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The Department of Chemical Engineering maintains modern classroom and laboratory
facilities to support the undergraduate and graduate curriculum. The
undergraduate laboratories are equipped to demonstrate fundamental principles
using bench-scale and pilot plant equipment. Hands-on experience with fully
integrated, larger scale process equipment is provided in the senior unit
operations laboratory. All instruction is provided by faculty; no graduate
students teach any Chemical Engineering courses. Current
experimental equipment in the undergraduate laboratories include gear and
centrifugal pumps, gas membrane permeation, ultrafiltration, distillation,
refrigeration, process control, drying, evaporation, heat exchangers, and
fluidization.
Undergraduate research laboratory facilities are also available for students
to carry out independent experimental investigation for their undergraduate
thesis projects under the guidance of a faculty advisor. Graduate research is
also carried out in research laboratory facilities supervised by the faculty.
Most of the chemical engineering classes are taught in White Hall. Each
classroom in White Hall is equipped with a video projection system that allows
the faculty to supplement their lectures with computer demonstrations and
multimedia presentations. The entire building is wireless and all undergraduate
engineering students are issued a laptop. The Department of Chemical Engineering maintains two computer classrooms with over 45 workstations available for use.
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