Benny Freeman is helping pioneer a new filtration technique to reduce the time it takes to extract lithium from the earth, which could vastly bolster the viability of electric vehicles.
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Powering the Future: New Lithium Extraction Technique
New Lithium Collection Method Could Boost Global Supply
Global demand for lithium has quickly outpaced the rate at which it can be mined or recycled, but a University of Texas at Austin professor and his research team may have a solution.
Department to Co-Lead $20M NSF Center To Convert Natural Gas Into Transportation Fuels
Engineers in the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have been selected to help lead a five-year, $20 million National Science Foundation engineering research center aimed at developing new mobile technologies for converting natural gas into transportation fuels near rural natural gas sites.
The ability to convert natural gas … Read the rest »
Alon Kirschner and Shichao He Named TAs of the Year
Alon Kirschner and Shichao He have been named the TAs of the Year for their work in ChE 317 Intro to Chemical Engineering Analysis and ChE 253M Measurement, Control and Data Analysis Lab, respectively.
Both Kirschner and He will each be awarded the Paige H. and J. Jeff Weidner Endowed Presidential Fellowship in Chemical Engineering … Read the rest »
Freeman to Present Sir Jerry Price Lecture
Professor and Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Benny Freeman has recently been announced as the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation’s (CSIRO) 2017 Sir Jerry Price Lecture presenter.
The lecture series was established in 1990 in an effort to encourage the collaboration between industry, CSIRO and university scientists. Its namesake, Sir Jerry Price, was the
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Alumnus Joins MIT Chemical Engineering Faculty
Zach Smith (Texas ChE Ph.D. ’14) has accepted an offer to join MIT’s Department of Chemical Engineering as an assistant professor starting Jan. 1.
Five Named NSF Graduate Research Fellows
Five students from the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering have been named 2015 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellows.
The highly competitive fellowships were awarded to just 2,000 recipients nationwide this year from 16,500 applicants. The fellowships provide three years of financial support, including a $34,000 annual stipend and $12,000 cost-of-education allowance, for … Read the rest »
Graduate Student Jovan Kamcev Wins Advanced Membrane Technology Poster Competition in Italy
Jovan Kamcev, a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and teaching assistant, recently won first place in an advanced membrane technology poster competition hosted in Siracusa, Sicily, Italy by the Engineering Conferences International (ECI) program.
Approximately forty students from twenty countries participated in the competition. Kamcev’s winning poster, entitled “Predicting Ion Sorption and Transport in … Read the rest »
Graduate Student Amanda Paine Wins Society of Plastics Engineers Poster Competition
Graduate student Amanda Paine won first place in a Society of Plastics Engineers’ (SPE) poster competition recently held in Houston, Texas.
The competition was part of SPE’s 2015 International Polyolefins Conference. Paine’s winning poster, entitled “Oxygen Scavenging Polymers for Barrier Applications”, showcases her work in improving oxygen barrier properties in polymer packaging. Her research … Read the rest »
Graduate Student Zhenpeng Li Wins Third Place in P&G Poster Competition
Graduate student Zhenpeng Li won third place in the Procter & Gamble Poster Competition recently hosted by The University of Texas at Austin.
Li’s winning poster, entitled “Liquid Crystalline Polymer Multilayer Films for High Barrier Materials,” showcases his work in utilizing liquid crystalline polymers (LCPs) as an alternative to conventional polymers to boost productivity and … Read the rest »