Posts Tagged ‘alumna’

Alumna Rachel Segalman Explores, Expands the Thermoelectric Power of Polymers

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Alumna Rachel Segalman Explores, Expands the Thermoelectric Power of Polymers

Originally published on UC Santa Barbara’s The Current.

Imagine charging your cellphone anywhere without having to plug in. Or barely breaking a sweat outside in the middle of summer. How about using a high-performance personal computer that cools its own components?

These ideas, and many like them, may be the realities of the not-so-distant … Read the rest »

Alumna Stephanie Watts Butler Receives Society of Women Engineers’ Highest Award

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Alumna Stephanie Watts Butler Receives Society of Women Engineers’ Highest Award

Alumna Stephanie Watts Butler (M.S. ’89, Ph.D. ’91) is the recipient of the 2016 Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Achievement Award for her outstanding technical contributions for more than 20 years in the field of engineering.

The Achievement Award is the highest award given by SWE and is a part of the organization’s annual awards … Read the rest »

Van Truskett Named Distinguished Engineering Graduate

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Alumna Rebekah Scheuerle Wins Entreprenuership Competition for JustMilk

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Alumna Rebekah Scheuerle Wins Entreprenuership Competition for JustMilk

Update: Scheuerle and Maier competed in and won Pitch at Palace 5.0 for their entrepreneurial non-profit JustMilk, Monday, March 7 at St. James Palace in London, England.  

Texas ChE alumna and Gates Cambridge Scholar, Rebekah Scheuerle (B.S. ’13) and her research partner have won a highly selective entrepreneurship competition where they pitched plans to … Read the rest »

Alumna Dana Sellers To Deliver Engineering Commencement Speech

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Alumna Dana Sellers To Deliver Engineering Commencement Speech

Dana Sellers, chief executive officer of Encore, A Quintiles Company, and B.S. ChE ’75, will deliver the keynote speech at the Cockrell School of Engineering’s Commencement Ceremony Saturday, December 6 at the Frank Erwin Center at 9am.

Encore is a Houston-based health care IT consulting firm serving clients nationwide. In June of this year, Sellers … Read the rest »