Engineer gets achievement award

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.