Chemical Engineering

**The role of chemical engineers has never been so important. As well as designing and delivering products ranging from pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, food and drink, they have a responsibility to help manage the world’s resources and protect the environment.**<br/><br/>Designed with input from industry experts, this course follows a practical problem-solving approach. Youll be able to unlock, develop and expand your creative potential and build technical expertise, so you become an enthusiastic highly skilled, confident work-ready chemical engineering graduate who can develop innovative ways to turn raw materials into everyday products.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>We offer a truly immersive learning opportunity in academic and practical engineering. The practical elements of the course will help you connect with others, develop on and off campus and will support and prepare you to enter an engineering career with varied and exciting prospects. Youll work on individual and group projects supported with online tools akin to current professional engineering working activities and Personal Academic Tutor.<br/><br/>You’ll be taught on campus by inspiring teachers providing vital learning, experience and developing your advanced skills in professional standard labs while learning from and connecting with industry experts through on-line guest lectures.<br/><br/>Youll also develop leadership and management skills that will support you with pursuing a senior engineering role.<br/><br/>You will gain key employability skills and be encouraged to take up placements, helping you to go straight into employment upon completion of your studies.<br/><br/>Our MEng option advances your engineering talent even further and develop your leadership and management skills.<br/><br/>**Location**<br/>This course is run at our Canterbury Campus in Kent. Canterbury is just 50 miles south-east of London and less than an hour by high-speed train from St Pancras. Located on a UNESCO World Heritage Site the campus offers state-of-the-art buildings, right in the centre of a vibrant and world-famous cathedral city. You’ll benefit from a campus with excellent learning and teaching resources, music venues, a superb sports centre, a well-stocked bookshop and plenty of coffee bars and places to eat. A short walk away is Augustine House our award-winning library and home to a vast range of learning resources and student support teams.<br/><br/>**Modules**<br/>For a list of core and likely optional modules, please visit our website.