The purpose of this module is to ease the transition from school to university by setting the multi-disciplinary context and expectations of degree courses and careers in engineering and science.  Students will be introduced to the transferable study skills that they will develop throughout their university career and beyond (i.e. those softer skills, essential to academic study, employability and good professional conduct).  In particular, they will understand the need to take responsibility for their own learning.

Topics may include:

• Teamwork: Interdisciplinary nature of science/engineering. Roles and responsibilities, effective meetings, record-keeping, leadership.
• Project planning and delivery: Setting achievable goals,  time/resource planning, monitoring progress, risk management, adaptability and final delivery.
• Design Process: Introduction to the key stages of research, concept, feasibility, requirements, preliminary design, detail design, production.
• Report writing: technical and laboratory reports, structure, content, grammar, the importance of accurate referencing and avoidance of plagiarism.
• Presentation skills: Effective communication via visuals and the spoken word. Managing presentation stress.
• Lab fundamentals: Use of key equipment and practices. Health & safety within the lab. Data collection, processing and error management.
• Information skills: Effective searching of a range of different information sources. Critical evaluation for appropriateness for academic use. Understand the nature of research journal publishing and the importance of primary research findings.
• Introduction to professional ethics: Philosophical models, frameworks and theories for ethical decision making. Resolving common ethical conundrums encountered in professional practice. The role/responsibility of the scientist and the engineer in society and in protecting the environment
• Career Management: Planning and enacting a successful career for life. What to do and when. Researching employers. CV and cover letter writing. Interview skills.

Thermodynamics

• Basic definitions; energy, working fluid, continuum, property, systems, surroundings, open and closed systems, phase, state, equilibrium, process, cycle.
• Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics: temperature scales.
• Perfect gases, ideal gas equation of state, real gases, compressibility factor, van der Waals equation of state, virial coefficients
• Work and heat definitions, path functions, types of work, sign conventions, definite integrals
• First Law of Thermodynamics
• Internal energy, enthalpy, constant specific heats, specific heat variation with temperature
• Polytropic processes
• Properties of pure substances; changes of state, sub cooled, saturation and superheated properties, use of tables, phase diagrams.
• First law analysis of systems, cyclic processes, closed systems, open systems (steady and unsteady flow), application to engineering equipment, internal combustion engines.

Heat Transfer

• Heat conduction and Fourier's Law
• Convection and correlations for heat transfer coefficients

Fluid Mechanics

• Basic definitions and properties: laminar, turbulent, transition flow, boundary layer, units
• Fluids at rest and applications in pressure measurement; pressure distribution over plane and curved surfaces
• Static, stagnation and dynamic pressure, centre of pressure, pressure measurement
• Introduction to the study of flowing fluids and the special case of Bernoulli's equation including applications in flow measurement (free jets, confined flows, flow rate measurement), control volume analysis
• Streamlines, stream tubes and particle paths and the physical interpretation of the Bernoulli equation
• Introduction to control volume analysis
• The conservation principles for open systems and illustrate the applications to simple fluid systems and devices

Essential Physics for Chemical Engineers

• Dimensions, units and conversions
• Introduction to fluid flow in pipes
• Stream composition

Design and Analysis of Processing Systems

• Chemical process diagrams
• Batch and continuous processing
• Material balances

Introduction to Chemical Reactors

• General reactor design principles
• Reactor types
• Batch, semi-batch and continuous reactors
• Reactor performance
• Reactor heating and cooling

Introduction to Physical Processing and Separations

• Rheology of simple fluids and complex mixtures.
• Mixing and pumping of fluids, and fluid flow in pipes
• Main separation processes and their characteristics
• Physical separation: membranes.

Principles of Safe and Sustainable Processing

• Introduction to safety and risk assessment.
• Creating and maintaining a safety culture.
• Incorporating sustainability in process design.
• Life cycle assessment

Manufacturing

• Manufacturing performance indicators and improvement strategies.
• The four V's
• Types of production, categories of product
• Layout of production processes

The Chemistry Fundamentals module aims to provide a broad introduction of the basics of theoretical and practical chemistry across organic, inorganic, physical and analytical chemistry. The module is evenly split between practical and classroom sessions and will introduce the basics techniques of laboratory chemistry and an introduction to recording experimental data and writing of reports apply the theories introduced in the classroom and the directed reading.

