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Technology developed by researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering will help soldiers stationed in some of the driest places on Earth get access to clean drinking water.

Where Longhorns once played basketball, robots now play soccer. Where athletes once worked together on the court, engineers and scientists now collaborate on next-generation robotics. The newly renovated Anna Hiss Gym is now home to an ever-growing UT Robotics umbrella where robots are being developed and tested as we prepare for a world where these machines become even more present in our everyday lives.

Cockrell School of Engineering alumna Columbia Mishra has been named the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Foundation’s inaugural Lakshmi Singh Early Career Leadership Award winner. The award, named for a 31-year-old ASME leader who died unexpectedly in 2015, honors a young female engineer who distinguishes herself as a rising volunteer leader within ASME.

A new type of soil created by engineers at The University of Texas at Austin can pull water from the air and distribute it to plants, potentially expanding the map of farmable land around the globe to previously inhospitable places and reducing water use in agriculture at a time of growing droughts.

Prof. Manthiram shares his research path briefly, his perspective on current research performed on high-nickel cathodes, and a glimpse of his future research directions.

The Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering's undergraduate program has once again been named one of the nation’s top mechanical engineering programs in the country. In the latest U.S. News & World Report undergraduate rankings, our undergraduate program ranked No. 10.

Maura Borrego, professor in the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, was recently honored as a Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education.

Leyuan Zhang, a materials science and engineering graduate student in the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering, received the prestigious MRS Graduate Student Award for best materials science graduate research at the 2020 Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting. Leyuan is the only graduate student from UT Austin this year.