National medal winners, national academy members, award-winning teachers, world-changing inventors — these are the professors we attract to Texas Engineering. Our 270+ faculty members do groundbreaking research every day in their labs and centers, and they are committed to training engineers who will go on to solve the world's most pressing challenges. Texas Engineering faculty are experts in energy, nanotechnology, health, wireless networking and many other sought-after fields. They are responsible for transformative inventions like the lithium-ion battery, the diabetes monitoring device, selective laser sintering (3D printing), anthrax and whooping cough vaccines and many more.
