Industrial Chemistry or applied chemistry education had its beginnings at the Department of Chemistry since 1972 by several subjects offering to students as one of the alternatives. As industrial chemistry has played a key role on development and solution for Thailand community, it had been, therefore, considered to multiply the knowledge of academic staffs in aboard. In early age, with a support from France especially University of Toulouse (Chemical Engineering) and University of Montpellier (Science & Technology) under the Industrial Chemistry Project, many academic staffs of Chemistry Department had accomplished Ph.D degree in the field.
In 1977, apart from Chemistry students, additional 17 students had been enrolled for onset of industrial chemistry project. In the following year (1979), Industrial Chemistry education had been set up as Plan 2 in additional, at which Plan 1 was Pure Chemistry. The first student...