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.
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 »
Previously published on the Undergraduate Research Journal for The University of Texas at Austin as “UT Alumni: An Interview with Caitlin Spofford” by Venkat Tirumala, Assistant Editor of Natural Sciences.
Caitlin Spofford graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a bachelors degree from the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering on December … Read the rest »
Dr. Buddie Mullins has been named the 2016 Best ChE Professor by the Student Engineering Council. Mullins received the award at the Cockrell School of Engineering Distinguished Awards Banquet.
Engineering students nominated multiple professors from each Cockrell School department during this year’s E-Week in February. Mullins was then selected as Best ChE Professor after … Read the rest »