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An innovative curriculum promotes the development of technical expertise and non-technical skills in communication and management through a mix of team based project work with traditional lecture based courses. This involves active learning and personal interaction between staff and students.
Projects integrate content from courses across the
curriculum into real world problem solving dealing with issues sourced
from ‘local’ industries and the latest research. You will learn from
people working with the latest in engineering knowledge and at the
interfaces of engineering and science, academia and industry.
The diverse and rapidly changing nature of chemical engineering is
reflected in the variety and flexibility of elective choices available
within a chemical engineering degree. You may include a minor in
biomedical engineering or materials engineering in your chemical
engineering degree. The biomedical minor is excellent preparation for
postgraduate study in biomedical engineering.
An innovative There are active international student exchange and industry on-site learning programs. Chemical engineering has the largest numbers of students involved in these activities of any engineering discipline at UQ and students are encouraged to consider the benefits of participation. Chemical engineering students can study and have studied at universities and industries in North America, Europe and the UK.
The diverse and rapidly changing nature of chemical engineering is reflected in the variety and flexibility of elective choices available within a chemical engineering degree and the range of dual degree options.
You may include a minor in Biomedical Engineering, Biotechnology, Chemical Metallurgy or Materials Engineering in your chemical engineering degree. Minors allow you to study a selected field in depth. The Biomedical minor is also excellent preparation for postgraduate study in bio-medical engineering and for the GAMSAT test and postgraduate entry to medicine at the University of Queensland.
Dual degrees with Arts, Biotechnology, Business Management, Commerce, Economics, Information technology and Science can be used to broaden your undergraduate studies. A study plan of chemical engineering dual degree programs as for 2004 is available in Word format.
You can also combine undergraduate and postgraduate studies in chemical and biomedical engineering in a 5 year BE(Chem)/ME(Biomedical)
The chemical engineering degree program involves three years of full time study after the completion of either a general first year of broad based engineering courses or first year specialisation in chemical engineering and related sciences.
In second year the emphasis of the course is on the fundamentals of chemical engineering, and includes the study of chemistry, biotechnology and mathematics.
In third and fourth years you will study chemical engineering with an emphasis on synthesis design, control and innovative project work. The fourth year of the degree requires the study of advanced process engineering courses and the completion of a design project (structure below).
You must also complete at least 60 days industrial practice in an engineering environment, thirty days of which must be under the direction of a Professional Engineer. This is undertaken during vacations and must be completed prior to graduation.
The Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical) is a demanding program, but we hope you will enjoy the challenges and stimulation offered by the great variety of subjects you can study within this program. The rewards are many. You will have the advantage of being able to choose from a wide range of elective courses and streams, thus enabling you to specialise in areas of interest to you, while studying a core of courses underpinning the many and various chemical engineering applications.
From second semester onwards one course in every semester will be run in a team project work mode. Substantial parts of the learning and assessment in these courses involve the team project. The purpose of the team projects is to integrate across the entire program the ongoing and cumulative development of both technical and non-technical graduate attributes. For example, project work will involve team work, communication within and outside the team, location, evaluation and application of information, independent learning, critical thinking, as well as technical competence and problem solving skills. To oversee this cumulative integration every semester is managed by a semester teaching team comprising all staff teaching into that semester and chaired by the coordinator of the project course.
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