FOREWORD

I feel proud to write these few lines as my student Smt K Sesha Maheswaramma, working as assistant professor, Department of Chemistry, JNTUACEP, Andhra Pradesh, has brought out this book successfully. With a personal note, I wish to place on records that from a remote village Gollala Guduru of Kadapa District, where the expectation of girl child’s higher education is minimal, she not only became the assistant professor of an engineering college but also started publishing books! Although the subject Chemistry is unwelcomed by the students of this region, she has mastered not only the subject but also the art of writing.

In the recent past, with too much specialization, it was very difficult for anyone to have a comprehensive understanding of any subject with broader vision due to limited resources to teaching and research. To overcome this, recently, ‘Interdisciplinary Approach’ is stressed very much. In this context, Dr K. Sesha Maheswaramma has brought out Engineering Chemistry by integrating Chemistry with water technology, alternate energy resources, engineering materials, thermodynamics, analytical methods, green chemistry, etc. This book is most useful to all undergraduate students (both B.Tech. and B.Sc.) and postgraduate students of M.Sc. Chemistry as well as M.Sc. Physics.

It is true that scientific knowledge is that of empirical—dealing with facts. Reporting of facts done through the medium of language is marvellous. I sincerely appreciate her hard work and efforts in bringing out this book.

Rev. Fr. Dr. T. Amala Arockia Raj, SJ
Principal, Loyola Degree College (YSRR)
Pulivendula, Kadapa (Dt.), Andhra Pradesh