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?
- Five faculty members are among the top 25 most cited chemical engineers in the world
- The department has two National Medal of Technology and Innovation Laureates
- The department has approximately 190 graduate students
- Department faculty were awarded the highest number of patents at UT Austin in 2010-2011
- Faculty have produced six successful start-up companies
- The department has two Institute of Medicine members
- U.S. News & World Report ranks the McKetta undergraduate program No. 9
- The department generates $14.5 million in annual research funding
- The department has more than 700 undergraduate students
- The department has 22.75 full-time faculty
- Revisiting the thermal relaxations of poly(vinyl alcohol)
- Mixed-Valence Metal Oxide Nanoparticles as Electrochemical Half-Cells: Substituting the Ag/AgCl of Reference Electrodes by CeO2–x Nanoparticles
- Enhancing Visible Light Photo-oxidation of Water with TiO2 Nanowire Arrays via Cotreatment with H2 and NH3: Synergistic Effects between Ti3+ and N
- A Computational Study of the Interfacial Structure and Capacitance of Graphene in [BMIM][PF6] Ionic Liquid
- SCHEMA-Designed Variants of Human Arginase I and II Reveal Sequence Elements Important to Stability and Catalysis
Recent Publications
Meet our Faculty
Lea Hildebrandt Ruiz
Assistant Professor Hildebrandt Ruiz works in Environmental Engineering with specific interests in Air quality, focusing on atmospheric nanoparticles (“aerosols”).