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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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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Did you know?
- Our faculty publish an average of 250 papers per year
- UT Austin has the lowest cost of living compared to other Top 10 ChE programs
- The department has more than 700 undergraduate students
- U.S. News & World Report ranks our undergraduate program No. 3 in the nation
- Faculty have generated ~10 start-up companies
- The department has two National Medal of Technology and Innovation Laureates
- 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 a network of more than 7,000 alumni world-wide
- Five faculty members are among the top 25 most cited chemical engineers in the world
- We have 19 National Science Foundation Graduate Fellows
- Pilot-scale evaluation of concentrated piperazine for CO2 capture at an Australian coal-fired power station: duration experiments
- Contemporary Approaches for Nonviral Gene Therapy
- The synthetic biology toolbox for tuning gene expression in yeast
- Tuning structure and mobility of solvation shells surrounding tracer additives
- Ordering in Polymer Micelle-Directed Assemblies of Colloidal Nanocrystals
Recent Publications
Meet our Faculty
Thomas Truskett
Department Chair & Professor Truskett works in Advanced Materials; Bioengineering; Modeling, Simulation & Theory; Polymers; Surface & Interface Science with specific interests in Solid-liquid interfaces; Nano-confined materials; Water’s role in biological processes; Relaxation processes in supercooled liquids.