ChBE Research
With award-winning faculty and graduate students, new facilities built in 2012, multiple research centers, and an emphasis on multidiscipline collaboration, ChBE is a top research department in areas ranging from biological engineering to functional materials to energy.
Compare us to other institutions nationwide.
• 2nd in new grants per faculty*
• 5th in total value of new grants per faculty*
• 8th in Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index*
• 10th in publications per faculty*
• 10th in citations per faculty*
• 10th in citations per paper*
• 10th among public graduate programs**
• 17th among all graduate programs**
• 2012 research expenditures per faculty = $620K
* Chronicle of Higher Education (2011)
** U.S. News & World Report (2012)
Faculty Profile
- Faculty (tenured or tenure-track): 24 (including 2 joint appointments with Chemistry)
- Number of peer-reviewed publications per faculty per year: 8
- Average sponsored research funding per faculty: $620,000/year
Faculty Excellence in Research
• 18/24 faculty have won ≥1 national research awards
• Major research awards:
• Elected member of National Academy of Engineering (1)
• Elected member of the Institute of Medicine (1)
• Elected member of National Academy of Sciences (1)
• AIChE Professional Progress Award (2)
• National Science Foundation Presidential Faculty Fellow (1)
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator (1)
• AIChE Colburn Award (2)
• NSF Presidential Young Investigator (4)
• Department of Energy Early Career Award (1)
• NSF CAREER Award (5)
• Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (3)
• Camille-Dreyfus Teacher Scholar (3)
• National Institutes of Health (NIH) FIRST Award (2)
• MRS Outstanding Young Investigator (2)
• Department of Energy's Early Career Research Program Award (1)
• ASEE Dow Lectureship (1)
New Facilities
- ChBE's facilities built in 2012: Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotechnology Building
Opportunities for Collaboration
- Numerous Research Centers
- New facilities also house BioFrontiers Institute and Division of Biochemistry
- Close proximity to national labs (NREL, NIST, NCAR, NOAA)
- Successful start-up companies based on ChBE research
Energy-Related Research
Watch Professors John Falconer, Jennifer Cha, and Will Medlin present on their energy-related research in ChBE's Spring 2013 Research Symposium: Focus on Energy.
Please note that although it is tough to hear host Dan Schwartz introducing everyone, the speakers themselves can all be heard clearly.