David Allen Named Chair of the Institute for Sustainability
The American Institute of Chemical Engineers has selected Prof. Allen to lead interdisciplinary efforts in sustainable and green engineering.
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Leading Biomolecular Engineers Meet Locally
Associate Prof. Hal Alper recently co-chaired the 5th International Conference on Biomolecular Engineering at the Lost Pines Resort near Austin.
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Did you know?
- UT Austin ranks #28 in the world’s top universities, according to Times Higher Education
- The department has approximately 190 graduate students
- The National Research Council ranks the department #2 (regressions based)
- The department has 23 full-time faculty
- Five faculty members are among the top 25 most cited chemical engineers in the world
- Faculty have generated ~10 start-up companies
- U.S. News & World Report ranks the undergraduate program No. 6
- The department has a network of more than 6,500 alumni world-wide
- Our students received more National Science Foundation Fellowships than any other ChE department for 2013 and 2014
- The department generates $20 million in annual research funding
- Analysis of DNA-Guided Self-Assembly of Microspheres Using Imaging Flow Cytometry
- Universal Thermodynamics at the Liquid-Vapor Critical Point
- An ID card for T cells
- Oligosaccharide/Silicon-Containing Block Copolymers with 5 nm Features for Lithographic Applications
- Force-matching-based parameterization of the Stillinger-Weber potential for thermal conduction in silicon
Recent Publications
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.