The department started its educational activity in 1991 in chemical engineering in the field of petrochemical engineering. Today the department is progressing with 25 academic members, 534 BSc students in four areas of petrochemical, food, gas and refining industries. Moreover, 200 MSc and 30 PhD students are carrying out their thesis in different backgrounds of chemical engineering.
Currently the department is equipped with twelve educational laboratories including heat transfer, process control, physical chemistry, food quality control, biotechnology, food microbiology, general chemistry, analytical chemistry, organic chemistry, unit operations, fluid mechanics, petroleum engineering, which provide exceptional learning services to the students. In addition to research labs and instrumental analysis, research centres of environment, reactor and catalyst, oil and gas, biotechnology and membrane have also been designed and constructed for conducting research projects and providing the high quality learning services to researchers and students.