Chemistry

Chemistry is often defined as the study of matter and the reactions in which matter is involved. In fact, physicists, geologists, and biologists also study matter, but it is only chemists who study the reactions in which matter is involved. For example, a chemist who is trying to make chemical compounds tries to understand the reactions that lead to the production of these compounds. In fact, a very large proportion of chemists are employed by the chemical and pharmaceutical industries to prepare and manufacture plastics, coatings, ceramics, drugs, fillers, alloys, and many other new things. These synthetic chemists must first determine what reaction can be used to make their target compound and then determine under what optimized conditions the production of the desired compound will be least expensive with the appropriate yield. Once the best reaction conditions are determined, a chemist must determine how the compound can be purified, and finally the chemist must identify the compound. This final identification step involves not only determining the exact percentage of the elements that make up the compound, but also determining the three-dimensional structure of the compound.

Applied Chemistry at Urmia University of Technology

The members of the Chemistry Department, including three members in the fields of organic, analytical, and inorganic chemistry, were initially part of the university's Chemical Engineering Department and, since February 2007, have been responsible for providing service courses for the university's affiliated engineering departments. In October 2015, following the final approval of the Ministry of Sciences, Research and Technology, the admission of students in the Bachelor's degree in Applied Chemistry began at UUT. After 4 student admission periods, the Department of Applied Chemistry of Urmia University of Technology began its official activities in May 2019 with three faculty members. The department has been offering Chemistry with the Catalysis major in Master's degree since October 2019. One of the future plans of our department is to complete the faculty in various chemistry majors. Currently, chemistry laboratories are providing services to undergraduate and postgraduate students with equipment such as spectrophotometers, gas chromatographs, vacuum evaporation, furnaces, etc.