COURSE OVERVIEW
Start dates: 1st October, 1st January, 1st April, 1st July.
From authoring definitive text books on chemical engineering to finding solutions to the world's water shortages, Swansea University has a proud tradition delivering pioneering innovative process engineering solutions. As we have a wide range of research in chemical engineering, Swansea University provides an excellent base for your research as a MSc by Research student in Chemical Engineering.
There is a wide range of research in chemical engineering at Swansea University including:
- Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs)
- Membrane separation
- Biochemical engineering
- Biomanufacturing
- Engineering applications of nanotechnology
- Bioengineering, biomedical engineering
- Cell and tissue engineering
- Non-thermal Plasma Technology
- Colloid science and engineering
- Desalination
- Ozonation Processes
- Pharmaceutical engineering
- Polymer engineering
- Rheology
- Separation processes
- Transport processes
- Water and wastewater treatment
The MSc by Research at Swansea University provides an opportunity to work with a member of academic staff in one of the above, or related, area of research.
How you are Supervised
Your supervisor will:
- Help you develop your research plan
- Advise on research aims and objectives and suggest relevant training or skills courses
- Provide direction in terms of relevant literature and sources
- Give guidance on gathering, recording and analysing data
- Supervise your written work, providing constructive criticism and ensuring you keep to deadlines
- Support and advise you when it comes to presenting papers at conferences, publishing your work and attending your viva (the final oral examination of your thesis)
Find out more about some of the academic staff supervising theses in this area:
- Professor Nidal Hilal
- Professor Rhodri Williams
- Dr Paolo Bertoncello
- Dr Peter Douglas
- Dr Y K Ju-Nam
- Dr Robert Lovitt
- Dr Darren Oatley- Radcliffe
- Dr Chedly Tizaoui
- Dr Chris Wright
- Dr Paul Williams

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