Differential equations play a pivotal role in modelling numerous mathematical, scientific and engineering problems, stretching across celestial motion dynamics, neuron interactions, cancer progression, bridge stability and financial market trends. This module serves as an introduction to the essential theory and numerical methods used in solving ordinary and partial differential equations (ODEs and PDEs) while exploring their varied applications.

In this module, we will review the essential calculus techniques, including methods of differentiation and integration, necessary to solve ODEs. We will introduce ODEs, see their applications to real-world problems and explore techniques for generating both exact and approximate solutions for ODEs. We will also give a brief introduction to PDEs and their applications.

Topics may include:

• Review of trigonometric functions, hyperbolic functions, limits and differentiation.
• Integration, techniques such as integration by parts, partial fractions, and multiple integration.
• Review of sequences and series, covering convergence and divergence.
• Exploration of complex numbers, covering axiomatic foundations, complex conjugates, loci, polar form, De Moivre's Theorem, and roots.
• Notation and classification of ordinary differential equations.
• Linear ODEs and their applications.
• Selective exploration of non-linear ODEs and their applications.
• Introduction to systems of ODEs.
• Numerical integration: Trapezoidal Rule and Simpson’s Rule.
• Numerical solutions for ODEs: Euler method, using computer code in, for example, MATLAB, or Python.
• Partial differentiation, functions of two variables.
• Brief introduction to PDEs and their applications.

This module aims to give student engineers and scientists an understanding and appreciation of the various environmental systems physically and chemically impacted upon by human and industrial activity - i.e. the atmospheric, aquatic and land-based – and how these impacts can be either controlled or avoided.  We will consider:

• Key environmental issues (e.g. global warming, ozone depletion, acid rain, photochemical smog, eutrophication, land contamination) and their communication to different audiences.
• The communication of topical issues of environmental quality.
• Natural cycles (i.e. water, nitrogen, phosphorous, sulphur and carbon) and how these can be disrupted by industrial pollution events.
• The sources and nature of key pollutants and the mechanisms by which these are transported, dispersed and eventually degraded or sequestered.
• How are impacts felt at local, regional and global scale?
• The legislation, regulation and authorisation involved in the fixing of discharge consent limits.
• The treatment technologies and practices available to process engineers for ensuring discharge compliance and thus, the mitigation/avoidance of environmental impacts (e.g. gas cleaning and water treatment plant).
• The methods and analytical equipment available to plant operators for the monitoring of pollutant discharges and thus, compliance demonstration. 
• The collection, analysis and interpretation of environmental data.

Chinese: Intermediate Language Development (20 Credits) Option

This module is designed for students who have completed GCSE in Chinese or equivalent. You will further develop your grammar, vocabulary and learning conventions for spelling and pronunciation. You will work with written and recorded texts on a range of cultural, personal and social topics and will develop oral and written communication skills at an intermediate level.

French: Communication in Practice (20 Credits) Option

This module is designed for students that have completed A-Level or equivalent in French. You will further develop your grammar, vocabulary and expression and apply these to real world situations. You will work with written and recorded texts on a range of cultural, personal and social topics and will develop your oral and written communication skills at Post-A level.

French: Intermediate Language Development (20 Credits) Option

This module is designed for students who have completed GCSE or equivalent in French. You will further develop your grammar, vocabulary and learning conventions for spelling and pronunciation. You will work with written and recorded texts on a range of cultural, personal and social topics and will develop oral and written communication skills at an intermediate level.

German: Communication in Practice (20 Credits) Option

This module enables students with A-Level German or equivalent to further develop their grammar, vocabulary and expression and apply these to real world situations. You will work with written and recorded texts on a range of cultural, personal and social topics and will develop your oral and written communication skills at Post-A level.

Spanish: Communication in Practice (20 Credits) Option

This module is designed for students that have completed a A-Level or equivalent in Spanish. You will further develop your grammar, vocabulary and expression and apply these to real world situations. You will work with written and recorded texts on a range of cultural, personal and social topics and will develop oral and written communication skills at Post-A level.

Spanish: Intermediate Language Development (20 Credits) Option

This module is designed for students that have completed GCSE or equivalent in Spanish. You will further develop your grammar, vocabulary and learning conventions for spelling and pronunciation. You will work with written and recorded texts on a range of cultural, personal and social topics and will develop oral and written communication skills at an intermediate level.

Subsidiary Language for Beginners (20 Credits) Option

This module provides the opportunity to study a new language from scratch and introduces you to basic grammar, vocabulary and cultural contexts. You will apply the language to practical situations using both oral and written skills.