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. Our department celebrated our Centennial year in 2008 with a two-day gathering of friends and alumni on October 23-24. 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. We have made significant strides towards this with help from a number of our alumni and corporate friends. I encourage you to participate in this active fund-raising campaign and help us move forward. Our department is undergoing significant changes with several faculty retirements and additions. We added two new faculty (Professor Judy Wornat and Associate Professor Jerry Spivey) in 2003. Cain Chair # 1 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 from Georgia Tech. 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. In the Fall of 2009, Prof. K Nandakumar joined the department as Cain Chair #2. Our teaching and research laboratories are undergoing major improvements. For example, our refurbished Unit Operations Laboratory is one of the finest in the nation. Our graduate program is one of the highest rated programs in the 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 Roddey Distinguished Professor in Chemical Engineering Ike East Professor   Last modified on August 31, 2009