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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
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