News Category: cockrell-school-of-engineering

Dr. Guihua Yu, an associate professor of materials science in UT’s Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering and Texas Materials Institute is applying hydrogel to create self-watering soil.

An international research team that includes a professor in the Cockrell School’s McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering has pioneered a new filtration technique that could dramatically reduce the amount of time it takes to extract lithium from the earth and thereby improve the supply for electric vehicles and renewable energy sources.

Eleven projects at The University of Texas at Austin have won a campus-wide competition led the the Energy Institute to identify and support the most promising global energy transition research at UT. 

From The Daily Texan: This year’s Sustainable Dog House Challenge was an un-fur-gettable experience, with dogs from the Austin Animal Center paying a visit. The event, hosted earlier this month by the Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering department, is a competition for students to build eco-friendly dog houses.