Bachelor of Engineering with Honours in Chemical and Process Engineering

Summary

Engineers design the future. They provide innovative solutions to meet the needs of our modern world. From buildings and bridges, to apps and smart devices, to pharmaceuticals and renewable energy, engineering feats are everywhere.

The Bachelor of Engineering with Honours is a four-year professional degree. The degree is accredited by Engineering New Zealand, allowing our graduates to work as professionally qualified engineers all over the world.

A Chemical and Process Engineering degree will train you to process raw materials into marketable products that add value to the world, in a way that directly correlates to happiness, life-expectancy, and reducing emissions from economic output.

You will tackle society’s greatest challenges:

• converting natural resources to high-value products
• supplying clean, safe drinking water
• creating sustainable energy
• harnessing microbes to produce designer chemicals and pharmaceuticals
• improving society’s health and wellbeing
• providing a sustainable food supply.

How do I plan my degree?

The Bachelor of Engineering with Honours requires a minimum of 480 points:

• 75 points of compulsory courses (plus two 0-point compulsory courses)
• 45 points of first-year engineering courses
• 360 points of engineering discipline courses.

The first year of the degree comprises nine courses (120 points), made up of six compulsory courses and three first-year courses, which vary depending on which Engineering discipline you want to specialise in. Find guidance online to structuring your first year to keep your options open if you are undecided on which discipline you wish to pursue.

The first year is followed by three years of study in one of the Engineering disciplines. Some disciplines also offer the opportunity to include a minor subject. Possible to the second year of the degree is limited and based on your performance in the first year.

All students must also complete 800 hours (approximately 100 days) of practical work placement.

Career opportunities

Our previous graduates found positions in areas of renewable energy, biofuels, environmental control, consulting, fermentation, waste treatment, food production, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, petrochemicals, resource management, and manufacturing.

Our graduates are eligible for full membership of both IChemE and Engineering New Zealand after a period of experience as a practising engineer.