New Faculty Members
We're pleased to announce that an esteemed group of new educators will be joining our department this academic year.
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Resources
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Applications Are Open
Interested in earning a Ph.D. with one of the top chemical engineering departments in the nation? Find out all you need to know about our graduate program and how to
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Why Where You Live Can Impact Lung Health
Poor air quality where you live can increase risk for lung-related diseases like asthma and COPD, but Texas ChE research indicates it can even increase risk for obesity.
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Delia Milliron Named Next Chair
Cockrell School Dean Sharon Wood has named distinguished researcher and professor Delia Milliron as the next Texas ChE chair. Milliron will succeed current Chair Thomas Truskett on January 16, 2021.
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COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma Therapy is Safe, With 76% of Patients Improving
Texas ChE Research Associate Jason Lavinder made key contributions to the country’s first peer-reviewed study on a promising COVID-19 treatment.
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Facts & Congrats
- Texas ChE graduate and undergraduate programs ranked #5 and #4 in the country, according to U.S. News and World Report
- Texas ChE ranked #2 U.S. public program and #7 in the world for chemical engineering in 2020 Shanghai Rankings
- 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
- 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 department generates $20 million in annual research funding
- Understanding the effect of partial N3–to-O2- substitution and H+-to-K+ exchange on photocatalytic water reduction activity of Ruddlesden-Popper layered perovskite KLaTiO4
- Steric stabilization of nanoparticles with grafted low molecular weight ligands in highly concentrated brines including divalent ions.
- Zymomonas mobilis as a model system for production of biofuels and biochemicals
- Role of Halides in the Ordered Structure Transitions of Heated Gold Nanocrystal Super lattices
- Using module-based learning methods to introduce sustainable manufacturing in engineering curriculum
Recent Publications
Meet our Faculty
Benny Freeman
Professor Freeman works in Advanced Materials; Bioengineering; Energy; Environmental Engineering and Sciences; Polymers; Separations with specific interests in Gas separation materials; Gas-vapor barrier materials; Membranes for water purification; Membrane module modeling.