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Alumnus Samuel Smolik (B.S. ChE ‘75) has been appointed to Axalta Coating Systems Board of Directors, a leading global provider of liquid and powder coatings. Smolik is the senior vice president of Americas Manufacturing at LyondellBasell Industries, one of the world’s largest plastics, chemical and refining companies serving companies in … Read the rest »
Research conducted in the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering to optimize chemical plant operations and reduce demand on the power grid recently received $360K in funding from the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE) and the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) within the United States Department of Energy.
The … Read the rest »
Sean O’Keefe and Jessica Hung have been named the TAs of the Year for their work on ChE 387K Advanced Thermodynamics and ChE 363 Separation Processes and Mass Transfer, respectively. Both O’Keefe and Hung will each be awarded the Paige H. and J. Jeff Weidner Endowed Presidential Fellowship in Chemical Engineering worth $3,500.
In the … Read the rest »
Jovan Kamcev Wins Paper of the Year
Jovan Kamcev has been awarded the Graduate Student Paper of the Year Award and the Marion Johnson South Texas Section Society of Plastics Engineers Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Chemical Engineering worth $4,000, for his paper entitled “Partitioning of mobile ions between ion exchange polymers and aqueous salt solutions: … Read the rest »
Texas ChE offered a new course this semester, ChE 379 Entrepreneurship, led by alumnus and established entrepreneur Michael Piana.
The elective introduces upperclassmen and graduate students to the basic concepts of entrepreneurship and the practical approaches of taking a business idea and monetizing it. Students of the course explore the keys to understanding the business … Read the rest »
Update: Scheuerle and Maier competed in and won Pitch at Palace 5.0 for their entrepreneurial non-profit JustMilk, Monday, March 7 at St. James Palace in London, England.
Texas ChE alumna and Gates Cambridge Scholar, Rebekah Scheuerle (B.S. ’13) and her research partner have won a highly selective entrepreneurship competition where they pitched plans to … Read the rest »
In honor of our centennial, Professor Don Paul shares memories of his dear friend and former colleague Howard Rase whom we lost in May 2014.
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced today that alumnus Jim Rawlings (B.S. ’79) has been elected to the prestigious academy.
Rawlings joins 80 new members and 22 new foreign members elected to the NAE in 2016. Election to the academy is among the highest professional distinctions bestowed upon an engineer.
Rawlings is a chemical … Read the rest »
Associate Professor Hal Alper has been named the recipient of the 2016 Young Investigator Award from the American Chemical Society’s (ACS) Division of Biochemical Technology.
The prestigious annual award, which is sponsored by Genentech, Inc., recognizes one outstanding contributor, under 40 years of age, to the field of biochemical technology. Alper is being … Read the rest »
Texas ChE researchers recently published preclinical test results showing the use of antibodies in mice and baboons was successful in providing short-term immunity and an accelerated recovery from pertussis, also known as whooping cough. The findings, which were published in a paper on Dec. 2 in Science Translational Medicine, will help advance the treatment … Read the rest »