Future Students
Welcome to the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering website.
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering is a broad area of engineering that turns raw materials into products using the knowledge of chemistry, biology and physics. The traditional discipline, which includes petrochemicals, plastics, food production and drugs, has now been broadened to include the new fields of nanotechnology, molecular biology, the environment and information technology. Chemical Engineers design both products and the processes, manage operations of processes and research the solutions to environmental problems.
What does a Chemical Engineer do?
Chemical Engineering involves the design of processes that convert raw materials to value-added products, or the design of processes that have been carried out at the experimental level, that need to be scaled up to the industrial level, e.g. biotechnology innovations.
For example, Chemical Engineers find creative solutions to today’s problems like:
- Implementing the benefits of biotech discoveries
- Reducing the environmental impact of industrial processes
- Improving the quality of the materials that we use everyday
Many of the items that you encounter in your everyday life, whether medicine or ice-cream, could not have been made without Chemical Engineers. In addition, Chemical Engineers are heavily involved in working out how to minimize environmental damage and how to recover previously polluted air/land/water.
Interested in joining us at Sydney? Below are links for more information on our programs and facilities.
Future Undergraduate Student
Information for current high school students, their parents, and students who have already left high school. Link here for Undergraduate students page.
Future Postgraduate Student
We offer coursework and research degrees at Masters and PhD levels.
Coursework degrees aim to meet the professional development needs of engineers and scientists in the private and public sectors of industry, and in private practice.
Research degrees offer students the opportunity to develop specialist interests through a program of supervised research, either theoretical or applied. Link here for Postgraduate students page.
