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Chemical Engineering: Shaping a Sustainable Future (FutureLearn)

Offered by University of Leeds,

Learn how chemical engineering can help to solve global challenges and explore its role in delivering sustainable development. 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.

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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.

Syllabus

Week 1: Solving global challenges: Climate change
Week 2: Solving global challenges: Health

What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

Describe how chemical engineering can help tackle climate change
Explore a chemical engineer’s role in delivering a sustainable future for energy supply, food security and healthcare
Identify which United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) chemical engineers are meeting to deliver a sustainable future
Explain the role of a chemical engineer in the development of personalised medicine
Identify the digital tools which chemical engineers use to produce personalised medicine
Compare the potential career choices of chemical engineers
Explore the chemical engineer’s role in producing household products.

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