School of Science and Humanities, Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology

The school of Science and Humanities since its inception in the year 1988, functions with a team of committed faculty members who strongly believe in imparting quality education through the courses of basic science and humanities, catering the requir basic science and humanities, catering the requirements of Engineering, Science and arts students. With the passage of time, the role of the Department has widened quite significantly. Currently, the school of Science and Humanities, houses various programmes like Physics, Chemistry, Maths, English, Psychology and Viscom that are offered at Under Graduate, Post Graduate and PhD level. All the programmes offered under this school, actively engage in student research activities enabling and preparing the students to the societal and industrial needs. Apart from the programmes offered, an extensive array of study areas are facilitated through institutional and industrial collaborations. The Department of Chemistry was one of the founding departments of Sathyabama started in the year 1988. Initially, the department was inducted to teach for the undergraduate engineering chemistry courses of the Institute. The department has started its research programme in the year 2001 and established the post-graduate and undergraduate courses in the year 2015 and 2017 respectively. Ever since, the department is shaping the students career through its graduation programme and has produced 72 postgraduates and 67 undergraduates. In research domain, it has spread its wings in translational research with a leading- edge technology in health care treatment, industrial catalysis and in socially relevant research projects. It has well-established laboratories equipped with sophisticated instruments, which fulfil the needs of PG and Ph.D students. The department has highly qualified faculty and more than 20 Ph.D students. It has doctorates and post-doctorates from world class institutions like NUS, IIT, NIT CECRI, NML, etc. and published more than 160 research papers in reputed journals with high impact factor. h-Index of the department is 17. The department has undertaken many research projects funded by CSIR, ISRO, DST and IGCAR and has two granted patents.