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Studying Chemical Engineering
Chemical Engineering bridges the study of the chemical and physical sciences with engineering. It involves the operation and optimisation of chemical processes and creates the devices and industrial plants related to chemical, biological, and environmental processes.
The major areas of chemical engineering activities are:
- Design and development of chemical processes and equipment
- Optimisation and control of industrial operations
- Plant operation and management
- Fundamental and applied research from the molecular level to full industrial scale
- Environmental management and pollution control
What is Food Science?
Certainly it is NOT simply home economics or 'cooking'!
- Food Science draws on the spectrum of biological and physical sciences, applies them to one of the essentials of life - FOOD, and prepares students for a career in one of Australia's largest and most stable industries. After all, everybody has to EAT!
- Food science, not only in the academic, but in the real world sense, relies on mathematics, physics, biology, chemistry, biochemistry, microbiology, engineering, processing, nutrition, biotechnology, psychology, marketing, commerce, and management. Because, as an area of study, it incorporates so many different disciplines and through those, ways of thinking, it prepares you for a career not only in the food industry, but in many areas that you probably wouldn't even think of.
"It's a bridge between a variety of applied sciences and the commercial world" (Graham Fleet, The Australian, November 6, 1999).
What is an Industrial Chemist ?
An Industrial Chemist is an applied scientist, some of whom are engaged in solving problems at the forefront of research, while others are responsible for successful operations of some of Australia's largest companies in the chemical industry.
Some major areas Industrial Chemists are involved in:
- Industrial Chemists are constantly striving to improve the safety and efficiency of making important chemicals and materials
- Typically Industrial Chemists undertake optimisation of complex processes, but unlike engineers, Industrial Chemists examine and change the chemistry of the process itself
- Industrial Chemists are at the forefront of the management and control of the environment of industrial processes, to ensure a clean and safe future
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