FACULTY RECRUITING IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING—THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN. The Department of Chemical Engineering seeks outstanding applicants for two tenure track faculty positions at the Assistant Professor level. A Ph.D. is required and applicants must have an outstanding record of research accomplishments and a strong interest in undergraduate and graduate teaching. Candidates with research and teaching interests in all areas relevant to the field of chemical engineering will be considered. Applications from women and minorities are strongly encouraged. A successful candidate is expected to teach chemical engineering undergraduate and graduate courses, develop a research program, collaborate with other faculty, and be involved in service to the university and the profession. Interested persons should submit in electronic form a detailed curriculum vitae including academic and professional experience, statements regarding their teaching philosophy and research plans, a list of peer reviewed publications and other technical papers, and the names, address and telephone numbers of three or more references to: Chair, Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712-0231 (chefaculty-search@che.utexas.edu). Scheduling for interviews will begin in late November 2010. A security sensitive background check will be conducted on selected applicants. The University of Texas is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

FACTS (2009-2010)

The University of Texas at Austin – Department of Chemical Engineering (www.che.utexas.edu)

The Department of Chemical Engineering has 27 faculty

including those with joint appointments (21.75 FTE), 7

emeritus faculty, 2 senior lecturers, 5 lecturers, 23 staff, over

25 postdoctoral researchers, 190 graduate students and 722

undergraduate students. The 2010 U.S. News and World

Report ranks the Department as #7 at the graduate level and

#6 for its undergraduate program. There were 94 B.S.

degrees granted in 2007-08 (third largest in the U.S.) and 35

Ph.D. graduates (#1 in the U.S.). Over the last five years the

Department has graduated 150 Ph.D. students (#2 in the

U.S.). In 2008, the Department was ranked #4 in the Faculty

Scholarly Productivity Index for chemical engineering.

FACULTY QUALITY

The Department has a distinguished and well recognized

faculty, with seven active and three retired members of the

National Academy of Engineering and one member of the

Institute of Medicine. The research areas covered by the

faculty include advanced materials, bioengineering, energy,

environmental engineering, microelectronics, modeling and

simulation, polymers, process systems and engineering,

separations, and surface and interface science. The

Department spent $14.3 million in research funds during

2008-09. Indicative of the faculty quality are the significant

awards received during 2003-08 by the faculty: National

Medals of Technology and Innovation (2), AIMBE Galletti

Award, APS Dillon Medal and Adler Award, Dreyfus New

Faculty Awards (2), ACS Applied Polymer Science Awards

(2), ACS Creative Invention Award, ACS Division Award in

Theoretical Chemistry, ACS Mark Polymer Chemistry

Award, ASEE Dow Lectureship, ASEE CACHE Computing

Award, Packard Fellowships (3), Roy-Somiya Medal, NAMS

Michaels Award, IFAC Control Engineering Prize, Process

Automation Hall of Fame, SBE/AIChE Jay Bailey Awards

(2), AIChE Institute Lecturers (2), and Alfred P. Sloan

Fellowships (2). It is notable that Department faculty have

won 20% of the top ten AIChE awards since 2003 (Colburn

Awards (2), Founders Awards (2), A.D. Little Award,

Chemical Engineering Practice Award, Lewis Award,

Industrial Gases Technology Awards (2), Walker Award,

Professional Progress Award, Service to Society Award).

Professional leadership by the faculty is also in evidence with

UT faculty having served as the top leaders of American

Crystallographic Assn., AIChE, AIMBE, BMES, Council for

Chemical Research, American Automatic Control Council,

Biomaterials Society, EPA Science Board, IUSBSE, and

Materials Research Society. Faculty members are editors of

major journals (e.g., IEC Research, AIChE J.) and serve on

many editorial boards. Faculty are involved in 6 startup

companies to commercialize their research findings.

STUDENT QUALITY

The undergraduate student body number 722 students with

average SAT score of 650 verbal and 750 quantitative,

putting its students well above average for leading public

universities. 90% of the undergraduates are from the State of

Texas, with 6% international students. The student body is

33% female, 11% Hispanic, and 3% African American. 25%

of the students receive merit-based scholarships from private

and public sources, including several National Merit

Scholarships. Our 190 graduate students include holders

of 4 NSF graduate fellowships, 1 Hertz Fellowship, and 4

NSF IGERT fellowships. In addition, there are 8 other

external competitive fellowship holders (Fulbright,

CONACYT, Roberto Rocca). Average GPA of the 2009

incoming class was 3.95/4.0 with GRE of 1400. The

Cockrell School of Engineering also provides $9000

supplemental engineering fellowships to U.S.

citizens/permanent residents on a competitive basis, with

70 fellows in chemical engineering. Latest salary data for

UT ChE graduates are B.S. $71,700 ($64,902 National)

and Ph.D. $99,500 ($90,089 National).

PHYSICAL FACILITIES

The Department is primarily located in the Chemical and

Petroleum Engineering (CPE) Building, with 50 research

and two large undergraduate labs. In addition, we have

access to 6 labs in nearby campus buildings, as well as

facilities in the Center for Energy and Environmental

Research. Computer facilities in the department include

83 PCs (three year life cycle) in student labs and also 40

PCs on mobile carts used in classrooms plus several high-

performance PC clusters. All CPE classrooms have state

of the art multimedia capability.

ENDOWMENTS

The Cockrell School of Engineering provides faculty

endowments at Assistant Professor, Associate Professor

and Professor levels, with a total endowment value of

over $24M. There are 8 endowed chairs at a level of

$1.5M and above. Room endowments provided by

alumni and friends of the Department total $1M. In

addition there are $10M in unrestricted excellence

endowments that provide discretionary income to the

Department. The recently announced capital campaign

for chemical engineering (2008-14) has a goal of $35

million.

INDUSTRIAL INTERACTION

Of the $14.3 million spent on research during 2007-08,

40% comes from industrial grants and contracts, one of

the highest levels in the U.S. The Department

participates in several industrial research consortia and

centers, including the Process Science and Technology

Consortium, Texas-Wisconsin-California Control

Consortium, UT Energy Institute, Texas Materials

Institute, Luminant Carbon Management Programs, and

Center for Energy and Environmental Research.

TEACHING EXCELLENCE

The Department has a valued tradition of teaching

excellence, with many outstanding teachers. Six of our

faculty have won the outstanding junior faculty or senior

faculty teaching award for the School of Engineering (out

of 250 faculty), and we have several university-wide

awards as well. UT faculty have also co-authored 5

undergraduate textbooks in chemical engineering and

edited numerous books and monographs.