Alumnus Vincent Holmberg, Ph.D. ’11, has won the Hertz Thesis Prize for his dissertation entitled “Semiconductor Nanowires: From a Nanoscale System to a Macroscopic Material.” Some years there are no Prize winners, in other years up to four prizes have been awarded.
“Vince’s Ph.D. thesis is definitely one of the best I have … Read the rest »
Alumni, faculty, students, and friends of the department celebrated the unveiling of Professor Emeritus John J. McKetta Jr.'s name on the CPE building
Professor Jim Chelikowsky has won the American Physical Society’s (APS) highest award in the field of computational physics, the Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics.
As the director of the Center of Computational Materials, Chelikowsky develops software to design and discover materials for low-cost energy applications. Potential uses include economical battery materials to … Read the rest »
Professor George Georgiou is leading a team of researchers that recently received a $6.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency to accelerate the evaluation and development of new vaccines for emerging health threats.
Georgiou’s collaborators include the College of Natural Sciences’ Edward Marcotte, professor of chemistry … Read the rest »
The University of Texas at Austin has been selected to receive an $18.5 million grant over the next five years from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to create and lead a nanosystems engineering research center.
The Nanomanufacturing Systems for Mobile Computing and Mobile Energy Technologies (NASCENT) will develop innovative nanomanufacturing, nanosculpting and nanometrology systems that … Read the rest »
The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced its Graduate Research Fellowship recipients for 2012 and The University of Texas Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering tied for second place for the highest number of fellows among top 10 engineering programs in the country.
The University Of California Berkeley College of Engineering received 45 of the fellowships, and … Read the rest »
ChE Systems Administrator Patrick Danielewski received his third recent staff excellence award by accepting the 2012 University of Texas at Austin Outstanding Staff Award May 4 in the Lyndon B. Johnson Auditorium.
Danielewski and 29 other selected staff members from across campus were given a $1,500 prize and certificate presented by University President Bill Powers. … Read the rest »
In support of new and emerging solutions to produce even cleaner power for the future, Texas power generation company Luminant has given $500,000 to The University of Texas at Austin’s Luminant Carbon Management Program headed by chemical engineering Professor Gary Rochelle. This brings the company's total program contribution to $2.3 million over five years.