MEngSc in Chemical Engineering
Dublin, Ireland
Master degree
DURATION
1 year
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
TUITION FEES
EUR 29,100 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* non-EU fee per year - €29,100; EU fee per year - € 9,530
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Key Summary
The Chemical Engineering industry in Ireland is one of its strongest exporting sectors and is representative of the chemical process industries worldwide. Opportunities for employment exist in a broad range of areas, including the pharmaceutical industry, the petrochemical and energy industries, the ICT industries, including medical devices, and the heavy chemicals industries. The MEngSc in Chemical Engineering offers advanced-level education for students with primary degrees in chemical engineering/technology programmes. In this programme, you will improve your conceptual and practical skills in both the fundamental and applied principles of chemical engineering practice. The programme covers advanced topics in chemical engineering and includes extensive project work in both design (featuring both individual and team elements/efforts) and in an individualised research project.
Vision and Values Statement
Graduates from this programme will advance their careers through a thorough understanding of advanced topics in Chemical Engineering and related topics in other major fields of engineering. In this way, they will prepare themselves for undertaking positions of responsibility within chemical-engineering practice, as well as learning a whole suite of advanced technical material and undertaking cutting-edge design and research projects. In particular, the latest state of the art in disparate areas of research-led process engineering, ranging in scope from materials to experimental design, alongside advanced transport phenomena, will afford the development of a very thorough fundamental understanding of advanced chemical-engineering practice.
Course Highlight
Chemical Engineering spans many fields of industrial development from speciality fine chemicals to pharmaceuticals to oil and gas engineering. The Programme's teaching methods are highly interactive and varied, with contributions from a combination of industrial practitioners and leading researchers in their fields. Our graduates will play an important role in the development, design and operation of chemical processes in industry at an international level in the coming years.
The programme covers advanced topics in Chemical Engineering and includes extensive project work in both Design (featuring both individual and team elements/efforts) and in an individualised Research Project.
Opportunity to take modules in a number of topical areas, including Renewable Energy, Carbon Capture, Climate Change, Nanotechnology, etc.
Who should apply?
Full-Time option suitable for:
- Domestic(EEA) applicants: Yes
- International (Non-EEA) applicants currently residing outside of the EEA Region: Yes
Please note that UCD offers a number of graduate scholarships for full-time, self-funding international students, holding an offer of a place on a UCD graduate degree programme. For further information please contact our Admissions team!
Modules
- Advanced Experimental Design
- Advanced Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics
- Advanced Process Design
- Advanced Separation Processes
- Chemical & Bioprocess Engineering Design
- Chemical & Bioprocess Reaction Engineering
- Chemical Processes of Sustainable & Renewable Energy
- Environmental Engineering
- Process Control
- Advanced Characterisation Techniques
- Chemical Engineering Project
- Applied Research Design
- Enhancement of technical skills in advanced aspects of chemical engineering. In particular, the leading research activities of the School of Chemical & Bioprocess Engineering lend themselves to the substantial embedding of leading research practice in the programme's modules.
- Graduates will play an important role in the development, design and operation of chemical processes in industry at the international level in the coming years.
- Sense of independence and self-starting skills fostered by carrying out a semester-long advanced research project, to a demanding and open-ended level.
- The ability to carry out a comprehensive group-based and open-ended design project, to the rigorous standard set by the IChemE.
- The ability to carry out an open-ended Design-of-Experiments analysis, in order to set up and analyse suites of experiments and for process and product optimisation.
- The ability to think critically and solve industrially-relevant problems.
- Time- and effort-management skills, in terms of multi-tasking and prioritising workflows, on an individual and group basis.
Your career opportunities upon graduation from this programme are exemplary. It is anticipated that the graduates will play an important role in the development, design and operation of chemical processes in industry at international level in the coming years. Graduates can enter a wide selection of possible industries including fine chemicals (e.g., Proctor and Gamble), heavy chemicals (e.g., CRH), pharmaceuticals (e.g., Lilly, Merck, Pfizer), oil and gas (e.g., Chevron, Conoco Philips, Exxon, Shell), as well as consulting and business.