Starting 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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Resources
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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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Double Vision
The Longhorn Network and the Alcalde recently featured twin ChE Ph.D. students Sonali and Meghali Chopra who are working at UT Austin's NASCENT center.
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Praise from Powers
University President Bill Powers praised Grant Willson’s Japan Prize and gave John McKetta a shout-out in his recent State of the University Address.
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Engineering Education and Research Center Moves Closer to Reality
UT Austin has cleared a major hurdle to build the new EERC, with the UT System Board of Regents approving a $310 million funding plan for the building.
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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
- Faculty have won 20 percent of major awards from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers in recent years
- The department has 22.75 full-time faculty
- 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 generates $14.5 million in annual research funding
- The department hosts nine National Academy of Engineering members
- The department has 30 graduate supervising faculty
- U.S. News & World Report ranks the McKetta undergraduate program No. 9
- Department faculty were awarded the highest number of patents at UT Austin in 2010-2011
- Elucidating the Structure of Poly(dopamine)
- Communication: Self-assembly of semiflexible-flexible block copolymers
- High-throughput sequencing of the paired human immunoglobulin heavy and light chain repertoire
- 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
Recent Publications
Meet our Faculty
Michael Baldea
Assistant Professor Baldea works in Modeling, simulation, optimization and control of process and energy systems with specific interests in Statically Equivalent Models for Simulation and Optimization of Complex Engineered Systems; Proactive Energy Management for Buildings: Optimal Operation and Strategic Decision Support; Fault Detection and Isolation for Multi-Scale Systems.