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Chemical Engineering Department Facilities
The Department of Chemical Engineering is housed in a 51,000 square foot, air
conditioned building. It provides ample laboratory and office space for our
graduate students and faculty as well as extensive experimental and
computational facilities.
We have 28 Hewlett-Packard workstations, several DEC Workstations, many PCs,
a number of graphics terminals and access to a powerful university wide
computing system (HSR parallel mainframe, n-cube, IBM 3090). Our department's
John C. Biery Computing Facility is dedicated to educational use. Network access
to supercomputer facilities and interactive communication to other universities
worldwide is available.
The Department has a wide variety of research equipment to enhance our
programs. Some of these include: Spire II-VI MOCVD System Polaron CV Profiler,
Japan Oxygen III-V MOCVD System Keithley Hall Measurement System, 4 Custom CVD
Systems Mellon Bridgman Crystal Grower, and JY-Ramanor 1000 Laser Raman
Spectrometer Scanning Electron Microscope. For rheological experiments Instron,
Rheometrics, and Haake Rheometers, Brabender and Killion extrudes with die
attachments for coextrusion, and pressure-jump, temperature-jump and
stopped-flow instruments are available. Some of our labs are equipped with Low
Angle Light Scattering, VPO, HTHPLC, Ion Chromatography, UV-Visible, two
ultrahigh vacuum characterization systems containing XPS, AES, LEED, ELS, ISS,
TPD, SIMS, ESD, etc. for ultrahigh vacuum experiments.
We have a complete electrochemical laboratory (computer-interfaced
instrumentation and metallographic preparation facilities) with cell for in-situ
ellipsometry (Gaertner) and impedance instrumentation (Solartron 1250/1286).
Furthermore, the department has access to a bioengineering KLF 2000 laboratory
fermenter, computer-controlled anaerobic digester, analytical research glucose
analyzer, and Gow-Mac gas chromatograph. Several other major instruments like
System 7 DSC/TGA, Setaram microcalorimeter, combustion calorimeter, Brookhaven
quasielastic light scattering spectrometer, Langmuir film balance, contact angle
goniometer are also available in some of our labs. |
