Department of Chemical Engineering | Indian Institute Of Technology Madras , Chennai

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| About the Department

Chemical engineering traditionally deals with how a chemical plant operates, but today it covers a wide range of areas like biotechnology, catalysis, pollution control, renewable energy such as solar energy, drug delivery, process control and systems engineering, microelectronics, polymers, surfactants, systems and computational biology, reactor designing, heat and mass transfer and many more. Chemical engineering is a broad-based and interdisciplinary field and provides opportunities in several industries - programming, biology, or even economics; a flexibility that is not easily available in other disciplines. Chemical Engineering plays a major role in bioengineering and has several real applications - artificial organs, mechanical body parts, curing diseases, etc. Nano engineering and materials science is yet another application of principles of Chemical Engineering.

| Message from the Head of Department

Chemical Engineering is a constantly evolving discipline which keeps pace with the developing world. Our department reflects this in its teaching curriculum, research thrusts, industry partnerships and entrepreneurial initiatives. Founded in 1959 along with the rest of the Institute, the Department in its early days bore the imprint of German collaboration in nearly every functional aspect. The laboratories were well equipped with large-scale equipment that are still fully operational. While the trend towards miniaturization has led to ongoing replacement, faculty still carry out consultancy assignments for industry using these. They also give the students an early appreciation of the shop floor in factories. The recent re-introduction of an Introduction to Chemical Engineering course for first-year undergraduates has been widely welcomed by the students. Combining a variety of lectures by faculty and industry practitioners with visits to manufacturing locations, the course is an eye-opener for many who choose the discipline without quite knowing its scope. Core courses that emphasize the fundamentals, electives that broaden the horizon, and laboratories for UGs and ...


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Postgraduate Students

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M S Research Scholars

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ENERGY AND MATERIALS
MOLECULAR SIMULATIONS
PROCESS SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
PROCESS INTENSIFICATION
ENVIRONMENT
REACTION ENGINEERING

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