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Academics >> Chemical Engineering Undergraduate Program |
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
A chemical engineer combines the fundamental knowledge of chemistry, physics, mathematics and biology with engineering sciences and economics and often makes use of software and computers. A related professional, the chemist, works in the laboratory and is generally interested in the behavior and synthesis of small quantities of chemical compounds. A chemical engineer on the other hand designs and operates large scale chemical processes and production plants. For these activities a chemical engineer scales up the laboratory knowledge for the production of economically feasible and enviromentally acceptable chemicals.
A chemical engineer usually takes the following responsibilities:
Process synthesis and development
Assessment of the feasibility of the production of a chemical product
Selection and design of various equipment used in production
Monitoring and control of the production process
Preparation of recipes for production
Quality control of the product
Process safety and environmental acceptibility
Management of a chemical company
Marketing and sale of chemical products
METU Northern Cyprus Campus Chemical Engineering Program
A unique chemical engineering program has been designed for the METU Northern Cyprus Campus. The over fifty years of experience from the chemical engineering program of the METU Ankara Campus, has been blended with the current trends and future expectations of the industry, to come up with a program aiming to educate the next generation of chemical engineers, who are expected to assume new responsibilities in addition to the more conventional ones. In this respect the traditional backbone of the modern chemical engineering program has been retained. Thus it is aimed for the graduates to have a solid background in fundamental sciences, mathematics, engineering sciences, the unit operations, thermodynamics and reaction engineering, and engineering design and economics. In addition to a solid background in sciences and engineering, the graduates will have the necessary background and understanding of ethical responsibilities, environmental, occupational health and safety issues, and will have developed life-long learning habits. From the sixth semester on, the program gives an opportunity to the students to follow one of two tracks: the resources engineering track (Track A) and the chemical product engineering track (Track B). There is flexibility in both tracks with a significant number of elective course choices.
Career Opportunities
Chemicals are utilized as finished products and as inputs to various manufacturing sectors of the industry, and they cover a very large spectrum. Thus, chemical engineers are employed in very different chemical production areas. As such they are considered to be among the most versatile engineers and traditionally work in petroleum refining, petrochemicals, rubber and plastics, pulp and paper, fiber and textiles, pharmaceuticals, dyes and paints, cosmetics, sugar, starch, fermentation, fine and specialty chemicals, soap and detergents, oil, glass, ceramics, cement, industrial gases, catalysts, semiconductors, food, fertilizers, agricultural chemical industries. The graduates of our program are expected to be highly sought as they will have developed an expertise either in resource or chemical product engineering. Resource engineering will particularly emphasize sustainable material and energy utilisation. Chemical product engineering, however will emphasize the production of specific products, such as ceramics, plastics, composites, dyes and paints.