| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2023-09-19 | - |
Program Overview
Are you looking for a fascinating career that uses creative processes to make the world around us a better, safer place? Chemical Engineering focuses on developing ways to take raw materials and turn them into everyday products. Food and drink, medicines and energy are all made safe and improved by the ingenuity of chemical engineers, making it a role that is extremely satisfactory and highly sought after. This course will prepare you for a future engineering career with a focus on process design and understanding of various process industries and how to make products more commercially viable, environmentally friendly and cost-effective. You will gain an enviable skill set that includes theoretical and practical, both lab-based and in real-life environments. With this skill set, you can start an exciting career in changing the world: previous LSBU Chemical Engineering graduates have helped develop processes to produce COVID-19 vaccines, invented new ways to produce essential materials to improve battery performance and sought creative ways to reduce global CO
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emissions in the past couple of years alone.Why Chemical Engineering at LSBU?
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Ranked 1st in the UK for Student Satisfaction for Chemical Engineering (Complete University Guide, 2023).
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Ranked 3rd in London for Chemical Engineering (Guardian League Tables, 2022).
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We’ve recently invested over £400,000 in new teaching facilities dedicated to chemical and energy engineering. That's why we're ranked 1st in the UK for Student Experience and Teaching Quality (Times Good University Guide 2022)
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Exciting employment opportunities - Our students have secured placements and graduate jobs at Pfizer, GSK, Dow and Chevron.
Program Outline
This course is distinctive as it covers the theory of chemical engineering coupled with computer simulation, laboratory practice and industrial placement that enable graduates to be well equipped with desired skills sought after by employers.
The course consists of modules with a total credit value of 360 credits which are made up of 14 standard modules of 20 points each and a project module of 40 points (in third year). Each year you need to complete 120 credits.
In the first year, you are introduced to basic engineering principles and design and fundamentals of chemical engineering. The second year focuses on core unit operations such as fluid flow, thermodynamics, chemical reactions, separation processes, process design and simulation and control.
In final year, the course further trains you in areas of process safety and control, chemical process engineering and clean technologies. The students apply all the knowledge gained in their previous study into design project covering from raw materials to final desired products.
After two-years study, you are encouraged to opt to having one year industrial placement (sandwich course).
Year 1
This module provides you with an understanding of the chemical industries, their economic significance and the career pathways available to professional engineers in these industries. It also equips you with basic principles of chemical processes such as mass and energy balances.
This module consolidates your knowledge of a broad range of mathematical methods and techniques appropriate for engineering courses, and enables you to apply mathematical methods, tools and notations proficiently in the analysis and solution of engineering problems.
This module consolidates your knowledge and understanding of a broad range of engineering principles such as measurement systems and units, thermal physics and mechanical and electrical principles. The teaching is supported by laboratory experiments.
This module develops your knowledge of engineering concepts such as material science, fluid mechanics and thermodynamics, allowing them to be further developed in future years of study.
The aim of the module is for you to begin your engagement with engineering design and develop your transferable skills by. You will undertake small engineering design projects, learn to use Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software, and develop your Personal Development Planning (PDP).
The module provides you with an understanding of the principles of programming and the use of programming languages. It enables solving chemical engineering problems using numerical techniques and programming languages such as Matlab software.
Year 2
This module develops your knowledge of advanced engineering mathematics, and the skills which enable you to apply mathematical methods and tools proficiently in the analysis and solution of a variety of engineering problems.
This module provides you with the fundamental principles of thermodynamics (heat, energy and power) and their role in chemical engineering processes and systems.
This module equips you with an understanding of the scientific principles underlying separation processes such as distillation and absorption, and their fundamentals design procedures.
This module imparts your knowledge and understanding of heat, mass and momentum transfer, describing classical and modern theories and techniques. It also provides you with principles of reaction engineering. The teaching is supported by laboratory experiments.
This module is designed to provide you with a good foundation in control systems. The main aim is to provide the tools to mathematically model dynamical systems, predict their time and frequency responses, analyse their stability and understand the role of feedback loops to modify the behaviour of a system.
This module introduces the principles of process design, flowsheeting and flowsheet calculations, process simulation, as well as process economics and concepts such as capital and operating costs. It also introduces heat exchanger design and concept of pinch analysis.
Year 3
Optional placement year
Year 4
This module enhances and builds on your knowledge and ability to design a chemical plant with the opportunity to propose new and/or innovative processes. It improves your communication skills and self-esteem through weekly feedback sessions, and your ability to work in a team as well as individually.
This module develops your knowledge of complicated separation processes with multiple components and non-ideal mixtures and their design procedure. It also extends your knowledge of reactor design, and heat, mass and momentum transfer in chemical reactions.
This module provides knowledge of the major hazards for chemical engineering industry, both on-site, and to the surrounding and wider environment. You will gain the skills to apply a range of analysis and safety management techniques to enable safe operation of chemical processes.
This module further develops your knowledge of control strategies for complex systems. You will also gain knowledge of fundamentals of compressible fluid flow for engineering systems such as nozzles, fluidised beds, and two-phase flow in a liquid-gas system.
This module introduces the developments in the sustainable and renewable energy markets, and the concepts of energy and waste management associated with process industries.
