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Posts Tagged ‘chemical engineering’
McKetta Named Most Inspiring Professor
Students Design Petrochemical Process to Address Shale Boom Demand
Teams of chemical engineering seniors are designing an ethylene manufacturing process to pitch to industry leaders to address North America’s shale boom
Poehl Named Director of Process Industry Practices Consortium
Professor Michael Poehl has been named director of Process Industry Practices (PIP), a consortium of process industry owners and engineering construction contractors at The University of Texas at Austin. PIP, a sub-unit of the Construction Industry Institute (CII), harmonizes member companies’ internal standards for design, procurement, construction, and maintenance into a set of industry-wide practices … Read the rest »
John McKetta: A Texas 10
Nominated by alumni, the Texas 10 is an annual list of some of the most inspiring professors on the Forty Acres-this year John McKetta made the list
Alum Jimmy Humphrey Receives AIChE Separations Division Service Award
Jimmy L. Humphrey, Ph.D. ChE ‘67, recently received the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Separations Division Service Award. Humphrey and Dr. C. Judson King received the award for founding the highly successful AIChE Separations Division in 1990.
“The early support from a large number of prospective division members made establishment of the division an … Read the rest »
Senior Rebekah Scheuerle Wins Gates Cambridge Scholarship to Develop Novel Therapeutics
Rebekah Scheuerle, a chemical engineering senior, has been awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship to fund graduate research focused on developing affordable, efficient and novel therapeutics to fight diseases such as cancer.
Scheuerle is one of 39 students nationally to receive the highly competitive, full-ride scholarship to the University of Cambridge in England. She is the … Read the rest »
Matches Made in ChE
More than 125 couples have fallen in love and gotten married from the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering. A few ChE couples share their story in celebration of Valentine's Day
Thomas Truskett Appointed Chair of McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering
Austin, Texas-Thomas Truskett, the Paul D. & Betty Robertson Meek Centennial Professor, has been appointed chair of the John J. McKetta Jr. Department of Chemical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin.
Truskett began his new position within the Cockrell School of Engineering Jan. 15.
“Tom has the vision to lead the Chemical Engineering … Read the rest »
Willson Wins Japan Prize for Innovative Semiconductor Materials
C. Grant Willson, professor of chemistry and chemical engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, has won the Japan Prize, an international award similar to the Nobel Prize, for his development of a process that is now used to manufacture nearly all of the microprocessors and memory chips in the world.
He’s … Read the rest »
Top Stories of 2012
Chemical engineering was mentioned in four of the Cockrell School’s Top 10 stories of 2012