The fall is fast approaching with school about to start once again. For some ambitious science-minded Austin-area high school students, the summer was less about taking a break and more about gaining a solid research foundation for the future.
Lucia Brunel, Crystal Mountain, Mattie Mouton-Johnson, and Deepak Subramanian are about to enter their senior years … Read the rest »
Delia Milliron, a ground-breaking scientist developing new materials used to create smart windows that could lead to big cost and energy savings for commercial buildings and homeowners, has accepted an associate professor position with the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering.
Dr. Milliron will join the faculty with a courtesy appointment starting in September 2013. … Read the rest »
Professor Benny Freeman and team have developed high-efficiency, durable filters to significantly reduce the amount of water and energy hydraulic fracturing requires
Adam Ekenseair, Ph.D. ChE ‘10 recently accepted a position as an assistant professor of chemical engineering at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.
Ekenseair is a former Ph.D. student of Nicholas Peppas, the Fletcher Stuckey Pratt Chair in Engineering, Chairman of the Biomedical Engineering Department, and Professor of Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Pharmacy at … Read the rest »
Nicholas A. Peppas, Biomedical Engineering Department Chair, Director of the Center on Biomaterials, Drug Delivery and Bionanotechnology and professor of biomedical engineering, chemical engineering and pharmacy at The University of Texas at Austin, received the Benjamin Garver Lamme Award at a special awards ceremony held at the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE… Read the rest »
Zachary Smith is one of the nation’s top graduate students selected to mix and mingle with Nobel Laureates at the 63rd Annual Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Germany this summer
Assistant Professor Hal Alper has been selected to attend the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) 2013 Frontiers of Engineering Symposium September 19-21 in Wilmington, Delaware.
Eighty-one of the nation’s brightest young engineers will participate in this year’s annual symposium, which is attended by invitation only. Participants are usually nominated by NAE members or department chairs … Read the rest »
Amar Sawhney, Ph.D. ChE '92, has been nationally recognized as a Champion of Change for his entrepreneurship
Known as an industry leader and a true family man, the department remembers Richard “Dick” Rothwell as a former active student with superior academic skills and a generous heart
Nicholas Peppas’ teaching style is a true combination of old-fashioned elements and modern concepts. In the past 30 years, he has created a constellation of leaders across multiple engineering fields