JNEC chem tech dept holds online faculty dev program

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Aurangabad, May 28: The Chemical Engineering Department of Jawaharlal Nehru Engineering College (JNEC), MGM University held a three-day Online Faculty Development Programme on Advances in Chemical Engineering recently. The programme was aimed at providing recent approaches and methods in application-based Chemical Engineering Research and to serve as a reference material for the researchers in the area of Chemical Engineering and allied fields.

Chancellor of MGM University Ankushrao Kadam was the Guest of Honour for the online inaugural ceremony. MGM University vice-chancellor Dr Vilas Sapkal was the chief guest. Registrar Dr Ashish Gadekar, principal Dr H H Shinde, vice principal Dr Vijaya Musande and JNEC faculty members were present. Dr Sadanand Guhe, Head of Chemical Engineering Department and programme convener welcomed all dignitaries.

Vice-chancellor Dr Sapkal delivered a keynote speech discussing various chemical engineering research areas which need to be worked upon by chemical engineering researchers.

Dr Ganesh Kale, from National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Nagpur spoke on various chemical processes involved in waste management and recycle to recover valuable products and convert waste to energy which can reduce the emission of Green House Gases into atmosphere. Dr Sanjay Kamble from National Chemical Laboratory, Pune highlighted the process intensification techniques to reduce the cost of chemical process or equipment without compromising the quality of the product. Dr Prakash Jadhav (SGGS Engineering College, Nanded), Dr Shirish Sonawane (NIT Warangal), Dr Kailash Wasewar (VNIT, Nagpur), Dr Prateek Kumar Jha (IIT, Roorkee), Dr Parag Nemade (ICT, Mumbai, Jalna Campus), Dr Swapnesh Baser, MD and CEO, Deven Supercriticals Pvt. Ltd spoke on a variety of subjects.

Chemical engineering faculty members M U Pople, Dr R S Katiyar, S D Yadav, V A Gite and S H Adsul worked in making this programme successful.