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Drs. Mukul Sharma and Chun Huh have been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for 2018.

Scientists have long pondered how rocky bodies in the solar system—including our own Earth—got their metal cores.

How can oil and gas well drilling be improved? Can Bluetooth signals control elements of the user’s environment? How do endocrine-disrupting chemicals affect individuals and their offspring?

UT PGE students are skilled engineers, but they are also talented entrepreneurs.

A transformative gift has been made by the Hildebrand Foundation to support the nationally recognized UT PGE Department.

In late 2014, oil prices plummeted from $100 to $50 a barrel. Over the next three years, domestic onshore rig activity dwindled. Yet, production continued to grow in one domestic oil shale play: the Permian Basin.

After spending more than a decade in industry, new associate professor Michael Pyrcz is joining UT PGE this fall.

The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) is awarding five UT PGE professors with six SPE International awards – the most of any year in department history. Professor Mukul Sharma won the John Franklin Carll award, which recognizes distinguished contributions in the application of engineering principles to petroleum development and recovery.

NASA made a significant discovery in 2015 that has the potential to alter our ability to live beyond Earth, making some science fiction a reality.

When oil mixes with or enters into water, conventional methods of cleaning the water and removing the oil can be challenging, expensive and environmentally risky.