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Roger Bonnecaze, an internationally recognized expert in rheology and modeling and simulation for nanomanufacturing who is former chair of the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, has been named dean of the university’s Cockrell School of Engineering after a national search.

Meet two undergraduate and two Ph.D. students graduating May 2022. Find out what they loved about the Texas ChE program, where they're headed next and what recommendations they have for new students. 

As a kid growing up in Mexico City in the 1980’s and 90’s, Daniel Zavala remembers many times when outdoor activities, like school recess, were canceled because the air quality was too dangerous to be outside. This had a big impact on the trajectory of Daniel’s career.

An enzyme variant created by engineers and scientists at The University of Texas at Austin can break down environment-throttling plastics that typically take centuries to degrade in just a matter of hours to days.

Professor Thomas F. Edgar, highly reputed and with an outstanding academic career within the area of Process Control, received the Nordic Process Control Award during the 23rd Nordic Process Control Workshop at Luleå University of Technology, for his lasting contribution to the area.

“Partnerships like this that bring together researchers and leaders from across the energy field help us find and advance the highest impact solutions to our energy future,” said Brian Korgel, director of UT’s Energy Institute and professor in the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering.

New applications in energy, defense and telecommunications could receive a boost after a team at The University of Texas at Austin created a new type of “nanocrystal gel” — a gel composed of tiny nanocrystals each 10,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair that are linked together into an organized network.

Honeywell plans to commercialize carbon capture technology created by researchers from the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin that holds the promise of significantly reducing carbon dioxide emissions from many industrial sources.

Joan Brennecke, professor in the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, has been selected as a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, a prestigious distinction awarded to a select group of 164 academic innovators around the world for 2021.

Professor Nicholas Peppas is being honored with AIChE's Warren K. Lewis Award “for seminal contributions to chemical engineering education, including development of educational literature and resources for more than 45 years.”