Department History
The Department of Chemistry was established in the year 1962 to preparing the students for careers in all the fields of engineering aspects and also carry out basic and applied research work. The department consists of nine well qualified and experienced faculty members; eight of them are Doctorate holders. The Department also has five non-teaching staff. The main activity of the department is to teach engineering chemistry theory and Laboratory courses to the under graduate engineering students of all disciplines. Department is also involved in teaching technical chemistry and Instrumental methods of analysis for III and IV semester BE chemical engineering students, along with respective laboratories. The Department is a recognized research center by VTU. All faculty members are actively engaged in research work and eighteen research scholars have registered for Ph.D. The department is constantly organizing conferences/ seminars and FDP programs. The department conducts annually International ‘Australian national chemistry quiz’ by The Royal Australian Chemical Institute, Australia.
Vision
Department strives for Development of curriculum viewing emerging trends in technology with a balanced approach towards Institute Industry interaction and academic excellence along with research in Basic Sciences.
Mission
Providing outstanding teaching and quality training in chemistry to all students at all levels and in all disciplines and also develop and maintain research programs of National and International relevance and serve the society through unique expertise and talent found in the department.
The Chemistry department is devoted to teach Engineering chemistry to B.E first (All branches), second (Chemical Engineering) year and higher semester (Open elective) students. The department has been recognized as research center by VTU in 2008. All the faculty are involved in guiding to Ph D students.
Program Educational Objectives (PEOs):
- To make the students to understand the basic concepts of chemistry to develop futuristic materials for high-tech application in the area of engineering.
- Explore the economically viable technologies developed for utilizing water resources and recycle them. To provide basic skills in chemical and biological analysis of water and materials.
- Study of chemistry of portable energy storage devices like various conventional as well as modern batteries and their usage in different aspects of life.
- Gain the knowledge of corrosion science and anti corrosive techniques to protect faster corrosion and monitoring of corrosion.
- Understand various techniques involved in polymerization and application of polymer technology in the area of various engineering fields and manufacturing process of important metallurgical materials.
Program Outcomes (POs):
- Analyze the water samples and will have the knowledge to prepare potable water using different techniques.
- Have concept on rearing high octane fuels/good quality fuels.
- Apply different non-conventional sources of energy to generate power.
- Interpret the reasons of corrosion and will be monitor them by using the proper technique.
- Update the modern techniques, skills and advanced engineering tools essential for applications in Chemistry.
- Recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning.
Dr. Nagaraju Kottam
Dr Nagaraju Kottam is currently working as an HOD & Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bengaluru. He has obtained his PhD in Physical Chemistry from Central College, Bangalore University. His research interests include the design and development of advanced nanomaterials and their composites for wastewater treatment, hydrogen generation, electrochemical, and biosensors applications. 24 years of teaching and research experience. He has to his credit more than 75 research publications in refereed international journals, 06 Patents, 03 book chapters. He has guided 09 Ph.D’s for their doctoral degrees and another 02 are on-going in which one is DST-Inspire fellow. He has mentored more than 15 UG/PG projects and the majority have received best project awards. Recently, received as the best innovative project award of the year 2024 and 2020 from KSTA and KSCST, Bengaluru. He earned some government/institutional-funded projects and received several prestigious awards including the “Award of Excellence in Teaching” from MSRIT for the year 2018-19 for his contribution to research and teaching. There is on-going institute level DST-FIST program. He had reviewed more than hundred articles in international journals and was awarded the Outstanding Reviewer award from an Elsevier journal and also served as guest editor for a few journals. Dr. Nagaraju was a recipient of the INSA-IAS summer research fellowship in 2014. He was also nominated as an expert member for evaluating Switzerland's government-funded project in 2020. Life member for Indian Society for Technical Education’ (LM-ISTE:133296), “Electrochemical Society of India” Indian Institute of Science, and Life member for “Materials Research Society of India” Indian academy of sciences, Bangalore. (L.M. No: 1790)
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