Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Department of Chemical Engineering

Placement Brochure 2010

Message from HOD

Dr. Prabirkumar Saha

The Department of Chemical Engineering at IIT Guwahati houses an excellent milieu of able faculty and staff members, stateof-the-art laboratories and a huge number of meritorious students pursuing B.Tech, M.Tech and Ph.D programs. Our B.Tech and M.Tech students do get trained in real life work environment through summer internships in various industries and universities, both in India and abroad. The alumni of this department have proven their competence by excelling in some of the most competitive environments around the globe, be it in the industry or in academia. Continuing with the legacy, the current B.Tech, M.Tech and Ph.D batches have many innovative and enterprising minds. As the Head of Department, I proudly present the current final year batch to all potential recruiters. Those who have hired our students in the past are already familiar with the high standards our alumni have set. For new recruiters, we are confident that the excellence of the current batch will catalyze the beginning of a long and prosperous relationship with IIT Guwahati.

Message from T&P Incharge

As placement officer, it gives me an immense pleasure in introducing Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. Our 6th B.Tech and 6th M.Tech batch are ready for on campus placement. I am confident that the students of our department will live-up to your expectations as they have been doing so far. This brochure will give you a glimpse of the breadth of talent within the batch of 2011 and provide you with concise information about the various programs. I heartily welcome both the recruiters and our graduating students to come to a common platform and get the best out of each other.
Dr. K. Mohanty

About the Department

The Chemical Engineering Department at IIT Guwahati started in the year 2002, and strives for excellence in research, high quality education and outstanding professional services. The department is a major academic host offering B.Tech, M.Tech and Ph.D in Chemical Engineering. Our academic programme is meticulously designed to equip students with fundamental understanding on the subjects of Chemical Engineering. We keep good balance between theoretical and laboratory based practical courses. Apart from this, the department is also engaged in various R&D and consultancy projects in various organizations.

Faculty
The Department is endowed with young, vibrant and dynamic faculty well qualified to impart quality education and are also involved in prominent R&D projects sponsored by the likes of Department of Science and Technology (DST), Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Defense Research Lab (DRL), Defense Research and Development Lab (DRDL), Rubotherm Germany Centre for Research Excellence, and also run consultancy projects for well known companies like IOCL, OIL, NTPC, BRPL and Amrit Bio-energy and Industries Limited. The Department is also visited by faculty from renowned universities all over India as well as abroad.

The techno-management festival, Techniche and the cultural festival, Alcheringa are organized and managed completely by the students of IITG, providng them multiple platforms for their all round development, and also improve their soft-skills, which are imperative for one to excel in ones workspace. These festivals are considered at the forefront in their respective fields in the North-East of India and has been the source of inspiration for similar activities in numerous colleges in the region. In addition to honing their organizational skills, the students also perform certain administrative duties mainly pertaining to the welfare of the 2500 students residing in campus. The students from the department have been a successful part of the Student Gymkhana, the Placement Cell and the Alumni Cell. The students of the department also carry out the activities of the student chapter of IIChe; the Guwahati Regional Centre based at IITG, is one of the most active regional centres in the country.

Student Activities

Academic Programmes
B.TECH
The B.Tech curriculum being multdisciplinary in nature, serves the purpose of exposing students to various aspects of chemical engineering while simultaneously developing their problem solving capabilities. The program spans over eight semesters which allows students to gradually imbibe students the basic fundamentals of chemical engineering and apply them to the complex problems faced by the industry today, thereby, equipping them for their future careers.
Courses Offered :

M.TECH
The M.Tech programme in Chemical Engineering with specializaton in Petroleum Refinery Engineering is unique among all IITs in the country. It is a four semester program having two semesters completely dedicated to project work. Admission to the M.Tech program is offered through Graduate Aptitude Test for Engineers (GATE). The curriculum streamlines the interests of the students in the frontier area of petroleum engineering.
Courses Offered :

PhD.
The PhD program is aimed at helping the student acquire proficiency in their chosen area, being both exhaustive and rigorous. The presence of an able and experienced faculty as a mentor provides an environment conducive to achieve the expertise required for a doctorate degree. Presently, there are 31 research scholars working in experimental and theoretical projects related to various areas of chemical engineering such as Fuel Cell, Membrane Separation Technology, Waste-Water Treatment and Process Control and Optimization.

