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The Malbusca launch site in Portugal.

Partners in Space

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March 4, 2026
Cockrell School of Engineering | Portugal licenses its first-ever spaceport following UT-led feasibility study.
The sensor on top of a self-driving car

Rethinking Safety Certification for Autonomous Systems

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February 27, 2026
Cockrell School of Engineering | Autonomous systems–from driverless cars to robots–increasingly operate in open-ended, evolving environments that are difficult to fully specify in advance.
Texas Engineer Moriba Jah

UT To Enhance U.S. Space Force Detection, Response to Security Threats

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February 25, 2026
UT News | UT Austin is the first university to receive funding from the Texas Space Commission, using an integrated approach that combines academic research, industry partnerships and high-performance computing to rapidly detect and respond to threats in orbit.
Texas Engineering students sitting at tables in Texas Inventionworks

What They Build in the Shadows

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February 23, 2026
Cockrell School of Engineering | When Texas Inventionworks student staffers aren’t helping others, they’re developing their own projects.
Texas Engineer John-Paul Clarke

6 Longhorns Elected to the National Academy of Engineering

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February 10, 2026
UT News | Two faculty members, including Professor John-Paul Clarke, and four alumni were selected to the prestigious academy.
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Fail Tales

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January 29, 2026
Texas Engineer Magazine | Engineering is all about trying new things, and sometimes that means failing until you succeed. Hear from professors and alumni about their most epic fails, and how they recovered.
Guillermo Nieves

Engineering is... Not My Job

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January 27, 2026
Texas Engineer Magazine | Meet a few of the hundreds of staffers (who are not engineers) that are critical to the continued success of the Cockrell School of Engineering.
Cars driving in traffic at sunset

Sorry I'm Late... Traffic

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January 22, 2026
Texas Engineer Magazine | Every evening when you’re stuck in wall-to-wall traffic, know that our engineers are working on it. Unfortunately, traffic is not an easy problem to solve.
Thinh Doan

Thinh Doan Wins Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize

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Written by: Kendra Harris
December 15, 2025
Thinh Doan has been honored with the 2025 IEEE Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize.
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Annual Workshop Brings Together Experts at the Intersection of Machine Learning and Scientific Computation

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December 5, 2025
The third annual Scientific Machine Learning Workshop hosted by the Oden Institute brought together researchers and centered around a focused theme: Scientific Machine Learning for Differential Equations. 
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Eleven UT Faculty Members Receive NSF CAREER Awards

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December 1, 2025
Texas Research | A half-dozen Texas Engineers, including ASE/EM's Thinh Doan and Jin Yang, have been selected by the National Science Foundation to receive CAREER Awards, a high honor for junior faculty.
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Texas Engineers Among Highly Cited Researchers

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November 12, 2025

Nanshu Lu and Karen Willcox are among a group of nine Texas Engineering faculty members named to Clarivate's Highly Cited Researchers list for 2025.

Published by the Cockrell School of Engineering

Apptronik robot doing hook 'em horns

Countdown to Commercialization

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Written by: Kendra Harris and Andrea Tinning
November 5, 2025

Our faculty and students are working hard across the department to change the world by transferring their research to tangible, commercialized products.

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Hundreds Gather for Annual SIAM TX-LA Section Meeting

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October 31, 2025

Spearheaded by Prof. Tan Bui-Thanh, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, in partnership with the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, hosted the 8th annual SIAM Texas-Louisiana Sectional Meeting this fall.

Published by the Oden Institute

Hum Mandell

Mission Ready: Time, Talent and Purpose

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October 30, 2025

Distinguished alumnus Humboldt “Hum” Mandell is featured in this UT News story that highlights his work in NASA's mission control when astronauts walked on the Moon, the great loves of his life and UT Austin where it all began, and where his philanthropy continues to make an impact. 

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