Chemical Engineering
Ranked among the nation's top schools in Chemical Engineering, the department at IITK is endowed with a highly competitive undergraduate program, a vibrant graduate program supported
by the state-of-the-art facilities, and a distinguished faculty that has obtained national and international recognitions. The Department currently has 18 faculty members who bring to the
Department a wealth of expertise to maintain a vibrant teaching and research environment. Several of our faculty members are Fellows of the Indian Academies of Sciences and Engineering,
and many serve on the editorial boards of national and international journals. They have also been recognised by the prestigious awards such as the Bhatnagar Prize and the Herdillia, Amar
Dye Chem and the NOCIL awards of the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers. Our faculty has authored over 25 textbooks and research monographs. Our alumni, many of who have gone on
to be the CEOs, business leaders, department chairs and distinguished scientists (even social workers and artists!), both in India and abroad, are a very visible lot and continue to inspire new
generation of students here.
The research in the department ranges from the core areas of chemical engineering such as transport phenomena, thermodynamics, kinetics, process engineering, catalysis, hazard
management, optimization and control and separation processes, to the newer frontiers that include bioinformatics, colloids and interfaces, nanotechnology and novel polymeric and
semiconductor materials. Our research programs receive support from almost all of the Government funding agencies, as well as from a host of chemical and processing industries like
Hindustan Lever, IPCL, GSFC, BPCL, GAIL, ICI, etc. Our faculty also contributes to the training and teaching needs of the industry and the faculty of other colleges by conducting short-term
courses in almost all areas of chemical engineering.
Areas of Research
Bioinformatics
Catalysis
Computational Fluid Dynamics
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