Delia Milliron, associate professor in the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, has been awarded a 2015 Resnick Sustainability Institute Resonate Award for her research utilizing nanomaterials to enhance energy technologies and lower their costs.
Resonate Awards honor breakthrough achievements in energy science and sustainability. The awards celebrate innovators with new ideas or contributions to … Read the rest »
Professor Gary Rochelle has received the 2015 SINTEF and NTNU CCS Award for his long-lasting contributions within carbon capture, and in particular for his efforts in the development of post-combustion technologies. The award ceremony was held at the banquet of the eighth annual “Trondheim Conference of CO2 Capture, Transport and Storage” (TCCS-8) on June 17 … Read the rest »
Eddie Ibarra, senior procurement officer, has retired after 28 years of service with the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering. Over the years, Ibarra has served as the department office assistant, stores clerk and as senior procurement officer.
Before beginning his career at The University of Texas at Austin in 1987, Ibarra worked as an English … Read the rest »
The department recently partnered with the American Institute of Chemical Engineers to host an outreach event for Central Texas high school students.
Associate Professor Chris Ellison was selected by the National Academy of Engineering as one of 60 engineers to attend the 2015 China-America
Frontiers of Engineering Symposium in Irvine, Calif., June 1-3.
The chosen attendees represented 60 of the most promising engineering talent under the age of 45 from China and the United States. Ellison was … Read the rest »
Graduate Student Camila Saez Cabezas has been awarded the Florence Terry Griswold Scholarship by the Pan American Round Tables of Texas (PARTT).
The annual scholarship, named in honor of the founder of the Pan American Round Tables, assists a female Latin American pursuing graduate studies in a state-supported university in Texas.
Saez Cabezas, a first-year … Read the rest »
Undergraduate biochemistry major Brendan Chou has been awarded a Goldwater scholarship, the premier undergraduate award of its type in mathematics, natural sciences and engineering. Chou works in the lab of chemical engineering assistant professor Lydia Contreras.
Goldwater Scholarships are one- and two-year scholarships awarded annually to outstanding second- and third-year college students. The award … Read the rest »
Pioneering intellectual property attorney Louis T. Pirkey, B.S. ChE ‘60, has been selected as one of two recipients of the Austin Bar Foundation’s Distinguished Lawyer Award for 2015. The award is given annually to an Austin-area attorney in practice for more than 30 years in recognition of his or her significant contributions to the profession … Read the rest »
Graduate student Yongjin Lee has received a Joseph W. Richards Summer Fellowship from The Electrochemical Society (ECS). Lee is one of only five researchers selected worldwide for this prestigious award.
Lee works in the area of renewable energy technologies under Professor Gyeong Hwang. He develops and utilizes computational tools to test and identify high-performance … Read the rest »
The Engineering Chamber Orchestra allows busy engineering students flexibility to play music on their own terms
