BEng Chemical Engineering

Our modules are built on established chemical engineering fields with applications to energy, health, food, water and the environment.

Year 1 (Level 4)

FHEQ 4 Undergraduate / HECert

Compulsory Modules

• Chemical Process Principles
• Heat Transfer
• Chemical Engineering Skills
• Environmental Awareness for Engineers
• Engineering Mathematics (Biomedical and Chemical)
• Fluid Mechanics 1
• Chemical Process Analysis and Design
• Chemistry for Engineers
• Instrumental and Analytical Chemistry
• Chemical Engineering Science

Year 2 (Level 5)

FHEQ 5 Undergraduate / HEDip

Compulsory Modules

• Separation Processes
• Instrumentation Measurement and Control
• Thermodynamics of Process Design
• Fluid Flow
• Process and Pilot Plant Operations A
• Statistical Techniques in Engineering
• Biochemical Engineering I
• Reactor Design
• Process Design and Simulation
• Process Modelling
• Process and Pilot Plant Operations B

Year 3 (Level 6)

FHEQ 6 Undergraduate / Honours

Compulsory Modules

• Safety and Loss Prevention
• Chemical Engineering Design Project
• Reactor Design II
• Separation Processes II
• Process Equipment Design
• Engineering Management
• Process Equipment Selection and Control
• Particulate Systems
• Energy and Low Carbon Technologies

Our Chemical Engineering graduates are set on course for a range of exciting employment opportunities including:

• Chemical Engineer
• Energy Engineer
• Petroleum Engineer
• Product/Process Development Scientist
• Mining Engineer
• Technical Plant Manager
• Applications Engineer
• Wellsite Drilling Engineer

Our graduates have interesting and varied careers at companies such as The Dow Chemical Company, GSK, Tata Steel, 3M, BP, Worley Parsons, BASF, and AkzoNobel.

Careers and Employability

Swansea Employability Academy (SEA) will support you at each stage of your career journey helping you build a bright future.

Our career support services include:

• Employability workshops, employers’ talks, bespoke events and careers fairs
• Individual advice and guidance from professionally qualified career advisers
• Help with finding jobs, internships, work placements and volunteering opportunities
• Access to information resources on a wide range of career management topics
• Advice and guidance on postgraduate study and funding
• Funding to support student internship opportunities and Student Society/Club events.

We also provide help and advice for Swansea University Alumni up to two years after you graduate.

We are very proud of the excellent career prospects of our Engineering graduates.

We are continually striving to improve our students' employability by cultivating strong relationships with graduate employers and ensuring our students are as prepared as they can be for the world of work. Find out more about our Careers & Employability service.

Why Chemical Engineering at Swansea?

• 8th in The UK for Teaching Quality (Times Good University Guide 2024)
• 90% of Graduates are in employment and/or other study 15 months after leaving Swansea University (HESA Graduate Outcomes Survey 2023)
• Top 201 - 250 in the World (QS World University Rankings 2024)

This course offers you the opportunity to spend a Year in Industry (UCAS H832), in the UK or overseas, giving valuable workplace experience as well as a salary that is currently over £15,000 on average. Support and guidance are provided to help secure your placement.

We also offer you the option to spend a Year Abroad (UCAS H800) at a partner university which enriches the degree, giving you a valuable cultural experience which can broaden your horizons when seeking employment.

We are proud to provide an outstanding educational experience, using the most effective learning and teaching approaches, carefully tailored to suit the specific needs of your course. Apart from a small number of online-only courses, most of our courses consist of in-person, on-campus teaching, enabling full engagement with your lecturers and fellow students.

Practical skills sessions, lab work seminars, and workshops predominantly take place in person, allowing for group work and demonstrations. We also operate virtual labs and Simulated Learning Environments which will facilitate greater access to training opportunities in the future. However, our approach also includes the use of some online learning to support and enhance traditional face-to-face teaching.

Online learning may take place ‘live’ using software such as Zoom, allowing you to interact with the lecturer and other students and to ask questions. Lecture recordings also allow for more flexibility to revisit material, to revise for assessments and to enhance learning outside of the classroom. Some modules have extra resources in Canvas, such as videos, slides and quizzes enabling further flexible study.

This course may offer some modules taught through the medium of Welsh or bilingually for students who consider themselves to be fluent Welsh speakers. For more details on the provision available see the Welsh Provision expander below.