The B. Tech. program in the Department of Chemical Engineering begins with a foundation in mathematics, chemistry, and physics. These fundamentals are used to develop the analytical tools of chemical engineering - fluid mechanics, chemical thermodynamics, and chemical kinetics - in the sophomore and junior years. The units of chemical processes - such as chemical reactors, bio-reactors, distillation columns and heat exchangers - are analyzed with these tools beginning in the junior year. In the senior year students design chemical processes by integrating process units with regard to economics, safety, and environmental impact. This program prepares a student for professional practice in traditional areas of chemical engineering – chemicals, polymers, petroleum, utilities, pharmaceuticals -, as well as emerging areas of biotechnology and electronic materials.
Along with core chemical engineering classes, our curriculum offers sufficient flexibility to allow students to explore emerging areas in chemical engineering and courses from other departments of their interest.
The Department has more than 40 faculty, each active in research in a particular domain of Chemical Engineering. The research and teaching laboratories of the Department are housed with state-of-the-art experimental and computational research facilities. The curriculum allows interested and passionate students to pursue research for one year in a faculty’s research laboratory for credit towards their graduation. Several interested students pursue research purely for the joy of doing science, and learning the ways of doing research!