Dr.V.Jaganadha Rao
M.Sc.,M.Phil., Ph.D

                        Coordinator, Department of Chemistry

The Department of Chemistry has begun its glorious progress in the year 2001. The department is coordinated by Dr.V.Jaganadha Rao. The departmentis strongly supporting the needs of all Engineering Branches in matters relating to Chemistry at the first and second-year level toupdate the students with the knowledge in the field of Engineering Chemistry, Organic chemistry, Physical Chemistry and Environmental sciences.

At present the department has two Engineering chemistry labs, Organic chemistry lab, Project lab and MODROBS lab. The department has 10 qualified& experienced faculty with considerable teaching, research & industrial experience in various disciplines and four supporting staff. Eight faculty members has doctorate degrees and are research guides under Engineering Chemistry, College of Engineering, Andhra University. The department successfully completed three UGC minor research projects sanctioned for an amount of 8.6 lac and AICTE sanctioned 12.5 lacs under MODROBS scheme for updation of labs.

The faculty published 73 Research papers in various National and International journals indexed in Sci, Scopus, UGC listed& Google scholar, three patents and 30 research articles in National & International conferences.

The department procured advanced equipment’s to encourage multidisciplinary research like Double beam UV-Visible spectrophotometer, Gas Chromatography, Tubular furnace, Ultra sonicator, Rota vapor, Fume hood, Double distillation unit, Ion exchanger, Digital balance, water analysis kit, Hydrothermal bomb for student’s project works and faculty research activities.

With Motivation and Guidance from eminent persons from various universities/Industries and Management, Chemistry is strengthening in all aspects and moving ahead to achieve our vision and tostrive for the overall development of organization