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.
Matthew Tirrell
In 1977, Tirrell became an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota, serving as the head of the department from 1995 to 1999. In 1999, he moved to the University of California, Santa Barbara, where was Richard A. Auhll Professor and Dean of the College of Engineering. In 2009, he moved to the University of California, Berkeley as Arnold and Barbara Silverman Professor and Chair of the Department of Bioengineering, as well as a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Chemical Engineering and a Faculty Scientist in the Materials Science Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.