School of Chemical Engineering (SCHEME)
The School of Chemical Engineering offers B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering to the candidates selected through VITEEE (VIT Entrance Examination). The Programme imparts fundamentals of Chemical Engineering while simultaneously developing problem-solving capabilities through its multi-disciplinary curriculum. School of Chemical Engineering at VIT University has been keen on its growth by incorporating the seeds of core Chemical Engineering principles in the young minds, from innovating, designing, optimizing, economizing to troubleshooting of myriads of industrial processes and research. Students have to accomplish a Bachelor Thesis Project in their last year of the programme. The course structure provides an optimal mix of core and elective courses. Chemical Engineers do it all to make the world easier, safer and comfortable for the human civilization to prosper.
Programmes Offered in Vellore Campus:
- B.Tech. Chemical Engineering
B.Tech. Chemical Engineering
The School of Chemical Engineering offers B. Tech in Chemical Engineering to the candidates selected through VITEEE (VIT Entrance Examination). The Programme imparts fundamentals of Chemical Engineering while simultaneously developing problem-solving capabilities through its multi-disciplinary curriculum. School of Chemical Engineering at VIT University has been keen on its growth by incorporating the seeds of core Chemical Engineering principles in the young minds, from innovating, designing, optimizing, economizing to troubleshooting of myriads of industrial processes and research. Students have to accomplish a Bachelor Thesis Project in their last year of the programme. The course structure provides an optimal mix of core and elective courses. Chemical Engineers do it all to make the world easier, safer and comfortable for the human civilization to prosper.
Objectives
The Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech.) program offered by School of Chemical Engineering provides deeper understanding of a number of discipline-linked engineering science courses, core courses and elective courses to which students are introduced in the curriculum, theoretical and experimental solution of real world problems, and design of systems relevant to the contemporary industries. The areas introduced include Transport Phenomena, Process Dynamics and Control, Chemical Reaction Engineering, Process Modelling and Simulation, and Equipment Design and Optimization. Besides the theoretical and laboratory based curriculum, students complete a minimum of two projects in the final year of the program.
This degree provides a solid foundation for the core and allied chemical engineering discipline, critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Through the academic program students also develop excellent written and oral communication skills, learn to work as a team and project management.
The objectives of this undergraduate program are:
- To provide quality education in chemical engineering and to produce competent, creative and imaginative engineers catering to the evolving requirements of the society.
- To impart knowledge and develop technology through quality research in frontier areas of chemical and inter-disciplinary fields.
- To make a significant contribution towards the development of skilled technical manpower with professional ethics.
- Material Science and Engineering
- Transport Phenomena
- Computational Methods for Chemical Engineering
- Computational Methods for Chemical Engineering Lab
- Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics
- Chemical Process Calculations
- Momentum Transfer Operations
- Momentum Transfer Operations Lab
- Mass Transfer Operations – I
- Heat Transfer
- Heat Transfer Lab
- Mechanical Operations
- Mechanical Operations Lab
- Mass Transfer Operations – II
- Mass Transfer Operations Lab
- Chemical Reaction Engineering - I
- Chemical Reaction Engineering Lab
- Process Dynamics and Control
- Process Dynamics and Control Lab
- Chemical Reaction Engineering – II
- Process Equipment Design
- Process Equipment Design Lab
- Chemical Process Technology and Economics
- Process Modelling and Simulation
- Process Modelling and Simulation Lab
- AI in Chemical Engineering
- Process Plant Design and Simulation
- Process Utilities and Pipeline Design
- Membrane Separations Technology
- Colloids and Interfacial Science
- Polymer Technology
- Environmental Pollution Control
- Fluidization Engineering
- Chemical Process Optimization
- Pharmaceutical Technology
- Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
- Process Intensification
- Chemical Product Design
- Natural Gas Engineering
- Petroleum Refining Technology
- Petrochemical Technology
- Fuels and Combustion
- Fertilizer Technology
- Safety and Hazard Analysis
- Biochemical Engineering
- Fermentation Technology
- Food Process Engineering
- Technical Answers to Real Problems Project
- Design Project
- Laboratory Project
- Product Development Project
- Computer Project
- Reading Course
- Special Project
- Simulation Project
List of labs
- Chemical Reaction Engineering Lab
- Process Simulation Lab
- Momentum Transfer Lab
- Heat Transfer Lab
- Mass Transfer Lab
- Mechanical operations Lab
- Process Control Lab
- Membrane Research Lab
Significant facilities
- High performance liquid chromatography
- UV-vis Spectrophotometer
- Circulating fluidized bed
- Goniometer
- UF spinneret
- UF stirred cell
- Shock tube
- Chemical engineering graduates can find potential opportunities in sectors such as Petroleum refineries, Petrochemical industries, Iron and Steel industries, Aluminium industries, Pharmaceutical and personal care product industries, Specialty chemical industries, Pulp and paper mills, Sugar mills, Food processing industries, Cement plants, Fertilizer plants, Water treatment plants, Biotechnology Sector, etc.
- Our engineering graduates are getting placed in some of the well-known national and multinational core industries such as Tata Chemicals, Reliance Industries Limited, ITC Limited, Hindustan Unilever Limited, Vedanta, BASF, GE, Saint Gobain, ExxonMobil, Honeywell, Ecolab and others.
- Apart from core industries our graduates also get employed in service and IT industries such as Amazon, Goldman Sachs, TCS, CTS, Accenture, Capgemini and others.
PEO1: Graduates will be engineering professionals in industry, entrepreneurs in process engineering or in the pursuit of graduate education in chemical engineering and other disciplines.
PEO2: Graduates will be capable to assess and relate engineering issues to meet sustainable development goal and contributing to economic growth.
PEO3: Graduates will function in their profession with strong communication skills to work in diverse multi-faceted team with social awareness and responsibility.