Overview

The Department was founded in 2004 under the College of Science of Technology and has grown rapidly since then. The present undergraduate student population is 290. The academic staff of 13 includes three Professors, a Senior Professor on sabbatical and a Senior Lecturer with extensive industrial experience. A Senior Fulbright scholar (Associate Professor) will arrive in September 2010 for the 2010/2011 Academic Session.

The Department last October commissioned a new set of laboratory equipment which includes an extraction unit, a distillation unit, a vacuum freeze dryer and a spray dryer. With this additional acquisition we are now in a position to cover the wide field of chemical engineering education this millennium.

In view of the expected opening of the Postgraduate programme to the external context, the Department will be further strengthened to research into the effective utilization of locally available raw materials for industry. The Department has started with the production of zeolites from clays in the Abeokuta region.  Zeolites have extensive industrial use which is not restricted to the refinery or petrochemicals –the present main stay of the Nigerian economy. Other raw materials of the region such as tar sands which have serious industrial applications will be our next target.

The final year projects are designed to prepare students for the larger society. Thus the topics usually cover applications of chemical engineering in diverse areas such as agriculture, health, and shelter – i.e. key areas identified in the Vision 20-2020 of the Federal Government of Nigeria and the Millennium Development Goals.

We regularly get feedback from our graduates and we are happy to inform you that most of our graduates are employed shortly after Youth Service and a good number venture into small scale projects in collaboration with senior colleagues that graduated before them.

We are glad to welcome you to a forward looking Chemical Engineering Department that is raising a new generation of leaders, and wish you a pleasant stay.

Vision

The Department aspires to world-class status in the nearest future, with her products well versed not only in the theoretical principles but also in the practical applications of the discipline.