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Texas Engineer Maruthi Akella and graduate student working on aerospace machinery in his lab.

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Cockrell School of Engineering | Maruthi R. Akella, professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at The University of Texas at Austin, has been named recipient of the 2026 von Kármán Lecture in Astronautics Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).
Krithik Vishwanath standing in front of ECJ building smiling with arms crossed.

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UT News | The triple-majoring Cockrell School of Engineering and College of Natural Sciences student won the prestigious Churchill Scholarship.
Thinh Doan

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Holly Bhasin, senior academic advisor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics (ASE/EM) at The University of Texas at Austin, has been named a recipient of the 2026 Texas Exes James W. Vick Award for Academic Advising.
The Malbusca launch site in Portugal.

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

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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

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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

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

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

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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

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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

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Thinh Doan has been honored with the 2025 IEEE Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize.
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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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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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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.

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