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Undergraduate Chemical Engineering Program

$2.5M

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Graduate Chemical Engineering Program

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Methane Emissions Program at Colorado State University

New Data Lab to Tackle Oil & Gas Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accounting

The University of Texas at Austin will be home to a new multidisciplinary research and education initiative based in its Cockrell School of Engineering – the Energy Emissions Modeling and Data Lab (EEMDL) – that will address the growing need for accurate, timely, and clear accounting of greenhouse gas emissions across global oil and natural gas supply chains.

Energy Titans Collaborate With UT To Solve Most Pressing Global Energy Challenges

The Energy Institute at The University of Texas at Austin and four of the globe’s largest energy companies have launched a new membership program to advance science and create opportunities for energy community members and students.

Texas ChE-led Research Center Aims to Find Better Ways to Clean Water

With rising demand and dwindling supply, water is perhaps the earth’s most critical natural resource. Contaminated water from energy-related activities is both an enormous burden and an exciting untapped opportunity.

A pile of plastic bottles and other plastic waste at a landfill

Plastic-eating Enzyme Could Eliminate Billions of Tons of Landfill Waste

An enzyme variant created by engineers and scientists at The University of Texas at Austin can break down environment-throttling plastics that typically take centuries to degrade in just a matter of hours to days.

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Hal Alper at machine

Professor Hal Alper receives Andreas Acrivos Award for Professional Progress in Chemical Engineering

Assistant Professor Brian Belardi

Assistant Professor Brian Belardi Awarded Packard Science and Engineering Fellowship

Research Areas

Advanced Materials, Polymers & Nanotechnology
Design and synthesis of inorganic and polymeric materials at the molecular level to achieve desirable properties for a wide range of applications

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Biotechnology
Applying chemical engineering principles for the development of biochemical processes and biomedical applications

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Energy
The development of photovoltaics, catalysts for fuels from sunlight, and electrical energy generation and storage systems engineering for energy efficiency

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Environmental Engineering
Programs to understand the fundamental science and engineering of air and water pollution, and to develop data for informed policy decisions. Process development for CO2 capture and sequestration

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Modeling & Simulation
The development and application of multiscale models and high performance computational simulations spanning atomic to continuum time and length scales

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Process Engineering
Design, modeling, optimization, and control of petrochemical, pharmaceutical, and microelectronic processes

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