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Master of Engineering (with Honours) - MEng (Hons)
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Full Time
Sep 2027
5 Year
Our Chemical Engineering MEng degree is an innovative course that has been developed to equip you with a broad range of knowledge and skills to meet the needs of the chemical process industry. The course has been developed according to the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) accreditation guidelines. This innovative approach means modern subjects are taught and delivered through flipped classrooms, problem-based learning and virtual reality. Throughout your studies, you’ll have access to a new, modern laboratory with equipment and rigs for your experimental work. The latest industry standard engineering software packages are available for you to use in the purpose-built computer laboratories. Our MEng chemical engineering course can be studied full-time over four years, or five years with a placement year. We encourage the placement year option. This time in industry helps you to further prepare for the world of work and you’ll have a year’s worth of invaluable professional experience when you graduate. If you opt for the placement year, you could find yourself making a difference in the real world working in energy, pharmaceutical or consumer goods. Brunel Engineers is an annual exhibition that showcases our engineering talent at its finest. It’s a great way for you to network with key engineering professionals and show them the innovative, creative and enterprising work you have produced during your time at Brunel. National salary surveys consistently place chemical engineers at the top of the engineering pay scales, meaning you will be studying for a lucrative and successful career with our degree.
Solid foundation in engineering mathematics and introductory programming.
Continues the foundation in engineering mathematics and introductory programming.
Essential skills across engineering disciplines: problem solving, professional development, career planning, basic engineering design, project management, communication, teamwork and health and safety.
Grounding in measurement and uncertainty; applied physics relationships governing engineering systems.
Grounding in measurement and uncertainty; applied physics relations governing engineering systems within boundaries and variables of interaction.
Fundamental principles of engineering mechanics; Newton's laws applied to static problems.
Fundamental principles of engineering mechanics including statics and dynamics and common material properties for engineering applications.
Overview of the roles chemical engineers play in industry and research; basic principles of chemical engineering processes and applications, heat and mass balances, safety, sustainability and process economics.
Interpersonal skills, practical experience and tools for a modern chemical engineer: unit operations, process control, computer-aided simulation and process safety.
Applied mathematics and statistical concepts to solve engineering problems; developing mathematical models, estimating parameters and solving differential equations, using R and Python.
Theory and applications of chemical-engineering thermodynamics: phase equilibria, solution thermodynamics, chemical-reaction equilibria, power generation systems and thermodynamic cycles.
Chemical and biochemical reaction engineering and basic (bio)reactor system design; reaction kinetics and optimisation for homogeneous and heterogeneous processes.
Transport phenomena and their mechanisms (momentum, heat and mass transfer) applied to typical chemical engineering problems.
Fundamental chemical science knowledge and principles of scientific problem analysis through chemical concepts, materials processing and analytical methodology.
The basic concepts and governing laws of heat and mass transfer.
Unit operations of distillation, absorption/desorption, humidification, adsorption and solvent extraction; stage efficiency and scale-up for industrial applications.
Advanced principles and methodologies in the design of chemical processes and low carbon technologies; techno-economic, environmental and societal impacts, process safety and engineering management skills.
Full responsibility for a major design exercise in Chemical or Biochemical Engineering balancing technical risk versus profit; undertaken by teams developing transferable skills.
Materials processing and separation technology; unit operations incorporating adsorption and membrane technologies as alternatives to equilibrium stage processes.
Process synthesis through selection and integration; reaction-operation-recycle flowsheets, process design optimisation, process safety and design of experiment in quality engineering.
Grand challenges and key principles in energy, water and food sustainability; energy and economic policies and analytical methods to assess and compare energy systems.
How to design and implement control systems for continuous chemical processes; key process variables, control methods and control philosophy with examples.
Key concepts in Big Data Analytics; advanced statistical methodologies to gain insights in process plant operations using statistical packages (e.g. R).
Placement Year
Key low carbon technologies and their roles in the transition to a low-emission future; designing, analysing and evaluating integrated low carbon energy systems using a systems approach.
Key concepts of Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things; cyber security management relating to process industry, information integrity, threats, attacks and response.
Demonstrates knowledge, skills and understanding within the research project brief; rigorous analysis of literature and independent experimentation, analysis and computation.
Management principles of chemical engineering projects: project life-cycle, parties involved, planning, estimating, team and people management, safety management and contract strategy.
Key concepts in Process Systems Engineering: modelling of dynamic systems, process optimisation and model-based experiment design using equation-oriented solvers.
Advanced knowledge of grand challenges and key principles in energy, water and food sustainability; energy and economics of technology and skills to analyse sustainable energy systems.
Advanced knowledge and skills in process engineering design, advanced particulate process technologies and advanced reactor design; selecting separation processes in diverse industrial applications.
Accommodation (on campus)- 690-1,094 per month
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