| Greetings from the Chair
Welcome to the LSU
Chemical
Engineering Department web site. This web site
should serve as a resource for current and prospective students,
alumni, faculty, and members of the science and engineering
community.
A new
facility for our department is on the Capital Outlay
and the department is on a fund-raising
campaign. Some of you might have already received letters
from the College
of Engineering regarding our building campaign. I encourage
you to participate in this active fund-raising
campaign and help us move forward.
These are exciting times in our department.
We added two new faculty (Professor Judy
Wornat and Associate Professor Jerry
Spivey) in 2003 and we added two more faculty in 2005.
Cain Chair Professor Jose
Romagnoli, from the University of Sydney, joined us in
Fall 2005 as did Assistant Professor James
Henry, from Texas A&M University. In August 2006,
we welcomed Associate Professor John
Flake. In Fall 2007, we welcomed two more new Assistant
Professors (Michael Benton
from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and Francisco
Hung from North Carolina State University) on to our faculty.
We will be recruiting additional Assistant Professors and
Cain Chair Professors over the next few years
A major renovation of our teaching
and research laboratories has just been completed.
Our graduate program
is the best-rated program in the entire University and is
growing. Our undergraduate
curriculum is undergoing restructuring to meet the changing
requirements of the industrial and academic employers of our
graduates.
In order to obtain the full story
about these changes, to learn about the research
conducted by our faculty,
to get information about our graduate
and undergraduate
degree programs, to catch up on the latest news
and to find out about lectures and
events hosted by our department, we invite you to explore
our web site. As always,
please feel free to contact
us or visit our beautiful campus in picturesque Baton
Rouge, Louisiana.
Kalliat
T Valsaraj
Department Chair and
Charles and Hilda Roddy Distinguished Professor in Chemical
Engineering
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News
The Department
signed a $750k/3-yr contract with Chevron for research
on catalysts for conversion of synthesis gas to higher value
oxygenates 
The LSU Student
Chapter of AIChE Wins Big at Regional Conference hosted
by Auburn University
Michael
Benton and Francisco Hung are both recipients of Pfunds
from the Louisiana Board of Regents for 2008
Louis Thibodeaux,
the Jesse Coates Professor in Chemical Engineering, is
the 2008 awardee of the Charles E. Coates Memorial Award
Two Ph.D.
students, Andrew Campos and David Widenski, received the
Donald C. Clayton supplement award
Qingzhong
Yuan is the winner of the Best PhD Dissertation Award
from the Baton Rouge Section of AIChE
Michael
Parent is the winner of the Outstanding Junior Undergraduate
Award from
the Baton Rouge section of AIChE
Noelle McBride
has been awarded the Undergraduate Student Award in Environmental
Chemistry from the American Chemical Society (ACS)
Our department
and Honeywell Process Solutions has signed an agreement
towards the development of a Process Control Laboratory
David
Widenski, a Ph.D. student, has received a National Science
Foundation (NSF) EAPSI Award
Andrew
Campos, a Ph.D. student, is a recipient of a $1,500 Office
of Strategic Initiatives Supplement Award
Professors
James Henry and Karsten Thompson have been awarded
the Fund for Innovation in Engineering Research
Chemical
Engineering graduate program jumped from 59th in 2008 to 53rd
in this year's rankings
Marathon
Oil Corporation Donates $2.5 Million to LSU Including
a Portion Earmarked for the New Chemical Engineering Building
more news |
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