Fluid Mechanics Process Equipment Design Heat and Mass Transfer Transport Phenomena Process Control & Instrumentation Polymer Science and Technology Thermodynamics Petroleum Refinery & Petrochemicals Environmental Pollution Control Optimization Techniques Reaction Engineering

Advanced Heat and Mass transfer Petroleum Refinery Engineering Petroleum Downstream Processing Interfacial Science and Engineering Computational Transport Phenomena Reaction Engineering Fuel Cell Technology Advanced Thermodynamics Principles of Petroleum Refining Engineering

Thesis Projects
Students also get the opportunity to participate in various projects pertaining to finding solutions to industrial problems, as part of their Bachelor and Master Thesis, which lasts for 3 semesters. These projects pertain to the field of: + Computational Fluid Dynamics + Chemical Reaction Engineering + Polymer Technology + Process Control & Instrumentation + Petroleum Engineering + Microfluidics and Nanofluidics + Optimization Techniques + Membrane Technology + Fuel Cell + Cavitation Engineering

Training and Internships

In order to fully understand the practical applications of the theoretical courses taught as a part of the B.Tech curriculum, students pursue a compulsory summer internship in their 6th semester. A brief overview of the organizations where the present batch has interned: - Reliance - CD-Adapco - BHEL - NTPC - ABB group - IOCL - Hindustan Zinc Ltd. - BPCL - HPCL - ITC - NAL - NALCO - ONGC - Chambal fertilizers

Some of the students also gained international exposure by doing their internships in universities abroad such as University of Michigan (USA), Max Planck Society (Germany), National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan), Monash University (Australia), University of Surrey (U.K), University of Karlsruhe (Germany).

Departmental Laboratories
+Fluid Mechanics Laboratory +Heat and Mass Transfer Laboratory +Mechanical Operations Laboratory +Thermodynamics Laboratory +Petroleum Laboratory +Process Control Laboratory +Chemical Reaction Engineering Laboratory

Facilities
The Department of Chemical Engineering hosts state-of-art facilities required for cutting edge and applied chemical engineering research. The Analytical Laboratory houses sophisticated instruments having a wide variety of applications like Particle Characterization, Concentration Measurement, Titration, Rheological property analysis etc. Apart from the access to central computing facilities like the PARAM supercomputer and other high performance clusters, the department also has a large number of PCs and workstations. Students have access to softwares like ANSYS CFX, FLUENT, ASPEN, Mathematica, MatLab, STARCCM+, Polymath,COMSOL and GAMBIT.

TOC ANALYZER

GC-MS

ROTAVAPOR

GAS CHROMATOGRAPH

TGA

RHEOMETER

KARL FISCHER TITRATOR

HPLC

MILLIPORE WATER SYNTHESIS UNIT

BET SURFACE ANALYZER

DSC

LASER PARTICLE SIZE ANALYZER

Facilities

Past Recruiters
- AVA Corp - BCPL - BPCL - BGR Energy - BOC India - Coal India - DE Shaw - Dr. Reddys - EIL - Energo India - Future First - GAIL - Fluent - IOCL - ONGC - NRL - ITC - Jindal Steel - John Deere - L&T - MU Sigma - NALCO - ONGC - PWC - Headstrong - HPCL - TCE - TCS - Reliance Industries - SHELL - Schlumberger - Sterlite

Contacts
Dr. Saurabh Basu Placement Head Training & Placement Cell IIT Guwahati Ph:- (+91)361-2692173 Fax: (+91)361-2582174 E-mail: saurabh@iitg.ernet.in Prashant Kumar UG Placement Representative Department of Chemical Engineering IIT Guwahati Ph:- +91-9954604175 Email: k.prashant@iitg.ernet.in A. Srinivas PG Placement Representative Department of Chemical Engineering IIT Guwahati Ph:- +91-8011223750 Email: a.srinivas@iitg.ernet.in Dr. Kaustubha Mohanty Training & Placement In-charge Department of Chemical Engineering IIT Guwahati Ph:- 0361-2582267 E-mail: kmohanty@iitg.ernet.in