Texas Engineer Magazine /news/texas-engineer-magazine/91-2024-2025 Sun, 23 Feb 2025 16:34:01 -0600 Joomla! - Open Source Content Management en-gb Tales From the Tunnels /news/texas-engineer-magazine/91-2024-2025/10145-tales-from-the-tunnels /news/texas-engineer-magazine/91-2024-2025/10145-tales-from-the-tunnels CHP building in UT skyline

It’s harder than you’d think to access a network of forbidden tunnels on the Forty Acres that reside just beneath our feet. And it’s easier than you’d imagine to access one of the largest microgrids in the United States.

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Engineering Life Hacks /news/texas-engineer-magazine/91-2024-2025/10144-engineering-life-hacks /news/texas-engineer-magazine/91-2024-2025/10144-engineering-life-hacks Texas Engineering student in lab coat with cartoon graphics in front of her

Every day, hacks are all around us, just waiting to be taken advantage of. Our Texas Engineers use their skills to change the world, but it turns out engineering principles come in handy in daily life as well.

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Engineering a Better Athlete /news/texas-engineer-magazine/91-2024-2025/10143-engineering-a-better-athlete /news/texas-engineer-magazine/91-2024-2025/10143-engineering-a-better-athlete Texas Engineer Ella Small

Ella Small knows how to make a big impression, at the doctor’s office and on the balance beam.

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2024 Cockrell Book Club /news/texas-engineer-magazine/91-2024-2025/10142-2024-cockrell-book-club /news/texas-engineer-magazine/91-2024-2025/10142-2024-cockrell-book-club Row of vintage books lined up

The Cockrell School of Engineering is a place of innovation, dedicated research and discovery. While the allure of the latest scientific journal or research report definitely calls to us, nothing scratches the reading itch quite like a good book.

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Chips Ahoy /news/texas-engineer-magazine/91-2024-2025/10141-chips-ahoy /news/texas-engineer-magazine/91-2024-2025/10141-chips-ahoy Texas Engineer researcher dressed in lab gear working on machine

Texas is the capital of the U.S. semiconductor revolution and UT the engine behind it.

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Engineering Entrepreneurs /news/texas-engineer-magazine/91-2024-2025/10140-engineering-entrepreneurs /news/texas-engineer-magazine/91-2024-2025/10140-engineering-entrepreneurs Mix of logos from companies founded by Cockrell engineers

At the Cockrell School, our engineers tackle the world’s most pressing challenges, and that means turning research into real-world products and building companies to disrupt industries.

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WTF is Quantum? /news/texas-engineer-magazine/91-2024-2025/10139-wtf-is-quantum /news/texas-engineer-magazine/91-2024-2025/10139-wtf-is-quantum Quantum Orbital

Quantum mechanics won’t help you shrink like Ant-Man, but physics really does get weird at the quantum level. For centuries, a set of physical rules governed the behavior of atoms, the building blocks for all matter in the universe...

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Engineering Around the World /news/texas-engineer-magazine/91-2024-2025/10138-engineering-around-the-world /news/texas-engineer-magazine/91-2024-2025/10138-engineering-around-the-world Texas Engineers smiling in a group with Kenya local residents

The refugee camp stood at the foot of the wooded Greek hills. Just inside the gate, along one of the high concrete walls, lay a long, narrow strip of gravel that Thomas Eichelberger and other Cockrell School students had traveled more than 6,000…

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Making a Moon Mission /news/texas-engineer-magazine/91-2024-2025/10137-making-a-moon-mission /news/texas-engineer-magazine/91-2024-2025/10137-making-a-moon-mission Texas Engineer Tim Crain at flight control panel

For the first time in over 50 years, an American spacecraft has landed on the Moon. Overnight, the lunar lander Odysseus—called Odie for short—became a household name.

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Luz in Translation /news/texas-engineer-magazine/91-2024-2025/10136-luz-in-translation /news/texas-engineer-magazine/91-2024-2025/10136-luz-in-translation Luz Vargas

In the high-altitude villages of Peru, where the air is thin and the mountains stand as silent sentinels, a quiet battle is underway. It’s a fight not for land or resources but for the survival of a language...

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