Adam Heller Awarded Torbern Bergman Medal in Analytical Chemistry
The award honors Heller’s work on ground-breaking diabetes management products that have improved the quality of life of millions.
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Tower Lighting Honors Grant Willson
The UT Tower was recently lit to honor ChE Professor Grant Willson for winning the Japan Prize, an international award similar to the Nobel Prize.
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Raising A Future Scientist
Professors Michael Baldea and Lydia Contreras launch a program to engage underrepresented middle schoolers in STEM education.
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Top-Ranked Graduate Programs
The department’s graduate program maintained its No.6 spot in the latest U.S. News and World Report rankings, while the Cockrell School rose to No. 10.
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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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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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Did you know?
- The department has 22.75 full-time faculty
- Five faculty members are among the top 25 most cited chemical engineers in the world
- The department generates $14.5 million in annual research funding
- Faculty have won 20 percent of major awards from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers in recent years
- Department faculty were awarded the highest number of patents at UT Austin in 2010-2011
- U.S. News & World Report ranks the McKetta graduate program No.6
- The department hosts nine National Academy of Engineering members
- Average starting salary for B.S. graduates is $72,800
- The department has more than 700 undergraduate students
- The department has two National Medal of Technology and Innovation Laureates
- A bioinspired fouling-resistant surface modification for water purification membranes
- Thermal Degradation of Aqueous Piperazine for CO2 Capture. 1. Effect of Process Conditions and Comparison of Thermal Stability of CO2 Capture Amines
- Communication: Self-assembly of semiflexible-flexible block copolymers
- Nanohole-Based Surface Plasmon Resonance Instruments with Improved Spectral Resolution Quantify a Broad Range of Antibody-Ligand Binding Kinetics
- Industrial Flare Performance at Low Flow Conditions. 1. Study Overview
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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.