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Bioenvironmental engineering students take two major laboratory courses in the junior and senior year. Bioenvironmental Engineering Unit Processes Laboratory I, 11:117:423 immerses the students in the physical and chemical operations and processes used for water and wastewater treatment and hazardous waste remediation. Bioenvironmental Engineering Unit Processes Laboratory II, 11:117:424 facilitates student projects in biological unit processes for water and wastewater treatment and soil, sediment and groundwater bioremediation.

Newly renovated teaching laboratories (ENR 203 and 205) are available in the Department of Environmental Science. The laboratories are equipped with electronic teaching with computer projection systems supporting internet applications, digital video cameras, and microscopes. Students learn techniques in analytical chemistry including ion chromatography, high performance liquid chromatography, and gas chromatography to solving problems in Bioenvironmental Engineering.

An Armfield Stirred Tank Reactor System is available for studying the dynamics of a perfectly mixed multi-stage processes. The reactor system can be employed as a single tank reactor system; a three-tank in series reactor system; and a tubular (plug flow) reactor. Dynamic behavior and multi-staged chemical reactions can be followed.

The laboratory is also equipped with spectrophotometers, analytical balances, microscopes, electrical conductivity meters, a refractometer, paddle stirrers, turbidmeters, chemical oxygen demand reactor, incubators, constant temperature baths, ovens and furnaces, conductivity meters and pH meters, together with a full range of ancillary materials and chemicals for chemical and biological testing.