Chemical engineering Professors Jim Chelikowsky and Venkat Ganesan have each received a Moncrief Grand Challenge Award to support their research addressing some of society’s biggest challenges in computational engineering and science.
The awards, funded by the private donations of oilman and philanthropist W. A. “Tex” Moncrief of Fort Worth and an anonymous donor, fund research … Read the rest »
The McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering boasted more National Science Foundation (NSF) Fellowship recipients than any other chemical engineering department nationwide for 2013. Twelve McKetta students recently received NSF Fellowships to support their graduate studies, nearly 42 percent more than runner-up University of California, Berkeley.
“We are so proud of these talented students who are … Read the rest »
Professor Michael Poehl has been named director of Process Industry Practices (PIP), a consortium of process industry owners and engineering construction contractors at The University of Texas at Austin. PIP, a sub-unit of the Construction Industry Institute (CII), harmonizes member companies’ internal standards for design, procurement, construction, and maintenance into a set of industry-wide practices … Read the rest »
Jimmy L. Humphrey, Ph.D. ChE ‘67, recently received the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Separations Division Service Award. Humphrey and Dr. C. Judson King received the award for founding the highly successful AIChE Separations Division in 1990.
“The early support from a large number of prospective division members made establishment of the division an … Read the rest »
C. Grant Willson, professor of chemistry and chemical engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, has won the Japan Prize, an international award similar to the Nobel Prize, for his development of a process that is now used to manufacture nearly all of the microprocessors and memory chips in the world.
He’s … Read the rest »
The Cockrell School’s Year in Review video features highlights from 2012, including the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering naming, the new NASCENT research center and faculty accolades
Cara Touretzky has won the Directors’ Student Presentation Award from the Computing and Systems Technology (CAST) Division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).
Touretzky’s paper,“Modeling and Model Predictive Control Strategies for Building Energy Management,” earned her the honor and was co-authored by her advisor, Professor Michael Baldea. The paper presents a … Read the rest »
Department Financial Analyst Teri Sahba was awarded the 2012 Ruth Crawford Staff Excellence Award at the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering Holiday Banquet December 14 at the Headliners Club in Austin.
The annual award is named after former senior staff member Ruth Crawford who devoted thirty years of exemplary service to the department working for … Read the rest »