Chemical Engineering (with Advanced Practice)

The Chemical Engineering (with Advanced Practice) course, offered by Teesside University, is ideal if you are a chemical engineering undergraduate or if you are working within the chemical and process associated industries and are looking for professional development, for a promotion and/or to get up to date with industry standards and research.

This Chemical Engineering (with Advanced Practice) course, offered by Teesside University , provides you with an industrially, commercially and professionally relevant education by developing your lifelong learning skills, fostering an ethos of continual professional development and giving you a progression route for further professional development.

Key Facts

Teesside University has a 50-year history of teaching chemical engineering. We have core staff with direct experience of working in or with the chemical engineering industry, in the UK and overseas.

You cover a range of advanced chemical engineering subjects, broadening and deepening your understanding and knowledge of the field. You have the opportunity to develop your skills in synthesising information from a wide variety of sources and developing your decision-making abilities in solving complex chemical engineering problems.

Themes within the course include sustainability (recycling, better use of raw materials) and electrochemistry (battery technology and renewable energy).

You use our impressive lab facilities for your research - we have a separations lab with absorption and distillation columns, a catalysis lab and fermentation processing unit. You may have the opportunity to link in with our ERDF-funded project on the development of hydrogen economy and other on-campus and regional industry-based research projects.

Career opportunities

Chemical engineers are employed worldwide in activities including research and development, design and plant operation. They are involved in a wide range of sectors including utilities, construction, defence, chemicals, oil, pharmaceuticals, energy and environment.

Courses include:

• Advanced Chemical Engineering Design

• Advanced Fluid Dynamics

• Advanced Practice

• Electrochemical Principles

• Engineering Research Project

• Process Improvement and Optimisation

• Quality, Health, Safety and Environment

• Sustainability in Chemical Engineering