INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY

Coordinator: Department of Chemistry, Asutosh College

INTRODUCTION (Course objectives)

The certificate coursesare shaped and oriented to make the current Indian Higher Education System more relevant and career oriented with focus on quality and excellence. The programmes are designed to ensure that graduates who pass out after completing the courses would have knowledge, skills and aptitude for gainful employment in the wage sector in general and self-employment in particular. Students expertise in the concerned skill will have more opening in service, industry and entrepreneurship development. To enrich and empower the studentsAsutosh college is going to introduce need-based, value addedcertificate courses has been introduced as a parallel sub-discipline while pursuing their degree level education.

Disciplines

Name of Course Discipline Eligibility of Students Duration
Certificate course

Industrial Chemistry

Passed in HS 100 hours

Coordinating Department

Name of Course Discipline Coordinating Department
Certificate course Industrial Chemistry Chemistry

Brief Outcome of Syllabus

Industrial Chemistry

Course Code Title Duration
Module 1 Safety Methods in the Laboratory

Agro Based Chemicals: Chemistry of Pesticides and fertilizers

 Plastic and Polymer Industry

 

16
Module 2 Traditional Industrial Chemistry & Green Chemistry

 Drugs and pharmaceuticals

 

Cosmetic Industry

16
Module 3 Silicate Industries

Batteries

16
Module 4 Catalysis

Chemical explosives

Alloys

16

Module 5

Introduction of computers 10
Fuel Industry

Fat and oil; Soap and Detergent

10
Module 6 Food Industry: Food additives and preservatives

Cement Industry

16

Benefits:

  • Globalisation of education and economy has led to reorient and reshape its policies and programmes to make the current Indian Higher Education System more relevant and career-oriented with focus on quality and excellence.
  • Demand and scope for  graduates having certificate course are visible in the applied fields of almost all basic/core disciplines
  • To meet this challenge, Asutosh College would like to encourage incorporation of value added, certificatecourses to be opted by students as a parallel sub-discipline while pursuing their degree level education.
  • Our daily need is industry based. We cannot move a single step without the chemistry and industry.
  • We need food which is based on Agricultural industry. We need shelter which is based on industry. What we use for 24 hours each day are coming from industry. So we must have knowledge about industrial chemistry.
  • It is envisaged that professionally qualified graduates with a sound knowledge and expertise in the discipline, Industrial Chemistry will have more openings in service, industry and self-employment sectors.