• Faculty with Ph.D. degrees from renowned Universities
• Student/Faculty ratio: 8:1
• Student enrollment: 42
• Over 1/4 of students go on to graduate school
• Very high job placement rate

The Department of Chemical Engineering is housed in the Olin Engineering Building. In addition to the Chemical Engineering laboratories, students enrolled in the program have access to three main computer labs:

• Lockheed Martin Modeling and Simulation Lab
• Hewlett Packard Integrated Electrical Engineering Lab
• U.S. Department of Education Modeling and Simulation Computational Lab

and to the state of the art VPERC material characterization laboratory containing a scanning electron microscope, a high power optical microscope, an x-ray diffraction instrument, and other material characterization equipment.

In addition to providing a thorough, state-of-the-art engineering education with personalized attention, the program also offers opportunities for undergraduate research experience.

The Chemical Engineering Program is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, the Department of Education of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology.

The program is a member of the Center for Chemical Process Safety of the AIChE, Safety and Chemical Engineering Education, supports the CACHE (Computer Aids for Chemical Engineering) Corporation.

The program conducts funded research projects in the areas of high temperature gas clean-up wastewater treatment, and the production of liquid fuels from coal and natural gas. In addition to these individual research projects, chemical engineering faculty members actively participate in the Hampton University Aeropropulsion Center housed in the School of Engineering and Technology,  and the Eastern Seaboard Intermodal Transportation Applications Center housed in the School of Business, thus providing opportunities to chemical engineering majors to participate in research areas such as hypersonic engine design, onboard hydrogen generation, and modeling of pollutant transport from roadways. Total external research funding since 1987 amounts to over $6,000,000.