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The emerging new field of surgineering, the story of John W. Hargis, 6G explained, sights and sounds of a campus back to life — all of this and much more!
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. This discovery, published today in Nature, could help solve one of the world’s most pressing environmental problems: what to do with the billions of tons of plastic waste piling up in landfills and polluting our natural lands and water. The enzyme has the potential to supercharge recycling on a large scale that would allow major industries to reduce their environmental impact by recovering and reusing plastics at the molecular level.
Read more: Plastic-eating Enzyme Could Eliminate Billions of Tons of Landfill Waste
@cockrellschoolProfessor ➡️ department chair ➡️ center director ➡️ interim dean ➡️ DEAN. Roger Bonnecaze, chemical engineer and internationally recognized expert in rheology and nanomanufacturing modeling and simulation, has been named dean...
@cockrellschoolWe are not at all surprised to see these two outstanding Texas Engineering faculty members make Texas Exes' 2022 Texas 10 list. One thing @utbiomedical professor Mia Markey has always tried...
@cockrellschoolEstablishing the new John W. Hargis Lounge. Creating a database of alumni available to help current students. Winning the National Championship in rowing. ^^^ All just a handful of things these...
@cockrellschool“Being a female at NASA during the Artemis era is empowering and inspirational. For the first time in history, we are planning to send women farther than they have ever gone,...
@cockrellschool🤘🤘🤘Let’s goooo! U.S. News & World Report ranks our graduate engineering program #6 in the nation with 8 of our engineering disciplines ranking in the top 10. Read the full announcement in...
@cockrellschoolSurgery + engineering... surgineering? This new, cross-disciplinary field sees engineers working closely with surgeons to solve problems in the operating room by innovating existing tech and creating new tools, devices, and...
@cockrellschoolFirst hint of spring peeking through 🙌 3 more days until SPRING BREAK! ...
@cockrellschoolNobody: Absolutely no one: @texasrocketlab: Let’s put a three-story rocket in the EER. #WhatStartsHere ...
@cockrellschoolTOMORROW. New teaching labs, study spaces, a lecture hall with the perfect view of the Tower and DKR. Take your first steps in the new Gary L. Thomas Energy Engineering Building...
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New applications in energy, defense and telecommunications could receive a boost after a team at The University of Texas at Austin created a new type of “nanocrystal gel” — a...Keep Reading
2 Professors and 2 Alumni Elected to National Academy of Engineering
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced today that Al Bovik, professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Karen Willcox, professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering... Keep Reading
Cockrell School Celebrates Naming of the Sam and Hema Kumar Construction Engineering and Project Management Program
On December 10, the Cockrell School of Engineering hosted a celebratory event to commemorate the naming of the Sam and Hema Kumar Construction Engineering and Project Management Program (CEPM) in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering. The Kumar... Keep Reading
