his father, Dr. Ben Papermaster, was a noted cancer researcher and…
To the Moon and Back…and Back Again
On October 13, 2020, Blue Origin — the spaceflight company formed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in 2000 — celebrated the 13th successful consecutive launch of its New Shepard vehicle, taking another step forward in its mission to lower the cost of…
The Right Time. The Right Place.
It has been almost a year since Diana Marculescu — a renowned expert in energy-aware computing and a former faculty member and researcher at Carnegie Mellon University — began her tenure as the chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer…
Relentlessly Curious
From humble beginnings to running the nation’s top pet destination, Cockrell School alumnus Sumit Singh has enjoyed an exceptional career marked by perseverance and integrity — two important characteristics of a leader. In early fall, Sumit sat down…