Alumni in Academia
Five alumni share their experiences working in academia and stories of how our department aided them to where they are today.
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Resources
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‘Empathy Mirror’ to Foster Understanding Among People with Different Perspectives
Professor Brian Korgel and his team will develop a prototype device that can immerse a participant in the mind and body of another individual.
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Alumnus Recognized As Mentor of the Year
Alumnus Sam Crowther (B.S. '57) wins 2016 Mentor of the Year awards from Lake Travis ISD, Bee Cave Elementary and West Cypress Hills Elementary in Austin, Texas.
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Alumna Joan Brennecke To Join Faculty
An expert in energy and sustainability, Brennecke will join our faculty in 2017 and is one of the first to receive funding from the Texas Gov.'s new University Research Initiative.
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Did you know?
- The department has approximately 190 graduate students
- The average starting salary for Ph.D. graduates is $95,423
- The National Research Council ranks the department #2 (regressions based)
- Five faculty members are among the top 25 most cited chemical engineers in the world
- U.S. News & World Report ranks the McKetta graduate program No.6
- Our faculty publish an average of 250 papers per year
- More than 100 department alumni have gone on to be faculty members around the world
- The department generates $20 million in annual research funding
- Average starting salary for B.S. graduates is $73,938
- Faculty have generated ~10 start-up companies
- Synthesis and Characterization of CuV2O6 and Cu2V2O7: Two Photoanode Candidates for Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation
- Dynamic optimization of a hybrid solar thermal and fossil fuel system
- Thermodynamic and Morphological Behavior of Block Copolymer Blends with Thermal Polymer Additives
- Multistream heat exchangers: Equation-oriented modeling and flowsheet optimization
- Tin fluorophosphate nonwovens by melt state centrifugal Forcespinning
Recent Publications
Meet our Faculty
Gary Rochelle
Professor Rochelle works in Energy; Environmental Engineering and Sciences; Separations with specific interests in CO2 capture from coal-fired power plants by aqueous amine scrubbing; mass transfer with fast reaction in the boundary layer.