CE30241: Environmental and engineering project management
[Page last updated: 15 May 2025]
| Academic Year: | 2025/26 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department of Chemical Engineering |
| Credits: | 15 [equivalent to 30 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 300 |
| Level: | Honours (FHEQ level 6) |
| Period: |
- Semester 1
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| Assessment Summary: | CWPG 50%, CWRI 50% |
| Assessment Detail: |
- Environmental Science and Engineering (CWRI 50%)
- Project Management and Assessment (CWPG 50%)
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
- Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
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| Requisites: |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
After successfully completing this unit, you will be able to:
* Describe the principles of sustainability (environmental, social and economic) and main methods minimising environmental impact. (A1e.A2.1c. A2 7a. A4 2a. A4 2 level F4) [CLO: K3]
* Apply appropriate techniques for analysing interaction of process, product and plant with the environment. (A1e. A2.6f. A2.7a) [CLO: P1]
* Select the appropriate methods to minimise environmental impact for a given scenario. (A2 6e. A2 6f) [CLO: 13]
* Apply the principles of process, plant, and process economics. (A2. 7b) [CLO: K3]
* Understand the commercial, economic and social context of engineering processes, and apply knowledge of engineering management principles and techniques (A3. 2a, A3. 2e, A4 2a) [CLO K3: P1]
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| Synopsis: | In this unit, you'll cover core business and environmental aspects of the chemical engineering profession. You'll explore the business environment and legal framework in which chemical engineers work and methods for managing engineering projects and evaluating their profitability. You'll learn to use the tools for evaluating the environmental impact of chemical engineering activities, including environmental awareness, principles of environmental science and key environmental technologies.
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| Content: | - Engineering estimates of chemical process plant capital and operating costs
- Assess financial performance of a company using analytical costing tools
- Entrepreneurship - starting and running a small business
- Introduction to the concepts of an integrated environment and the interactions with human activities
- Life cycle assessment
- Energy conversion and the environment
- The nature, effects and control of water and air pollution.
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| Skills: | - Analysis [T,F,A]
- Problem solving [T,F,A]
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| Aims: | This unit will introduce you to the:
- Business environment in which chemical engineers work, along with economic parameters and methods for evaluating the costs and profitability of engineering projects within a legal framework,
- Complexity of environmental interactions and the ways in which human activities can impinge on the ecosystem as a whole.
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| Course availability: |
CE30241 is a Must Pass Unit on the following courses:
Department of Chemical Engineering
- UECE-AFB12 : BEng(Hons) Chemical Engineering (Year 3)
- UECE-AKB12 : BEng(Hons) Chemical Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 4)
- UECE-AFM12 : MEng(Hons) Chemical Engineering (Year 3)
- UECE-AKM12 : MEng(Hons) Chemical Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 3)
- UECE-AFM11 : MEng(Hons) Chemical Engineering with Environmental Engineering (Year 3)
- UECE-AKM11 : MEng(Hons) Chemical Engineering with Environmental Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 3)
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Notes: - This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2025/26 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2026/27 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2025/26.
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