AIChE Retains E-Week Title
For the second year in a row, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers student chapter has been crowned champions of Engineering Week.
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Peppas Elected to the Academy of Athens
In recognition of his scientific contributions, Prof. Peppas has been inducted to the Academy of Athens. He is one of three UT Austin professors to have ever received this honor.
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Edgar Elected to National Academy of Engineering
Four UT Austin professors were recently elected to the NAE, the most of any university nationwide this year.
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Seniors Start 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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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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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 two Institute of Medicine members
- The department has 30 graduate supervising faculty
- The average starting salary for Ph.D. graduates is $95,423
- The department has two National Medal of Technology and Innovation Laureates
- Five faculty members are among the top 25 most cited chemical engineers in the world
- The department has 22.75 full-time faculty
- The department has a network of more than 6,000 alumni world-wide
- The department has more than 700 undergraduate students
- The department has approximately 190 graduate students
- Faculty have won 20 percent of major awards from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers in recent years
- Creating New Types of Carbon-Based Membranes
- Designing Biomaterials To Direct Stem Cell Fate
- Polarity-Switching Top Coats Enable Orientation of Sub–10-nm Block Copolymer Domains
- Modeling and control of a solar thermal power plant with thermal energy storage
- Restriction enzyme-free construction of random gene mutagenesis libraries in Escherichia coli
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Benny Freeman
Professor Freeman works in Advanced Materials; Bioengineering; Energy; Environmental Engineering and Sciences; Polymers; Separations with specific interests in Gas separation materials; Gas-vapor barrier materials; Membranes for water purification; Membrane module modeling.