Posts Tagged ‘Dr. Thomas Edgar’

Thomas Edgar Selected as Kelly Lecture Speaker at Purdue University

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Thomas Edgar Selected as Kelly Lecture Speaker at Purdue University

Dr. Thomas Edgar, professor in the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, has been selected as the 2017 Kelly Lecture speaker at Purdue University.

This year marks the 52nd anniversary of the Kelly Lectures, talks presented annually at Purdue’s Davidson School of Chemical Engineering by outstanding engineers and scientists from across broad areas of chemical … Read the rest »

Grad Students Place 1st, 2nd in 2017 UT Energy Week Research Contest

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Grad Students Place 1st, 2nd in 2017 UT Energy Week Research Contest

Four Texas ChE graduate students placed among the top two in their respective categories at the 2017 UT Energy Week Student Research Contest, held Feb. 8 in the Etter-Harbin Alumni Center at the UT Austin campus.

The research contest, hosted by the Longhorn Energy Club, was divided into four competition categories: environmental and … Read the rest »

DOE Taps AIChE to Lead RAPID Modular Process Intensification Institute

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DOE Taps AIChE to Lead RAPID Modular Process Intensification Institute

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced that the Rapid Advancement in Process Intensification Deployment (RAPID) Manufacturing Institute led by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) will be the tenth member of the nation’s network of Manufacturing USA Institutes.

Texas ChE professor Dr. Thomas Edgar, a former … Read the rest »

Alumna Stephanie Watts Butler Receives Society of Women Engineers’ Highest Award

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Alumna Stephanie Watts Butler Receives Society of Women Engineers’ Highest Award

Alumna Stephanie Watts Butler (M.S. ’89, Ph.D. ’91) is the recipient of the 2016 Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Achievement Award for her outstanding technical contributions for more than 20 years in the field of engineering.

The Achievement Award is the highest award given by SWE and is a part of the organization’s annual awards … Read the rest »

Dr. Thomas F. Edgar Endowed Graduate Fellowship Reaches Funding Goal

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Thomas Edgar Receives Top Honor from American Automatic Control Council

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Thomas Edgar Receives Top Honor from American Automatic Control Council

Thomas F. Edgar, director of the Energy Institute at The University of Texas at Austin and the George T. and Gladys H. Abell Chair in the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, has been named the recipient of the 2015 Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award. It is the highest recognition from the American Automatic Read the rest »

Graduate Student Wesley Cole Wins CAST Student Presentation Award

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Graduate Student Wesley Cole Wins CAST Student Presentation Award

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 »