2024-2025 Issue

Welcome to another year of Texas Engineer magazine. As dean, it’s been a privilege to watch everything our courageous engineers have done in the last year. I’m so proud of our students, faculty, staff and alumni working hard to solve the world’s…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…