university of texas

  • Engineering Affordable Housing

    Sparks fly in a loading dock behind the Engineering Teaching Center on the Forty Acres. A large metal structure that, at the moment, resembles a giant four-post bed is flanked by students and a construction crew. They’re watching and working, cutting walls for windows. They ask for volunteers to help. Michael Alada hops right in….

  • University of Texas-led Team Solves a Big Problem for Fusion Energy

    Abundant, low-cost, clean energy took one step closer to reality, as a team of researchers from The University of Texas at Austin, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Type One Energy Group solved a longstanding problem in the field. One of the big challenges holding fusion energy back has been the ability to contain high-energy particles…