Beloved Longhorn and Chemical Engineering Legend John J. McKetta Jr. Dies at 103
For more than 70 years, he called Texas ChE home. We celebrate his life and legacy.
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Resources
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Top 10 Highlights of 2018
An established tradition, we invite you to celebrate some of our top achievements and highlights from this year.
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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
- Efficient Carrier Multiplication in Colloidal CuInSe2 Nanocrystals
- Switchable Materials for Smart Windows
- H2O-Improved O-2 activation on the Pd-Au bimetallic surface
- Structural Evolution of Polyelectrolyte Complex Core Micelles and Ordered-Phase Bulk Materials
- Optimal electricity rate structures for peak demand reduction using economic model predictive control
Recent Publications
Meet our Faculty
Donald Paul
Professor Paul works in Advanced Materials; Energy; Polymers; Separation with specific interests in Materials; Polymers; Membranes; Composites.