Four examples of technical elective programs are listed below. The department is located in Avery Hall on the downtown campus, near the departments of physics, mathematics and chemistry. Chemical engineering facilities include classrooms, a large undergraduate laboratory, a process control teaching laboratory and several research laboratories. All faculty members are involved in both teaching and research. Some undergraduate students are employed part-time to help with research projects.
Graduate students help in the undergraduate laboratories and as tutors in undergraduate courses.
The department's teaching and research missions are woven together into a total educational effort. Because the department is relatively small, students and faculty get to know one another quite well. Some of AIChE's activities include attendance at national meetings, plant trips, presentations by students to their former high school in Nebraska, social gatherings, Engineers' Week and publication of an award-winning departmental newsletter. There are many other social and professional organizations on campus that provide extracurricular outlets for students. Those with engineering ties include the Society of Women Engineers, the National Society of Black Engineers and the National Society of Professional Engineers.