Newcastle University

Chemical Engineering MEng Honours UCAS Code: H813 (4 years)Chemical Engineering MEng Honours Option
School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials

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This degree covers all the main areas of chemical engineering and allows you to study a wide choice of topics within the discipline.

Rather than specialising at Stage 4, this degree programme continues to follow a broad base of topics providing you with a thorough overview of the field.

Design projects throughout the programme allow you to apply this knowledge in a practical real-life context, and to develop the planning and teamworking skills valued by employers.

All of our Chemical Engineering degrees offer you the opportunity to gain valuable workplace skills and knowledge by choosing to take an optional year out in industry after Stage 2 or Stage 3.

We offer this degree at Master's (MEng) and Bachelor's (BEng) level. The Engineering Council (UK) recommends that UK and EU students apply for the MEng degree as this is seen as the most direct route to becoming professionally qualified.

Our degrees are divided into Stages. Each Stage lasts for an academic year and you need to complete modules totalling 120 credits by the end of each Stage.

Stage 1

Compulsory modules

• CME1020  Chemistry
• CME1021  Thermodynamics
• CME1023  Transfer Processes
• CME1024  Computing and Data Analysis in the
• CME1025  Principles of Chemical Engineering
• ENG1001  Engineering Mathematics I

Stage 2

Compulsory modules

• CME2016  Introduction to Process Dynamics and Control
• CME2021  Safety and Engineering Practice
• CME2022  Separation Processes 1
• CME2023  Transfer Processes 2
• CME2024  Reactor Engineering
• CME2025  Chemistry and Thermodynamics
• CME2026  Design of Experiments
• ENG2011  Engineering Mathematics II

Year in industry (optional)

You may choose to take an optional year out in industry after Stage 2 or 3.

This will enable you to earn a salary and equip you with key skills such as teamworking and problem solving that will make you stand out in the graduate job market.

The work you do during this year does not count directly towards your degree mark and so your year out is in addition the usual length of your programme, extending your degree to five years.

Alternatively, you can apply to transfer to our IChemE accredited Industry degree, which integrates an accredited, paid work placement into Stage 3 of your programme.

Stage 3

Compulsory modules

• CME3032  Process Business Operations
• CME3033  Separation Processes 2
• CME3034  Advanced Safety
• CME3036  Process and Product Engineering
• CME3008  Process Control 2
• CME8112  Plant Design (MEng)
• CME3035  Reactor Systems Engineering
• CME3011  Process Measurement

Stage 4

Compulsory modules

• CME8108  Enhanced Design Project
• CME8117  MEng Research Project

Optional modules

You take 55 credits from the following list:

• CME8037  Sustainable Design and Manufacture I
• CME8038  Sustainable Industry
• CME8101  Nanoscale Science 1
• CME8102  Nanotechnology 1
• CME8103  Process Control 3 - Robust Control
• CME8104  Process Control 4 - Digital Control
• CME8105  Process Control 5 - Model-based Control
• CME8106  Process Control 6 - Non-linear Control
• CME8107  Process Intensification
• CME8109  Bioreactor Engineering
• CME8111  Applications of Fluid Dynamics
• CME8114  Multivariate Methods
• ENG3002  The Finite Element Method
• CME8008  Optimisation
• CME8002  Sustainable Processing, Energy and Materials Technology

Please note

The modules listed here are those currently being taught in this academic year and may vary for your year of entry.