Dr. Steve Nichols receives the Joe J. King Professional Engineering Achievement Award

Dr. Steve Nichols in the T-Room, January 27,2009

AUSTIN, TEXAS—January 28, 2009

Originally posted on the Cockrell School of Engineering site, December 17, 2008

AUSTIN, Texas—Steven P. Nichols, a mechanical engineering professor at The University of Texas at Austin, received the 2009 Joe J. King Professional Engineering Achievement Award for making significant contributions to the engineering profession at the Cockrell School of Engineering. Nichols' work at the university has encouraged entrepreneurship, education and commercialization experiences for students from the Cockrell School as well as other schools and colleges within the university. Nichols is the director of the Advanced Manufacturing Center and holds the Clint W. Murchison, Sr. Chair of Free Enterprise.