Engineering the Doritos Locos Taco: How a Texas ChE Grad Changed Tacos Forever
Alumnus Max Petrie’s team masterminded R&D for one of the most successful fast food products ever.
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Alper Receives TAMEST’s 2019 O’Donnell Award in Engineering
Hal S. Alper, Ph.D. is the recipient of the 2019 Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award in Engineering from TAMEST (The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas).
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Machine Learning Provides New Insights Into Cellular Biology
A new study unravels mechanistic insights into how cells respond to their environment.
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Facts & Congrats
- Texas ChE ranked #4 undergraduate program for chemical engineering, according to the 2019 U.S. News and World Report
- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering ranked #1 U.S. public program for chemical engineering in 2018 Shanghai Rankings
- Texas ChE alum, Geoff Geise, receives five-year $550k NSF CAREER Award.
- Graduate Student Ankit Agrawal Wins Streetman Prize
- Our faculty (1 percent of UT faculty) have won 60 percent of the UT Office of Technology Commercialization’s Inventor of the Year awards
- Peppas named as 2017 Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics
- More than 100 department alumni have gone on to be faculty members around the world
- Our faculty publish an average of 250 papers per year
- The department has a network of more than 7,000 alumni world-wide
- Average starting salary for B.S. graduates is $73,938
- Assembly of nothing: equilibrium fluids with designed structured porosity.
- Control Relevant Model of Amine Scrubbing for CO2 Capture from Power Plants
- Defective Ribonucleoproteins, Mistakes in RNA Processing, and Diseases
- Electron Small Polarons and Their Transport in Bismuth Vanadate: A First Principles Study
- Moving horizon closed-loop production scheduling using dynamic process models
Recent Publications
Meet our Faculty
George Georgiou
Professor Georgiou works in Cellular and Bio-Molecular Engineering with specific interests in Antibody engineering; Enzyme engineering; Protein folding in vivo.