Development of the Infrastructure 

Teaching requires instructional materials and laboratories.   Research programs require centers to organize collaborators, to integrate agencies, and to provide funding.   Service activities require a system to transfer technology to the users.   All activities require buildings, information systems, and a sense of community.   These physical materials, procedures, and human partnership comprise the infrastructure through which we contribute to society; and part of our comprehensive mission is to develop this infrastructure – and once more create national leadership.  

We host a variety of social activities that integrate students, faculty, and staff. These include picnics, banquets, golf tournaments, and a monthly pizza night.

The Advanced Technology Research Center is a $35 million, 165,000 sq ft building dedicated exclusively to advanced research and technology development.   It opened for occupancy in the Fall Semester, 1998.   Chemical Engineering is a major participant in the research in this state-of-the-art facility, providing very best in research facilities.

The Chemical Engineering faculty has created several national-level centers for coordinating research and development.   The Ultrapure Water Group is sponsored by microelectronics, domestic water, conventional power, and nuclear power organizations – including US Navy.   The Integrated Petroleum Environmental Consortium manages about $1M per year to sponsor projects aimed at minimizing the environmental of energy production.   Its sponsorship is through the US Environmental Protection Agency.   Finally, the Center for Conversion of Biomass to Fuel-Grade Ethanol, affectionately known as the "grassahol" project, is a joint effort between OSU and the Mississippi State University, which is coordinating research between six departments at three universities toward the production of alternate fuels.  Other centers are created and sustained while they meet a need.

We are newsletter editors and journal editors, we serve as accreditors to other ChE programs, are advisors to student groups, serve on national review committees for Fulbright scholars and proposal funding, among other activities.

We are fulfilling our role as a comprehensive university; serving society in multiple ways.