Chemical Engineering (with Integrated Foundation Year)
Program Overview
This integrated Chemical Engineering program prepares UK students for success in the field by providing a strong foundation in engineering fundamentals, transferable skills, and industry-relevant knowledge. The program emphasizes hands-on learning, problem-solving, and teamwork, and offers opportunities for placement or study abroad. Graduates are well-equipped for careers in the chemical and allied industries, with many securing employment at leading organizations.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
This integrated programme is designed to prepare and support UK students for a strong and rewarding experience in their selected engineering discipline, Chemical Engineering, immediately aligning students to the fundamentals of engineering from the moment they enrol. In addition to providing all necessary science, technology, engineering and mathematics background to allow students to confidently enter year one of the BEng (Hons) Chemical Engineering programme, the first year of study will also develop transferable skills such as communication, professionalism, teamwork and creativity, and provide an excellent transition period in preparation for learning and teaching methodologies used in the UK to support high engagement and achievement in the discipline. The first two years are taken in common with three other engineering disciplines (Biomedical, Civil & Structural, Mechanical) and therefore prior to being immersed in the technical depth of your selected engineering area in the final two years of study, your education will include an understanding of the relation and importance of other engineering areas to your own discipline - invaluable in the modern team-based multidisciplinary engineering sector. Conceive, Design, Implement, Operate (CDIO) forms a core element of programme delivery, based around developing innovative and sustainable solutions to real-world problems and closely linked to our well-developed industrial collaborations.
Outline:
First year
Core
- Foundation Mathematics 1
- Foundation Mathematics 2
- Foundation Mechanics
- Foundation Physics
- Fundamentals of Materials
Second year
Core
- Design, Build and Test (Chemical)
- Mathematical Methods and Applications
- Electronics and Mechanics
- Engineering Materials
- Thermofluids
- Computer Aided Engineering
Third year
Core
- Further Mathematics and Statistics
- Mass Transfer Operations
- Reaction Engineering
- Chemistry for Engineers
- Transport Processes
- Engineering and Chemical Thermodynamics
Fourth year
- Placement and/or Study Abroad
Final year
Core
- Chemical Engineering Design Project
- Process Dynamics and Control
- Process Design
- Reliability and Safety Engineering Option
- Sustainable Energy
- Project Management and Six Sigma
Teaching:
In your first year you will experience a wide range of teaching and learning environments. Concepts, principles and theories are typically explored in formal lectures, practised in tutorials, and demonstrated in laboratory classes. Practical skills are developed in laboratories. Cognitive and personal skills are developed in more open-ended problem solving and design exercises, often tackled by working in small groups supported by members of academic, technical, and library staff. Project work is used to bring various aspects of the programme together. Typically, each module will involve 72 hours of timetabled contact except Mathematics for which you will have 96 hours of timetabled contact for each module. The expected weekly timetabled commitment will be around 21 hours. After the foundation year the teaching and learning strategy accounts for learning outcomes that need to be achieved, progression through the levels of study, and the nature of the subject. One of the goals of Higher Education is that students develop lifelong learning skills and are increasingly able to take greater responsibility for their own learning (become independent learners) as they progress through the programme. Our strategy begins with the end in mind. We want students to become great engineers; that means great problem solvers and great team-workers with an inquisitive and curious mind. This should mean that by the end of your study with us you can move seamlessly into the world of work, academic research, or become an entrepreneur. Our assessment methods incorporate a range of different methods designed to meet the needs of industry and accrediting bodies, as well as to prepare students for a research career.
Careers:
The chemical and allied industry is expected to grow more rapidly than the average for the whole of the manufacturing industry. This, when coupled with the increasing appreciation of the value of chemical engineering in many areas such as the foodstuffs and pharmaceutical industry, metals extraction, medical science, and environmental protection, means your prospects as a graduate are bright. Recent graduates have gained employment at organisations including:
- Unilever
- Lorien Engineering Solutions
- SUEZ UK
- Pladis Global
- IMI Precision Engineering
- British Sugar
- KPMG
Other:
- The BEng (Hons) in Chemical Engineering is accredited by the IChemE.
- The accreditation will meet, in part, the exemplifying academic benchmark requirements for registration as a Chartered Engineer and students will need to complete an approved format of further learning pursuant to the requirements of UK-SPEC.
- A Personal Academic Tutor (PAT) will be assigned to you to support you throughout your studies. You will have weekly meeting with your PAT, who will be an independent source of advice and guidance on making the transition to Higher Education and assisting you with any questions or problems you may encounter. The same tutor and tutees are paired in the second year.
- In their final year of study the project supervisor takes over the personal tutor role. Weekly drop-in mathematics tutorials are available for Stage 1 students to help students with tutorial and coursework questions and to clear up difficulties that students have with mathematical topics taught in class.
- In addition to standard study support through taught sessions, our Virtual Learning Environment (Canvas) allows you to access resources, participate in group work and submit work from anywhere in the world 24/7.
Tuition fee UK: £9,250 per year
