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The Chemical Engineer must learn how to make a preliminary assessment of the process in which the product characteristics, the raw materials needed for manufacturing, the process sequences and operative conditions of every stage of the manufacturing process in are determined. In practice, the whole so-called “flow chart” of the process is defined. Now, the Chemical Engineer will need to be able to manage the designing of each piece of machinery involved in the process previously determined. Once the process and the plant have been designed, the Chemical Engineer will then analyse and design all relevant activities inherent to their control and management, which is necessary to control performance and safety.

The Chemical Engineering programme first establishes a solid knowledge of fundamental subjects, like mathematics, physics, chemistry, and classical engineering subjects, like electrical engineering, classical and structural mechanics, and hydraulic machines design, and then diving deeply in subjects strictly related to chemical engineering, like Foundations of Chemical Engineering, Chemical Plants, Industrial Chemistry, Chemical Thermodynamics, and so on. The student is formed to be an extremely flexible and interdisciplinary professional figure, denoted by strong skills in the fundamental scientific topics and technical-operational ones.

The Chemical Engineering programme adopts teaching methods which comply to the Dublin Descriptors adopted by the European Union. Learned skills and self-sufficiency in decision-making are assessed by writing reports after taking part in hands-on laboratory activities and project activities included in the teaching process. Recurring presentations about activities will also take place to assess communication skills. Learned skills will be verified during individual activities which will take place along the preparation for the final examination.

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At the end of the course of study, the student will need to have acquired technical knowledge and an effective workflow to face problems regarding transformation processes, the definition of quantitative data and machinery design, the choice of raw materials and the management of components in nominal or critical conditions, the estimated lifespan of products. He will need to be able to choose the best material for a specific component and to decide what is the best way to manufacture it, considering the ways various kinds of processes influence the structure and, thus, the properties of the finished product.

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Structure of the programme