General Department Information,
Chemical Engineering
and Materials Science Facilities
The department has nearly 30,000 sq ft of laboratory and office space in the Engineering Tower. There are extensive facilities for research. The existing laboratories feature highly instrumented and computer-interfaced bioreactors, a peptide synthesizer, ultracentrifuge , UV-IR spectrophotmeter, high performance liquid chromatograph, gas chromatograph, supercritical fluid extraction device, compact equipment for spray atomization, MTS servo-hydraulic system, and UNIX workstations with state-of-the-art software. Students and faculty also have access to University wide resources including high performance computing (C3840 CONVEX computer with 2 gigabytes of physical memory). In addition, the newly formed materials characterization Center (MC2) provides excellent facilities, including optical, transmission and scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, and metallography facilities, for microstructure and microchemical characterization of materials.