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?
- Average starting salary for B.S. graduates is $72,800
- Faculty have won 20 percent of major awards from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers in recent years
- The department has two Institute of Medicine members
- The average starting salary for Ph.D. graduates is $95,423
- The department has 30 graduate supervising faculty
- 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 approximately 190 graduate students
- The department has 22.75 full-time faculty
- The department has a network of more than 6,000 alumni world-wide
- Characterization of Aluminum-Neutralized Sulfonated Styrenic Pentablock Copolymer Films
- Mixed-Valence Metal Oxide Nanoparticles as Electrochemical Half-Cells: Substituting the Ag/AgCl of Reference Electrodes by CeO2–x Nanoparticles
- Modeling and control of a solar thermal power plant with thermal energy storage
- Restriction enzyme-free construction of random gene mutagenesis libraries in Escherichia coli
- Improving the Stability of Nanostructured Silicon Thin Film Lithium-Ion Battery Anodes through Their Controlled Oxidation
Recent Publications
Meet our Faculty
Isaac Sanchez
Professor Sanchez works in Advanced Materials; Modeling, Simulation & Theory; Polymers; Separations; Surface & Interface Science with specific interests in Statistical thermodynamics of bulk and interfacial phenomena in polymers; Solubility of fluids in polymers; Computer simulations of polymer properties.