News Center

January 2012

Prof's Theory Could Improve Shelf Life of Electronics

Read About Some of Our Most Recent Grads

November 2011

Thrill of Victory and Agony of Defeat (Robot Style)

UT Dallas Robotics focus of KERA's "Think"

Grants Helping Fund Cancer Research at UT Dallas

October 2011

Breakthrough Holds Promise for Hydrogen’s Use as Fuel Source

Project Studies Role of Soil in Landmine Damage

Student’s Research Ambitions Soar Aloft With His Balloons

New Center to Help Nurture Research Spinoff Companies

September 2011

Research Society Recognizes Prof’s Nanotech Work

ECS Deans of Past, Present to Observe Anniversary

Prof Gives Keynote Speech at National Wind Energy Conference

Shoes That See: UT-Dallas Invention May Aid the Blind

August 2011

New Tactic Aims to Stop Viruses in Their Tracks

July 2011

New MS in Systems Engineering and Management

Students Win Prize for Solar Water-Purification System

Will Degrees in Algorithm Engineering Be Next?

Computer Scientist Receives Prestigious Degree From University of Bristol

May 2011

NSF Career Award supports research to cut energy use in portable devices and lighting.

Two dozen spring graduates talk about their education and their plans for the future.

IEEE Honors Dean Mark Spong for His Groundbreaking Robotics Research

New Book and Internship Program Spark Kids' Interest in Nanotechnology

New mechanical engineering profs are experts in robotics, nanoscale fluid dynamics, renewable energy.

Big weekend for two students: They walked the aisle Friday, crossed the stage Saturday.

April 2011

Student is taking innovative approach to enable devices to operate on tiny amounts of ambient energy.

Goldwater Scholarship recognizes sophomore's potential to become a top nanoelectronics researcher.

March 2011

Graduate programs advance through the rankings, reaching No. 41 among U.S. public universities.

Battlebots team takes first place in its division of this year's BattleBots National Championship.

February 2011

Students credit internships with giving them real-world experience at area high-tech companies.

Texas Instruments Principal Fellow Gene Frantz talks about his lecture “Transportation 2030-2050.”

January 2011

Cochlear implant users may soon be able to use a smartphone as an interface to their hearing device.

December 2010

Computer Science Student's Team Wins a Top Award at Business Idea Contest

New labs pave the way for the continued growth of the Texas Analog Center of Excellence.

See how the latest faculty to join the Jonsson School are helping change the world for the better.

November 2010

12 Jonsson School Undergrads Among Recipients of Research Funding Awards

Recent Alum's Graduate Research at MIT Wins Recognition in Leading Journals

Student team harnesses bacteria to detect the presence of potentially hazardous petrochemicals.

New $1.25 million energy-storage project focuses on, in effect, saving solar power for a rainy day.

Yves Chabal's team is exploring one key to making hydrogen a widely used form of clean energy.

October 2010

Two computer scientists have made significant progress on a decades-old card puzzle.

Computer science team places third in national computer security competition, advancing to finals.

Grad student's results could yield important new nano-electronic applications for graphene.

Funding surges for a wide range of computer science research at the Jonsson School.

September 2010

New video provides info on the Systems Engineering and Management program

The Texas Analog Center of Excellence has awarded nearly $1.7 million in research grants.

Scholarships support grad students studying computer security and information assurance.

Electrical engineering student helps develop system that could save young children's lives.

August 2010

Grant helps engineering students explore how to use their skills to improve other people's lives.

Team creates repository of tools designed to help expand use of cloud computing.

July 2010

Sophomore Stuart Yun spent the summer doing plasma research in Dr. Matthew Goeckner's lab.

NSF CAREER Award will fund work on biosensors that employ silicon nanowire technology.

Simulating cracks in nuclear fuel rods, new project could ultimately boost power plant efficiency.

June 2010

Cybersecurity researchers are exploring how to maintain privacy in a cloud-computing environment.

UT Dallas Computer Scientist Receives Prestigious Honor

May 2010

New Engineering Faculty Fill Three Endowed Chairs

Going to School With Dad Turns Out Well For EE Prof Larry Overzet's Daughter

System for Monitoring the Internet Could Also Monitor for Health Problems

Dean Spong Delivers Keynote Address At International Robotics Conference

Faculty Work With North Texas Company to Develop Quickly Deployable Networks

April 2010

Computer Science Student Wins UT Dallas Contest to Develop Campus iPhone App

CS Head Gopal Gupta Named President of Association for Logic Programming

Project Seeks to Significantly Improve Accuracy of Emotion-Recognition Software

Three Faculty Receive Seed Funding For Promising Early-Stage Research

Interim head of bioengineering sees great prospects for research that advances medicine.

