The Chemical Engineering industry in Ireland is one of its strongest exporting sectors and is representative of the chemical process industries worldwide. Opportunities for employment exist in a broad range of areas including: the pharmaceutical industry, the petrochemical and energy industries, the ICT industries including medical devices, and the heavy chemicals industries. The MEngSc in Chemical Engineering offers advanced level education for students with primary degrees in chemical engineering/technology programmes. On this programme you will improve your conceptual and practical skills in both the fundamental and applied principles of chemical engineering practice. The programme covers advanced topics in chemical engineering and includes extensive project work in both design (featuring both individual and team elements/efforts) and in an individualised research project.

 

The UCD School of Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering is home to a 5 million euro state-of the-art microscopy laboratory which includes FIB-SEM, a Cryo-TEM and a high end XPS/AES/SIMS facility, as well as a range of analytical tools including AFM, FTIR, UV-Vis and chromatography (HPLC/GC-MS). Laboratory facilities available for project work include Multiphase Flow apparatus, Membrane Reactors, Vacuum Pressure Swing Adsorption for gas separations, Atomic Layer Deposition and Chemical Bath Deposition apparatus, a suite of photoelectrochemical facilities including solar simulators and potentiostats for solar cell work, and preparatory laboratories for the synthesis of proprietary materials and access to plasma deposition systems with concomitant analytical tools (e.g. ellipsometry).