The Department of Chemical Engineering (ChE Department) was established at Yarmouk University in the academic year 1983/1984 as part of the faculty of Engineering (FoE) and was moved in 1986 to the new campus which in-houses Jordan University of Science & Technology (JUST). The JUST campus has mainly faculties of applied sciences such as engineering, medicine, agriculture, etc. The Department occupies the CH1 and CH2 wings​ of the Engineering complex at JUST. Currently, the department has 18 faculty members, about 350 undergraduate students, about 50 graduate students (M.Sc. program), 6 teaching laboratories, 7 research laboratories, and 2 computer laboratories.