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?
- U.S. News & World Report ranks the McKetta undergraduate program No. 9
- Five faculty members are among the top 25 most cited chemical engineers in the world
- Average starting salary for B.S. graduates is $72,800
- The department has 22.75 full-time faculty
- The department generates $14.5 million in annual research funding
- U.S. News & World Report ranks the McKetta graduate program No.6
- 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
- The average starting salary for Ph.D. graduates is $95,423
- The department has 30 graduate supervising faculty
- A bioinspired fouling-resistant surface modification for water purification membranes
- Enhancing Visible Light Photo-oxidation of Water with TiO2 Nanowire Arrays via Cotreatment with H2 and NH3: Synergistic Effects between Ti3+ and N
- Temporal Variability in Flaring Emissions in the Houston–Galveston Area
- Revisiting the thermal relaxations of poly(vinyl alcohol)
- Communication: Self-assembly of semiflexible-flexible block copolymers
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Meet our Faculty
John Ekerdt
Associate Dean for Research & Professor Ekerdt works in Advanced Materials; Energy; Microelectronics; Surface & Interface Science with specific interests in Electronic materials chemistry; Thin film growth kinetics and chemistry; Barrier materials; Biomass conversion kinetics and chemistry.