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 two National Medal of Technology and Innovation Laureates
- The department hosts nine National Academy of Engineering members
- 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
- The department has 22.75 full-time faculty
- Average starting salary for B.S. graduates is $72,800
- The department has two Institute of Medicine members
- Five faculty members are among the top 25 most cited chemical engineers in the world
- Faculty have produced six successful start-up companies
- The average starting salary for Ph.D. graduates is $95,423
- Designing Biomaterials To Direct Stem Cell Fate
- Force-matching-based parameterization of the Stillinger-Weber potential for thermal conduction in silicon
- Microporous membranes of PLLA/PCL blends for periosteal tissue scaffold
- Nanohole-Based Surface Plasmon Resonance Instruments with Improved Spectral Resolution Quantify a Broad Range of Antibody-Ligand Binding Kinetics
- Improving the Stability of Nanostructured Silicon Thin Film Lithium-Ion Battery Anodes through Their Controlled Oxidation
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Meet our Faculty
Grant Willson
Professor Willson works in Advanced Materials; Bioengineering; Microelectronics; Modeling, Simulation & Theory; Polymers with specific interests in Polymers, materials, and processes for microelectronics; Photoresists; Liquid crystals; Computer simulation; Mass transport studies; Kinetics; Graft polymerization; Biosensor arrays; Novel processes for producing nanometer scale structures.