Welcome to
the McKetta Department of
Chemical Engineering

#5

Undergraduate Chemical Engineering Program

$2.5M

Awarded in Scholarships

#8

Graduate Chemical Engineering Program

Spotlights

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Emerson partnership

Nicholas Peppas Wins Northwestern’s Kabiller Prize

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SC27 Antibody

Newly Discovered Antibody Protects Against All COVID-19 Variants

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Research Areas

  • Advanced Materials, Polymers & Nanoengineering Advanced Materials, Polymers & Nanoengineering

    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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  • Bioengineering Bioengineering

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

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  • Energy 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 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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  • Process Engineering Process Engineering

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

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  • Theory & Simulation Theory & 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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Events

Thursday, September 04

2025 Alumni Weekend

All Day

Thursday, September 04

External Advisory Council Meeting

All Day

Thursday, September 04

ChE Seminar Series: Harnessing Microbial Redox Processes for Sustainable Technologies

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

News

Reviving Semiconductors: UT Austin Training a New Generation of Chipmakers

Students in a semiconductor clean room at the University of Texas at Austin

From the phone in your pocket to the car in your driveway, semiconductors power modern life.

The Chamoun Legacy, 37 Years in the Making

A pair of graduates—father and son Habib Chamoun and Antoine Chamoun-Farah—received their Ph.D. from the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, 37 years apart. They also shared a professor who was instrumental in their education journey.

Published by Cockrell School of Engineering. 

Texas ChE at 2025 AIChE

This November AIChE® Annual Meeting is held in Boston, MA. Learn how Texas ChE is showing up

‘Conan the Bacterium’ Is Now a Poet

Texas Engineer Lydia Contreras teamed up with renowned poet Christian Bök to encode poetry into a “deathless bacterium.”

Published by Cockrell School on Engineering.