Graduate engineers in Chemistry are required to have a lot of academic as well as personal competencies
Social and industrial expectations of the quality of your work effort as a graduate engineer are the bases of the competency profile for this study programme. The aim is for the students to get a broad base for their future careers while at the same time project work and elective courses will allow them to study selected subject areas in depth.
Labour market demands
The labour market has high demands for all participants, for example:
• Interpersonal skills, creativity, initiative, persistence, responsibility, a positive attitude, and flexibility
• Ability to search, assess, select and communicate information. Written and oral communication, also on the international stage
• Ability to effectively acquire new knowledge and to manage own learning.
The study programme provides you with a learning environment where you can develop your general and personal competencies. This will take place especially through project work in groups dealing with major engineering and practise related problems. In addition to the academic supervision, the students receive supervision in project work and in information search and information transfer.
Students are encouraged to participate in international activities such as internship abroad.
Practical development and problem solving
Graduate engineers with a technical and scientific background will be able to translate scientific and technological knowledge to practical development and problem solving, including:
• To plan, carry out, document and assess technological projects
• To include social, financial, environmental and work-related consequences
• To develop models and simulate problems on a mathematical and scientific basis.
The above competencies are achieved during your studies through work with basic scientific models as the basis of chemical engineering solutions. Models as well as solutions will gain in complexity throughout your study period.
Environmental and work-related problems are important for chemical and biotechnological engineers and are thus included in the projects from the very first semester while financial considerations are included at the end of the study programme.
Chemical engineers must be able to:
• Design, plan, modify and optimise processing plants and products on the basis of technical, resource and environmental considerations
• Have basic insight into the theoretical background of dimensioning of process plants, including: Basic and organic chemistry, biochemistry, microbiology, thermodynamics, unit operations, environment and materials
• Lead laboratory work and develop and validate analytical measuring methods
• Handle consultancy assignments and administrative tasks within fields related to chemical and biotechnological engineering.
In semesters 1, 2, 3 and 5 you will work with theory and projects of increasing depth and complexity in these subject areas. Simultaneously the demands put on independent project statements, information search and information transfer will increase.
The fourth semester will focus on methods of analysis and applied statistics. Legislation, administrative frameworks, environmental standards and quality standards will all be included in projects and elective courses.