Starting a Legacy
Six seniors have each pledged $5,000 over five years to create a Senior Class Endowment that will fund undergraduate research opportunities and teaching incentives. They hope others give, too.
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Resources
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Meet The OXE Officers
Find out more about the students leading Omega Chi Epsilon, the national chemical engineering honor society student chapter.
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Double Vision
The Longhorn Network and the Alcalde recently featured twin ChE Ph.D. students Sonali and Meghali Chopra who are working at UT Austin's NASCENT center.
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Praise from Powers
University President Bill Powers praised Grant Willson’s Japan Prize and gave John McKetta a shout-out in his recent State of the University Address.
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Engineering Education and Research Center Moves Closer to Reality
UT Austin has cleared a major hurdle to build the new EERC, with the UT System Board of Regents approving a $310 million funding plan for the building.
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A Journey To Greatness Started In A Coal Mine
Reporter Forrest Preece recently wrote about John McKetta's life for West Austin News.
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Did you know?
- The department has approximately 190 graduate students
- U.S. News & World Report ranks the McKetta undergraduate program No. 9
- Faculty have won 20 percent of major awards from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers in recent years
- The department generates $14.5 million in annual research funding
- The department has more than 700 undergraduate students
- The department has a network of more than 6,000 alumni world-wide
- The department has 30 graduate supervising faculty
- The department has two National Medal of Technology and Innovation Laureates
- Average starting salary for B.S. graduates is $72, 234
- Five faculty members are among the top 25 most cited chemical engineers in the world
- Enhancing Visible Light Photo-oxidation of Water with TiO2 Nanowire Arrays via Cotreatment with H2 and NH3: Synergistic Effects between Ti3+ and N
- High-throughput sequencing of the paired human immunoglobulin heavy and light chain repertoire
- SCHEMA-Designed Variants of Human Arginase I and II Reveal Sequence Elements Important to Stability and Catalysis
- Mixed-Valence Metal Oxide Nanoparticles as Electrochemical Half-Cells: Substituting the Ag/AgCl of Reference Electrodes by CeO2–x Nanoparticles
- A Computational Study of the Interfacial Structure and Capacitance of Graphene in [BMIM][PF6] Ionic Liquid
Recent Publications
Meet our Faculty
Lydia Contreras
Assistant Professor Contreras works in Bioengineering with specific interests in RNA-protein interactions, RNA-protein folding; Novel molecular tools for intracellular studies of RNA-metabolism; Protein engineering for novel mechanisms of molecular recognition; Diagnostics for RNA-related diseases; Discovery of drugs targeting RNAs; Optimization strategies for therapeutic RNA/protein expression.