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.
Alvin C. Cockrell
USS "Alvin C. Cockrell" (DE-366) was named in his honor. She was laid down on May 1, 1944 at Orange, Texas, by the Consolidated Steel Corp.; launched on June 27, 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Jim Alice Perkins, the sister of the late 1st "Lt. Cockrell"; and commissioned on August 7, 1944 at her builder's yard, Lt. Comdr. Merrill M. Sanford, USNR, in command.