Department Mission and Vision

Mission Statement

• To educate through vigorous, intellectual exercise chemical engineers at all degree levels, thus, enabling them to compete successfully with graduates from any school for positions in the local, state, and national industry and academia.
  
  
• To produce Chemical Engineers capable of entering high quality graduate programs throughout the country and qualified to conduct innovative and independent research and development functions for industry, government, and academia.
  
  
• To instill in our faculty and students the principles of service and of making long-term contributions to their employer, their profession, and society.

Vision

To be the leading Chemical Engineering department in the southeastern region with innovative and improved programs, which will not only attract superior faculty but will also make the student transition into the professional arena a smooth and rewarding process. The LSU Gordon A. and Mary Cain Department of Chemical Engineering is a recognized leader in chemical engineering education and service, and is one of the oldest and most productive departments in the nation. The department has been prolific in providing the highly trained graduates needed in the chemical and petrochemical production facilities located in the Gulf Coast area. We have a strong reputation due to our proximity and firm ties to one of the world's largest concentrations on chemical, plastics, paper, and refining industries, along with a long history of our graduates assuming leadership positions in these industries and allied fields.

Chemical Engineering is one of the 12 programs that LSU has identified as its "foundations of excellence," a group of programs that already have outstanding national reputations. The Foundations of Excellence program hopes to enhance and further strengthen these reputations, heightening the University's own reputation as a rising center for research.