About Us

Department of Chemical Engineering

The Chemical Engineering Department at IITM is a happening place with an exciting bunch of talented faculty and motivated students. The last few years have seen a dramatic increase in industrial collaboration and consultancy, research projects, research publications and faculty awards. Our students have actively participated in National and International Conferences and won many Best Paper/poster awards. In recent years, several publications have made it to the Journal Cover pages.
We have revised our academic curriculum to be in tune with the current developments in the field while retaining the core concepts from the discipline. Faculty introduce new electives related to their research and these are pretty well subscribed.
The Department’s vision is to be a global centre of academic and research excellence in Chemical Engineering Sciences and Technology, where knowledge is vigorously and meticulously pursued and disseminated, application to industry and society is valued, free thinking is encouraged, intellectual rigour is demanded and thoroughness is rewarded. We are in the process of establishing world class research facilities and research groups in specific areas of energy, environment and materials.

List of the Head and their lead role period history

	Head of Department
	Name	Period
	Prof. D. Venkateswarlu	1959 – 1971
	Prof. T. Gopi chand	1971 – 1975
	Prof. M. Satyanarayana	1975 – 1978
	Prof. Y.B.G. Varma	1978 – 1981
	Prof. P. R. Krishnaswamy	1981 – 1982
	Prof. M. Ramanujam	1982 – 1985
	Prof. N. Subramanian	1985 – 1989
	Prof. C. A. Sastry	1989 – 1991
	Prof. M.S. Ananth	1991 – 1994
	Prof. Ch. D. P. Rao	1994 – 1997
	Prof. K. Krishnaiah	1997 – 2000
	Prof. M. Chidambaram	2000 – 2003
	Prof. A.R. Balakrishnan	2003 – 2006
	Prof. Shankar Narasimhan	2006 – 2009
	Prof. S. Pushpavanam	2009 – 2012
	Prof. P. Sesha Talpa Sai	2012 – 2015
	Prof. A. Kannan	2015 – 2018
	Prof. R. Nagarajan	Current HEAD

ChE Publication [2013 – 2018] & Students Statistics

Activites & Outreach

Journal Cover Pages

Books by the Faculty

International Collabration

Industry Tie-up

Thrust Areas / Future Research Plans

Energy– Thermochemical processing; Unconventional energy sources; Carbon capture and sequestration; Electrochemical energy systems; Process intensification, Process Safety; Computational Catalysis
Environment – Aerosol fate and transport; Modeling and remediation/restoration of environmental and ecological systems; Environmental sensors.
Materials – Synthesis and characterization of functional materials; Fabrication and testing of energy and display devices; Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics; multi-scale modelling
Systems Biology – Bioinformatics; Modelling of disease inception, growth and treatment; Biological network analysis.