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Research Facilities

The Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Department occupies a major share of the modern 130,000 square-foot engineering addition. The six undergraduate laboratories include a multilevel unit operations laboratory and petroleum labs dedicated to the preparation of drilling fluids and core analyses. The twenty research laboratories house a variety of modern instruments including atomic absorption, TG/FTIR, GC/MS, supercritical GC, CHN, high resolution gas absorption, mercury porosimetry, microcalorimetry in addition to numerous gas and liquid chromatographs. Shop facilities include a modern machine shop, a wood shop and an instrument shop.

Computation facilities are excellent. The department lab contains modern PCs which run PRO/II and ASPEN process simulators. In addition, the College has a network of NT-based computer labs networked with multiple NT and UNIX servers. All equipment can access the University's servers, The computers, which are connected to the World Wide Web, are available to all engineering students.

Courses involving computer-aided design and simulation are supported by a computer facility in the department, as well as Engineering College computer facilities. These facilities are continually being reviewed and updated to keep abreast of the latest technology.