Chemical Engineering with an Industrial Placement Year Meng (Hon)

**The year in industry is a one-year extension of the MEng Chemical Engineering degree. With help from our careers and placements team we will help you find and secure your own placement. Youll have a placement in industry for at least 38 weeks.**<br/><br/>**Real-world experience and specialist skills will prepare you to be a pioneer in clean energy, sustainable manufacturing, personalised pharmaceuticals and much more.**<br/><br/>Chemical engineering is embedded in so many different sectors, and a Chemical Engineering with Industrial Placement Year MEng from Sheffield sets you on the path to become a highly sought-after specialist with industry experience and contacts.<br/><br/>Your learning will revolve around practical experience: lab work, projects and open-ended problem-solving of the kind you will find the real world. In The Diamond’s state-of-the-art pilot plant, you’ll apply what you learn by experimenting with large-scale processes. In fact, hands-on experience of using industry standard equipment is integrated throughout the course, along with digital manufacturing skills, including computer modelling.<br/><br/>Along with a fascinating variety of core and optional modules, you’ll have the chance to choose a specialism, eg energy, pharmaceutical or biological engineering. And in your third year, youll take part in a process design project, bringing together your learning to create a real-world process in its entirety. In your fourth year, you’ll undertake an independent research project on genuinely cutting edge research in a field of your choice.<br/><br/>All that academic study will then be put into context with a year-long industry placement. While placements are not guaranteed and are your responsibility to source, you’ll receive plenty of advice and support from our dedicated Industrial Placement Year team.<br/><br/>Links with companies such as Siemens, AstraZeneca and Nestlé make Sheffield an excellent choice.<br/><br/>**Why study this course?**<br/>- **Pursue your dream career** - we’ve embedded employability throughout our course, and our dedicated chemical engineering employability team runs a careers and employability conference every year. Previous speakers have come from companies including Nestlé, Pepsico, GTC, and Reckitt.<br/><br/><br/>- **Chemical Engineering Society** - ChemEngSoc is one of many societies in engineering alone, which offer a chance to make friends with similar academic interests and be part of a supportive community. ChemEngSoc offers fun socials like board game nights, as well as academic trips.<br/><br/><br/>- **Tailor your course to your interests** - in your third year you’ll have a choice of modules, and in your fourth year you’ll be able to choose a specialism, allowing you to become an expert in what really interests you. <br/><br/><br/>- **World-class facilities, practical training** - experience our industrial-scale equipment for energy, pharmaceutical engineering and biological engineering. This is all part of the Diamond Pilot Plant, which includes a first ever UK university powder processing line.<br/><br/><br/>**We are accredited by the Institution of Chemical Engineers on behalf of the Engineering Council for the purposes of fully meeting the academic requirement for registration as a Chartered Engineer.**