Korgel, Milliron Lead Research and Education Efforts of $15.6M Center for Materials Research
The Center aims to discover new types of materials for use in many applications including energy storage, medical devices and more.
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Department to Co-Lead $20M NSF Center To Convert Natural Gas Into Transportation Fuels
The project could secure U.S. energy independence, lower energy costs and provide a lower carbon footprint to a future sustainable energy economy.
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Don Paul’s 50 Years Symposium & Celebration
Texas ChE celebrates Dr. Donald R. Paul and his 50 years of leadership, contributions to engineering and impact on the global scientific community.
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The Inaugural Academy of Distinguished Chemical Engineers Banquet
Thirty alumni were inducted into our inaugural class of Academy honorees during the Academy ceremony and banquet April 21.
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Did you know?
- In the past 5 years, faculty have been issued 84 patents across 35 unique technologies
- Our faculty (1 percent of UT faculty) have won 60 percent of the UT Office of Technology Commercialization’s Inventor of the Year awards.
- The department has two National Medal of Technology and Innovation Laureates
- The department generates $20 million in annual research funding
- U.S. News & World Report ranks our undergraduate program No. 3 in the nation
- We have 19 National Science Foundation Graduate Fellows
- The average starting salary for Ph.D. graduates is $95,423
- The department has 23 full-time faculty
- Texas employed 30 percent of chemical engineers nationwide in 2014, according to the U.S. Department of Labor—three times the next closest state, California.
- Five faculty members are among the top 25 most cited chemical engineers in the world
- What is the thermal conductivity limit of silicon germanium alloys?
- Nonintrusive disaggregation of residential air-conditioning loads from sub-hourly smart meter data
- Fluid flow in UV nanoimprint lithography with patterned templates
- Transcriptional analysis of Deinococcus radiodurans reveals novel small RNAs that are differentially expressed under ionizing radiation
- Nanocomposite Architecture for Rapid, Spectrally-Selective Electrochromic Modulation of Solar Transmittance
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Meet our Faculty
Grant Willson
Professor Willson works in Advanced Materials; Bioengineering; Microelectronics; Modeling, Simulation & Theory; Polymers with specific interests in Polymers, materials, and processes for microelectronics; Photoresists; Liquid crystals; Computer simulation; Mass transport studies; Kinetics; Graft polymerization; Biosensor arrays; Novel processes for producing nanometer scale structures.