Mechanical engineering's Hongbing Lu, first holder of the school's Louis Beecherl Jr. Chair.

March 2010

Analog facility will focus on high-frequency semiconductors for scanning and imaging.

New atomic-resolution microscope strengthens efforts to develop next-generation semiconductors.

Next-generation mobile technology will forcus on the proliferation of antennas.

Researchers have released open-source software for developing tiny wearable sensors.

Researchers are working to develop next-generation interactive mobile technology.

February 2010

Jonsson School Alumnus, Ericsson CEO Among Those Honored at Gala

Program Provides Students With Skills to Engineer and Manage Complex Projects

Summer Program Gives Undergraduates Chance to Do Computer Science Research

Faculty receive analog research funding to advance imaging, sensor and lighting technology.

Advances promise improvements in semiconductors for both health care and solar power.

January 2010

Cyber Security Research Center Offers Repository of New Data Mining Tools

Faculty Play Leading Role in Several Grants From New Medical Technologies Consortium

A $2.7 million program could become a model for teaching kids about computer science.

December 2009

Nosratinia Elected IEEE Fellow for Work on Cooperative Wireless Communications

CS Head Discusses Growth Plans With The Dallas Morning News

Innovative research helped win Fatemeh Hassanipour the region's Young Engineer of the Year award.

November 2009

Agreement Makes It Easier for Richland Students to Transfer to UT Dallas

Prof Examines Challenge of Making Chips With Layers Just Atoms Thick

Investitures Recognize Professorships Made Possible by Texas Instruments

UT Dallas has started offering grad degrees in biomedical engineering.

October 2009

Four Faculty Working With Companies That Won $5 Million in State Funding

Student teams pitted their robot designs against each other at the Fearless Engineering VEX Robotics Competition.

Funding tops $1 million for effort to enhance communication among emergency responders.

New way to make solar cells would use nanoimprint lithography to produce nano-structured devices.

Mechanical engineering students replace scissors with a battle-axe at a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

September 2009

Experts at Symposium Share Ideas on Emergency and Disaster Preparedness

Jonsson School Receives Several Gifts Among $16.8 Million Given to UT Dallas

UT Dallas-Based Consortium Targets Further Improvements in Semiconductors

Data easily extracted from social networking activities could come back to haunt people.

UT Dallas President David E. Daniel welcomed the opening of a new Texas Instruments plant nearby.

Biomedical electronics experts convened at the Jonsson School to map out the field's future.

August 2009

UT Dallas Engineering School Adds 10 New Faculty

New Computer Science head Gopal Gupta says he plans to encourage more entrepreneurial activities.

Three-year project could greatly improve the quality of life of many cochlear implant users.

CS prof has received an NSF Career Award to develop software that summarizes meetings.

July 2009

A new tool is designed to mathematically detect anger in a phone caller's voice.

June 2009

Loizou Is Honored for Helping Improve the Lives of the Hearing-Impaired

Governor visits campus to sign bill aimed at creating more top research universities in Texas.

May 2009

Computer Scientist Bhavani Thuraisingham Discusses Cybersecurity on Ch. 33 News

Computer Science Prof Ivor Page Receives UT System Outstanding Teaching Award

Ritual Honors Chaired Scholars and Their Benefactors

April 2009

NSBE Chapter Is Named University's Best Student Organization of the Year

Researchers Develop Wireless Health Monitoring

Team merges semantic Web technology with geospatial information systems.

March 2009

NASA Launches School's Students, Faculty and Staff Into Orbit - Sort of

New Program to Help Underrepresented Students Ace Math and Science Courses

EE Prof Is Named a Distinguished Lecturer by the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society

Several faculty are working with companies that just received almost $8 million in state funding.

The new minor in nanoscience and technology has attracted students from a variety of majors.

Mario Rotea is head of the school's new Mechanical Engineering Department.

February 2009

High School Girls Get Introduction to Engineering During New Annual Event

Recent MSEE Grad Wins Award for Paper About Improving Radar Performance

Students Get Hands-on Experience in Spacecraft Systems Engineering

Computing Machinery Group Taps Prabhakaran for His Multimedia Expertise

Expert on Analog Electronics to Join UT Dallas

January 2009

Matthew Goeckner Named Interim Chair of Mechanical Engineering Department

Computer scientist Murat Kantarcioglu has received an NSF CAREER Award.