Nature-Inspired Solutions MSc
University College London
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Our MSc will help you translate insights from nature into disruptive technologies for sustainable development in diverse areas, including process engineering, materials, biomedicine, catalysis, water and renewable energy. You will be equipped with the knowledge and skills needed to drive bio-inspired innovation in industries ranging from manufacturing, engineering and design to the built environment and biosciences.UCL Chemical Engineering is one of the top-rated Chemical Engineering ...Read more

Our MSc will help you translate insights from nature into disruptive technologies for sustainable development in diverse areas, including process engineering, materials, biomedicine, catalysis, water and renewable energy. You will be equipped with the knowledge and skills needed to drive bio-inspired innovation in industries ranging from manufacturing, engineering and design to the built environment and biosciences.

UCL Chemical Engineering is one of the top-rated Chemical Engineering departments in the world, being internationally renowned for its outstanding research and education.

The MSc in Nature-Inspired Solutions is specifically designed to allow students to develop transformative solutions by drawing on inspirations from nature (e.g. resilience, scalability, and efficiency) on interdisciplinary problems through research-related teaching and public engagement. For example, you learn from the scalability and efficiency of the human lung to redesign hydrogen fuel cells and CO? electroreduction in our race to net-zero, in the context of the energy transition and environmental sustainability. You learn from the resilience of the kidney and the efficiency of cell membranes to develop superior solutions for water treatment, and you learn from trees and forests to approach circularity in manufacturing.

This programme covers systematic design approaches to innovate in?a wide range of fields, including sustainable manufacturing, energy and environmental technology, functional materials, health and biomedical engineering, and the built environment, where outside-the-box thinking is urgently needed?within the pressing context of the?UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Moreover, the programme prepares you to learn how to work in multi-disciplinary teams on interdisciplinary problems, equipping you with transferable, lateral thinking skills and a competitive edge, for careers in research and development, entrepreneurship or industry.

This MSc programme educates future graduates to be uniquely qualified in innovation and design based on unconventional problem-solving and analysis, using a wealth of solutions informed by nature, seamlessly working across traditional discipline boundaries.

The course will be delivered at the brand new UCL East campus on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, east London. This is the biggest development in our 200-year history, and our accessible, state-of-the-art facilities will have shared labs and workshop spaces open to all, to facilitate collaboration across different disciplines. The Park around the campus is a living landscape of biodiversity and a testbed for ground-breaking innovation.

Who this course is for

The programme is designed to cater for a range of academic and career backgrounds, with optional modules to tailor the learning experience to the prospective student. The programme will consider prospective students from chemical and biochemical engineering, materials science, chemistry, environmental science and engineering, physics, mechanical engineering, architecture, biomedical engineering, and their allied fields.

What this course will give you

Upon successful completion of this programme, graduates will have unique problem-solving skills for accelerated innovation in a rapidly changing world. Particularly, you will be able to implement fundamental principles, borrowed from natural systems, to formulate ingenious solutions to complex engineering problems and propose innovative designs.

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A minimum of an upper second-class Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline from a UK university or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard.

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£37,500 per year

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