Chemical engineering combines science with engineering practice and design. Biotechnology uses knowledge at the molecular level of living systems to devise strategies to solve important practical problems like controlling disease and making the environment safer. Chemical engineers apply biotechnology to make products on a large scale. These integrated skills can be applied to environmental management, agriculture and natural resource management, as well as a range of biological-based products and processes. Chemical engineers can help processing industries using less energy and produce less waste to minimise their environmental impact. Why double-up? You can help in better management of the environment; preventing, diagnosing and curing disease; improving crop plants and livestock; detecting pollutants and contaminants; and using organisms to produce chemicals, including drugs and food, and agrichemicals.

A chemical engineering graduate can work in a variety of areas, from process and project engineering to marketing or research. Our graduates work in research, production and testing, positions in government and commercial laboratories and in industry. They work in: government departments (local, state and Commonwealth) CSIRO medical research institutes hospitals universities secondary teaching private industry like CSL Ltd and other employers. Further options include forensics and food processing, and with experience or further qualification graduates are employed at higher levels of responsibility.