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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Nicholas Peppas Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Dr. Peppas joins some of the world’s most accomplished scholars, scientists, writers and artists as well as civic, business and philanthropic leaders in the 237th AAAS class.
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Lea Hildebrandt Ruiz Honored by National Science Foundation with Early CAREER Award
Dr. Hildebrandt Ruiz and her team will receive more than $620K to fund her research on air pollution.
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Graduate Program Moves Up in U.S. News & World Report’s Rankings
Texas ChE rose to No. 6 in U.S. News & World Report's 2018 graduate program rankings.
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Did you know?
- 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.
- The department has more than 700 undergraduate students
- The department hosts nine National Academy of Engineering members
- UT Austin ranks #28 in the world’s top universities, according to Times Higher Education
- The department has 23 full-time faculty
- More than 100 department alumni have gone on to be faculty members around the world
- U.S. News & World Report ranks our undergraduate program No. 3 in the nation
- U.S. News & World Report ranks the McKetta graduate program No.6
- The department has two National Medal of Technology and Innovation Laureates
- The department has two National Academy of Medicine members
- A review on wall slip in high solid dispersions
- Defect Engineering in Plasmonic Metal Oxide Nanocrystals
- Effect of droplet size, droplet placement, and gas dissolution on throughput and defect rate in UV nanoimprint lithography
- Data cleaning in the process industries
- Interactions between plasma and block copolymers used in directed self-assembly patterning
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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.