Dr. Nicholas Peppas, the Cockrell Family Regents Chair #6 and Texas ChE professor, has been appointed to the National Materials and Manufacturing Board (NMMB) of The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine for a three-year term.
NMMB combines the charges of two preexisting boards: the National Materials Advisory Board and the Board on … Read the rest »
The first award from the Texas ChE Senior Class Gift Endowment has been presented to senior Kyle Dalal for his outstanding accomplishments as a class tutor for CHE 353 Transport Phenomena.
The Senior Class Gift was started in 2013 by six chemical engineering seniors who pledged $5,000 over five years to seed an endowment to … Read the rest »
Previously published on News at Princeton. Written by Steven Schultz, director of the Office of Engineering Communications at Princeton University.
Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo, former Texas ChE faculty member and newly selected EAC member, has been appointed director of the Andlinger Center of Energy and the Environment, effective July 1. Loo ends her term … Read the rest »
Jeremy Binagia has been awarded the Rase Brothers’ Award by the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering. The award recognizes the graduating senior with the highest GPA who started as a freshman and finished the program in four academic years.
Binagia is an undergraduate researcher in the Bonnecaze Group studying the selective reduction of thin films … Read the rest »
The department is pleased to announce winners of the spring 2016 Undergraduate Research Poster Competition. 65 undergraduates presented research posters at the competition on May 4. Judges selected six posters to compete in the final round. Winners Bobi Simonsen and Eric Wei will present their posters at the AIChE Annual Meeting this fall in San … Read the rest »
Alumna Van Truskett (B.S. ’96) has been selected as a 2016 Distinguished Engineering Graduate for the Cockrell School of Engineering. Truskett is one of five alumni to be honored for his or her presentation to the world as a consummate professional and dedicated engineer.
Truskett is a highly accomplished inventor and leads jetting technology … Read the rest »
The John J. McKetta Jr. Department of Chemical Engineering in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin has successfully completed its “Challenge for McKetta,” an ambitious fundraising campaign to advance the department and honor one of its beloved teachers and leaders.
The campaign raised $28 million from UT Austin engineering … Read the rest »
Graduate program coordinator Kate Baird was selected as a recipient of a 2016 Cockrell School of Engineering Staff Excellence Award. Baird was one of six CSE staff members to receive the award and the only recipient from Texas ChE.
Staff Excellence Awards recognize selected non-teaching personnel who have distinguished themselves and who have contributed … Read the rest »
Dr. Buddie Mullins has been named the 2016 Best ChE Professor by the Student Engineering Council. Mullins received the award at the Cockrell School of Engineering Distinguished Awards Banquet.
Engineering students nominated multiple professors from each Cockrell School department during this year’s E-Week in February. Mullins was then selected as Best ChE Professor after … Read the rest »
Eight students from the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering have been named 2016 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellows. The Cockrell School of Engineering has a total of 11 NSF Graduate Research Fellows this year, more than any other college within the university.
NSF chose 2,000 individuals from nearly 17,000 applicants as this … Read the rest »