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 approximately 190 graduate students
- The department has more than 700 undergraduate students
- Department faculty were awarded the highest number of patents at UT Austin in 2010-2011
- The department has a network of more than 6,000 alumni world-wide
- U.S. News & World Report ranks the McKetta graduate program No.6
- The department hosts nine National Academy of Engineering members
- Average starting salary for B.S. graduates is $72, 234
- The department generates $14.5 million in annual research funding
- The department has 30 graduate supervising faculty
- Faculty have won 20 percent of major awards from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers in recent years
- Cryogenic Process to Elaborate Poly(ethylene glycol) Scaffolds. Experimental and Simulation Studies
- Formation of depth filter microfiltration membranes of poly(l-lactic acid) via phase separation
- Elucidating the Structure of Poly(dopamine)
- Communication: Self-assembly of semiflexible-flexible block copolymers
- A Computational Study of the Interfacial Structure and Capacitance of Graphene in [BMIM][PF6] Ionic Liquid
Recent Publications
Meet our Faculty
Hal Alper
Assistant Professor Alper works in Bioengineering; Energy with specific interests in Metabolic Engineering; Synthetic Biology; Systems Biology; Biofuels production using microbial and fungal sources; Mammalian cell culture engineering; Pathway engineering for the production of novel biofuels and biochemicals; Protein engineering and evolution strategies applied to cellular engineering; Value-added products and bioactive molecules in eukaryotic and prokaryotic systems; Novel molecular biology tools for gene expression and regulation.