| The
Department of Chemical Engineering is housed both in Thornton
Hall and in the Chemical Engineering Building which was completed
in 1992 and designed specifically for chemical engineering
research. Through the support of the state of Virginia, federal
agencies and industry, the Department has acquired a large
inventory of state-of-the-art research equipment and instrumentation.
Wilsdorf
Hall has now been completed, connecting the Chemical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, and Chemistry buildings. ChE's new space includes research and computational
facilities as well as a large undergraduate laboratory and a dedicated
study space for undergraduates.
 Major
equipment items include a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
spectrometer, a three-dimensional tracking microscope, FTIR
spectrometers configured for in situ sample analyses, fermenters,
cell culture reactors, laminar flow hoods, high pressure liquid
chromatographs, a fluorimeter, UV/vis spectrophotometers,
quadrupole mass spectrometers, electrospray liquid chromatography/mass
spectrometers and video microscopes. Laboratory computational
equipment includes a 64 processor Beowulf cluster as well
as many SGI, SUN, and IBM workstations for simulation and
visualization.
The computing
facilities at the University are outstanding. Please visit
the UVa Computing
web site. |
