Charlie Sander’s Quest to Strengthen Cybersecurity in Schools
Growing up, alumnus Charlie Sander (B.S. ECE 1978) was fascinated with electronic devices. After spending much of his adolescence taking apart radios and televisions, it seemed only fitting he would go on to pursue a degree in electrical engineering…
A Lifelong Love of Nature Drives This Texas Engineer
Carlos Torres-Verdín forged a bond with nature at an early age. As an avid hiker and climber, he grew up traversing the trails and scaling the mountain peaks near Mexico City, developing a fascination with rocks along the way. Years later, this…
Bob Metcalfe’s Next Big Thing
Metcalfe is preparing to wind down his fifth — yes, fifth — career, and he is already starting to think about number six. You may remember Metcalfe from such achievements as co-inventing Ethernet, co-founding pioneering technology company 3Com and…
From Building with LEGOs to Building High-Performing Teams
Melissa Evers (B.S. Civil Engineering 1998) has always been building. In her childhood, that meant building with LEGOs, dreaming of architectural plans, conceptualizing structures and spaces, and designing homes. Now, as the VP of Software and…
‘None of Us Are as Smart as All of Us’
Roger Bonnecaze took the helm as Interim Dean of the Cockrell School of Engineering in July 2021 following Sharon L. Wood’s appointment to UT Austin’s Executive Vice President and Provost. Born into a family of chemical engineers – his dad worked…
Know the Questions—and Help Find the Answers
Growing up, the dinner table talk in Mark Papermaster’s (B.S. ECE 1982) family gravitated toward science – what seems like an unconventional topic of conversation until you find out his father, Dr. Ben Papermaster, was a noted cancer researcher and…
To the Moon and Back…and Back Again
On October 13, 2020, Blue Origin — the spaceflight company formed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in 2000 — celebrated the 13th successful consecutive launch of its New Shepard vehicle, taking another step forward in its mission to lower the cost of…
The Right Time. The Right Place.
It has been almost a year since Diana Marculescu — a renowned expert in energy-aware computing and a former faculty member and researcher at Carnegie Mellon University — began her tenure as the chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer…
Relentlessly Curious
From humble beginnings to running the nation’s top pet destination, Cockrell School alumnus Sumit Singh has enjoyed an exceptional career marked by perseverance and integrity — two important characteristics of a leader. In early fall, Sumit sat down…
American Ingenuity
Alumnus Gary Thomas has spent the past 40 years assembling one of the largest-known private collections of Ford automobiles.