Department of Chemistry

VISION & MISSION

VISION:

The Chemistry Department prepares students for a diverse and changing world. We strive to contribute to a chemically literate society through teaching (with classrooms, labs, and research), scholarship, and service

MISSION:

The Chemistry Department provides scrupulous preparation of citizens whose career paths require expertise in chemistry. We are dedicated to scrupulous standards for content knowledge, communication skills, research quality, and professional behavior. We are committed to demonstrating science as a human endeavor and as a way to understand the natural world. The faculty in the Chemistry Department see themselves as resources for our units, university, region, state, nation, and world.

HOD’s Desk

Dr. I. AMEETH BASHA
PROFESSOR & HOD, DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCE,
VMRF-DU, VINAYAKA MISSION'S CHENNAI CAMPUS, PAIYANOOR

Hearty welcome to the Department of Chemistry at School of Arts and Science, VMRF-DU, AV Campus, Paiyanoor, Chennai.

The Department is an effervescent place with 6 Ph.D. faculty members out of 6 academic staff members as well as accomplishments in Research and Teaching and enthusiastic supporting staff. We have a satisfactory faculty-to-student ratio, which inspires close contact between students and their faculty mentors. This allows the faculty members to give personalized devotion to the academic growth of students. The department encourages the faculty to attend seminars, workshops & conferences. The department motivates the faculty to publish papers in reputed journals, submit project proposal to funding agencies. The department affords safe, positive & intellectual learning environment. The aim of the faculty is to provide quality education to the student community by utilizing modern teaching aids. The strong basic foundation laid by the department helps the students to apply knowledge & to become a successful chemist and good citizen of India.

We invite you to explore our web site, enroll in our courses, join our graduate and post graduate program, carry out cutting-edge research, engage our faculty and staff and enter the diverse and interesting world of Chemistry. I hope you will join our community of chemistry scholars, make the most of the opportunities we offer, and build a rewarding career.

Our courses are premeditated to provide students the knowledge of Chemistry, and also introduce them to various experimental skills. Besides, the department has been constantly revising the contents of the theory and practical (laboratory) syllabi.

The Department also offers the Ph.D. programmes mainly in Analytical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Physical Chemistry and Environmental Chemistry. Presently twenty students are pursuing the Ph.D. programme. More than 100 research papers in National and International journals have so for been published by various research groups of the department

In order to inculcate an academic culture, the Department regularly organizes educational tours, guest lectures, quiz competitions and academic talks by eminent scientists from universities/research institutes. In the University, Chemistry Department has a pivotal position for its leadership role in training for research and has provided support by way of access to its seminar, library, research journals, analytical facilities, instrumentation support and guidance.

PROGRAMME LEARNING OUTCOMES

The Bachelor of Science with Chemistry (B.Sc. Chemistry) program enables students to accomplish, by the time of graduation:

PLO-A. Systematic and coherent understanding of the fundamental concepts in Physical chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry and all other related allied chemistry subjects..

PLO-B. Students will be able to use the evidence based comparative chemistry approach to explain the chemical synthesis and analysis.

PLO-C. The students will be able to understand the characateriziaton of materials.

PLO-D. Students will be able to understand the basic principle of equaipments, instruments used in the chemistry laboratory. PLO-E. Students will be able to demonstrate the experimental techniques and methods of their area of specialization in Chemistry.

PLO-F. A graduate student is expected to be capable of demonstrating comprehensive knowledge and understanding of both theoretical and experimental/applied chemistry knowledge in various fields of interest like Analytical Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Material Chemistry, etc. Further, the student will be capable of using of advanced instruments and related soft-wares for in-depth characterization of materials/chemical analysis and separation technology.

PLO-G. The course curriculum incorporates basics and advanced training in order to make a graduate student capable of expressing the subject through technical writing as well as through oral presentation.

PLO-H. The course curriculum also includes components that can be helpful to graduate students to develop critical thinking ability by way of solving problems/numerical using basic chemistry knowledge and concepts.

PLO-I. It is expected that the course curriculum will develop an inquisitive characteristics among the students through appropriate questions, planning and reporting experimental investigation.

PLO-J. The course curriculum has been designed to provide opportunity to act as team player by contributing in laboratory, field based situation and industry.

Additional PLOs

The Bachelor of Science in with Chemistry (B.Sc. Chemistry) program enables students to achieve following additional features besides the abovee-mentioned attributes, by the time of graduation:

PLO-K. The course curriculum has been designed in such a manner as to enabling a graduate student to become a skilled project manager by acquiring knowledge about chemistry project management, writing, planning, study of ethical standards and rules and regulations pertaining to scientific project operation.

PLO-L. The course curriculum has been so designed to impart a good working knowledge in understanding and carrying out data analysis, use of library search tools, and use of chemical simulation software and related computational work.

PLO-M. A graduate student requires understanding and developing ethical awareness / reasoning which the course curriculums adequately provide.

PLO-N. The course curriculum is designed to inculcate a habit of learning continuously through use of advanced ICT technique and other available techniques/books/journals for personal academic growth as well as for increasing employability opportunity.