Scottish Church College
Department of Chemistry 1.
Name of the Department
CHEMISTRY
2.
Year of Establishment
1882 Honours course introduced in 1909
3.
Names of Programmes / Courses offered (UG, PG, M.Phil., Ph.D., Integrated Masters; Integrated Ph.D., etc.) B.Sc. Chemistry (Honours) and M.Sc. in Chemistry.
4. Names of Interdisciplinary courses and the departments/units involved None. 5.
Annual/ semester/choice based credit system (programme wise) Annual, 1+1+1 system for UG and Semester system for PG.
6.
Participation of the department in the courses offered by other departments Participation in teaching Chemistry (General subject) with B.Sc. Honours in Botany, Mathematics, Microbiology, Physics and Zoology (Hon).
7.
Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign institutions, etc. None.
8. Details of courses/programmes discontinued (if any) with reasons None. 9.
Number of Teaching posts Sanctioned
Filled
Professors 7
Associate Professors† Asst. Professors
7
Contractual Whole Time Teachers (CWTT)
4
4
Total
11
11
†Teachers are appointed as Assistant Professors. Associate Professors are appointed on promotion only. 183
Scottish Church College 10. Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, specialization, (D.Sc./D.Litt. /Ph.D. / M. Phil. etc.) (as on January 2013) Name
Qualification
Designation
Specilization
No. of Years of Experience
No. of Ph.D. Students guided for the last 4 years
Sadananda Bhattacherjya Rana Sen
M.Sc., Ph.D
Sebanti Basu
M.Sc., Ph.D
Dinabandhu Kundu Chandan Kumar Pal Debjani Ghosh Anupa Saha
M.Sc., Ph.D
M.Sc., Ph.D
Utpal Das
M.Sc., Ph.D
Debashree Mandal Partha Biswas
M.Sc., Ph.D
CWTT
M.Sc., Ph.D
CWTT
Arnab M.Sc. Bhattacharyya 11. List of senior visiting faculty
CWTT
Inorganic Chemistry Physical Chemistry Organic Chemistry Organic Chemistry Inorganic Chemistry Analytical Chemistry Organic Chemistry Physical Chemistry Physical Chemistry Inorganic Chemistry Inorganic Chemistry
30
M.Sc., Ph.D
Associate Professor Associate Professor Associate Professor Associate Professor Associate Professor Associate Professor Associate Professor CWTT
Not Applicable Not Applicable Not Applicable Not Applicable Not Applicable Not Applicable Not Applicable Not Applicable Not Applicable Not Applicable Not Applicable
M.Sc., Ph.D M.Sc., Ph.D
28 19 16 15 11 10 7 4 3 2 (resigned)
Total visiting faculty-34. 12. Percentage of lectures delivered and practical classes handled (programme wise) by temporary faculty 13. Student -Teacher Ratio (programme wise) UG (H)-17:1
PG-7:1
14. Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff: 184
Scottish Church College sanctioned and filled
Sanctioned
Filled
Technical staff
3
3
Administrative staff
0
0
15. Qualifications of teaching faculty with DSc/ D.Litt/ Ph.D/ MPhil/PG Please refer to Point No. 10 above. 16. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) National b) International funding agencies and grants received Please see Section 3.3.1. 17. Departmental projects funded by DST-FIST; UGC, DBT, ICSSR, etc. and total grants received Please see Section 3.3.1. 18. Research Centre /facility recognized by the University
None.
19. Publications: ∗
Publication per faculty
∗
Number of papers published in peer reviewed journals (national / international) by faculty and students
∗
Number of publications listed in International Database (For Eg: Web of Science, Scopus, Humanities International Complete, Dare Database - International Social Sciences Directory, EBSCO host, etc.)
∗
Monographs
∗
Chapter in Books
∗
Books Edited
∗
Books with ISBN/ISSN numbers with details of publishers
∗
Citation Index
∗
SNIP
∗
SJR
∗
Impact factor
∗
h-index
Please see Annexure 1. 185
Scottish Church College 20. Areas of consultancy and income generated Nil 21. Faculty as members in (a) National committees (b) International Committees (c) Editorial Boards…. None. 22. Student projects (a) Percentage of students who have done in-house projects including inter departmental/programme (b)Percentage of students placed for projects in organizations outside the institution i.e.in Research laboratories/Industry/other agencies (a) 100% in PG. (b) 30% in PG. 23. Awards/ Recognitions received by faculty and students None. 24. List of eminent academicians and scientists/ visitors to the department Please see Section 3.1.6. 25. Seminars/ Conferences/Workshops organized & the source of funding (a)National (b)International Please see Section 3.1.6. 26. Student profile programme/course wise: (2009-12 batch) Name of the Course/programme
B.Sc. Chemistry (Hon) (2009-12 batch) M.Sc. Chemistry (2010-12 batch)
Enrolled Applications Selected received
2425
64
275
29
M
F
22
22
Pass percentage (with Total Honours)
44 29
93.2 100 (result of one student incomplete)
23. Diversity of Students (2009-12 batch) Name of the Course
% of students from 186
% of students
% of students
Scottish Church College the same state
from other States
from abroad
B.Sc. Chemistry (Hon) 100 M.Sc. Chemistry 100 24. How many students have cleared national and state competitive examinations such as NET, SLET, GATE, Civil services, Defense services, etc.
More than 30 ( over last 4 years)
25. Student progression Student progression UG to PG PG to M.Phil. PG to Ph.D. Ph.D. to Post-Doctoral Employed Campus selection Other than campus recruitment Entrepreneurship/Self-employment
Against % enrolled
66 10
26. Details of Infrastructural facilities (a) Library (b) Internet facilities for Staff & Students (c) Class rooms with ICT facility (d) Laboratories (a) Library : Class library for UG and PG students in addition to the general library. (b) Internet facilities for Staff & Students : 4 terminals with 2 dedicated connections. (c) Class rooms with ICT facility: two (partly). (d) Laboratories: Six laboratories, one research lab and one instrument room. 27. Number of students receiving financial assistance from college, university, government or other agencies 28. Details on student enrichment programmes (special lectures / workshops / seminar) with external experts Please see section 3.1.6. 187
Scottish Church College 29. Teaching methods adopted to improve student learning a. Special Classes in Theory b. Special Classes in Practical c. Interactive Lessons and Assignments d. Special Class Tests 30. Participation in Institutional Social Responsibility (ISR) and Extension activities NSS activities. 31. SWOC analysis of the department and Future plans The future plans are development of research facility, especially in Spectroscopy. Building up an advanced spectroscopy lab with UV-Visible, IR and Fluorescence spectrophotometer. A ‘cluster computing facility’ has been established which will be expanded in future.
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