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 is pleased to announce top presenters for this year’s Graduate Student Seminar Series, as voted by attending first-year and third-year Ph.D. students:
Top Presenter
Ben Wendel (Georgiou Group)
A System Immunology Approach to the Development of Natural Immunity to Malaria
Ben’s research explores the progression of the immune system with age … Read the rest »
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 »
Nicholas A. Peppas, chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and professor of chemical engineering, biomedical engineering and pharmacy at UT Austin, has been awarded an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Patras in Patras, Greece.
He was awarded the doctorate from the university’s Chemical Engineering Department, the top chemical engineering department in … Read the rest »
Graduating senior Sai Gourisankar was recently selected for the Cockrell School of Engineering’s Outstanding Scholar-Leader Award.
The semesterly award is presented during the Cockrell School’s commencement ceremony to stellar students who have maintained at least a 3.8 GPA in-residence and completed at least 60 credit hours at The University of Texas at Austin.
Sai, a … Read the rest »
Hanbi Liu 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.
Hanbi performed research in the lab of Professor Gary Rochelle studying the relationship between amine structure … Read the rest »
Chemical engineering students dominated the top two winning teams of the recent BASF Team Chemistry Challenge—a student competition to develop solutions to make UT sports events more sustainable.
The annual event is hosted by BASF, the world’s largest chemical company, and Texas Athletics and awards a total of $25,000 to the top three … Read the rest »
Bella Goren, B.S. ChE ‘83, was recently named a “Distinguished Engineering Graduate” (DEG) by the Cockrell School of Engineering. A DEG is a graduate who has presented him or herself to the world as a consummate professional and dedicated engineer.
Goren earned her executive and Fortune 500 chief financial officer credentials in the airline industry, … Read the rest »
Undergraduate Miguel Martinez was recently awarded the 2015 New Faces of Engineering Award by DiscoverE, the national engineering volunteer organization that hosts Engineering Week.
Miguel is a member of the department’s American Institute of Chemical Engineer’s (AIChE) student chapter and serves as the organization’s biological engineering representative. He also assists in organizing AIChE tailgates, … Read the rest »
Undergraduates from the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering recently won first place in the Chem-E Jeopardy competition at the American Institute of Chemical Engineer’s (AIChE) Southwest Regional Student Conference in Austin, Texas.
Areen Pitaktong, Amy Claire Howard, Randal Paxton Thedford and Akash Gupta (pictured L-R) represented UT Austin’s AIChE student chapter at the event. They … Read the rest »
