The department of Chemical and Food
Engineering has started its journey under the Faculty of Mechanical
Engineering at DUET in 2017. Currently it is offering bachelor
engineering degree entitled as B.Sc. in Chemical and Food Engineering
with a capacity of undertaking 30 students per year. The courses are
developed within the modern concepts of Chemical and Food Engineering
education with due emphasis on the industrial requirements in the
country so that the graduates have played a vital role in the
development and improvement of various chemical, food and allied
industries both at home and abroad. The versatility in this field of
study has allowed the graduates to flourish in almost every sector of
the economy.
The academic and research activities in
the department focus on the frontier areas of food process engineering
such as food processing and preservation, food properties and
prediction, post-harvest operations, food quality and safety, transport
process and kinetics, product development and ingredients innovation,
food packaging and storage engineering, computer aided food engineering,
energy efficiency, process control and efficiency, automation and
manufacturing systems. Food process engineers can specialize in design,
development, research, maintenance and operations such as processing,
packaging, storage and transportation. Also, the academic and research
activities in the department focus on the frontier areas of academic
specialization aimed specifically in pharmaceuticals; process design;
pulp and paper, petrochemicals, specialty chemicals, polymers production
companies; biotechnological concerns, and environmental health and
safety industries.
The department is also well equipped
with the sophisticated instruments such as UHPLC, spectroscopy,
colorimeter, bomb-calorimeter, Trinocular microscope, real time PCR, BET
surface area analyzer, TGA, GC, nanoparticle size analyzer, surface
tensiometer, contact angle meter, fluorescence spectrophotometer, etc.
in addition to the traditional basic equipment to boost up high quality
research activity. On the other hand, computational research activity of
the department is also equally strong by the help of several software.
So, the strength of the department lies in its diversity and its
interdisciplinary nature.