About Faculty

The Faculty was first established as the Division of Basic Sciences in 1972. Its objective was to offer basic science courses required by other faculties in the University. In 1975, the status of the division was upgraded to a faculty, and named the Faculty of Science and Environmental Studies.

Since then the faculty has gone through several restructuring processes, including the setting up of the Department of Environmental Sciences and the Department of Computer Sciences which later were upgraded to form two new faculties, and the transfer of the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology to the newly formed Faculty of Biotechnology and Bimolecular Sciences. Ever since the restructuring, the faculty has been renamed as the Faculty of Science in 2004.

Goals

To attract outstanding students and to produce knowledgeable and competitive graduates

To elevate achievements in research and innovation to international levels

To intensify community involvement for the generation and sharing of knowledge

To strengthen UPM as a centre of excellence in education, research and services in agriculture and tropical bio resources

To improve the governance and management of resources

To reinforce the Graduate School of Management’s position as the Top Business School (TBS)

Much of our understanding of the material world is based on chemistry. Chemistry is central to disciplines such as biotechnology, materials science, environmental science, medicine, pharmacology and physics. Chemistry is conventionally divided into inorganic, organic, physical and analytical chemistry. This breadth is reflected in our research. The Department is one of the largest and liveliest departments in the University. About one third of the academic staff has been recruited in the past ten years and more than ten professors have been appointed since 1990. The new staffs have brought expertise in important areas of teaching and current research in chemistry. This enabled us to provide a number of new research areas and to maintain a consistently high level of research funding and postgraduate student enrolment over many years. The Department consists of a large number of strong research groups covering a broad spectrum ranging from theoretical to materials chemistry.

This course is focusing about Petroleum Chemistry.