Cockrell School of Engineering
Previously known as the College of Engineering, on July 11, 2007, the University of Texas at Austin renamed the College after 1936 graduate Ernest Cockrell Jr., whose family has over the past 30 years helped to build a $140 million endowment for the College.
Irwin Sandberg
Irwin Sandberg is an American engineer, who is currently the Cockrell Family Regents Chair Emeritus in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Life Fellow). He is also a member of the United States National Academy of Engineering and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.