India is undergoing significant transformation and realignment on a global scale across various sectors, including infrastructure, industries, the environment, energy, and the economy. Chemical engineering is one of the disciplines that is leading and shaping this transformation at the forefront. Chemical engineers play a vital role in such diverse industries as petroleum and petrochemicals, energy, power generation, including ultra-mega power plants, coal-bed methane, combined gas cycle plants, nuclear power, defence, mining, and minerals, including steel and aluminium, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, nanotechnology, cement, fertilizers, textiles, leather, food and agro-based technologies, polymers, and environmental engineering. Chemical engineering is the broadest branch of engineering that trains professionals to design, manufacture, operate, and control processes of such diversity. The Indian biotech and defence industries are highly research-driven and have among the highest demands for chemical engineers.

In this context, the demand for qualified professional chemical engineers to propel the growth of the industry and shape the contours of the Indian economy is on the rise. The undergraduate (B. Tech) program offered in Chemical Engineering at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham has a curriculum of global standards emphasizing the fundamentals, breadth of the discipline, and the necessary flexibility in being able to apply the fundamentals in widely varying contexts. It simultaneously trains the students in specialized elective streams such as materials science, nanotechnology, pharmaceuticals and petrochemicals, and petroleum refineries. With 93% of the faculty having a PhD degree and another 7% actively pursuing their PhD, the students get to learn from well-qualified and experienced staff. The students learn hands-on engineering skills in excellent labs, workshops, and on computers. They also use the excellent library facilities and computing facilities on campus and have access to the state-of-the-art instrumentation equipment at the Amrita Centre for Nanoscience. Amrita School of Engineering and the department have excellent placement records for the graduating students. Nearly 25% of our students go abroad every year for higher studies. We have a hard-working and enterprising student group. Our students have been placed in top-notch companies like General Electric, Schneider India, Akzo Nobel, Apollo Tires, etc.

Mission

The department strives for a passionate and committed drive towards continuous improvement in

• The delivery, standards, and currency of education
• Administration efficiency
• Socially beneficial scientific research to create new processes, products, methods, materials, or systems that impact and are beneficial to society
• Meeting and exceeding the needs of the stakeholders and Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham

Vision

To be recognized nationally and internationally for excellence in teaching and research in chemical engineering & materials science, integrated with, and practicing, social responsibility and value systems.