Department operates an academic programme which leads to a B.Eng. degree after a duration of five academic sessions for students who gained admission through Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME); and four academic sessions, for students who gain admission through direct entry (DE).
The five-year programme is broken into nine semesters of residence and one industrial attachment. Each semester is usually fifteen teaching weeks long and instruction is by courses quantified into course credits. Lectures, tutorials, practical sessions and projects are organized during each semester and every student in the programme is expected to participate fully since the grading system reflects each aspect.
The Chemical Engineering undergraduate programme focuses the attention on seven major areas which include;
i. Unit Operations
ii. Process control and optimization
iii. Chemical reaction engineering
iv. Environmental engineering
v. Biochemical engineering
vi. Petroleum processes
vii. Polymer engineering
The graduate programme has been designed to provide advanced training (course work and research) in those areas of Chemical Engineering, which are relevant to the immediate and global industrial development. Each student is equipped to be conversant with the current development in the basic research and application of the field of study to industry in general. Competence in the use and application of digital computer, software simulation packages and information technology in the solution of engineering problems is emphasized.
The student workis divided into two parts: The Industrial Training aspect of the degree programme is divided into four parts. The first part is the Student Work Experience (SWEP) Program is held at the end of the 200-level just after the end of-session break in the Faculty’s’ Workshops. During this programme, students are exposed to workshop practice and have a “hands-on” experience of practical engineering. This serves as a channel for integrating entrepreneurial-development and skills into our programme in-house. The Community Based Experience and Services (COBES) held before the commencement of the 500 level is a programme that also exposes the students to solving community problems based on engineering skills.