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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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
- Faculty have produced six successful start-up companies
- The average starting salary for Ph.D. graduates is $95,423
- Five faculty members are among the top 25 most cited chemical engineers in the world
- The department hosts nine National Academy of Engineering members
- 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 two Institute of Medicine members
- The department generates $14.5 million in annual research funding
- The department has more than 700 undergraduate students
- Cryogenic Process to Elaborate Poly(ethylene glycol) Scaffolds. Experimental and Simulation Studies
- Enhancing Visible Light Photo-oxidation of Water with TiO2 Nanowire Arrays via Cotreatment with H2 and NH3: Synergistic Effects between Ti3+ and N
- Formation of depth filter microfiltration membranes of poly(l-lactic acid) via phase separation
- SCHEMA-Designed Variants of Human Arginase I and II Reveal Sequence Elements Important to Stability and Catalysis
- High-throughput sequencing of the paired human immunoglobulin heavy and light chain repertoire
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Meet our Faculty
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 .