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Department Of Chemical Engineering

Department Profile:

The Department of Chemical Engineering started in 1982 and 21 batches of professional Chemical Engineers have graduated who have achieved major milestones in professional, entreprenual and academic achievements. The journey through these years has been a saga of aspirations, accomplishments and achievements.
The intake in under graduate course has been increase from 30 to 60 during the year 2007. Department is recognized as research Centre during the year of 2001. The Department started Post Graduation study in M.Tech. in Chemical Engineering during 2007 and also applied for another branch to start M.Tech in Chemical Plant Design. Department accredited by NBA during the year of 2005-2006 for 3 years. Department applied for Patent on Eco friendly Bio-pesticide Extracted from Custard Apple Seeds

Why a student has to choose this field:

There are unlimited areas of use of chemicals made for which, the skills of chemical engineers are very much used in one way or the other.

Typical applications are:

• Petroleum products, fertilizers, agrochemicals, pesticides to aviation fuels
• Tooth paste to newspaper
• Paints, perfumes, cosmetics and soaps
• Clothes to curtains
• Ice cream and other food products
• Laminates to oils and waxes
• Plastics and polymers
• Lime and cement and building materials
• Pharmaceuticals and agro products
• Ceramics and synthetic jewellery
• Synthetic fibres and films
• Rubber and leather
• Dyes and inks
• Pulp and paper
• Bio chemical products, explosives
• Unbounded applica

 

Career options for Chemical Engineering:

A growing and demanding population:

	Current	Demand	Reference
Graduates	4000	6500	www.iiche.org.in
Post Graduates	300	1000
Doctorates	100	300

New subjects/ areas of study:

• Process dynamics, biochemical, surface chemistry, nano technology, bulk drugs, bio pesticides
• Application of the engineering principles to the fundamental processes of chemical sciences to bring value addition to raw materials making it more useful to mankind. A chemical engineer is unique in that he is an engineer among engineers and chemist among chemists

Current Research Efforts

Project plans

• Registration for MSc engineering PhD by research under Visweshvarya Technological University
• Cardiovascular engineering
• Blood rheology
• Effluent treatment of industrial waste
• Static electricity in chemical processing
• Natural products processing and packaging
• Bio pesticies

Research Project undertaken by the Department

Name of the Institution	Faculty / Department	No. of Research Projects completed / in progress Annexure-IV	Sponsoring Agency	No. of Research Papers Published in referred journals
DSCE	Chemical Department	Completed 1. Heavy metal removal using rice husk	AICTE	1
		2. Development of testing kit for bio-contamination of aviation fuels	AR & DB	1
		3. Development of fast testing kit for bio-contamination of aviation fuels	AR & DB	--
DSCE	Chemical Department	In progress 1. Eco-Friendly Biopesticide extracted from custard apple seeds	DSI	4
		2. Treatment of bio-contaminated aviation fuel	DSI	--
		3.  Extraction and identification of anti diabetic drug from plant origin	KSCST / DSI	--

Overcoming Challenges:

Revitalizing the curriculum to the needs of the changing industrial and technology scenario. Actively participate in the modernization of syllabus for VTU in order to bring about the changes to update requirement.

Dissemination of the knowledge of chemical engineering through computer assisted instruction programs, teaching and learning aids for class room, course work, instruction manuals for laboratory, preparation of detailed technical information on floppies for use with computers.

