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Joshua Kennedy Davis, a first-year aerospace engineering major from Dallas, TX, is one of 43 Black undergraduate students across the nation selected for the inaugural Class of 2021 Patti Grace Smith Fellows.

Manuel Rausch was selected to receive a 2021 National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award to study the mechanics of blood clots.

Tan Bui-Thanh has been elected as the secretary for the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).

NASA is funding a major project on the future of autonomous air cargo transportation, and The University of Texas at Austin will be playing a lead role.

Maruthi Akella has been selected to receive the Dirk Brouwer Award by the American Astronautical Society for “seminal contributions to learning and adaptive control for spaceflight applications.”

Professor Thomas Hughes has been awarded SIAM's 2021 Ralph E. Kleinman Prize for outstanding research that bridges the gap between mathematics and applications.

The department is pleased to announce that John-Paul Clarke has joined Texas ASE/EM as a professor and holder of the Ernest Cockrell Jr. Memorial Chair in the Cockrell School of Engineering.

Ufuk Topcu was selected to receive the IEEE CSS 2020 Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize.

Maruthi Akella was selected to receive the IEEE CSS 2020 Award for Technical Excellence in Aerospace Control.

Mary Wheeler was selected by the Cockrell School of Engineering to receive the 2020 Billy & Claude R. Hocott Distinguished Centennial Engineering Research Award.