Chemical Engineering with Foundation Year (Honours)

Overview

• Prepare for the degree with an extra foundation year at the start.
• Gain hands-on practical skills to support technical understanding.
• Build your knowledge of key chemical engineering topics, such as mass and energy balances, thermodynamics, process safety and reaction engineering.
• Progress your professional skills through group and project work.
• Understand the role of a chemical engineer in wider society.

This Chemical Engineering with Foundation Year (Honours) programme from Sheffield Hallam University establishes core chemical engineering knowledge through practical and project-based learning – with an emphasis on industrial challenges. The skills and experience gained will enable you to design safe, sustainable and cost-effective chemical plants and processes.

The course is suitable if you don’t meet the entry requirements for our BEng (Hons) Chemical Engineering course, or you want extra preparation before starting degree-level study. You share the first year with other engineering, maths and physics foundation year students, then move on to the degree.

Future careers

This course prepares you for a career in

• pharmaceuticals
• oil and gas
• food manufacturing
• renewable and bio-energy
• consultancy

Previous graduates of this course have gone on to work for

• Atkins
• British Glass
• Envirogen Water Technologies
• National Grid
• Oil and Gas Corrosion