The Vice President of India Shri M. Hamid Ansari inaugurated the 67th Annual Session of the Chemical Engineering Congress (CHEMCON) organized by the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers at Panjab University at Chandigarh today. Delivering inaugural address, he has said that Chemical Engineering is a versatile discipline as it applies the core scientific disciplines of chemistry, physics, biology, and mathematics to transform raw materials or chemicals into more useful or valuable forms, invariably in processes that involve chemical change. It is also relevant for many new scientific advances which are taking place in diverse fields such as genetic foods, smart materials, drug delivery systems, agro-based technology, biotechnology, microelectronics, nanotechnology and advanced materials etc. Chemical engineering will therefore remain critical for the economic development of any country, providing products and enabling technical solutions in virtually all sectors of the economy.
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