Recipient of James J. Morgan Early Career Award
Join us in celebrating the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering's faculty, Dr. Hildebrandt Ruiz, for receiving the American Chemical Society James J. Morgan Early Career Award.
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Resources
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5 Questions With New Chemical Engineering Chair Delia Milliron
Delia Milliron has been a part of innovation from almost every angle. But starting this week, Milliron embarks on a new challenge. She is the incoming chair of the McKetta
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Alumna Awarded Among Top Inventors in U.S.
Congratulations to Van N. Truskett, alumna of the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, for being selected as a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
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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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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
- Equilibrium cluster fluids: pair interactions via inverse design
- H2O-Improved O2 activation on the Pd-Au bimetallic surface.
- Improving the Stability of Nanostructured Silicon Thin Film Lithium-Ion Battery Anodes through Their Controlled Oxidation
- Redox Chemistries and Plasmon Energies of Photodoped In2O3 and Sn-Doped In2O3 (ITO) Nanocrystals
- Improved Charge Carrier Transport of Hydrogen-Treated Copper Tungstate: Photoelectrochemical and Computational Study
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.