Welcome to the Texas Center

Leading through Engineering Excellence and Leadership Development.

The Texas Radio Frequency Innovation and Technology Center, the Texas Center, is a multidisciplinary multi-university research center dedicated to bringing emerging communication capabilities, sensing, telemetry, and intelligence to all objects and devices. The Texas Center discovers, develops, and prototypes innovative systems, devices, technologies, and their applications to improve the competitiveness of and provide a business advantage to our sponsors.

We perform research in all aspects of the technology, their impact on our environments, the social implications of their deployment, considerations of privacy, security,and ethics, and their application to solve problems.The Texas Center also devotes extensive resources to educating the leaders of today and developing the leaders of tomorrow.

Through its numerous and diverse activities, the Texas Center serves as a catalyst in growing the knowledge- and technology-based industries that comprise the region’s Innovation Economy. It brings together leaders, scientists, entrepreneurs, and stakeholders to advance technology-based solutions that lead to economic growth, technology innovation, and market creation.

Daniel W. Engels
Director, Texas Radio Frequency
Innovation and Technology Center
College of Engineering
817-272-1058
dengels@uta.edu

John W. Priest
Associate Director
Industrial Engineering
817-272-3092
jpriest@uta.edu