THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN • COCKRELL SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING. DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

ChE graduate students Amanda Lanza and Lavanya Mohan recently won first and second place in the 2012 Proctor & Gamble (P&G) Seminar Competition at UT Austin, respectively.

Lanza won first place for her seminar entitled, “Developing New Biotechnology Tools for Understanding and Engineering Cellular Hosts.” She was also awarded a $1,000 prize and a trophy. Second place went to … Read the rest »

Alumnus Vincent Holmberg, Ph.D. ’11, has won the Hertz Thesis Prize for his dissertation entitled “Semiconductor Nanowires: From a Nanoscale System to a Macroscopic Material.” Some years there are no Prize winners, in other years up to four prizes have been awarded.

“Vince’s Ph.D. thesis is definitely one of the best I have seen in my … Read the rest »

Alumni, faculty, students, and friends of the department celebrated the unveiling of Professor Emeritus John J. McKetta Jr.’s name on the CPE building

David Allen, chemical engineering professor and internationally recognized expert in air quality in the Cockrell School of Engineering, has been named chair of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board (SAB).

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson announced Allen’s appointment Oct. 15. Jackson said his expertise in environmental engineering is a great asset to the … Read the rest »

Professor Jim Chelikowsky has won the American Physical Society’s (APS) highest award in the field of computational physics, the Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics.

As the director of the Center of Computational Materials, Chelikowsky develops software to design and discover materials for low-cost energy applications.  Potential uses include economical battery materials to … Read the rest »

Professor George Georgiou is leading a team of researchers that recently received a $6.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency to accelerate the evaluation and development of new vaccines for emerging health threats.

Georgiou’s collaborators include the College of Natural Sciences’ Edward Marcotte, professor of chemistry … Read the rest »

The University of Texas at Austin vaulted into the top 25 of the world’s elite universities in the 2012-13 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, considered one of the most authoritative assessments of universities.

The university’s ranking jumped to No. 25 from No. 29 in the 2011-12 rankings. The university achieved higher scores in all … Read the rest »

Professor David Allen, the Melvin H. Gertz Regents Chair in Chemical Engineering, continues to lead a research team conducting a major field study to measure methane emissions from natural gas production. Little empirical data exists and findings from the study could help guide how companies, states and the federal government measure, monitor and manage methane emissions.

Field … Read the rest »

Professor Christopher Ellison has been recognized with the 2012 DuPont Young Professor Award for his work in production of nanofibers and bio-renewable fibers for use in applications like regenerative medicine, filtration systems and protective clothing. 

Ellison is one of only nine researchers world-wide to receive the three-year grant totaling $75,000.  His research team developed the … Read the rest »

Peppas received the 2012 Founders Award for his pioneering work in polymer chemistry, bioengineering, pharmaceutical sciences, and advanced drug delivery