Adam Heller Awarded Torbern Bergman Medal in Analytical Chemistry
The award honors Heller’s work on ground-breaking diabetes management products that have improved the quality of life of millions.
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Tower Lighting Honors Grant Willson
The UT Tower was recently lit to honor ChE Professor Grant Willson for winning the Japan Prize, an international award similar to the Nobel Prize.
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Raising A Future Scientist
Professors Michael Baldea and Lydia Contreras launch a program to engage underrepresented middle schoolers in STEM education.
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Top-Ranked Graduate Programs
The department’s graduate program maintained its No.6 spot in the latest U.S. News and World Report rankings, while the Cockrell School rose to No. 10.
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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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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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Did you know?
- The department has 22.75 full-time faculty
- Faculty have won 20 percent of major awards from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers in recent years
- The department has a network of more than 6,000 alumni world-wide
- The department hosts nine National Academy of Engineering members
- U.S. News & World Report ranks the McKetta undergraduate program No. 9
- The department has two National Medal of Technology and Innovation Laureates
- The department has 30 graduate supervising faculty
- Five faculty members are among the top 25 most cited chemical engineers in the world
- The department has two Institute of Medicine members
- Average starting salary for B.S. graduates is $72,800
- Temporal Variability in Flaring Emissions in the Houston–Galveston Area
- Microporous membranes of PLLA/PCL blends for periosteal tissue scaffold
- Formation of depth filter microfiltration membranes of poly(l-lactic acid) via phase separation
- A Computational Study of the Interfacial Structure and Capacitance of Graphene in [BMIM][PF6] Ionic Liquid
- Elucidating the Structure of Poly(dopamine)
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Meet our Faculty
Mukul Sharma
Professor Sharma works in with specific interests in Formation damage; Petrophysics; Fluid flow in porous media.