Welcome to the Department of Chemical Engineering(CHE)
The department of chemical engineering was established in 2022. The department offers a
four-year B.Tech. program in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at an undergraduate
level. At the postgraduate level, the department offers the Ph.D.
The B.Tech. programme is being offered in collaboration with the departments of
Biosciences and Bioengineering (BSBE) and chemistry with a major emphasis to provide
students with a multidisciplinary learning experience within the framework of National
Education Policy – 2020. The core requirements of the program are divided as 3:1 between
Chemical Engineering and Biology &chemistry with theoretical courses supplemented by
cutting-edge laboratory experiences. The design of the programme allows the students to
broaden their scope beyond the chemical engineering and learn principles of biology and
chemistry which will be highly useful in their future career. The design also expected to
allow the students to pursue higher academic or professional careers in the interdisciplinary
areas of chemical engineering.
Faculty details:
Dr. Sontti Somasekhara Goud:
Dr. Sontti Somasekhara Goud as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical
Engineering. Dr. Sontti holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur.
Dr. Sontti's current research interests encompass a broad range of Fluid Mechanics topics,
including Computational Fluid Dynamics, Multiphase flows, Microfluidics, Fluidization, and
Slurry transport, as well as their applications in Chemical Engineering.
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Dr. Suvamay Jana:
Dr. Suvamay Jana is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at
IIT dhArwAD. Suvamay comes with more than 6 years of professional experience in the
domain of biocatalysis, drug discovery, API formulation, and drug delivery. Prior to joining
IIT dhArwAD, he was working as a lead design engineer at Becton Dickinson, one of the
world’s largest medical device companies. Suvamay earned his Ph.D. in Chemical
Engineering from the University of Kentucky in the USA in 2017.
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Dr. Ravi Chandra Dutta:
Dr. Ravi Chandra Dutta is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering
at the Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad since April 2023. His research interests lie in
the development of gas separation membranes and the design of energy storage materials.
Prior to joining IIT Dharwad as a faculty member, he received his Ph.D. in Chemical
Engineering from the University of Queensland (2019). He worked as a post-doctoral
research fellow at Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany.
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