Overview
Chemical Product Engineering involves researching, developing and improving the properties of the products that we use every day through the selection and design of the materials that are used. Product engineers work on the fluids that you use in your everyday life, including chemicals (cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, shampoos, paints, glues), foods, … For more content click the Read More button below.
Learning Outcomes
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Demonstrate knowledge and expertise in the use of the methods, tools and ideas from chemistry, mathematics, physics, and computing that underpin chemical product engineering.
2.
Solve chemical product engineering problems in formulated materials by competent application of technical knowledge in synthetic chemistry, analytical chemistry, polymer chemistry, colloids, complex fluids, material and energy balances, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, chemical reaction engineering, transport phenomena, economic analysis, and safety analysis.
3.
Demonstrate engineering design expertise to create socially aware chemical product concepts and prototypes for solutions, enabling technically and economically viable products that are sustainable, safe, appropriate, and standards-compliant.
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Use systems thinking to guide engineering projects, for example to articulate financial and technical constraints on product design, analyse competitive intellectual property to identify opportunities in markets and technologies, provide a basis for formulated product scale-up and manufacturing, and liaise with process engineers to judge when optimal to develop manufacturing capability or use contract manufacturers.
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Use appropriate resources, including research data, to analyse microstructured product performance characteristics, create quantifiable product benchmarks, develop sustainable, holistic approaches while dealing with uncertainty and solving complex product engineering problems with actual social and environmental contexts.
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Effectively manage product, material, and equipment development projects, with multidisciplinary teams of scientists, engineers and marketers with robust project planning and project management approaches that are adaptable, responsive, and appropriate in benefiting from the capabilities of diverse teams.
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Communicate complex ideas effectively and professionally through a range of media to diverse audiences within and outside of chemical product engineering, including describing project outputs, pitching product concepts to management, technologists, and marketing, effectively incorporating, and being responsive to, feedback.
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Conduct themselves professionally, ethically, and respectfully, be accountable as an individual, as members of teams, and as a leader of teams, while recognising the social and environmental obligations of chemical product engineers.
Available in Program(s) Single degree program(s) in which this specialisation is available:
Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) - BE (Hons)3707 - Engineering (Honours)
Specialisation Structure
Students must complete 168 UOC.
Level 1 Core Courses42 Units of Credit:
Level 2 Core Courses60 Units of Credit:
Level 3 Core Courses18 Units of Credit:
Level 4 Core Courses30 Units of Credit:
Discipline Electives18 Units of Credit:
Recommended Free Electives
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Additional Information
Further Requirements
Students are expected to possess a calculator having exponential capabilities, however, more advanced calculators and personal computers, will be found useful.
Students of both Chemical Engineering and Chemical Product Engineering are advised to have a copy of Perry J H Ed. Chemical Engineers Handbook 6th Ed. McGraw-Hill. This book is used extensively for most courses.
Pre-2019 Handbook Editions
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