Dr. David T. Allen, a chemical engineering professor, received the 2008 Joe J. King Professional Engineering Achievement Award for making significant contributions to the engineering profession at the Cockrell School of Engineering. Allen, the Gertz Regents Professor of Chemical Engineering, has provided a scientific basis for air quality management in Texas and has developed environmental education materials for engineering curricula which are distributed worldwide. Allen is the director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Resources.
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About UT's Cockrell School of Engineering:
The University of Texas at Austin's Cockrell School of Engineering ranks among the top six public engineering schools in the United States. With the nation's fourth highest number of faculty elected members of the National Academy of Engineering, the School's more than 7,000 students gain exposure to the nation's finest engineering practitioners. Appropriately, the School's logo, an embellished checkmark used by the first UT engineering dean to denote high quality student work, is the nation's oldest quality symbol. The School maintains a Web site at http://www.engr.utexas.edu