| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2023-09-23 | 2023-07-04 |
| 2024-01-23 | - |
Program Overview
Gain the technical and professional skills to pursue a wide range of careers as a chemical engineer.
Our course introduces you to the core principles and practices of chemical engineering. It develops your professional skills in engineering, mathematics, science, information technology, research, design, communication and management.
Through lectures and practical lab sessions, you’ll learn how to gather and assess data to develop industrial strategies. You’ll explore new technologies and gain a comprehensive understanding of process design. Your studies will give you the confidence to critically apply scientific and engineering knowledge.
You’ll also develop transferable skills such as problem solving, teamwork and resource management. Integrating these with your technical knowledge, you’ll learn how to tackle complex, and often open-ended, engineering problems.
Individual and group projects are a key feature of your studies and a chance for you to develop scientific ideas from the bench scale to process scale. You’ll apply your engineering knowledge to a full chemical process such as designing an anaerobic digester, a water treatment facility for a refugee camp, or a low-carbon ammonia synthesis plant.
Teaching
Our department’s great staff and student community provides a friendly and supportive environment to learn in. We deliver teaching complemented by guest lectures from practitioners to give you a professional and practical perspective on the subject. You’ll learn from expert academic staff whose industrial collaborations, research and entrepreneurial activities feed into our teaching and contribute to your learning experience.
Facilities
Specialist facilities are central to your study experience. Our laboratory facilities range from bench scale to pilot scale and are specially equipped to enhance your education in becoming a chemical engineer. You’ll have access to:
Watch a video tour of our laboratory facilities to see the equipment you could be using as part of your degree.
Careers
Chemical engineering is one of the highest-paid professions in the UK. With a degree from Bath, you can be confident that you’ll graduate with the specific engineering knowledge as well as valuable transferable skills to help start your career. You could take on technical and managerial roles across industry and commercial sectors. For example, you could follow a career in alternative fuels, healthcare industries, water treatment, production of consumables such as foodstuffs and toiletries in the fast moving consumer goods industries, and oil and gas.
Find out what our graduates go on to do.Gain the technical and professional skills to pursue a wide range of careers as a chemical engineer.
Our course introduces you to the core principles and practices of chemical engineering. It develops your professional skills in engineering, mathematics, science, information technology, research, design, communication and management.
Through lectures and practical lab sessions, you’ll learn how to gather and assess data to develop industrial strategies. You’ll explore new technologies and gain a comprehensive understanding of process design. Your studies will give you the confidence to critically apply scientific and engineering knowledge.
You’ll also develop transferable skills such as problem solving, teamwork and resource management. Integrating these with your technical knowledge, you’ll learn how to tackle complex, and often open-ended, engineering problems.
Individual and group projects are a key feature of your studies and a chance for you to develop scientific ideas from the bench scale to process scale. You’ll apply your engineering knowledge to a full chemical process such as designing an anaerobic digester, a water treatment facility for a refugee camp, or a low-carbon ammonia synthesis plant.
Teaching
Our department’s great staff and student community provides a friendly and supportive environment to learn in. We deliver teaching complemented by guest lectures from practitioners to give you a professional and practical perspective on the subject. You’ll learn from expert academic staff whose industrial collaborations, research and entrepreneurial activities feed into our teaching and contribute to your learning experience.
Facilities
Specialist facilities are central to your study experience. Our laboratory facilities range from bench scale to pilot scale and are specially equipped to enhance your education in becoming a chemical engineer. You’ll have access to:
Watch a video tour of our laboratory facilities to see the equipment you could be using as part of your degree.
Careers
Chemical engineering is one of the highest-paid professions in the UK. With a degree from Bath, you can be confident that you’ll graduate with the specific engineering knowledge as well as valuable transferable skills to help start your career. You could take on technical and managerial roles across industry and commercial sectors. For example, you could follow a career in alternative fuels, healthcare industries, water treatment, production of consumables such as foodstuffs and toiletries in the fast moving consumer goods industries, and oil and gas.
Find out what our graduates go on to do.Program Outline
Course structure
This course lasts 4 years. It starts in September 2023 and ends in 2027. Welcome week starts on 25 September 2023.
Occasionally we make changes to our programmes in response to, for example, feedback from students, developments in research and the field of studies, and the requirements of accrediting bodies. You will be advised of any significant changes to the advertised programme, in accordance with our Terms and Conditions.
Units
At Bath, our courses are made up of units of study. Compulsory units cover core concepts that you'll need to understand as part of your degree programme. Some of our courses also offer the opportunity for you to study optional units. These allow you to specialise in particular areas of knowledge that interest you.
As an undergraduate, you will be expected to take 60 credits (ECTS) in each academic year. These are usually split into 30 credits for each semester you study. Sixty credits are the equivalent of 1200 notional hours of study; this includes contact time with staff and your own independent learning.
Year 1
Compulsory units
Chemical engineering skills, practice and design 1
15 credits
Principles of chemical engineering 1
30 credits
Professional portfolio 1
5 credits
Science and mathematics for chemical engineering
10 credits
Year 2
Compulsory units
Chemical engineering skills, practice and design 2
15 credits
Principles of chemical engineering 2
30 credits
Process dynamics, modelling and control
10 credits
Professional portfolio 2
5 credits
Year 3
Compulsory units
Advanced principles of chemical engineering
15 credits
Environmental and engineering project management
15 credits
Product and process design (group)
15 credits
Product and process design (individual)
15 credits
Year 4
Compulsory units
Advanced core chemical engineering
10 credits
MEng research project in chemical engineering
30 credits
Options
Final Year Options
20 credits
Learning and assessment
You’ll be taught and assessed by a variety of methods and it will vary between units. These methods are designed to promote in-depth learning and understanding of the subject.
Learning
Assessment
Learning and teaching
We provide a flexible learning experience delivered online and in person on campus. You should expect to spend around 35 to 40 hours a week studying on your course. These hours consist of structured activities and independent learning.
You can expect to spend between 15 and 20 hours a week on structured learning activities, which are made up of in-person and online sessions. Timetabled sessions on campus include a mix of lectures, tutorials and laboratories. Online activities might include following a recorded lecture or other learning materials or joining a timetabled live interactive session.
Independent learning
The rest of your time will be spent in independent learning and take up between 15 to 25 hours a week. This includes individual research, reading journal articles and books, working on individual and group projects, preparing coursework assignments, presentations, or revising for exams.
Assessment breakdown
The balance of the assessment by examinations and assessment by coursework may depend on the optional modules you choose. A broad range of assessments methods will be used throughout the degree. As guide, approximately 60% of assessment is by coursework over the duration of the course.
The final degree classification is determined by your second, third and final year marks and each contributes 20%, 40% and 40% respectively.
We can make reasonable adjustments to assessment procedures for students with disabilities, take a look at our Disability Service’s pages for information.
Recognition of professional qualifications
As well as being recognised as a higher academic qualification, a number of our degrees are also accredited by professional bodies in the United Kingdom. An accredited degree may entitle you to work in a specific profession within the UK, and abroad (where there are reciprocating arrangements with professional bodies in other countries).
The requirements to practise a profession vary from country to country. If you wish to practise your profession outside the United Kingdom, you are advised to confirm that the UK professional qualification you seek is valid in the country in which you are intending to work.
The United Kingdom currently subscribes to The Mutual Recognition of Professional Qualifications (MRPQ) Directive. The MRPQ Directive provides a reciprocal framework of rules which enables European Economic Area (EEA) and Swiss nationals to have their professional qualifications recognised in a state other than the one in which the qualification was obtained. In the event of a no deal Brexit, from 1 January 2021, the MRPQ Directive will no longer apply to the UK. However, it is anticipated that there will be a new system for recognising professional qualifications between the UK, EEA, and Switzerland.