Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

Overview

Programme description

Throughout the Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology BSc degree from Aalborg University - Esbjerg you will get the skills and competences to develop and design processes that solve societal challenges. You will through our problem based teaching approach learn to analyse a problem and figure out exactly what’s needed of a good solution.

You will in a creative academic environment learn to use your knowledge and be challenged on your ideas by professional researchers. Through experiments in state of the art labs you will test your developed concepts and see for yourself if it works. You will be involved in industrial collaboration, working on problems from companies and experience that you already as a student make a difference.

During your studies, you will explore questions such as:

• How can we get the most out of any resource, reuse and create value out of waste and protect the environment from harmful discharge?
• How do we go from an oil-based to a biomass-based society and optimize chemical and biological processes so that they requires less energy to operate and can be based on cheaper and sustainable raw materials?
• How do we make new innovative materials that are “smart” (self-cleaning, energy producing, extremely light weight and durable etc.)?
• How do we use biotechnology and natural processes to modify microorganisms into production platforms for even more important compounds? 

Career opportunities:

This Bachelor’s programme is designed primarily for those of you who decide to continue your studies on a related Master’s programme.

With a Master’s degree within the field of chemical engineering and biotechnology your future work place may be a consulting engineering company, a production company, a ministry or maybe you would like to become a PhD student at a university or a research institution.

Problem based learning and working in groups during your study programme will give you many useful skills that make you an attractive candidate on the job market. You know how to approach a problem and solve it in collaboration with other people, which is often how things are done in the “real world”.Career options:

• design of new materials for medical equipment
• production of solar cells for energy production
• production of enzymes
• teaching
• reducing air pollution
• securing food quality

• securing clean drinking water

Boost your career readiness with E.1 First Job:

As a student at Aalborg University Esbjerg you can join the "E1 First Job"-program, which is designed to ease the transition from student to employee. Through engaging workshops, personalised career consultations and networking events, you'll learn effective career readiness strategies to help land your first job.