Chemical Engineering with Foundation Year Canterbury Christ Church University

Overview

On this course you will use the CDIO (conceive, design, implement, operate) approach developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. CDIO gives you sought-after, hands-on experience that you can deploy in your future career which could include energy management, water and food security, resource scarcity, climate change and more.

What you'll study

This four-year course in Chemical Engineering with Foundation Year at Canterbury Christ Church University starts with the foundation year, to help build your engineering skills and knowledge while preparing you for your engineering degree.

During the foundation year you will build your knowledge, understanding and confidence in areas of chemistry, biology, physics and maths that underpin chemical engineering. You’ll gain the engineering skills and knowledge needed to study at BEng (Hons) level where you’ll use the pioneering CDIO approach to problem solve pharmaceutical, chemical and process safety issues.

As you progress through the degree, you'll gain a fundamental understanding of core aspects of chemical engineering such as chemical process engineering design, maths and computing for chemical engineers, heat transfer and fluid flow, physical chemistry and thermodynamics.

You'll complete projects individually and collaboratively and will develop specialist knowledge, skills and a wider understanding in areas such as process design and control, transport phenomena, separation processes and chemical reaction engineering.

In the final year, you'll work independently and as part of a team on a major design project in chemical engineering.

The strong focus we place on supporting and preparing you for employment means you'll have an opportunity to undertake a work placement. Here you be able to develop relationships within an inclusive engineering organisation, demonstrate and share your skills to make your mark on a live project and further develop your transferable skills to help your CV stand out from the crowd.

Your future career

Among professionals, chemical engineers enjoy the reputation of thriving in a wide spectrum of jobs across sectors. Some of the current job titles in the market are: manager, process engineer, consultant, process designer, business developer, manufacturer, process safety engineer, maintenance engineer, CEO, environmental engineer, process control engineer, production engineer, quality control engineer, sales and marketing engineer, technical service engineer and more.

You would become a practising leading professional graduate engineer that is able to creatively approach chemical engineering world challenges, e.g. the mass production of emergency viral vaccine in response to a flu epidemic, or the manufacture of low cost, low salt and low sugar food solutions to feed the ever-growing population, or the design of a cheap and effective desalination water plant for remote communities, and more.