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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Edgar Elected to National Academy of Engineering
Four UT Austin professors were recently elected to the NAE, the most of any university nationwide this year.
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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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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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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 22.75 full-time faculty
- U.S. News & World Report ranks the McKetta graduate program No.6
- Department faculty were awarded the highest number of patents at UT Austin in 2010-2011
- The department has two National Medal of Technology and Innovation Laureates
- Average starting salary for B.S. graduates is $72,800
- Faculty have produced six successful start-up companies
- The department has more than 700 undergraduate students
- The department has approximately 190 graduate students
- The department has two Institute of Medicine members
- The department generates $14.5 million in annual research funding
- Revisiting the thermal relaxations of poly(vinyl alcohol)
- Nanohole-Based Surface Plasmon Resonance Instruments with Improved Spectral Resolution Quantify a Broad Range of Antibody-Ligand Binding Kinetics
- Polarity-Switching Top Coats Enable Orientation of Sub–10-nm Block Copolymer Domains
- Microporous membranes of PLLA/PCL blends for periosteal tissue scaffold
- Force-matching-based parameterization of the Stillinger-Weber potential for thermal conduction in silicon
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Thomas Edgar
Professor Edgar works in Energy; Microelectronics; Process Systems and Engineering; Separations with specific interests in Control system monitoring and diagnosis; Modeling and control of microelectronics manufacturing; Optimization of energy systems .