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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Edgar Elected to National Academy of Engineering
Four UT Austin professors were recently elected to the NAE, the most of any university nationwide this year.
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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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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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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?
- The department has two Institute of Medicine members
- The department has 22.75 full-time faculty
- The department has two National Medal of Technology and Innovation Laureates
- U.S. News & World Report ranks the McKetta undergraduate program No. 9
- U.S. News & World Report ranks the McKetta graduate program No.6
- The department has a network of more than 6,000 alumni world-wide
- The average starting salary for Ph.D. graduates is $95,423
- Average starting salary for B.S. graduates is $72,800
- Department faculty were awarded the highest number of patents at UT Austin in 2010-2011
- The department generates $14.5 million in annual research funding
- Microporous membranes of PLLA/PCL blends for periosteal tissue scaffold
- Improving the Stability of Nanostructured Silicon Thin Film Lithium-Ion Battery Anodes through Their Controlled Oxidation
- High-throughput sequencing of the paired human immunoglobulin heavy and light chain repertoire
- Thermal Degradation of Aqueous Piperazine for CO2 Capture. 1. Effect of Process Conditions and Comparison of Thermal Stability of CO2 Capture Amines
- Characterization of Aluminum-Neutralized Sulfonated Styrenic Pentablock Copolymer Films
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Meet our Faculty
Gyeong Hwang
Professor Hwang works in Advanced Materials; Energy; Microelectronics; Modeling, Simulation & Theory; Microelectronics; Surface & Interface Science with specific interests in Computational chemistry and materials science; Doping and defect engineering in electronic materials; Surface chemsitry and catalysis; Modeling of energy and catalytic materials for fuel cells, supercapacitors, Li ion batteries, thermoelectrics, and photovoltaics.