Chemical Engineering: Shaping a Sustainable Future

Understand how chemical engineers can provide sustainable solutions

Chemical engineers are leading the way in providing answers to global challenges such as climate change, food security, and effective healthcare.

On this two-week course, you will be introduced to the exciting world of chemical engineering. You’ll explore how chemical engineers develop and design chemical manufacturing processes to provide sustainable solutions.

Discover sustainable energy solutions from renewable sources

You’ll be introduced to what chemical engineering is and the different ways it can help tackle climate change.

You’ll also explore how it can be used to promote renewable energy sources such as solar, wind power, and geothermal energy to secure a sustainable energy future across the world.

Explore how chemical engineering can promote food security

You will learn how chemical engineers optimise processes and improve fertilisers to ensure a more sustainable food supply.

You’ll then explore how they advocate new technologies such as the treatment of salt water to help tackle drinking water demands in times of drought.

Discover how chemical engineers are responsible for the future of healthcare products

You will understand vaccine development and how chemical engineers design and optimise the manufacturing process to produce vaccines that meet global demand.

You’ll then explore how digital design will lead to the development, manufacture, and delivery of high-quality personalised medicines which will revolutionise patient care.

By the end of the course, you will understand the importance of chemical engineering in every-day life and explore the huge range of career paths chemical engineers can take.

This course is designed for anyone interested in the huge range of problems that chemical engineering can help us to solve and the role it plays in helping us to shape a sustainable world. It offers a great insight to studying for chemical engineering as an undergraduate or fresher at university level.

The course is part of the Going to University collection. Completing this course can help improve your university application by broadening your understanding of geography and environmental studies, and by developing your independent learning skills.

The course can also be used by high school and college teachers to enhance classroom teaching or for independent learning.

• Solving global challenges: Climate change
• Welcome
• Global challenge: Man-made climate change
• Global solution 1: Energy
• Global solutions 2: Food security
• Summary
• Solving global challenges: Health
• About Week 2
• Global challenge and solution 3: Large-scale production
• Global challenge and solution 4: Personalised medicine
• What is it like to be a chemical engineer?
• Summary