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

ChE students swept this year’s Poster Exhibition & Engineering Research Symposium (PEERS) contest hosted by the Student Engineering Council and the Cockrell School Student Affairs Office as part of Research Week.

“Chemical engineering students took home four of the six prizes-very impressive,” said Rishi Garg, a PEERS organizer and fellow ChE undergraduate.

Ashty Karim, … Read the rest »

Graduate student Dan Miller recently won the Polymer Modifiers & Additives Division (PMAD) Challenge, a national technical writing competition hosted by the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE).

Miller’s paper, ”A Membrane Photoreactor for Wastewater Treatment,” earned him the first place prize of $2,000 and an all-expenses paid trip to the SPE’s annual technical conference and … Read the rest »

Jackson Stolle, Jeff Thompson and Wesley Cole have each been awarded prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships.

The award includes a $30,000 stipend per year for the next three years, a $10,500 educational allowance and supercomputer access.

“We’re really pleased to add three more fellows to our department,” said Professor Isaac … Read the rest »

Professor Doug Lloyd recently received the Professor of the Month (POM) award for his outstanding contributions to education from The University of Texas at Austin’s Senate of College Councils.

The award honors one professor from the university each month who demonstrates exceptional teaching ability and commitment to students.

“I am not a teacher. I am an educator,” … Read the rest »

Nicholas A. Peppas, Fletcher Stuckey Pratt Chair in Engineering, chairman of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and professor of chemical engineering, biomedical engineering and pharmacy, has been awarded the Billy & Claude R. Hocott Distinguished Centennial Engineering Research Award by the Cockrell School of Engineering.

The award honors faculty members who have brought significant credit and contributions to the engineering profession … Read the rest »

Grant Willson, chemical engineering and chemistry professor and the Rashid Engineering Regents Chair, has recently been named Fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS).  Induction as an MRS Fellow is highly selective as new appointments are limited to just .2 percent of the current MRS membership each year. 

This honor is bestowed upon MRS … Read the rest »

Alumna Joan Brennecke, B.S. ChE ’84, has been elected a member of the National Academy of Engineers (NAE) for innovation in the use of ionic liquids and supercritical fluids for environmentally benign chemical processing-particularly stripping carbon dioxide from power plant gasses.

Brennecke currently works at the University of Notre Dame as the Keating-Crawford Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering … Read the rest »

Craig Milroy recently received an East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute (EAPSI) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Collaborative Research Travel Grant (CRTG) from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.

The awards, which total more than $15,000, will help Milroy travel to the University of Wollongong in Australia this summer to … Read the rest »

Lecturer Keith Friedman has been selected as the ChE Outstanding Faculty Member as part of Faculty Appreciation Week (FAW) taking place March 5-9.  The university-wide event allows students to show their thanks and appreciation to faculty that have made a difference in their educational experience at The University of Texas at Austin.

“Our students are astounding-they’re smart, they work hard and they juggle a … Read the rest »

From exploding soda cans to comparing dead end filtration to a vacuum cleaner, Chemical Engineering Professor Jennifer Maynard has a knack for bringing lecture material to life, but it is her effort outside the classroom that really inspired students to grant her a 2012 Texas Exes Teaching Award.

“Words cannot express the extent to which … Read the rest »