The Department of Chemical Engineering, G H Patel College of Engineering & Technology (GCET), a Charutar Vidya Mandal institute, Vallabh Vidyanagar, organized Two day symposium on ‘Sustainability of Chemical Industries:exploring new avenues for growth’ on 22-23 August, 2017. The Symposium was inaugurated by the Chief Guest, Dr Rajagopalan Srinivasan, Professor IIT Madras and visiting faculty at IIT Gandhinagar, Dr Sachin Parikh, Professor & Head LDCE and dean of GTU,Ahmedabad and Er. V M Patel, Honorary secretary, Charutar Vidya Mandal. Both of them in their speech stressed on the need for more and more interdisciplinary research for dissemination of knowledge. Dr. Srinivasan mentioned that the Sustainability is a key driving force for society today whereChemical Engineers have a major role to play. Dr. Kaushik Nath, Organizing Chair and Head of Chemical Engineering Department GCET, and the organizing secretaries Prof. Tejal M Patel and Prof. Vivaksha Patel were also present. The programme was sponsored by Meghamani Organica PVT Ltd, Ahmedabad, ISTE GCET Staff Chapter, Student Alumni and Gujarat Council on Science and Technology (GUJCOST). About 140 delegates from industries, academic and R & D organizations from various parts of Gujarat participated in technical sessions. Department has organized various activities like technical paper presentation, poster presentation and expert talk for both the days. About 32 posters and papers were presented in the technical sessions. For all the competition judges are invited from various colleges. More than 140 delegated including students and teachers from various colleges like Faculty of Technology, Baroda, L D College of Engineering, Ahmedabad, Government Engineering College, Valsad, Parul Institute of Technology, Baroda, Marvadi College, Rajkot, ISTAR, BVM, and many more have participated in various activities. The participants come from different backgrounds and institutions.

Department: Chemical Engineering