Advanced Process Engineering MSc

Advanced Process Engineering MSc is based on a complex engineering specialisation and constitutes an interdisciplinary research area within the chemical engineering discipline. It plays a vital role across the lifecycle of any chemical, physical, and biological process, including process development, design, construction, debottlenecking, optimisation, operation and control. Process engineering utilises both experimental techniques and systematic computer-aided tools to ensure the process is designed and operated in the most efficient and economically feasible way.

Through this course, you will develop practical skills by using the experimental techniques and systematic computer-aided tools along the process development cycle, including the development, design, optimisation, debottlenecking, operation and control of any chemical, physical, and biological processes.

By combining advanced process engineering topics, with an underpinning in the management skills required to lead complex projects, this course will prepare you for a successful and rewarding career:

• Learn through innovative teaching practices and student-led exercises, designed to advance your independent learning and ability to solve real-world problems,
• Benefit from near-industrial scale facilities for project work, including our Process Systems Engineering Laboratory,
• Work with lecturers who have extensive, current experience of working with industry on solving real-world process engineering challenges,
• Experience real-world situations in teaching to learn how to create new problem diagnoses, designs, or system insights that will make a difference in the industry,
• Develop your technology leadership capabilities with the world-renowned Cranfield School of Management,
• Participate in individual and group projects focused on your personal interests and career aspirations,
• Study at a top 5-ranked UK university for mechanical, aeronautical and manufacturing engineering.

The Advanced Process Engineering MSc is closely aligned with industry to ensure that you are fully prepared for your career:

• Cranfield’s long-standing strategic partnerships with prominent players in the process sectors - including Alstom Power, BP, Chevron, Conoco Philips, Emerson Process Management, npower, and Siemens – ensures that the course content meets the needs of global employers,
• The teaching team are heavily involved in industrially funded research and development, enabling you to benefit from real-world case studies throughout the course,
• Engineering modules cover a range of topics including Process Instrumentation and Control Engineering, Process Design and Simulation, Thermal Systems Operation and Design, Risk and Reliability Engineering and Advanced Control Systems,
• Student projects are often linked to the department’s industrially funded research – ensuring relevance to employers,
• The Institution of Mechanical Engineers and The Energy Institute accredits the course, ensuring professional recognition and relevance to employers.