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 average starting salary for Ph.D. graduates is $95,423
- Faculty have won 20 percent of major awards from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers in recent years
- Faculty have produced six successful start-up companies
- The department has more than 700 undergraduate students
- Average starting salary for B.S. graduates is $72,800
- The department has 22.75 full-time faculty
- U.S. News & World Report ranks the McKetta undergraduate program No. 9
- The department has 30 graduate supervising faculty
- The department hosts nine National Academy of Engineering members
- Five faculty members are among the top 25 most cited chemical engineers in the world
- Communication: Self-assembly of semiflexible-flexible block copolymers
- SCHEMA-Designed Variants of Human Arginase I and II Reveal Sequence Elements Important to Stability and Catalysis
- A Computational Study of the Interfacial Structure and Capacitance of Graphene in [BMIM][PF6] Ionic Liquid
- Designing Biomaterials To Direct Stem Cell Fate
- Analysis of DNA-Guided Self-Assembly of Microspheres Using Imaging Flow Cytometry
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Meet our Faculty
Grant Willson
Professor Willson works in Advanced Materials; Bioengineering; Microelectronics; Modeling, Simulation & Theory; Polymers with specific interests in Polymers, materials, and processes for microelectronics; Photoresists; Liquid crystals; Computer simulation; Mass transport studies; Kinetics; Graft polymerization; Biosensor arrays; Novel processes for producing nanometer scale structures.