The text book ‘Engineering Chemistry’ is written as per the revised syllabus for the first year B.E course of all the branches of Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi with effective from the academic year 2018-19. This book has been written keeping the consideration to cater the needs of fundamental principles of chemistry and also the engineering education. This book exhaustively covers the prescribed syllabi meeting the course learning objectives and includes easy understandable language, neat diagrams and solved numerical problems (included wherever required). We hope that the content in the book will fulfil the demands of the students and teaching fraternity, making our endeavours successful. The authors are highly enthusiastic in receiving any kind of response in the form of comments and valuable suggestions from our esteemed readers with the good essence for the further improvement of the book.