The department boasts of five patents, and 55 national and international publications over the past five years
The Chemical Engineering department of the university is recognised as the Anchor Institute for the Chemicals and Petrochemicals sector by the Industries Commissionerate, Government of Gujarat
The departmental faculty members are on the university's Board of Studies, while being members of various other boards as well as state and national committees. They also go as B. Tech, M. Tech and PhD examiners at other universities in the state
Currently, it offers B. Tech. Chemical, M. Tech. Chemical (with two specialisations of General Chemical Engineering and Surface Science & Nanotechnology), Diploma in Chemical and PhD
There are 13 faculty members in Chemical degree programme, 4 in diploma programme, 4 in Chemistry, 3 in Centre for Surface Science & Nanotechnology and 1 in Anchor Institute, all part of the Chemical Engineering Department
The Gujarat Council for Science and Technology (GUJCOST) has declared the Department of Chemical Engineering as a Centre of Excellence and given a grant of INR 28.5 lac for research on 'Nanocatalysis - development and applications'
The department takes up training programmes for corporates, which may be short term, like a 3-month training programme for engineers of Gujarat Narmada Fertilizers Company (GNFC) etc.
The Industries Commissionerate, Government of Gujarat has given a grant of INR 10 crore to DDU and named it as Anchor Institute to provide manpower training programmes in the Chemical & Petrochemical Sector for the state of Gujarat
The Department of Science and Technology (DST), New Delhi, has chosen Dr. Manish Mishra, of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (and Shah-Schulman Centre for Surface Science & Nanotechnology) for the Young Scientist Fast-Track Scheme and will be funding his research proposal on acid catalysts
The GSFC Science Foundation will be funding the project on 'Nanotechnology to Clean Water in Developing Nations: Poor Man's Filter' submitted by Dr. Premal R. Shukla, Professor & Head, Department of Chemical Engineering (and Shah-Schulman Centre for Surface Science & Nanotechnology), DDU for a period of three years for INR 10.27 lac
The Department has got a grant of INR 48 lac from DST-FIST for environmental treatability set-up and multi-input-multi-output process set-ups, with 50 computers and ChemCad software, weighing balances, lab renovation etc.