Alumna Adrianne Rosales has accepted an offer to join the faculty of the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering as an assistant professor beginning fall 2017.
Rosales received her B.S. in chemical engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 2007 and her Ph.D. in chemical engineering at UC Berkeley in 2013. She is currently … Read the rest »
The first award from the Texas ChE Senior Class Gift Endowment has been presented to senior Kyle Dalal for his outstanding accomplishments as a class tutor for CHE 353 Transport Phenomena.
The Senior Class Gift was started in 2013 by six chemical engineering seniors who pledged $5,000 over five years to seed an endowment to … Read the rest »
Texas ChE graduate student Shuqi Zhang has worked with a team of researchers led by biomedical engineering Assistant Professor Jenny Jiang to develop a novel technique that can measure the effectiveness of T-cells, a type of immune cell programmed to fight or kill a threat. The technique could benefit immunotherapy and vaccine development, resulting in … Read the rest »
A team of researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, including McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering professor Jennifer Maynard, have been awarded a $100,000 grant from the Grand Challenges Explorations initiative, a program funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to pursue research aimed at improving … Read the rest »
Previously published on News at Princeton. Written by Steven Schultz, director of the Office of Engineering Communications at Princeton University.
Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo, former Texas ChE faculty member and newly selected EAC member, has been appointed director of the Andlinger Center of Energy and the Environment, effective July 1. Loo ends her term … Read the rest »
Jeremy Binagia has been awarded the Rase Brothers’ Award by the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering. The award recognizes the graduating senior with the highest GPA who started as a freshman and finished the program in four academic years.
Binagia is an undergraduate researcher in the Bonnecaze Group studying the selective reduction of thin films … Read the rest »
The department is pleased to announce winners of the spring 2016 Undergraduate Research Poster Competition. 65 undergraduates presented research posters at the competition on May 4. Judges selected six posters to compete in the final round. Winners Bobi Simonsen and Eric Wei will present their posters at the AIChE Annual Meeting this fall in San … Read the rest »
Alumna Van Truskett (B.S. ’96) has been selected as a 2016 Distinguished Engineering Graduate for the Cockrell School of Engineering. Truskett is one of five alumni to be honored for his or her presentation to the world as a consummate professional and dedicated engineer.
Truskett is a highly accomplished inventor and leads jetting technology … Read the rest »
The John J. McKetta Jr. Department of Chemical Engineering in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin has successfully completed its “Challenge for McKetta,” an ambitious fundraising campaign to advance the department and honor one of its beloved teachers and leaders.
The campaign raised $28 million from UT Austin engineering … Read the rest »
Zach Smith (Texas ChE Ph.D. ’14) has accepted an offer to join MIT’s Department of Chemical Engineering as an assistant professor starting Jan. 1.