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?
- Average starting salary for B.S. graduates is $72, 234
- Department faculty were awarded the highest number of patents at UT Austin in 2010-2011
- The department has approximately 190 graduate students
- The department has a network of more than 6,000 alumni world-wide
- Faculty have won 20 percent of major awards from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers in recent years
- The department has more than 700 undergraduate students
- The department has two National Medal of Technology and Innovation Laureates
- U.S. News & World Report ranks the McKetta graduate program No.6
- U.S. News & World Report ranks the McKetta undergraduate program No. 9
- The department has 30 graduate supervising faculty
- Revisiting the thermal relaxations of poly(vinyl alcohol)
- A Computational Study of the Interfacial Structure and Capacitance of Graphene in [BMIM][PF6] Ionic Liquid
- Formation of depth filter microfiltration membranes of poly(l-lactic acid) via phase separation
- High-throughput sequencing of the paired human immunoglobulin heavy and light chain repertoire
- Mixed-Valence Metal Oxide Nanoparticles as Electrochemical Half-Cells: Substituting the Ag/AgCl of Reference Electrodes by CeO2–x Nanoparticles
Recent Publications
Meet our Faculty
Venkat Ganesan
Professor Ganesan works in Advanced Materials; Energy; Modeling, Simulation & Theory; Polymers; Surface & Interface Science with specific interests in Self-assembly in polymer-particle mixtures; Simulations of dynamics of self-assembled materials; Theory and simulation of rod-coil and crystallizable polymers; Simulations of structure and properties of materials for fuel cell and photovoltaic applications.