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If Sir Winston Churchill's mission for his College was to "educate advanced technologists", Chemical Engineers were the kind of people he had in mind.
There are two routes into Chemical Engineering (each with its own UCAS code), either via Engineering or Natural Sciences. You will spend your first year studying either Engineering or Natural Sciences and will become a member of the Chemical Engineering department from your second year onwards. Entry requirements are essentially the same as for the course in which you spend your first year; applicants are advised to refer to those sections of this guide.
A Chemical Engineer is required to devise, design, combine and operate industrial processes to produce chemicals, oil and foodstuffs economically. To this end, the latter part of the course is concerned with the application of a grounding in science and general engineering to problems of industrial interest and to the development of the subject per se. Topics of special interest to the Chemical Engineer include thermodynamics, economics, chemical kinetics and reaction engineering, distillation, process control, effluent cleaning, safety and hazard analysis, fluid and powder mechanics and the application of computing. Each student is required to participate in the mock design of a commercial process in his or her third year. Part of the fourth year is spent on a research project.
Some five Churchill students a year graduate in Chemical Engineering and rapidly find themselves employed on multi-million-pound projects and able to make significant contributions to the creation of wealth, just as Sir Winston would have wished.