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
Nathan Fine (Rochelle Group)
Nitrosamines in Amine Scrubbing
Nathan’s research focuses on the environmental impact of nitrosamines, known carcinogens, on the amine scrubbing process for carbon capture.
Runners-up
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Engineer-turned-entrepreneur Janet H. Lowe, B.S. ChE ‘79, was recently named a Distinguished Alumni by the Cockrell School of Engineering at spring commencement.
Lowe, co-founder and principal of consulting company LTI LLC, was one of six alumni selected to receive a 2014 Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award. Established in 1957, the Distinguished Engineering Graduate Award recognizes … Read the rest »
Chris Ellison, assistant professor, Frank A. Liddell, Jr. Centennial Fellow, and William H. Tonn Professorial Fellow in Chemical Engineering, has been selected for the 2014 Owens Corning Early Career Award by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).
The award, presented annually by AIChE’s Materials, Engineering, & Sciences Division, recognizes outstanding independent contributions to … Read the rest »
Assistant Professor Michael Baldea has received a W. A. “Tex” Moncrief Grand Challenge Award for his research addressing some of society’s biggest challenges using computational engineering and science.
Baldea was one of four recipients this year alongside Tan Bui-Thanh, assistant professor of aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics; Thomas J. R. Hughes, professor of aerospace engineering … Read the rest »
Hal Alper, assistant professor and Fellow of Paul D. and Betty Robertson Meek Centennial Assistant Professorship in Chemical Engineering, has been selected as a 2014 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar. The Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program supports the research and teaching careers of talented young faculty in the chemical sciences and provides an unrestricted research award … Read the rest »
Sophomore Allison Wagman recently won first place in the Undergraduate Research Competition hosted by the Cockrell School’s Student Engineering Council.
Allison’s poster, “Yeast Promoter Mutations Modeled by Nucleosome Affinity”, showcased her research conducted alongside Professor Hal Alper to create novel synthetic parts for cells.
Her research involved creating new promoters for yeast using a model-guided … Read the rest »
Graduate student Wesley Cole won the recently announced Computing and Systems Technology (CAST) Student Presentation Award for his presentation in the Modeling and Control of Energy Systems II Session at the 2013 AIChE Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
Wesley’s presentation, “Community-Scale Residential Air Conditioning Control for Effective Grid Management”, showcased research he has been conducting … Read the rest »
Jeetain Mittal, Ph.D. ChE 2007, has been named a 2014 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Chemistry.
Mittal is one of 126 scholars in the United States and Canada to receive the award, which recognizes the most promising scientific researchers working today. Recipients’ achievements and potential identify them as rising stars and place them … Read the rest »
Thomas F. Edgar, professor in the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering and director of UT Austin’s Energy Institute, is one of four professors from the Cockrell School of Engineering to be elected to the prestigious National Academy of Engineering (NAE) this year.
The academy also elected Gregory L. Fenves, executive vice president and … Read the rest »
Randy Rife, senior IT manager, received the 2013 Ruth Crawford Staff Excellence Award at the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering Holiday Banquet.
The annual award recognizes excellent staff contributions and is named after former senior staff member Ruth Crawford who devoted 30 years of exemplary service to the department working for Professor Emeritus John J. … Read the rest »