Chemical Engineering at the University of Edinburgh

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Hear from teaching staff and students on our undergraduate chemical engineering degrees at the School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh.

What do chemical engineers do?

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Chemical engineering at Edinburgh

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Undergraduate degrees

Your learning experience with us

Postgraduate study

Taking your expertise to the next level

Research

Transforming the world through fundamental research

Chemical engineering staff

Prof Glen McHale
Chair of Interfacial Science & Engineering and Director of Discipline
Dr John Christy
Assistant Director of Learning and Teaching
...all chemical engineering people

Open positions

Teaching Support Officer
Experimental Officer - Adsorption and Membrane Separation Processes Laboratory
Student Recruitment Officer
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Hydrogen Energy Systems

Industrial and business collaborations

Chemical Engineering student discussing Industrial placement project poster

Chemical Engineering News

REF 2021: School ranked first in Scotland for Engineering research
Professor Susan Rosser celebrated as an extraordinary person
Tiny generators could pave way for self-charging smart tech
Arrol Gibb Innovation Campus to transform large-scale manufacturing
Engineering Student Innovation Fund launched
...more chemical engineering news

Chemical Engineering Events

IMT Seminar: Gas-surface interactions predicted by molecular dynamics simulations for rarefied gas flows
The Inaugural Lecture of Professor Vasileios Koutsos, Personal Chair of Soft Materials and Surfaces
Institution of Engineers in Scotland: Engineering Hardware for Marine Cloud Brightening
Pavel Vedernikov (INEOS) Industry Insights Seminar Series
Ellen Kristoffersen (Shell) Industry Insights Seminar Series
...more chemical engineering events