Chemical Engineering involves the design and maintenance of chemical plants and the development of chemical processes. It combines knowledge of Chemistry and Engineering for the production of chemicals and related by-products. This branch of engineering is a varied field, covering areas from biotechnology and nanotechnology to mineral processing. It covers various fields of chemical technology in mineral based industries, petrochemical plants, pharmaceuticals, synthetic fibres, petroleum refining plants etc.
The Department of Chemical Engineering was established in 1999 with an intake capacity of 60. It has an extremely dynamic faculty and well experienced supporting staff having strong research interests in conventional and emerging areas of Chemical Engineering. The department believes in continuous upgradation of the knowledge of the faculty and has been sponsoring the faculty for post graduation and research programme from last few years. It has nine fully well established state of the art laboratories having the equipments worth of Rs. 61 Lakhs. The department has adequate number of computers with latest configuration and internet facilities. The department provides excellent computational facilities including professional software’s such as UNISIM, CHEMCAD and MATLAB to the faculty and the students. In addition to this the department has its own library with 360 books and chemical engineering encyclopedia.
The department motivates the students to participate in various national events such as Project Exhibition, Paper Presentation, Model making and Sports competition. Our students have also received National level prices at various conferences for paper presentation. The academic results at university examinations are excellent in every year. Students of the department secured the rank at university examinations and have achieved the success in GATE and other competitive examinations. The students of the department have been recruited in the top chemical industries and contributing important role in them. The department is proactive for good industry institute interaction. Various experts from the industry are invited and Industrial visits are organized every year regularly to bridge the gap between theory and practice. The department provides in plant training in various eminent industries such as HPCL, BPCL, IOCL, RCF, Reliance, and Biocon etc. Most of the final year projects get sponsorship from industries.