Staff Spotlight Award
We’re pleased to recognize our front-line staff who’ve continued to work on campus to keep the department running during COVID19.
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Resources
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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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Applications Are Open
Interested in earning a Ph.D. with one of the top chemical engineering departments in the nation? Find out all you need to know about our graduate program and how to
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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
- Oxygen Activation and Reaction on Pd-Au Bimetallic Surfaces
- Direct observation of narrow mid-infrared plasmon linewidths of single metal oxide nanocrystals
- Multilayer coextrusion of rheologically modified main chain liquid crystalline polymers and resulting orientational order
- An Elastic, Conductive, Electroactive Nanocomposite Binder for Flexible Sulfur Cathodes in Lithium-Sulfur Batteries
- Control of selectivity in allylic alcohol oxidation on gold surfaces: the role of oxygen adatoms and hydroxyl species.
Recent Publications
Meet our Faculty
Lydia Contreras
Associate Professor Contreras works in Bioengineering with specific interests in RNA-protein interactions, RNA-protein folding; Novel molecular tools for intracellular studies of RNA-metabolism; Protein engineering for novel mechanisms of molecular recognition; Diagnostics for RNA-related diseases; Discovery of drugs targeting RNAs; Optimization strategies for therapeutic RNA/protein expression.