• Interaction with other departments of other institutes, industries, universities and nodal centers to improve the quality of the education.
• To modify and incorporate the changes in the course content in addition to the regular syllabus of VTU, to cater the needs to improve the overall quality of education. Investigate the possibility to have an independent curriculum of our own institution.
• To inculcate quality consciousness among students and motivate them to achieve excellence in their academic performance.
• To prepare the department as per the ISO 9002 quality specification.
• Design to install the experiments such that the students get hands on experience to demonstrate the theory and execute in practice.
• By co-curricular and extra curricular activities build up excellent human characteristics and interpersonal relations.
• Attract the industrial personnel for the rapport to develop the industry-institute interaction through projects, pilot plant studies, industrial visit and training.
• To develop attitude of competitiveness, friendship among the students by the active participation in programs conducted intra departmental, inter institutions throughout the country to develop and spread the image of the institute. To imbibe into the students that “Success comes only to those whose thoughts and action is coordinated: failure can be best taken to be the stepping stones towards success”.
• For the staff to acquire the latest developments in the field of their interest, delegate them to various summer schools, winter schools, QIP’s, National and international seminars, conference and exhibitions.
• To motivate the staff for self-realization and development of excellence in health, hygiene, harmony, happiness and prefectures.
• To motivate student to be entrepreneurs so that they become job givers rather than job seekers. Identify those who have the qualities of entrepreneurs and encourage them to set up their own chemical industries.

Placement

Year	No. of Companies	Number of students selected		Average Salary	Highest salary offered
		On campus	Off campus
2005	06	06	NA	1.44 Lakhs	2.2 Lakhs
2006	06	07	02	2.0 Lakhs	2.4 Lakhs
2007	08	05	02	2.0 Lakhs	2.2 Lakhs

Infrastructure

Departmental Library

The department is having its own library facility other than the college library. The library books are accessible to Chemical Engineering students for references. There around more than 370 Text Books, 8 Multimedia(CDs, VCDs) and 35 Journals are there.

Industry Institution Interaction :

External resource persons who conducted lectures or seminars:

Year (Y)	Names of Resource Persons	Background Industry/Academic/R&D	Topics Covered
2008	Prof. D.C. Sikdar	Professor Chemical Engineering	Parametric study of Batch extraction process of custard seeds oil and its characterization
	Dr.T.N.Shashidhara Manager Sartorius India P.Ltd Bangalore	Regulatory affairs & quality assurance	Design of Bio-Reactor and Fermenter
	Prof. S. C. Maidargi	Professor Chemical Engineering	Forensic testing for motor petrol
	Dr. Soumyadeb Ghosh G.E. Bangalore	Senior Scientist	Nano Technology the next Industrial Revolution
	Sri Lokesh B.S. Industrialist Bangalore	Consultant	Be a Chemical Engineering Entrepreneur
2007	Dr.Gururaj Karajogi Bangalore	EDP Expert	Creativity Simulation
	Chemovation 2007	National level symposium	National level symposium Dept of Chem. Engg
	Dr.J.R. Mudakavi Indian Inst. Of Science, Bangalore	Principal Scientist	Trace element contamination of environment
	Dr. Richard Nathaniel Bangalore	Management Expert	Personality Development and English
	Dr. R. Manoharan High Energy Batteries Ltd Trichy.	Research Scientist	Fuel cells and Battery Technology
	Mr.Y.B. Mrithyunjaya 3M India Limited Bangalore	Manager Technical	Material Safety and Data Sheet.
	Dr. Sumanda Bandyopdhyoy SABIC, Bangalore	Lab Manager	Introduction to Polymer Science
	Sri Bhaskar Dutta Gupta L&T Valdel Engg P.Ltd Bangalore-25.	Chief Executive	Gearing up for the changes in technology and role of IIChE
2006	Prof. S.C. Maidargi	Professor Chemical Engineering	Net Based Research and formation of research group
	Prof. S.C. Maidargi	Professor Chemical Engineering	Finalization of formation of research group
	Prof. D.C. Sikdar	Professor Chemical Engineering	Eco-friendly Bio-Pesticide
	Prof. D.C. Sikdar	Professor Chemical Engineering	Fugacities & Activity coefficients Maxwells relations
	Dr. Y.J. Rao, Prof.Vinod Kallur RVCE, Bangalore	Professors Chemical Engineering	Mathematical representation of Chemical Processes Modelling of Chemical Reactions
	Dr. M. V. Ramani Philips Research Bangalore	Scientist Ph.D in Chemical Engineering	Intellectual property rights in relation to Chemical Engineers
	Sri Lokesh B.S. Industrialist Bangalore	Consultant	Be a Chemical Engineering Entrepreneur
	Sri Eashwarmurthy M/s. Sushee Chemicals Bangalore	Director	My experience as an Entrepreneur
	Dr.J.R.Mudakavi Indian Inst. Of Science Bangalore	Chemical Engineering Professor	Safety measures for hazardous chemicals
	Dr.Shasshi Bhavikatti,BMSCE, Bangalore	Chemical Engineering Professor	Project organization and commissioning the chemical industries
	Sri S.N. Ranga Prasad S.I.S.I., Bangalore-10	Deputy Director Chemical	Start your Own Industry
	Sri Gulshan Chopra Time Institute Bangalore	Consultant	Career Objectives and growth
	Dr.Y.J. Rao Prof. Venkatesham & Prof. S.C. Maidargi	Chemical Engineering Professors	Methodology of establishing the R&D, e-Consultancy in the Chem.Engg. Depts.
2005	Mr. Prakash Bhavikatti	Safety Engineer HIKAL,Bangalore	Hazards and Safety in Chemical Industries
	Prof. S.C. Maidargi	Professor Chemical Engineering	Pranayama & Bastika
	Dr.H.S.M. Prakash	Sr. Geologist, GSI Bangalore	Exploration & Prospecting of Gold and its Processing
	Prof. S.C. Maidargi	Professor Chemical Engineering	Net Based Research
	Experts from KREDIL and Solar Manufacturers	Industrialists	Energy auditing Program

