Facilities include 10 teaching laboratories, a general instrumentation laboratory, an x-ray instrumentation laboratory, a dedicated research laboratory, and faculty offices. The Roy Lee Wiley Planetarium is on the east side of Walters hall with the planetarium director in the department. The Department believes that instrumentation is a vital component of the modern undergraduate curriculum in chemistry and physics.
Students use a variety of instruments throughout their programs.
Gas Chromatographs with Thermal Conductivity Detectors. Perkin-Elmer Paragon 1000PC Fourier Transform Infrared Spectometer. Perkin-Elmer Model 3100 Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer. Varian EM360L Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer with variable temperature and decoupling attachments. Siemens Model X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometer.