Chemical Engineering

‌Chemical Engineering is concerned with large-scale chemical and biochemical processes in which materials undergo change. This can mean everything from a small batch production of a drug to fight cancer, to large-scale equipment needed to make commodity chemicals and polymers. Our course will equip you to make a career in the chemical or process industries. We will provide the necessary background to enable you to design processes and equipment, understand the reactions taking place, install computer control systems, start up processes and run them. These are all important aspects of being a professional engineer.

The distinctive feature of this course at Bradford is that as well as teaching traditional chemical engineering disciplines (oil, gas and petrochemical), there is also a focus on advanced materials engineering (based on our excellent research).

Although the discipline has its origins in oil, gas and petrochemical production, many chemical engineers today are engaged in highly diverse activities ranging from materials, pharmaceutical and food processing to challenging global water, environment and energy problems.