 

In every Academic year Students & Faculties visits the Organization.

Year	ORGANISATION	PARTICIPANTS
2007-08	GE Plastic, Bangalore	Students & Staff
	Khoday's Glass Factory, Bangalore	Students & Staff
2006-07	KS&DL, Bangalore	Students & Staff
	HIkal, Bangalore	Students & Staff
	Recycle of Plstic	Students & Staff
2005-06	MCF, Mangalore	Students & Staff
	MRPL, Mangalore	Students & Staff
	Mandiya, Sugar Mills	Students & Staff

Rank Students

Sl.No.	Name of the student	Year	Rank
1.	Lalitha Kanwar	2005	1
2.	Raghavendra P.	2004	4
3.	Rashmi S	2003	5
Total No. of University Ranks so far is 23

List of Renouned ALUMNI

Sl no	year of completing	Name	Industry / Institute working	Designation
1.	2007	Rajesh S	Ion Exchange India Ltd	Project Engineer
2.	2007	Suhail Ahmed	Technical Service Centre, Bangalore	Project Engineer
3.	2007	Abhishek Pandey	Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd	Plant Engineer
4.	2006	Divya Ananth	Oracle India Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore	System Analyst
5.	2006	Nayana C D	Briggs of Burton (India) Pvt. Ltd Bangalore	Process Engineer
6.	2005	Santhosh Rajan R	Millipore(India) – Bioprocess Division	Technical Specialist
7.	1989	Prashanth R Soni	Ashok Organic Industries Ltd,	Asst.Manager
8.	1996	Ashish Jain	K.K.Rubber Co., ( India ) Pvt. Ltd	Managing Director
9.	1995	Saurav Banerjee	Fostek Chemicals Pvt. Ltd.	Director Technical
10.	1994	Kabilan	Antlia Events	Chairman
11.	2001	Srinivas. P	John Fowler ( India ) Ltd.	Project Engineer
12.	1997	Suresh M Bhingradia	Krima Sil Pvt. Ltd.,	Director
13.	1994	Rommel patel	Plastichemix Industries	Production Engineer
14.	2000	Hemanth . G	Lieutenant, Indian Army	Lieutenant Indian Army
15.	2003	Ravi shekhar	Satyam computers, Hyderabad	Trainee Engineer