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.
USS Cockrill (DE-398)
She was named in honor of Ensign Dan Robertson Cockrill, who died after the destroyer was torpedoed. She was launched on 29 October 1943 by te Brown Shipbuilding Company in Houston, Texas, sponsored by Mrs. Cockrill, mother of Dan Cockrill. She was commissioned on 24 December 1943 with Lieutenant Commander S. Farnham in command and reported to the United States Atlantic Fleet for duty.