Advanced Process Engineering (MSc)
This popular, modular, credit-accumulation postgraduate programme lasts for one year full-time and up to eight years part-time. The programme starts in October.
Main features
- 50:50 credit split between taught modules and substantial research/management project;
- broad range of up-to-date, advanced process engineering module and project topics;
- highly-ranked Department and University for teaching, research and graduate employment;
- individual modules taught intensively within a two week period;
- individually supervised project extends over 10.5 months (full-time), up to 3 years (part-time);
- optional modules from the Engineering Schools and other Departments in the University subject to approval by the Programme Director.
Who should enrol on the programme?
- graduates in chemical engineering, chemistry, biology, materials or related sciences or other engineering disciplines who wish to enhance their qualifications;
- people with significant industrial experience wishing to gain further formal qualifications and/or increase their knowledge of newly emerging technologies;
- those wishing to undertake a substantial research/management project, possibly continuing the work for a PhD.
Programme structure
The 180 credit weight programme is made up of 90 credits from taught modules and a 90 credit Chemical Engineering project.
The timing of MSc modules has been organised such that all modules can be completed within one academic year. Failure of a module will result in the student not being able to graduate within one academic year.
Compulsory modules
| Code | Subject | Credit weight |
|---|---|---|
| CGP050 | Applied Heterogeneous Catalysis | 15 |
| CGP068 | Applied Engineering Practice | 15 |
| CGP073 | Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment | 15 |
| CGP056 | MSc Project | 90 |
Optional modules
Candidates must take 3 optional modules, selected from the following list. All these modules are offered by the Department of Chemical Engineering and have a credit weight of 15.
| Code | Subject | Credit weight |
|---|---|---|
| CGP052 | Computer Methods for Water Pollution Monitoring | 15 |
| CGP058 | Filtration | 15 |
| CGP059 | Chemical Product Design | 15 |
| CGP060 | Mixing of Fluids and Particles | 15 |
| CGP062 | Separations and Downstream Processing | 15 |
| CGP067 | Colloid Engineering and Nano-science | 15 |
| CGP075 | Advanced Computational Methods for Modelling and Analysis of Chemical Engineering Systems | 15 |
| CGP077 | Drug Delivery and Targeting | 15 |
Project
Candidates must obtain credit in a project supervised in the Chemical Engineering Department or jointly between the Department and a supervisor at the candidate's workplace. The project continues throughout the year.
Staff in the Department, who act as supervisors, have a wide-range of professional interests and expertise. Some particularly relevant research areas in the department are:
- Biological Engineering
- Catalysis
- Chemical Product Design
- Colloid Engineering
- Environmental Process Engineering
- Food Engineering and Biotechnology
- Medical/Healthcare Engineering
- Particle Technology
- Pharmaceutical Systems Engineering
- Reaction Engineering
- Separation Processes
- Solid Fluid Systems
- Transfer Processes
Typical projects underway or completed recently are:
- Affinity separation of metals, pesticides and organics from drinking water
- Biodiesel processing
- Catalytic Distillation
- Computer modelling of soft solids processing
- Critical flux filtration
- Design of bioreactors
- Finite element simulation of a narrow branching tidal water system
- Haemosorbent development
- Liquid mixing in pharmaceutical reactors
Award of Distinction
Students may be awarded a Masters degree with Distinction if they obtain 180 credits and have an overall weighted average mark of not less than 70%.