Engineering Division 04 · CH
Chemical Engineering
Designing safe processes that transform raw materials into useful products.
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Discipline overview
What is Chemical Engineering?
Chemical Engineering applies chemistry, physics, mathematics and engineering to design and operate processes that convert raw materials into valuable products. It covers reaction engineering, separation, heat and mass transfer, process control, plant safety and sustainable production.
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Core knowledge areas
What this discipline covers
Reaction engineering
Heat and mass transfer
Separation processes
Process control & instrumentation
Process safety and sustainability
Where it is applied
- ✓Petrochemicals and refining
- ✓Pharmaceutical and biochemical production
- ✓Food and consumer products
- ✓Energy, water treatment and specialty chemicals
Typical opportunities
- ↗Process engineer
- ↗Production / plant engineer
- ↗Process safety engineer
- ↗Chemical process R&D engineer
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