Course overview
The professional practice of chemical engineering, and related disciplines, relies on a broad range of discipline-specific and transferable professional skills. In this course, advanced topics in the professional practice of chemical engineering are studied. These elements relate to an understanding of the business environment facing professional engineers and include advanced project management, plant safety and HAZOP, risk analysis, development of design tools and the management of human and physical resources and sustainability. In this course students undertake a series of workshops, projects and case studies.
Course learning outcomes
- Explain the key principles and the process of project management from conception to commission
- Prepare a project proposal and capital expenditure application
- Demonstrate practical application of design for process safetY
- Assess the environmental impact of an industrial process