Bangalore Regional Centre, IIChE and Student Chapter Activities of MSRIT

Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers is a confluence of streams of professionals from

academia, research institute and industry. It provides them the appropriate forum for joint

endeavors, hand-in-hand, to work for human being through application of chemical engineering

and allied sciences. It is apex professional body of chemical engineers in the country. Even as the

IIChE is always moulding itself and playing a proactive role to keep up with the ever changing

needs of the society and the economy.

Bangalore Regional Centre (BRC) of IIChE is functioning from the Chemical Engineering

Department of MSRIT for more than a decade. Faculty members are members of the Executive

Committee of BRC and several activities are conducted for the chemical engineering

community. Most prestigious event of chemical engineers in the country Chemical Engineering

Congress - Chemcon and 64th

Annual Session of IIChE was organized by the department in

association with other institutes during 28-30th

December 2011. BRC has been awarded as the

Best Regional Centre in the year 2015 and again in 2016 under category ‘B’.

Student Chapter of IIChE at MSRIT is actively and enthusiastically organizing programs. Most

of the students at department are members of IIChE and are working for professional pride and

better networking with other chemical engineers in the region.

PROGRAMS ORGANIZED BY IICHE STUDENT CHAPTER

AND SOCIETY OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS, MSRIT

2016 – 2017

1. Guest Lecture by Prof. S.C. Jain of Punjab University, Chandigarh on 19th

July 2016 for all the staffs and students of the department.

2. Essay writing competition on “Independence 70” on 19

th August 2016 for all

the students of MSRIT at the department.

3. Guest Lecture by Prof. Bruce Quare of University of Nottingham on 26th

August 2016.

4. Guest Lecture by Prof. P.V. Sivapullaiah of Department of Civil

Engineering, IISc, Bangalore on “Role of Chemical Engineering in

Integrated Solid Waste Management”, on 24th

September 2016.

5. Guest Lecture by Dr. K Vidya Shetty, Associate Professor of Department of

Chemical Engineering, NITK, Surathkal on 26th

September 2016.

6. Inaugural function of IIChE Student Chapter and Society of Chemical

Engineers for the year 2016-17 and guest lecture by Dr. S. Sivakumar, Chief

Scientist, Process Development on 7th October, 2016.

7. Chemical Quiz for all the students of the Chemical Engineering Department

on 28th

October, 2016.

8. Documentary Screening about ‘Frito Lays Production’ on 4

th November,

2016.

9. Plenary Talk on “Single molecule techniques for bimolecular

characterization” by Dr. Rahul Roy, Assistant Professor, Department of

Chemical Engineering, IISc, Bangalore on 2nd

December, 2016.

10. National Level Technical Symposium, “Rasayan-2016”, was held on 2

nd

and 3rd

December, 2016. (Events Conducted: Poster Presentation,

CHEMWars, Techo-Charads, M. S. Ramaiah Memorial Quiz)

11. Alumni presentation on “Scope of Management Degree with Chemical

Engineering in Abroad”, on 5th

December, 2016.