Senior Lab Overview

Senior Lab Overview
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Purpose

Chemical Engineering students enroll in Projects Laboratory in the last year of their undergraduate study. The Projects Laboratory is taught as a two class sequence. The Senior Lab is where the Projects Laboratory is taught, and it is here that students apply theoretical knowledge by conducting experiments, operating production size equipment, and optimizing chemical processes. The goal of the Senior Lab is to provide a State-of-the-Art environment where students become proficient at the skills needed in the workforce. The majority of the equipment in the lab is controlled by Opto-22 equipment, the industry standard for process control.

Facilities

The Senior Lab has a wide range of training equipment for a variety of chemical processes. The lab is continually changing and being updated as chemical processes technology advances. In addition to numerous experiments involving heat transfer, fluid flow, chemical processes, and computer control, the lab also has:

  • A four-story distillation tower, controlled and monitored by Opto-22
  • Plastic Extrusion equipment
  • A Glass Lined Reactor
  • Liquid Extraction Columns
  • A High Temperature/Pressure Reactor
  • Over 5 Experiments involving optimization of PID Control

Management

The Senior Lab is Managed by Bob Cox. Working with the Chemical Engineering Faculty, Bob ensures the Lab will offer students excellent training to prepare them for careers in Chemical Engineering.

Contributors

The Operation of the Senior Lab would not be possible without the generous donations from sponsers. The Chemical Engineering Department thanks the following people and Organizations for their support:

  • Control Equipment Co.
  • Valtek Inc.
  • A.S.U.U.
  • Hewlett-Packard
  • Ketema-McCrometer Inc.
  • Opto 22
  • Robert G. and Mary Jane Engman
  • William Field Service
  • Northwest Pipeline Corp.
  • Time Warner, Inc.