Most industrial sectors are facing an escalation in competitive market conditions, dwindling resources, substantial increases in energy and utilities costs and the requirement to comply with the increasingly restrictive pollution control standards. Process Systems Engineering is a contemporary engineering discipline that emerged with the main purpose to provide the methods, tools and human capacity that allow industry to meet its needs by tying science to engineering. Process Systems Engineering deals with the design, operation, optimisation and control of all kinds of chemical, physical, and biological processes through the use of systematic computer-aided approaches. Its major intellectual challenges are the development of concepts, methodologies and models for the prediction of performance and for decision-making for an engineered system. Process systems engineering approaches find significant application in a vast range of industries, such as oil and gas, petrochemical, mineral processing, specialty chemicals, food, pharmaceutical, biotechnological, water and energy industries. The MSc in Process Systems Engineering course has been developed to equip graduates and practising engineers with an in-depth understanding of the fundamentals of process systems and an excellent competency in the use of state-of-the-art approaches to deal with the major operational and design issues of the modern process industry. The course provides up-to-date technical knowledge and skills required for achieving the best management, design, control and operation of efficient process systems. MSc Full-time - £17,500 PgDip Full-time - £14,000 PgCert Full-time - £7,000

There is a considerable demand for process engineering specialists with in-depth technical knowledge and practical skills. The industry-led education makes our graduates some of the most desirable in the world for recruitment by companies and organisations competing in the process engineering sector. Graduates of the course have been successful in gaining employment in: Engineering consultancies and design practices Industry (oil and gas, petrochemical, chemical, food and drink, water and energy) Research organisations Central government departments Local governments Academic institutions. Graduates have been directly employed by the following companies: Aramco, Saudi Arabia Bayer Crop Science British Petroleum (BP) DIT, Ireland Doosan Babcock Ecopetrol, Columbia Emerson Process Management Hidrostal, Switzerland GlaxoSmithKline M W Kellog National Iranian Oil Company Oceaneering