Resources
Biking 4,500 Miles to Alaska
Undergraduate Do Soon Kim is representing chemical engineering in the Texas 4000, the world’s longest charity bike ride from Austin to Anchorage, to fight cancer
Building the Power Grid of the Future
Professor Tom Edgar and graduate student Wes Cole are working on a smart grid in Austin’s Mueller Community that could reinvent the nation’s energy delivery system. The public-private initiative, known as Pecan Street Inc., was recently featured by TV news magazine EnergyNOW
Alumna Engineers Fashion
Recent ChE graduate, Diya Liu recently won a nationwide fashion design contest hosted by Marie Claire magazine. Liu’s runway show in Austin showcased the broad talents of ChE students and won her an internship this summer in New York
Improving Drug Delivery
Protein nanoclusters developed by Professors Johnston, Truskett and Maynard could provide a new method of drug administration, allowing patients to self-administer drugs currently given intravenously
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What Starts Here Changes the World—the motto of The University of Texas at Austin is realized every day in the Department of Chemical Engineering, ranked among the top five by US News & World Report and the National Research Council.
We graduate over 100 B.S. and 30 Ph.D. chemical engineers annually who become researchers, leaders and builders of tomorrow in academia, government laboratories and the petrochemical, pharmaceutical, microelectronics, biomedical and environmental industries. They are trained by world-class faculty engaged in research addressing major societal challenges in energy, human health, manufacturing and sustainability-research that is used in practice and creates startup companies and jobs.
As part of the one of the largest and most prestigious public universities in thriving Austin, Texas, UT Austin Chemical Engineering is a great place to be, to grow, and to learn skills that make the world better.
Roger T. Bonnecaze
T. Brockett Hudson Professor and
Bill L. Stanley Endowed Leadership Chair
