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 has the lowest cost of living compared to other Top 10 ChE programs
- U.S. News & World Report ranks the undergraduate program No. 6
- The department hosts nine National Academy of Engineering members
- Faculty have generated ~10 start-up companies
- The department has 23 full-time faculty
- The department has approximately 190 graduate students
- In the past 5 years, faculty have been issued 84 patents across 35 unique technologies
- Our students received more National Science Foundation Fellowships than any other ChE department for 2013 and 2014
- The department has 30 graduate supervising faculty
- The average starting salary for Ph.D. graduates is $95,423
- Optimal scheduling of combined heat and power plants using mixed-integer nonlinear programming
- Electrodeposition of Ni-doped FeOOH oxygen evolution reaction catalyst for photoelectrochemical water splitting
- Pilot-scale parametric evaluation of concentrated piperazine for CO2 capture at an Australian coal-fired power station
- Coarse-graining in simulations of multicomponent polymer systems
- Universal Thermodynamics at the Liquid-Vapor Critical Point
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Meet our Faculty
Adam Heller
Professor Heller works in Bioengineering with specific interests in Bioelectrochemistry; Bioelectrocatalysis; Instrumentation for diabetes management; Diagnostic instrumentation.