Professional Aspects of Chemical Engineering

Learning Outcomes

Ethics, sustainability and management •Business and management techniques, project, people and change management, budgeting and finances. •Risk evaluation and management •Ethical engineering (honesty, integrity, respect for: law, life and the environment) •Sustainability - environmental impacts and the associated legal frameworks, engineering design for sustainability within the prevailing economic and social context. Safety •Application of HSE as an inherent part of process plant design and the procedures for its implementation. •Reflection on Incidents, which have been significant in achieving changes in culture from both safety and environmental viewpoints. •Explore present-day requirements of engineering for safety and the environment, including the methodology for establishing necessary criteria, implementation and monitoring, verification and validation of safety systems, and responsibility for auditing. commercial context • The commercial context for engineering processes and business models that are socially responsible and environmentally sustainable. • The nature, scope, and impact of managerial roles, skills, ethics, and decision-making, support effective project work, change management, appraisal methods, and evaluation. • Manufacturing, projects and systems management, operations management, and quality management. • Activity-based costing, budgeting, financial control, investment appraisal, and commercial risk calculations.

This is a semester one course. Some of these will be held in CLS workstation rooms to facilitate computer tutorial sessions, others will take the form of group workshop. Ethics and Business Practice: This will be taught through lectures, augmented with discussions. Safety: This will be taught through lectures, enhanced with discussions and seminar classes. Independent study as required to study the online material and to complete the rest of the coursework.