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 approximately 190 graduate students
- 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 30 graduate supervising faculty
- The average starting salary for Ph.D. graduates is $95,423
- Five faculty members are among the top 25 most cited chemical engineers in the world
- U.S. News & World Report ranks the McKetta undergraduate program No. 9
- Average starting salary for B.S. graduates is $72,800
- U.S. News & World Report ranks the McKetta graduate program No.6
- The department hosts nine National Academy of Engineering members
- Force-matching-based parameterization of the Stillinger-Weber potential for thermal conduction in silicon
- Elucidating the Structure of Poly(dopamine)
- Modeling and control of a solar thermal power plant with thermal energy storage
- Revisiting the thermal relaxations of poly(vinyl alcohol)
- Creating New Types of Carbon-Based Membranes
Recent Publications
Meet our Faculty
Isaac Sanchez
Professor Sanchez works in Advanced Materials; Modeling, Simulation & Theory; Polymers; Separations; Surface & Interface Science with specific interests in Statistical thermodynamics of bulk and interfacial phenomena in polymers; Solubility of fluids in polymers; Computer simulations of polymer properties.