Alumni Weekend events
Join us for three days of special events bringing together the students, alumni, faculty, and friends of the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering.
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Resources
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Cutting-Edge Research
Explore diverse and innovative research areas, from biotech, nanotech, environmental engineering, process engineering, and more.
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Engineering What’s in Our Water
Benny Freeman's research group, M-WET, is engineering simple and affordable water filters that could be a game changer for global health, energy, and the environment.
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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
Study unravels mechanistic insights into how cells respond to their environment.
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Facts & Congrats
- Texas ChE graduate and undergraduate programs ranked #4 in the country, according to the 2019 U.S. News and World Report
- Our faculty (1 percent of UT faculty) have won 60 percent of the UT Office of Technology Commercialization’s Inventor of the Year awards
- 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
- The department has two National Medal of Technology and Innovation Laureates
- Five faculty members are among the top 25 most cited chemical engineers in the world
- The department has 30 graduate supervising faculty
- The average starting salary for Ph.D. graduates is $95,423
- Directed Self-Assembly of Silicon-Containing Block Copolymer Thin Films
- Monovalent and divalent ion sorption in a cation exchange membrane based on cross-linked poly (p-styrene sulfonate-co-divinylbenzene)
- Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy for Photoelectrochemical Energy Research
- Ru nucleation and thin film smoothness improvement with ammonia during chemical vapor deposition
- Enabling xylose utilization in Yarrowia lipolytica for lipid production
Recent Publications
Meet our Faculty
Arumugam Manthiram
Professor Manthiram works in Materials with specific interests in Clean energy materials; Electrochemical energy conversion and storage; Lithium ion batteries, fuel cells, supercapacitors, and solar cells; Nanomaterials.