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How many digits of pi do you know? Happy Pi Day to all who celebrate! 🤘

“Even if you come up with other technologies, lithium-ion batteries will still be there.” Professor Arumugam Manthiram’s newest paper in @NatureEnergyJnl focuses on how improving the positive electrode (or the cathode) of a battery can be optimized. cockrell.utexas.edu/news/breaking-…

Big questions. Big answers! 💡 Dive into @cockrellschool stories of curiosity, grit and lasting impact in the new edition of Texas Engineer Magazine, out today! Read all about it at magazine.engr.utexas.edu. 🤘

🦠🥊 A tricky virus has met its match. Texas Biologics researchers have discovered a new way to stop human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) from evading the body’s defenses. news.utexas.edu/2025/12/15/cyt…

Never expected to see Dean Dr. Bishop in burnt orange... but a bets a bet, and an Aggie never lies 😅 @CockrellSchool thanks for the opportunity to showcase sportsmanship and collaboration between our engineering schools! 👍

Texas is buzzing with news of the new Autry C. Stephens Engineering Discovery Building! Read all about it, and learn more about the man behind the building here: bit.ly/47ACuRV. See coverage here: yhoo.it/3XbKYdu! Renderings credit of CO Architects.

🤘 Today, Distinguished Mechanical Engineer Chris Pappas will be inducted into the Texas Business Hall of Fame alongside his brother, Harris Pappas. The two are co-founders of the Houston-based Pappas Restaurants, Inc. 🥘 🍽️ 🫑 🦐 🥩 🥗 Read more here: bit.ly/3LzJpU3.

Horns up for the 15 outstanding doctoral students here at UT Austin who were just named Amazon AI Ph.D. Fellows! Read more about the program and Ph.D. fellows here: bit.ly/4hnhvXv 📸: Andrew Carr

Congratulations to @Weixin_Guan and Yaxuan Zhao, graduate researchers with the Texas Materials Institute and @utmechengr at the @CockrellSchool for winning both the @InventorsHOF Collegiate Inventors Competition® graduates championship and People’s Choice Award! Learn more about their invention "AirGel", a solar-powered atmospheric water-harvesting device produces clean drinking water using hydrogels made from agricultural and food waste, here ➡️ bit.ly/4n69jfj #CIC2025

They're rooting for you tho 💌 Don't forget your assignment due this week, you got this!

We're still in our semiconductor era ⚡ So are students in ECE 440, a semiconductor manufacturing lab course that gives Texas Engineers hands-on experience building modern microchips. Experience The Life of a Texas Engineer in the semiconductor lab: youtube.com/watch?v=RQEJc5…

Can we get a hook 'em? 🤘 The U.S. News & World Report ranks our undergraduate engineering program No. 11 in the nation, with three programs ranked in the top five, eight in the top 10 and all programs in the top 15. Go Texas Engineers! Read here: cockrell.utexas.edu/news/where-doe…

We're booked and busy for #NationalReadaBookDay 📚 When our faculty members aren't reading the latest scientific journal or researching, they like to curl up with a good book. So, why not have Texas Engineers recommend great reads for fellow engineers? magazine.engr.utexas.edu/2024/cockrell-…

What if a poem could outlive humanity? 🧬 That's precisely what poet Christian Bök and Texas Engineer Lydia Contreras set out to do and succeeded. Together, they made science into an art that will live forever. Learn more here: cockrell.utexas.edu/news/conan-the…

Only 24 days until the first day of classes — we're excited to see you, Texas Engineers 🤘

From Peru to Texas, Luz Vargas has done it all 🇵🇪🤘 This Peru's Independence Day, we're sharing Luz's story, a journey that blends cultural advocacy, engineering, entrepreneurship and global collaboration. magazine.engr.utexas.edu/2024/luz-in-tr…

From Texas Engineers, to all future engineers 🧡

UT Austin’s FLARE-X team is advancing in the $5M @xprize Wildfire competition! Led by @CockrellSchool & @txgeosciences, the team is using AI-powered drones to autonomously detect & suppress wildfires—within minutes. Innovation that could change the world. Read more: utex.as/4f4eF8H

How we're showing up to watch "Jurassic World: Rebirth" this week 🦖 Somehow, life, uh, finds a way on Forty Acres when all the students are gone. In 2018, @UTAustin students took on the ultimate challenge of building life-sized animatronic velociraptors for the play Enron.

Have you had any water today? No, no, no. Don't scroll past this 👀 Luckily, Texas Engineers (@UTAerospace) have designed a new non-invasive wearable sensor that measures your hydration levels.