Gautham Ramanarayanan, undergraduate student in the Chandra Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, won 2nd place in the Student Research Competition at the 2026 IEEE Texas Symposium on Wireless and Microwave Circuits and Systems.

A paper led by PhD student Ian Anderson won the Best Paper Award (Second Prize) at the IEEE International Conference on Microwave Acoustics & Mechanics.

The booming semiconductor industry is hungry for talent and ripe for innovation. Texas is the capitol of the U.S. semiconductor resurgence, and with over $1.4 billion in semiconductor investments, The University of Texas at Austin is at the center of it all.

Three Texas ECE faculty, Poulami Das, Linran Fan, and Shyam Shankar, have been selected to receive a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Engineers at The University of Texas at Austin are leading an academic and industry all-star team that aims to revolutionize the production of semiconductor chips with a new 3D printing method. The new approach, which the researchers are calling Holographic Metasurface Nano-Lithography (HMNL), aims for faster, more efficient and environmentally friendly production of advanced electronics.

UT Austin continues to lead in federally prioritized research and development areas, closely aligning with the White House’s recent memo on national R&D priorities.

Seeking to ensure America’s national security and global military leadership, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency has selected the Texas Institute for Electronics at The University of Texas at Austin to develop the next generation of high-performing semiconductor microsystems for the Department of Defense.

A technological leap sits on the horizon, with exciting capabilities like quantum computing, soft robotics and more coming down the pike. To bring these ideas to reality will require engineering new classes of materials that make up their building blocks.