BEng (Hons) Chemical Engineering with Foundation Year

The course has been constructed to deliver chemical engineers into the UK and global workplaces. We strongly take the ethos that our students will leave us with a skill set to make a difference to the manufacture of world-changing materials and processes. We will teach you the underpinning chemistry and thermodynamics but then we will put this knowledge into an industrial, engineering, and 21st century context. We will prepare you for the final, all-important, 3rd year design project. You will be able to design a chemical manufacturing plant, as you will understand the chemistry; you will understand how to control the reaction rate; you will know which controlling transport processes need to be monitored. But more than this, the plant you design will be efficient, profitable, and green.

To achieve this, we will ensure that right from your first year, you’ll have an engineer’s skill set and knowledge toolbox to call upon. We’ll provide lectures that are research and case study-based and supported by tutorials which focus the understanding gained at lectures and make it relevant to contextual/industrial situations.

We will arrange seminars to enable the exchange of ideas and knowledge with peers and with tutors. Experts and industrialists from across the UK and beyond will give many of these seminars, showing you the potential future that a degree in Chemical Engineering can give you either here in the UK or beyond.

The University of Wolverhampton has in recent years spent £1.3 million on its specialist chemical engineering laboratories. These, along with the brand new £25 million chemistry laboratories and our new £10 million manufacturing facilities at Telford, will develop your practical skills, information gathering skills, and data handling. In the final semester, you’ll have the opportunity to use our new pilot rigs and explore how they work, the underpinning physics which control them, and the limitation a true engineer must provide solutions for. We promise you won’t just get to see the equipment – you will be hands-on and learning valuable and practical research skills, problem solving, data analysis and evaluation, and research data presentation.

In addition to this, we will make sure you interact with chemists, mathematicians, physicists, and mechanical and electrical engineers. We’ll ensure you see and use the latest in computational fluid dynamics and additive layer manufacture methods and have use of industry standard software packages. Our promise to you is that you won’t just be told about software, as we will teach you to use the packages right from day one. Why? Because the industry that will employ you expects you to use and understand them from day one.

Here at the University of Wolverhampton, we’ll also guarantee that we’ll push you to your limit and beyond what you thought you were capable of.

You can demonstrate your English language ability by studying with us on our online Pre-sessional English and Academic Skills courses which will allow you to gain entry to most undergraduate or postgraduate degree courses. You can do our online Pre-sessional course from your own home - you do not need to be on our campus in order to study but you will need access to a PC or laptop and a good quality internet connection in order to fully participate.  Our new online Pre-sessional courses will help you to improve and develop your English language and academic skills and will prepare you for your degree programme at the University of Wolverhampton. 

Other ways of demonstrating your English language abilities are:

• With a qualification (eg a high school certificate) from your country that has been approved by the University of Wolverhampton as meeting the minimum English language entry competency. See your country for details.
• By demonstrating that you completed your secondary or university education at a secondary (high) school or university in a country approved by the University as teaching in the medium of English.
• If you are a national of one of the following countries you do not have to prove your level of English; Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, The Bahamas, Barbados Belize, Canada, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, New Zealand, St Kitts and Nevis St Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, United States of America
• By presenting one of the international qualifications listed below.  It should have been completed no more than two years before of the start date of your degree course.

1. First of all, decide which course is right for you.
2. Check the entry requirements, including the minimum English requirements for your chosen course.
3. Check the visa requirements.
4. Make your application - via our on-line course directory or directly to the University via Admissions or the International Office, find out how to do it below.